2010
February 18, 2010. Clinicians treating the citizens of Concepcion, Honduras and surrounding rural area will now have access to specialists in the United States, thanks to Medweb’s recent PACS donation to Shoulder to Shoulder, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to creating an integrated healthcare system in Honduras. The virtualPACS software-only DICOM gateway is downloaded via a Web browser, auto configured to any Windows-based PC, and does not require involvement of an IT specialist, making it the ideal teleradiology solution for Shoulder to Shoulder’s new Honduran clinic opening February 20.
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February 16, 2010. Medweb has donated two PACS servers to the University of Miami/Project Medishare 240-bed hospital on the tarmac at Port-au-Prince airport. The equipment will enable clinicians in Haiti to transmit a patient’s radiological images to the University of Miami Hospital for remote reading and expert consultation.
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2009
November 29, 2009. Medweb now offers a new Health Screening Suite application that extends the power of PACS to common screening tests that can help clinicians assess a patients overall health. Comprised of six modules – Calcium Scoring, Bone Density Scoring, Virtual Colonoscopy, Abdominal Fat Density Scoring, Stress Tests and Echocardiograms – the application can be added to a facility’s existing PACS or integrated with Medweb’s PACS.
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November 29, 2009. Medweb is aligning its existing Web-based products and services to meet the needs of health providers, insurance companies and consumers in the emerging medical tourism industry. Medical tourism is a new concept in which a patient seeks more affordable care for medically validated procedures in countries where the associated costs are significantly less than in the U.S.
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November 23, 2009. A new PACS gateway module that electronically shares patient information between clinicians, radiology groups and imaging facilities for true enterprise PACS connectivity was recently introduced by Medweb. Radiology groups who purchase a Medweb server with the HIPAA-compliant Virtual PACS gateway module can provide paperless teleradiology services to referring clinicians and imaging centers without additional licensing, VPN hardware or firewall reconfiguration of customer sites.
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April 27, 2009. For the past 20 years, Medweb has provided customers with the most flexible, user-friendly telemedicine solutions. Today at the 2009 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Conference, Medweb leapfrogs previous telemedicine solutions by launching the Telestroke System which blends the latest in traditional “store and forward” telemedicine technology with real-time, hybrid video conferencing capabilities to expedite stroke patient diagnosis and speed the treatment of life saving measures.
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2008
October, 2008. Medweb employees traveled recently to Islamabad and Rawalpindi to provide installation support and training for a pioneering telemedicine project in Pakistan. The project included provision of Medweb's lay person-friendly webservers, collaborative telemedicine consultation software, secure encrypted web portals and integration of advanced medical peripheral devices such as portable ultrasound, spirometry, digital cameras, EKG, stethoscope and a computed radiography system for digital X-ray. As a result of this effort, the people of Pakistan have been empowered to tackle some of the difficult health issues in their country.
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2007
July, 2007. Medweb announces its participation in Operation Golden Phoenix. Initiative directly supports three separate nodes in the exercise by projecting medical expertise from locations like Loma Linda University, Arizona State University, the U.S. Navy Hospital Bethesda Maryland, and other locations to the multi-site disaster locations in and around Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona. Telemedicine including teleradiology, patient registration and tracking, wireless and satellite communications, and integration into a web-based medical situational awareness system developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc (ESRI) called the Advanced Emergency Graphic Information System (AEGIS) are just some of the activities Medweb is performing to support the elaborate exercise.
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May 14, 2007. World's most remote island gets advanced medical care from IBM, Northstar, Medweb and Center for Emergency Medicine of Western PA. Initiative provides real-time diagnosis and treatment solution for residents of Tristan da Cunha and creates new telemedical model for isolated populations everywhere.
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2005
Hinesly D. Protecting those who serve Teleradiology technology delivers quicker diagnoses for deployed troops. Medical Imaging. 2005.
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Medweb contributes Mobile Medical Communications & Triage Vehicle™ and Telemedicine Workflow Server to relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Medweb introduces the Personal PACS Webserver for researchers and private offices.
2004
Balch D, Taylor C, Rosenthal D, Bausch C, Warner D, Morris R. Shadow Bowl 2003: a collaborative exercise in community readiness, agency cooperation, and medical response. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health. 2004;10(3):330-342.
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Gawande, A. Casualties of war — Military care for the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan. NEJM. 2004;351:2471-2475.
Hinesly, D. Answering the call: Military efforts set the pace for mobile medical imaging. Medical Imaging. 2004;19:34-37.
Silverthorn, K. Nights no longer. Decisions in Imaging Economics [serial online]. February 2004.
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2003
Brewin, B. Global DOD system closes gap between battlefield, medical experts. Computerworld [serial online]. February 2003.
Fleming-Michael, K. Teleradiology answer to shortfall in military radiologists. dcmilitary.com (Fort Detrick Standard) [serial online]. May 2003.
Kalyanpur A, Weinberg J, Neklesa V, Brink JA, Forman HP. Emergency radiology coverage: technical and clinical feasibility of an international teleradiology model. Emerg Radiol. 2003;10(3):115-8.
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Page D. Operation teleradiology: Military radiology breaks camp. 2003.
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Wall, K. Teleradiology in action: Improving military healthcare. Radiology Today. 2003;4.
Web-based PACS delivers improved care anywhere. Sun e-communications subscriptions: Boardroom Minutes: Healthcare. 2003.
2002
Fleming-Michael, K. Army X-rays, archives go digital. dcmilitary.com (Fort Detrick Standard) [serial online]. April 2002.
2000
Hatfield, S. Web-based technology in radiology. Advance Online Editions for Health Information Executives [serial online]. April 2000.
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1999
Ernst R, Le VT, Kawashima A. A picture archiving and communications system featuring multiple monitors using Windows98. J Digit Imaging. 1999;12(2 Suppl 1):106-8.
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Ernst RD, Kawashima A, Shepherd W, Tamm EP, Sandler CM. Distributing digital imaging and communications in medicine data and optimizing access over satellite networks. J Digit Imaging. 1999;12(2 Suppl 1):195-6.
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