itMD was founded by physicians and a core group of experts in software engineering and image management to reinvent the delivery and use of medical imaging and diagnostic information. itMD's central focus is the role of image sharing in enhancing the quality of patient care, providing tools to make each part of the medical imaging chain more efficient.
itMD's next generation approach seeks to pull the PACS out of isolation and make it securely part of the entire chain of care delivery.
Medical Imaging Technology Drives Cloud-based Image Exchange for Enhanced Physician Communication
itMD, a leading provider in cloud-based medical image sharing, announced today that they have partnered with Doximity, an online professional network for physicians. itMD will be implementing Doximity's single sign-on button to allow members of the Doximity community to have access to itMD's web application for image sharing, viewing and storing.
With the single sign-on button, verified physicians of Doximity's directory can now seamlessly access itMD's online medical imaging software and report sharing tools, all within a web-browser or even mobile device, such as a smartphone or iPad.
"itMD is focused on enhancing clinical care by allowing the instant, secure access to medical images and reports," said Daryl Eber, MD, Co-Founder of itMD. "By partnering with Doximity, we can provide our online image sharing solutions to physicians who need this critical data to make important decisions for their patient's care."
"Physician collaboration should be simple, seamless and secure," said Dr. Nate Gross, Co-Founder of Doximity. "We believe this can be achieved with our growing community of physicians and partners. We're thrilled to welcome itMD to our medical platform as we work together to improve patient care and lead a new era of medical communication."
Company integrates Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) for image exchange.
PACSGEAR, the leading provider of imaging connectivity for electronic health records, today announced an agreement with itMD, a medical image sharing company that enables the secure and on-demand exchange of medical images. itMD will participate in the Open Image Exchange, a cloud-based network designed to securely share medical images and information. PACSGEAR will integrate with itMD using the Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) integration profile, a standards-based method for enterprise image sharing solutions.
“We welcome itMD to the Open Image Exchange,” said Eli Rapaich, PACSGEAR’s CEO. “Adding itMD to the network provides more imaging sharing options for everyone. By incorporating industry-based standards, PACSGEAR continues to demonstrate its commitment to the open exchange of medical images,” Rapaich said.
“Participating in the Open Image Exchange will improve clinical imaging access for patients and physicians,” said Barbara Perez Deppman, President of itMD. “Leveraging open standards like XDS promotes image sharing and ultimately enhances the quality of patient care. The network provides a secure method to exchange medical information from anywhere to anyone.”
PACSGEAR provides image connectivity solutions for medical image management (PACS) and electronic health record (EHR) systems to hospitals and healthcare facilities. Its industry-leading solutions seamlessly integrate documents, film, video, visible light and other images from any department to any PACS/EHR. Healthcare personnel in specialties such as radiology, cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, orthopedics and pathology can connect, view and share images and results to enable health information exchange. Worldwide, PACSGEAR gives over 1200 hospitals, healthcare networks and imaging facilities a better picture of their patients’ health. For more information, visit www.pacsgear.com.
PACSGEAR
K. Thomas Pickard
+1 925-225-6100
thomas.pickard@pacsgear.com
itMD is a cloud-based medical image sharing company that enables the on-demand exchange of medical imaging information from anywhere to anyone. Users on the itMD Network can easily send, share and access medical imaging information online with just a web-browser; thus, no special software is necessary. We are enabling all interested parties the ability to improve the quality of healthcare and decrease costs. itMD is empowering patients, physicians and institutions with our collaborative, cloud-based application. Learn more about our solutions at www.itMD.net.
itMD, LLC
Gabriel Arcila, MD
itMD, LLC
1.888.778.2552
Gabriel.Arcila@itMD.net
www.itMD.net
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itMD will be demonstrating the cost saving and revenue enhancing benefits of its cloud-based image sharing solution at SIIM's Innovators Alley on June 7, 8 and 9 in booth #543.
itMD's solution enables institutions of all sizes to serve doctors and patients more quickly by eliminating time-wasting CD duplication, media transport, and reliance on antiquated technology. Institutions using itMD make life easier for doctors who refer patients to them and allow patient care to be more accessible. This can improve the doctor-institution relationship, increase referrals, and enhance the medical facility workflow.
Images and reports can be efficiently distributed to the referring physicians in a secure, convenient interface. itMD’s cloud-based application simplifies and automates the process of data distribution, sharing and aggregation. Patient and physician users can access and claim medical imaging online, upload their medical imaging CDs, share images and reports with anyone, and connect with everybody in the itMD network of healthcare professionals, facilities and other patient users.
"I have experienced the frustration of disappointed patients and lost revenue resulting from appointments that were rescheduled because of unreadable or forgotten imaging CDs." said Halland Chen, MD, Interventional Pain Management Specialist and itMD co-founder. "itMD provides instant access to patients' images, and enables doctors to easily collaborate with each other on cases."
itMD is a cloud-based medical image sharing company that enables the on-demand exchange of medical imaging information from anywhere to anyone. itMD's mission is to improve the quality of healthcare and decrease the costs by enabling all interested parties the ability to easily send, share and access medical imaging information with unlimited possibilities. We are empowering patients, physicians and institutions with our collaborative, cloud-based application. Learn more at www.itMD.net.
itMD, LLC
Gabriel Arcila, MD
itMD, LLC
1.888.778.2552
Gabriel.Arcila@itMD.net
www.itMD.net
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Orlando, Florida
Thursday, June 7, 2012
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm
Sago Palms Ballroom
This session will provide attendees with an opportunity to hear vendors discuss their views on the future of image sharing. A live panel discussion including the topics of PHR, DICOM/IHE, XDS-I, as well as their company’s view of these topics, will give an inside perspective on vendors’ rationales. Discussion will revolve around analyzing the limitations of CD/DVD based image exchange, as well as discussion on the emergence of electronic personal heath records and how new initiatives will drive the transition to fully electronic image exchange.
- Discuss the limitations of CD/DVD based image exchange and how the transition to “cloud” based solutions seek to overcome them.
- Discuss the emergence of personal electronic health records and how they impact the process of image exchange.
- Analyze how to meet requirements pertaining to the new RSNA Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I) project.
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Physicians and Administrators have sought low cost enterprise image solutions that provide optimal security without sacrificing performance. Like Dr. Arcila, they were seeking advanced technology using established industry standards delivered with the highest level of accountability. The DICOM standard was developed to promote interoperability of medical imaging studies between modalities and information management solutions.
So why is the sharing of images between provider organizations so challenging?
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It depends on how many different ways you want to measure it, says Daryl Eber, MD, co-founder and CMO of itMD.
The Miami, Florida-area company specializes in the development of enterprise-class image-sharing software, and its products are taking hold in a health care environment struggling to address the portability and security issues of traditional media.
The most obvious measure to calculate waste is cost. Many practices don't know exactly how much they've sunk into keeping physical media throughout the whole of their infrastructure.
"If it's $8 per CD," Eber says—an intentionally low estimate—"and you do $10,000 CDs a year, that's $80,000 a year."
When itMD delved into the total costs for an imaging center to rely on CDs for patient studies, they came up with a figure closer to $15.83 per CD. Multiply that figure by your average patient throughput, and it's a staggering amount of money. As a raw number, however, it still doesn't come close to communicating the myriad levels of waste in such a system.
“I would sit and watch the people standing in line in the radiology department to get a CD,” Eber said. “Physicians would be there wasting their time, plus the department had to add an employee just to upload these CDs.”
Then there’s the question of time—as in, how much is yours worth? From physicians to support staff to frustrated patients toting around CDs from appointment to appointment, nobody wants to have to think about where their “only copy” of a disc might have wandered. Especially when the next visit comes around and patients haven’t remembered to bring their CD, or expected that one would be there, which only leads to rescheduling everything.
“About 30% of patients forget the CD,” Eber says. “If [a doctor] doesn’t have it, he can’t begin radiation treatment planning.”
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Enhancing the Exchange and Viewing of Image Data For Physicians And Patients.
Client Outlook Inc. and itMD, LLC, both industry leaders in the growing Mobile Health market, announced today their partnership to deliver the premiere medical image exchange and viewing platform designed to rebuild and transform the collaborative relationships between physicians, clinicians, radiologists and the patients they treat.
The singular mission for both Client Outlook and itMD is to improve clinical outcomes by facilitating image access between patients and their physicians. Together, the easy-to-use and highly effective cloud-based image exchange application offered by itMD with Client Outlook’s eUnityTM versatile image viewer technology, is powering collaborative medicine. This platform enables any authorized user to review their uploaded or stored images through nothing more than their favorite web-browser or personal mobile device. Enabling the secure and critical, on-demand exchange of medical imaging amongst the key members of the healthcare team not only drives the time-to-diagnosis but also accelerates the time-to-care for the patient.
“The future of image sharing is becoming more patient centric, and collaborative amongst other physicians, referring institutions, and imaging centers. Access to image data is crucial, and our platform helps facilitate the easy and secure channel to connect to these studies; moreover, to connect with other physicians, healthcare providers and facilities all within an intuitive interface,” says Damien Evans, Chief Technical Officer at itMD.
“itMD and Client Outlook are a natural fit,” says Brenda Rankin, Executive Vice President and Founder, Client Outlook, Inc. Both companies share the same commitment to removing technical boundaries and elevating access to clinical image data for healthcare providers. In fact, our technologies work effortlessly in step to provide that simple and straightforward access right where healthcare happens.”
Client Outlook is a healthcare company, first, a technology company second. Driven by our own personal healthcare experiences, we challenge ourselves everyday to develop and deliver the most practical, useful and secure solutions for physicians and frontline healthcare professionals - right where healthcare happens. For more information about our company and our product, eUnity™, visit us on the web at www.clientoutlook.com
Client Outlook, Inc.
Brenda Rankin
Executive Vice President
1.866.781.6387
brenda@clientoutlook.com
www.clientoutlook.com
*eUnity™ for the mobile platform is for reference and referral only.
itMD is a leading provider of cloud-based image sharing and exchange solutions. We are focused on the role that image sharing has in enhancing the quality of patient care, by providing tools that make each part of the medical imaging chain more efficient. Our product is designed to reinvent the delivery and use of medical imaging and diagnostic information. More info can be found at www.itMD.net
itMD, LLC
Gabriel Arcila, MD
itMD, LLC
1.888.778.2552
Gabriel.Arcila@itMD.net
www.itMD.net
itMD was founded by physicians and a core group of experts in software engineering and image management. The core image sharing product, aims to reinvent the delivery and use of medical imaging and diagnostic information, will be demonstrating its solutions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) February 20-24, 2012 in Las Vegas.
itMD’s central focus is the role of image sharing in enhancing the quality of patient care, and providing tools to make each part of the medical imaging chain more efficient. Through the use of its innovative cloud-based image sharing platform, itMD breaks down the traditional communication boundaries allowing institutions, physicians, and patients to interact and collaborate electronically. By aggregating patients’ imaging data from multiple institutions, CDs can be eliminated creating a more efficient and streamlined workflow. itMD’s solution is based on open standards to promote a standard-based workflow for the exchange of medical data.
“Previously, as an Administrator in one of the nation’s largest academic medical centers”, says Barbara Deppman, President of itMD, “I encountered various challenges posed by the usage of CDs, such as the inefficiencies of loading them for the physicians, the amount of time and staff for the film library to burn them, and the critical real estate the service occupied. itMD’s cloud based solution has resulted in both a patient and physician satisfier since they no longer need to wait for the CDs. An added benefit is the cost savings from eliminating the CD service.”
Additionally, itMD’s leaders, Damien Evans (Chief Technology Officer), Dr. Daryl Eber (Chief Medical Officer) and Dr. Gabriel Arcila (Vice-President of Product Management), will be demonstrating the itMD solution in the Client Outlook booth, #1631 (Hall A) at the HIMSS 2012 Annual Meeting.
Gabriel Arcila, MD
itMD, LLC
1.888.778.2552
Gabriel.Arcila@itMD.net
www.itMD.net
In a continuing effort to promote a standards-based electronic exchange of patients' medical image data, the RSNA Image Share has selected itMD as a provider of personal health record (PHR) accounts. The RSNA Image Share is a pilot project to share medical images with patients via personal health record (PHR) accounts and is funded by a federal contract from the National Institute of Health/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Through the use of its innovative cloud-based PHR, itMD breaks down traditional communication boundaries allowing institutions, physicians, and patients to interact and collaborate electronically. By aggregating patients' imaging data from multiple institutions, CDs can be eliminated creating a more efficient and streamlined workflow. itMD's solution, like the RSNA Image Share, is based on open standards to promote a standards-based workflow for the exchange of medical data. "As a patient, I've seen firsthand the issues that patients deal with when trying to obtain their medical imaging history, from cumbersome paperwork to the unreliable CDs that can be lost, broken, or sometimes just unreadable," says Damien Evans, CTO of itMD. "Through the close collaboration with radiologists and imaging intensivists, our team has built a solution from the ground-up that utilizes industry standards to make this currently unwieldy process as simple as sending an email."
"At this year's RSNA, itMD will demonstrate how patients can log into their itMD account and view their imaging data and reports using our cloud-based software solution," says Gabriel Arcila, MD, Vice-president of Product Development for itMD. "We've built a solution that revolutionizes the way patients, radiologists, and referring physicians interact. As a radiologist, I see itMD as a way to halt the commoditization of radiology and to re-establish the physician-physician and patient-physician relationships that have been lost since the advent of PACS."
Attendees of the RSNA conference in Chicago, November 27 - December 2, 2011 will be able to view the IHE image sharing demonstration and register for a simulated imaging exam. They can use the itMD PHR to view their images and reports and see firsthand the streamlined workflow of electronic image sharing.
The IHE Image Sharing Demonstration can be found in the:
South Building, Hall A, Booth 2851
itMD's central focus is improving the exchange of medical imaging content to enhance patient care.
Announcing the formation of itMD, LLC, a company focused on medical image sharing and management. The company is seeking to simplify the exchange of medical imaging content and reports to deliver higher quality, more integrated patient care. "Through my personal medical experiences and my work in the health care field, I've seen the struggles newly diagnosed patients have in making the necessary decisions to develop the best plan for their care. I realized that the technology was not the problem, the implementation was," said Damien Evans, itMD's Chief Software Architect. "Our team is focused on empowering patients and their medical teams at their most critical time by reducing their stress and promoting better care."
With significant industry experience in the design and implementation of healthcare IT, Evans said he sees many promising systems that never hold a true consumer driven approach to improving the quality of patient care. "What we are seeking to do is bring the imaging content and reports closer to patients, utilizing our expertise with technology and our experiences as patients and doctors." With the advent of cross enterprise document and image sharing, as well as upcoming changes in CMS regulations, timing is ideal for consumer (physician and patient alike) driven image sharing. In addition, itMD seeks to bring this type of technology to underserved portions of the market and expand the reach of quality health care to all patients. The company believes the ability to share imaging content and not just text-based reports is a necessary step in increasing the quality of medical care for all patients. The company is looking forward to the release of its suite of tools in Q1 2011.
itMD was founded by physicians and a core group of experts in software engineering and image management to reinvent the delivery and use of medical imaging and diagnostic information. itMD's central focus is the role of image sharing in enhancing the quality of patient care, providing tools to make each part of the medical imaging chain more efficient.
itMD's next generation approach seeks to pull the PACS out of isolation and make it securely part of the entire chain of care delivery.
Gabriel Arcila, MD
itMD, LLC
1.888.778.2552
Gabriel.Arcila@itMD.net
www.itMD.net