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SoftLight Development Unveils HIPAA Compliant Web-based Teleradiology Study Management Service

(Feb 25, 2008)--“We have found the transactional model extremely helpful for our clients, who might be smaller clinics that can’t afford expensive software up front, or for clinics who might have a radiologist on staff but want to keep this teleradiology capability on hand at no cost in case their radiologist is unable to come in.” said Don Thomas, CEO of SoftLight Development on launching Telerad, a web-based teleradiology study management service.

“This model, which we’ve pioneered in the healthcare industry, benefits any-sized clinic in that they pay for what they use, and nothing more.” added Thomas.

SoftLight Development unveiled its new Web-based teleradiology study management service, called Telerad, at the HIMSS exhibition in Orlando. Telerad enables teleradiologists to access their studies over the Web from any computer, while maintaining HIPAA compliance, and keeps both stationary images and animations in an FDA-compliant Dicom format, so accurate measurements can be taken as though the doctor were actually in the office with the patient.

Telerad supports all radiology modality types, including MRI, CT, sonogram, PET scan and others, and supports cinefeatures in multiple modalities. Like the majority of SoftLight’s products, it is downloadable, installing in a day or less, and is paid for on a transactional basis – clinics and teleradiologists can download Telerad for free and pay a small fee each time information is transferred from the clinic to the teleradiologist or vice versa.

Telerad is able to alert on-call doctors via text message, page, or e-mail when a high-priority study comes in that needs immediate attention. Because the program is Web-based, the doctor can then check the study from his portable computer, whether he is with a patient of his own or in the middle of free time on the golf course, as accurately as if he were in the room with the patient. He can then submit his diagnosis or recommendations via Telerad and continue what he was doing.

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