Ever wonder how radiologists can work from home while being away from CT, MRI or other medical images?

Since Covid-19 medical specialists work from home part of the day. Every hospital offers them a way to access the patient data from home.

But suppose you're a radiologist - how can you or your colleagues quickly analyse medical images such as CT-scans that contain over a 1000 images while working at home? Or how can you safely share these images and videos in a multidisciplinary team meeting within seconds? And view them together in realtime? Without the need for special hardware or fast internet connections?

You would be surprised how many medical specialists still need to download full images and videos today, need special hardware instead of just an iPad or even just a smartphone. Some even burn these medical images on a DVD and take them home, risking privacy issues or that they need to drive back to the hospital because they forgot one or more items.

To this end some software vendors offer universal medical viewers. A major advantage of a universal viewer is that medical images are rendered server side, so that, together with your colleagues, you can skip through immense CT scans on your iPad within seconds..

Compare this to Netflix streaming only what you need to see on your iPhone, not the entire movie. And without the risk of exposing medical data to unauthorised people.

I even consider this technology a prerequisite for MDT's/MDO's between hospitals as for example this Dutch initiative by the hospitals Meander Medisch Centrum, Tergooi and UMC Utrecht: https://bit.ly/2XWG0mv so that you no longer need to travel as in pre-Covid days!

Hyland offers -for a limited amount of time- free use of their universal viewer called NILread, so you can judge its use yourself and testdrive this within your own hospital. Its security and speed are the most important features, but also collaborating / annotating in realtime with your colleagues spread across the country is easy and fast.

This viewer connects to any PACS system or image archive you might have and comes with the latest rendering and caching technology to enable a remote way of working. So you don't need to burn DVD's anymore and wait for slow and huge downloads.

Checkout this page on NILread https://www.hyland.com/en/healthcare/enterprise-imaging/nilread that describes some of its features, how it integrates into your existing hospital system (e.g. Epic or ChipSoft) and a short video to give you an impression and to help you convince your colleagues to try it out.