RSNA: Intelerad unveils PACS upgrades

Intelerad (Booth 4053) is showing collaboration and personalization capabilities for IntelePACS 4.4 at the 97th Annual Meeting & Scientific Assembly of the RSNA, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 in Chicago.

The features making their debut at the conference include multi-level critical alerts, radiologist chat features, navigation and layout tools and voice-activated commands.

The InteleViewer module features a new instant messaging directory, reflecting a user’s chat status and availability, which is designed to improve physician communication. It also has new navigation tools, such as a radial menu, which can be tailored to individual display monitors.

IntelePACS multi-method reporting module offers a voice recognition and template application and IntelePACS 4.4 offers the ability to save a draft report and dictate in batches.

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