Clinical Medical Image Viewer (MIV)

The PACSIntegrator Medical Image Viewer (MIV) is a web-based clinical application that gives healthcare providers an intuitive user interface to view image studies alongside the associated radiology reports.

Health Care Provider feedback regarding use of the MIV has factored greatly in the growth and enhancement of the application. This feedback has directly influenced the progression of the underlying design and available user functionality. The information architecture and data flow design of the viewer is optimized for intuitive usability while mitigating the imagery bandwidth impact on local and wide area networks. MIV is patient-centric and collates local and remote patient encounters, displaying both on the same screen. Enhanced image viewing capabilities are provided with the Advanced Viewer Control that gives users advanced image manipulation tools and the benefits of higher lossless and lossy compression technologies that are unsupported in simple web browsers.

Features

The web-based MIV includes the following technical features:

• Hosted on Windows Server 2003
• Support HTTPS (SSL) communication
• Standard Viewer supports most major web browsers
• Advanced Viewer Control supports Internet Explorer version 6+
• Integrates with a PACSIntegrator to access local and remote images
• Easy to use interface that can be mastered in minutes, almost eliminating training cost and time
• Displays patient studies in reverse chronological order to illustrate the patients complete imagery history with the most important data seen first
• Side-by-side viewing up to 4 series from same or different studies in a single MultiView
• Side-by-side viewing of radiology reports, enabling comparison of reports with images or reports with reports from other studies.

Advanced Medical Image Viewer

Standard Web browsers only support standard image formats (GIF and JPG) which can be overly-large and of lower quality than is normally required for viewing medical imagery. The Advanced Medical Image Viewer (aMIV) can interpret and display DICOM enabling enhanced viewing capabilities that are not possible in a standard web application. Dynamically using compression algorithms to balance speed with quality, the viewer control gives the best possible performance while maintaining the integrity of the DICOM file and format. aMIV supports running as a stand alone Microsoft Windows application or as a control that is embedded into the user web browser.

The Advanced Viewer Control also enables the following functionality and features: