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Cimar's CMIE image sharing platform offers users a host of next generation web functionality. Designed with cloud computing principles, the new scalability, automation and simplicity implicit in the system creates a virtual image sharing environment to fit all sizes and uses of clinical application.

The system offers a range of enhancements and is a feature rich solution for anyone wanting to enable the sharing of clinical data quickly, simply and cost effectively. New to the Cimar service are the following features:

 

A new and enhanced DICOM Viewer...

The CMIE viewer is designed to offer communications flexibility, full rendering functionality and like Cimar's Cranium view, is a freely distributed component of the system for all users, anywhere. The view brings series and study linking, typical DICOM viewer image manipulation, and the ability to export images either to disc (CD, DVD or Blue-Ray), or push to other DICOM nodes and viewers over AET connections.

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Rapid image streaming technology...

Convention dictates that you need to download an entire study, however large, before you can see and manipulate the image content. Not any more... Cimar's streaming technology exploits the unique embedded compression algorithms od ABOve2000 to optimise both the speed and volume of data transmitted from the server to end user. this capability enables use of the system over low bandwidth connection and given that only images of interest are fully downloaded, saves significantly on time and efficiency for the user.

Tablet and Android compatibility...

CMIEs core architecture is designed around modern and next generation computing - Access to images anywhere, any time. We have ported the platform and image streaming to work with Android devices. The best of these we have found is Honeycomb running on the Asus Transformer (T2 or T3). With Windows7 on this device, full Tablet finger control for image manipulation is simple and navigation friendly.

Integrated high volume DICOM routing...

Automated sending of Radiology to the CMIE platform is now managed by a sophisticated software routing engine, DO. This Work Horse is designed to pump large volumes of images to destinations anywhere. The engine is multi threaded (capable of sending many studies concurrently), and each can be to different destinations, directed by its Rules Engine core. on reasonable bandwidth and hardware, this software is capable of transmitting ~1000 CT images per minute either directly to other DICOM nodes or to Cimar's CMIE server worklists.

A content-aware rules engine...

We have expanded intellect, sophistication and compatibility of our routing solutions. Many easily created routing rules can be stored that interrogate any DICOM tag, and determine what to do with the images based on image content. The router can even change the DICOM dialect in flight, and present images to other PACS systems as they expect, having inserted tag values on the way. Radiology, Ophthalmology, Endoscopy, Cardiology, Echograms and other clinical data types can all be routed when and where they are needed next.

Worklist alerting...

When studies arrive on Cimar's worklists, its crucial that those that are urgent are prioritised. We have added several flags that help users (senders or receivers) to prioritise workflow. Studies can be flagged as Urgent and when diagnosed, studies can be flagged as abnormal and needing clinical attention. this further helps clinicians manage their heave workloads and prevents lost attention for patients that need it now.

Increased scalability and clustering

As our web services and their use have grown in volume and application, so to have we evolved the models that underpin the services architecture. responding to the increased need to store images on-line for longer, enable more concurrent users, and increased traffic throughput, the CMIE platform is designed to seamlessly expand its underlying hardware configuration. Server clustering, virtualisation, and hot swappable disc expansion are a few of these evolved architectural changes.

For further technical advice, please contact us for assistance. We are always keen to hear feedback and input on functions and capabilities you would like to see added to our services

 

 

What is Image Streaming...

The impact of streaming technology in the field of Radiology is a revelation...

To enable access to Internet hosted images AND provide full rendering functionality (as if they where hosted locally), requires technology that masks the obvious bottlenecks- Internet bandwidth.

To the user, the experience is a smooth, fast, seamless process. Under the bonnet, sophisticated
technology, complex rules and clever data optimisation is at play.

“Streamed Images” gives you an instant and lower resolution version of the complete image set as quickly as possible. This allows you to rapidly navigating through an entire Study/Exam and pick regions of interest (ROI) at random.

The system intuitively and losslessly populates surrounding images in real-time. Streaming technology speeds workflow by providing simultaneous data transfer and full image rendering. Images that are not required are not downloaded, saving bandwidth and time.

Regions of images, single or multiple series of a studies can be viewed quickly while the remainder is streamed to you as a background process if required.

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Web Router

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Streaming Viewer

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Tablet Compatibility