RSNA: Visage previews universality, mobility

Visage Imaging (Booth # 6249) is demonstrating works-in-progress capabilities built into its enterprise viewing technology at RSNA 2012, Nov. 25-30, in Chicago.

Visage is showcasing the extension of its cardiac capabilities, which include cardiac CT angiography, left ventricle analysis and calcium scoring. Cardiac works-in-progress includes enhanced cardiac display protocols for angiography and echocardiography studies, display of multiple concurrent cine views, as well as ECG synchronized display of pre- and post-stress echocardiography.

The company is demonstrating support for iPhone 5 and other enhancements to its Visage Ease 1.2.3 for mobile imaging results. Visage is showing push notifications for Visage Ease as a work-in-progress, as well as support for the attachment of photographs and screen captures from iOS devices.

Visage Imaging is offering synchronized QA for enterprise imaging users who have Acuo Technologies’ Universal Clinical Platform (UCP), a vendor-neutral archive. This toolset provides HL7 standards-based integration to Acuo’s UCP to integrate typical quality assurance functionality like edit, merge and delete.

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