Calgary Scientific Delivers Full Functionality Medical Image Viewing to Mobile Devices
Increased accessibility will decrease costs to healthcare system and increase quality of patient care
Calgary, AB - April 6,2010 - Calgary Scientific Inc., a leading innovator in advanced visualization solutions and web-enabling platforms, is once again leading the industry in responding to the demands of today's physicians for greater accessibility to patient images and information by enabling a variety of mobile platforms, including the newly released Apple iPad™, with advanced software capability. Currently this technology is available on home computers, laptops and iPhones™ and the company is expected to release a market-ready version for iPad in the third quarter, which will offer full-function capabilities of ResolutionMD™, an elite advanced visualization product line. As with the current industry leading software capability, the upcoming release of this product will allow patients, anywhere in the world, access to world-class medical expertise in real time, but with capabilities even further advanced on mobile devices compared to the rest of the industry.
Remote and mobile accessibility to critical information in real-time has many benefits, particularly in emergency and telemedicine scenarios. With Calgary Scientific's PureWeb®, this technology delivers on the vision of equal healthcare for all, as the attending physician has the ability to collaborate with multiple physicians on their mobile device, while simultaneously accessing and utilizing high quality images from acute cases, including life saving stroke and cardiac cases. This information can be accessed on standard mobile devices from anywhere with an Internet connection, significantly reducing time to diagnosis, providing higher quality treatment and patient outcomes, and reducing costs to the medical system. PureWeb enables high-performance software functionality on mobile devices while keeping sensitive patient data secure.
For the first time, software functionality and performance, as well as the strictest levels of confidentiality, are not sacrificed by deploying advanced software products in a mobile situation.
ResolutionMD Mobile running on the new iPad (video)
"The ability to provide telemedicine,specifically telestroke, for acute stroke care on a device like the iPad will have tremendous impact on care," says Dr. Steven R. Levine, Director of Cerebrovascular Research Training Program and Cerebrovascular Education at Mount Sinai Stroke Center. "It will improve usability and acceptance by the medical community and patients. Stroke care should improve significantly with hand-held, anywhere, anytime access to acute patients and their diagnostic images."
"We have an incredible opportunity to break down the inequalities in healthcare with the sophisticated capabilities of ResolutionMD," says Randy Rountree, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for Calgary Scientific. "Specialists working in acute and telemedicine scenarios deal with patients that often have rapidly degrading health.Time to diagnosis and treatment is crucial in these scenarios and our technology can drastically reduce the amount of time to diagnosis by increasing the accessibility to critical information. This significantly reduces the costs associated with non-required patient admissions, and leads to better patient outcomes."
About Calgary Scientific Inc.
Calgary Scientific is dedicated to providing web-enablement and advanced visualization solutions for medical imaging that improves the efficiency and quality of diagnosis made by imaging professionals. Calgary Scientific has a powerful portfolio of products that perform sophisticated image post-processing, including tools for 2D, MIP/MPR and 3D, a suite of cardiac modules for both CT and MR, and vessel analysis. All of these products have a zero-footprint web enablement capability made possible with the power of PureWeb™. Calgary Scientific also has proprietary intellectual property for image fusion, virtual colonoscopy and Computer Assisted Tissue Identification (CATI™). Calgary Scientific aims to be the premier provider of advanced visualization solutions in the medical imaging market. For more information on Calgary Scientific, go to www.calgaryscientific.com.
© 2010 Calgary Scientific Inc., ResolutionMD, PureWeb and the Calgary Scientific logo are trademarks of Calgary Scientific. All other third-party company names and products are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Calgary Scientific
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Calgary Scientific
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