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U.S. Radiologists Increasingly Using MyPACS.net to Help Physicians in Third World Countries.
Siem Riep, Cambodia. Members of the World Health Organization and Friends Without a Border are using MyPACS to help connect western radiologists with physicians in under-served countries. Physicians from Cambodia, Panama, and other countries are able to post difficult cases to MyPACS.net and solicit help from the international MyPACS community. Radiologists from across the world are more than happy to volunteer their opinions, posting comments to cases or responding by email. For example, Dr. Luy Lyda from the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia has posted numerous cases to MyPACS, and has received friendly advice from radiologists such as Phillip Silberberg of Childrens Hospital Omaha. The benefit is mutual. "It gives us a chance to see cases rarely found in the U.S., such as
BURKHOLDERIA MEILIOIDOSIS
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October 9, 2005 |
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University of Washington Purchases MyPACS Enterprise; Rolls out to Six Locations.
Seattle, WA. The University of Washington Department of Radiology has purchased MyPACS Enterprise for use at six locations, including Harborview Hospital, the University of Washington Medical Center, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the VA Hospital, Seattle Childrens Hospital, and the Roosevelt Clinic. The teaching file server has been incorporated into the residency program, with residents required to submit several cases a month as part of their training. Faculty have embraced the system, and have been publishing cases from the Enterprise server to the free public server at MyPACS.net. Featured Collections from UW faculty members include
Mike Richardson's UW Teaching File
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John Hunter's MSK Collection
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July 15, 2005 |
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Vivalog demonstrating MyPACS at the 2004 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting.
Chicago, IL. Vivalog invites RSNA attendees to drop by Inforad space #9504 in the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place, 9am-5pm Monday November 29 - Thursday December 2. New MyPACS teaching file system features will be demonstrated, including the upcoming web-based DICOM tools.
November 25, 2004 |
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Vivalog Technologies Releases MyPACS Version 4.
Seattle, WA. Vivalog Technologies has rolled out MyPACS Version 4, which includes over 20 new features. An improved search engine returns results 300% faster, and allows users to sort results by relevance, date, title, or author. Additional highlights include the new Visit Tracker, which lets users easily identify cases that they've previously viewed, the Case Emailer that allows users to email cases to their colleagues, the Multi-Uploader that allows users to upload entire directories of images at once, and the DICOM Receiver that allows authorized users to send DICOM images directly to the teaching file server.
November 20, 2004 |
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Childrens Health System of Alabama at Birmingham Purchases MyPACS Enterprise.
Birmingham, AL. Childrens Health System of Alabama has acquired MyPACS Enterprise. Radiologists and residents will be able to create teaching files from cases encountered during daily practice and rounds. The system will also be used by pathologists for creating intradepartmental cases that include pathology images and radiology images. MyPACS Enterprise has now been acquired by five Childrens Hospitals across the US (Alabama, Cincinnati, Seattle, Atlanta, and Boston).
November 19, 2004 |
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Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Purchases MyPACS Enterprise.
Atlanta, GA. Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the leading pediatric hospitals in treating childhood cancer, blood disorders, and heart ailments, has purchased MyPACS Enterprise as part of their commitment ot academic excellence. The radiology department will use MyPACS to create a repository of cases for training and decision support.
October 15, 2004 |
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Mayo Clinic purchases Foundation-Wide License for MyPACS Enterprise. Rochester, MN. After witnessing the enthusiastic adoption of the MyPACS teaching file management system at their Scottsdale clinic, the Mayo Clinic rolled out MyPACS throughout the enterprise, where it will be used by over 400 radiologists to create and share teaching files and reference cases. Users at Rochester, Jacksonville, and Scottsdale will begin using MyPACS as part of their ongoing training curriculum, including cross-facility collaboration. In addition to the thousands of new cases expected to be created by facutly and residents, thousands of legacy cases from the past 80 years will be imported into the system.
September 21, 2004 |
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Boston Childrens Hospital Purchases MyPACS Enterprise.
Boston, MA. Boston Childrens Hospital aquired MyPACS Enterprise and will be rolling it out department-wide. Radiologists will be able to create cases from their web browsers behind the firewall, and from remote computers connected via virtual private network. The hospital also acquired a secondary public server, which will allow cases to be anonymized and published to a branded server on the world wide web.
January 30, 2004 |
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AJR article describes how MyPACS enhances clinician's access to the intellectual capital of interdepartmental conferences.
The Computers in Radiology section of the February 2004 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology features an article about how MyPACS is used to create teaching cases from clinical data, radiologic images, surgical images, and pathology slides that are presented at tumor board conferences. The resulting interdisciplinary case files are of educational value both during and after conference presentations and can be used by clinicians to gather appropriate historical, laboratory, imaging, surgical, and pathologic data on their patients. The article is called
Improving Patient Care: The Use of a Digital Teaching File to Enhance Clinicians' Access to the Intellectual Capital of Interdepartmental Conferences
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January 21, 2004 |
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Hierarchical Folders and Other Features added to MyPACS.net and MyPACS Enterprise.
Vivalog has rolled out a new set of features for their teaching file management software. The much-requested ability to create hierarchical virtual folders is now available, and users can now control when each image appears during the various stages of training mode. Furthermore, the MIRC connectivity features have been updated.
November 29, 2003 |
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Vivalog demonstrating MyPACS at the 2003 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting in Chicago, December 1st-4th
Vivalog invites RSNA attendees to drop by Inforad space #9510 in the Lakeside Center. New MyPACS teaching file system features will be demonstrated and visitors can learn the advantages of MyPACS over other existing options.
November 28, 2003 |
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Vivalog awarded $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health
Vivalog today announced receipt of a three year Small Business Innovative Research grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health. The long-term objective of the research proposed is to develop new information technology that will significantly reduce barriers to interdisciplinary and cross-facility biomedical research collaboration. Vivalog’s research will result in commercial software that will allow mental health and neuroimaging investigators to (1) effectively design and execute custom experiment protocols and workflow, (2) more easily acquire and manage multimedia research data from heterogeneous clinical systems, and (3) selectively share data with remote interdisciplinary collaborators. The resulting software, to be called BioSCRIBE, will consist of a flexible, extensible toolkit for constructing web-based experiment management systems that are custom-tailored to the unique workflow and data models of the investigator’s own image-based research project. The toolkit will provide a visual interface for architecting a structural model of the researcher’s unique experiment processes and metadata. This model will be used to automatically generate a clinical information system that is tailored to manage the acquisition, analysis, and sharing of the research group’s multimodal experiment data. Software development will be driven by formative design evaluation, in collaboration with neuroimaging and mental health researchers at interdisciplinary centers at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School who will use the toolkit to support longitudinal research in autism, bipolar disorder, and other disorders.
November 25, 2003
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Vivalog supports RSNA MIRC
The RSNA MIRC project develops tools to enable the medical imaging community to share images and information for education, research and clinical practice. For the past 2 years, Vivalog has been committed to serving as a MIRC solutions provider, helping to shape the standard, and demonstrating the power of MIRC as an exchange format for teaching files. All public cases in MyPACS.net are indexed by the RSNA MIRC query server, and users can export their cases as MIRC XML documents. MIRC documents can be imported directly into MyPACS. For example, users of RadPix (www.radpix.com) can publish teaching files directly to MyPACS using MIRC.
November 17, 2003 |
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Vivalog presents scientific poster at the BISTI-sponsored Digital Biology Symposium at NIH headquarters.
NIH convenes this symposium to explore how biologists and computer scientists are laying the foundation for scientific discoveries touching every aspect of the NIH mission. The purposes are 1) to demonstrate how computational approaches to biomedical research have yielded breakthroughs that advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and 2) to identify national research needs and opportunities in the computational and quantitative sciences critical to the future of biomedical discovery.
November 7, 2003 |
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas purchases MyPACS Enterprise Server
“We’re pleased to see more and more hospitals maximizing their overall investment in digital imaging by cultivating an accessible, enduring repository of their institution’s professional knowledge. Customers such as University of Texas are empowering their radiologists to record their clinical encounters as searchable cases, using the most time-efficient and user-friendly authoring tools,” said Vivalog President Rex Jakobovits.
October 15, 2003 |
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Mayo Clinic at Scottsdale, Arizona purchases MyPACS Enterprise Server
Vivalog adds Mayo Clinic at Scottsdale as latest MyPACS customer. Dr. Beauchamp of Mayo says, “I have been trying for years to achieve what you have done with MyPACS. This product is simply outstanding. This is a monumental step forward in teaching and research.”
February 25, 2003 |
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MyPACS integrates with RadPix Presentation Software
RadPix is a great way to create PowerPoint presentations from DICOM images. RadPix now lets you upload teaching files to MyPACS, without having to go through your web browser. Push DICOM images directly from your PACS to this Windows-based application, and then publish teaching files to MyPACS straight from your desktop! PACS to RadPix to MyPACS... a complete solution! Go to http://www.radpix.com/RadPix_to_MyPACS.html to find out how to upload teaching file cases to MyPACS.net.
January 31, 2003
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MyPACS highlighted in Diagnostic Imaging's PACSweb article. In an article titled
Teaching file engines line up at infoRAD
, by Douglas Page, he outlines the emerging methods for capturing and storing radiographic images for teaching files and Web-based image transfer and viewing.
December 16, 2002 |
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MyPACS featured in the Computers in Radiology section of the July 2002 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology
In an article titled
MyPACS.net: A Web-Based Teaching File Authoring Tool
, authors Edward Weinberger, Rex Jakobovits, and Mark Halsted decribe the creation of MyPACS, a hosted teaching file authoring tool that allows easy uploading of images and descriptive information from any computer with Web access.
July 2002 |
