CoActiv Debuts Revolutionary Cloud-Based Zero-Footprint EXAM-BROWSER

CoActiv introduces EXAM-BROWSER?, a revolutionary fully cloud-based, zero-footprint, universal clinical viewer that enables anywhere, anytime review of medical images and reports. With the new EXAM-BROWSER, CoActiv hospital and imaging center customers storing images in CoActiv's vendor-neutral EXAM-VAULT® cloud-based archive can enable users to view and manipulate exams with ultra-fast speed from virtually any browser-enabled computer or mobile device, anywhere in the world, quickly and securely. This includes Windows, Linux and Mac PCs as so then as most Smartphones and tablets including the iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android phones, HP Slate, Motorola Xoom, T-Mobile Slate, CoActiv EXAM-PAD?, Samsung Galaxy, Blackberry Torch and more. The system operates using wired, Wi-Fi or 3G/4G mobile Internet connectivity.

The new CoActiv browser supports a full range of modalities and image formats including 2D, multi-planar reformatting, 3D and even echocardiology with full cine. It allows comprehensive image manipulation with window/level, zoom, pan, rotate and more in either single or multiple window formats. Utilizing the power of CoActiv's super-computing cloud servers, the system formats images remotely and streams them with unprecedented speed to users wherever located. The power of the local device is no longer a significant limiting factor on the speed of medical image processing. Now, for the first time even on a slow PC or mobile device, instant 3D reconstructions of CT exams with hundreds of images can be performed in mere seconds.

EXAM-BROWSER login is simple. Registered, authorized users simply click a link and input a username and password. When the application opens, it presents an easily searchable list of all studies available to that user. This exam list can be filtered and sorted by patient name, date, modality, description and more. To maximize speed and image clarity, the browser-based application automatically optimizes for available bandwidth and network latency.

For day to day communications with referring physicians, hospitals and imaging centers can now offer a customized Internet portal accessible from virtually anywhere via PC or mobile device. Patients can as well be enabled to view their images in collaboration with a radiologist, referring physician or both-simultaneously.

"In short, the physicians have a sophisticated nevertheless easy-to-use way to communicate, consult and collaborate across multiple image platforms including local PCs as then as mobile devices," said Ed Heere, President and CEO of CoActiv. "CoActiv is excited about introducing this major technology in medical image communication. EXAM-BROWSER will allow physicians to view any modality from any PACS in any format. Viewing anatomy as 3D structures will help all physicians also as patients more fully understand a diagnosis. And because of the viewer's standards-based innovation, it can be used in conjunction with any PACS as long as the images are stored on the CoActiv vendor-neutral, cloud-based archive."

EXAM-BROWSER was developed utilizing revolutionary, in a class by itself and exciting state-of-art innovation provided by Claron Research Inc. of Toronto, Canada www.clarontech.com.