Wireless or Mobile PACS Software

It is the first of its kind PACS that was cleared to market by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Medical Insight (Copenhagen, Denmark), a developer of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of mobile medical imaging and information management software, has announced the commercial release of version 2.4 of its EasyViz Mobile PACS system, which was recently presented at the European Congress of Radiology 2006 (ECR) in Vienna (Austria) in March 2006.

Medical Insight presented the FDA with the results of a clinical study that showed the efficacy of using standard wireless/mobile personal digital assistants (PDAs) as EasyViz clinical review workstations. Just as deployment of wireless and mobile technologies is foreseen to revolutionize the nature and use of the internet, any time access to all necessary patient information at all locations is expected to transform workflows within healthcare enterprises and to improve patient care.

Andy Dobbs, chief technical officer at Medical Insight, explained, "For us this is a significant step towards realizing our vision of pervasive healthcare IT [information technology] systems. We can now give clinicians a liberating choice--unfettered and nomadic access to the systems and functions they rely on daily. And EasyViz users are truly breaking new ground--no other PACS systems on the market can offer such functionality.”

The clearance granted by the FDA covers the complete EasyViz system, including the novel architecture of the system, the deployment of wireless and mobile handheld devices as clinical review workstations (PDAs and SmartPhones), the distribution technology (streaming), a number of clinical application modules, and the VPS (Virtualized PACS Services) integration engine, which communicates with existing digital PACS archives. Via the VPS, sites that already have digital PACS systems can employ the EasyViz system to easily distribute access to the existing data throughout the enterprise.



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