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OpenMed™ Manager is the core technology powering Telemedicine networks worldwide. Building on a dynamic, database management system, OpenMed™ Manager consolidates, verifies, and stores images, patient, and examination/study information into multimedia Electronic Telemedicine Records (ETR). These ETR's are stored and forwarded to remote sites for review, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment planning through sophisticated OpenMed™ Manager communication modules.

     

OpenMed™ Manager is a modular, rules-based, intelligent, server platform for efficient and reliable delivery of high quality Telemedicine services. OpenMed™ Manager's web-based system administration provides the ability for system managers to define the rules for flow and access across their network. In Wide Area Networks, OpenMed™ Manager ensures the integrity and reliability of communications through advanced error detection and correction and transmission control techniques. All OpenMed™ Manager transactions are tracked, allowing detailed activity reporting.

     

OpenMed™ Manager can interface to third party hospital systems allowing for comprehensive clinical information management solutions in a healthcare enterprise. Support for the international DICOM standard allows OpenMed™ Manager to exchange images directly with PACS and modalities such as CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, and CR. Integrated HL-7 interfaces provide for communications with other hospital administrative and clinical systems for the exchange of patient information, diagnostic reports, and other data.

 

      A standard feature of OpenMed™ Manager is multi-layer security, which maintains an application layer directory of registered users and restricts ETR access to authorized users. At the network layer, OpenMed™ Manager optionally integrates encryption technology on all traffic transmitted between sites. OpenMed™ Manager features automatic or on-demand system backup which are managed and monitored through the browser-based administrative interface.

     
The OpenMed™ Capture application is a member of the OpenMed™ Capture family of products. This application enables physicians to request remote primary and secondary diagnosis of medical images, and information in multiple specialties using a single, common workstation. The captured images and information form an integral part of the patient's multimedia Electronic Telemedicine Record (ETR).

     

OpenMed™ Capture includes support for a number of multimedia capture devices. Using a high-performance film digitizer (Laser or CCD), OpenMed™ Capture converts radiology plain film images from multiple modalities, such as X-rays, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound images, to digital format for transmission. Standard document scanners may be attached to provide for digitization of patient histories, medical reports, imaging requests, notes, lab results, EKG's and charts which are transmitted along with the images. In addition to radiology and document images, OpenMed™ Capture supports sound capture of 'Voice Notes' which may be used to attach requests, instructions, and queries to the ETR quickly and simply. A digital camera can be used to capture JPEG images which are then attached to the ETR while the audio capture mechanism allows transfer of audio from digital stethoscopes.

     

The standard, intuitive graphical user interface, makes capturing images, patient demographics, and study information quick and easy. To save time, the application allows for misoriented images to be flipped or rotated in one easy step, and it allows image spot magnification for quality control. It also features user-selectable priority and user-selectable compression ratio. OpenMed™ Capture allows the grouping of multiple images or document components into a single study representing them as thumbnails to ensure that all of the appropriate components are included in the study. Once cases are reported, a Case Management interface allows quick and simple display of the report at the workstation - providing an integrated solution.
 
 
Taking advantage of World Wide Web technologies, OpenMed™ Viewer provides browser-based access to multimedia Electronic Telemedicine Records (ETR). OpenMed™ Viewer's ETRs present information gathered from a wide range of sources and can contain multi-modality study information, such as radiology, pathology, ultrasound, dermatology, and ophthalmology as well as written reports, scanned documents, voice memos, and video clips.

     

OpenMed™ Viewer uses standard web browsers, allowing enterprise deployment in the healthcare environment across existing suitable desktop hardware or from laptops via remote dial-up connection. Using OpenMed™ Viewer consulting and referring physicians can review cases, view results, and generate reports online. A sophisticated search system ensures that name, Medical Record Number, specialty, examination date and many other criteria can be used to locate simply and rapidly a patient's medical record, imaging studies, and diagnostic reports.

     

OpenMe™ Viewer is extended by the optional Image Manipulation Applet (IMA). IMA is a JAVA applet, which adds image enhancement and manipulation. It provides features commonly found only on dedicated imaging workstations such as window width and level control, zoom, pan and rotate functions, as well as a 'magnifying glass' zoom feature for a region of special interest. For color images, the IMA supports color balance adjustment as well as brightness and contrast control. With WorldCare Technologies IMA, OpenMed™ Viewer becomes an extension to PACS providing access to radiology images by physicians throughout the hospital.

     

OpenMed™ Viewer connects to an OpenMed™ Manager server that controls the flow of and access to information on the network. To ensure security and confidentiality, various user access and study restrictions can be enabled. WorldCare Technologies' software maintains a directory of authorized users, and uses encryption software at the network layer.

 
OpenMed™ Radiology is WorldCare's radiology diagnostic workstation software. It is designed for soft-copy, primary diagnosis of plain film and computed radiography (CR), direct capture (DR), computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound (US). OpenMed™ Radiology is available with support for up to four 2k x 2.5k monitors. Also available in a high-resolution, 1.2k x 1.6k version supporting multiple monitors and a 1k physician's review version.

     

OpenMed™ Radiology utilizes standard Windows NT workstations and features easy-to-use controls that provide a wide array of image review and manipulation tools. It also supports a variety of flexible search criteria coupled with an easy to use 'Study Selector' for accessing studies and comparison films. When combined with WorldCare's OpenMed™ Viewer reporting system, or interfaced with another hospital information system, it enables completely paperless reporting.

     

OpenMed™ Radiology is DICOM-compliant, enabling the user to examine studies or images on remote workstations or DICOM devices. DICOM communication is performed in the background without interrupting the workflow. It is supported by a visual display of the progress of the transfer.

     

Supporting user based preferences, the OpenMed™ Radiology software can configure itself to match the requirements of individual radiologists or physicians based on their stored preferences ensuring optimal use of clinical time through appropriate selection of screen layout and preferred image tools.

     

OpenMed™ Radiology Workstations are seamlessly integrated with Telemedicine networks through OpenMed™ Manager software modules.

     

OpenMed™ Radiology can be configured to exceed all recommendations of the American College of Radiology regarding display subsystems.