ImageNow allows your radiology team to capture and retrieve important patient documents as high-quality electronic images. Using the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard set of protocols, ImageNow sends a selection of document types directly to the PACS system. ImageNow also automatically provides unique patient identification data to your system, eliminating the time consuming manual data collection and entry traditionally associated with updating PACS.
Healthcare organizations worldwide, including Good Samaritan Hospital, Diversified Radiology of Colorado and Radiology and Imaging of South Texas use ImageNow in concert with PACS systems to increase physician and radiologist productivity and increase the speed and quality of medical image review.
ImageNow uses DICOM protocol to convert CT, MR and other medical images into universal files that referring physicians can easily and quickly view from any location using ImageNow or WebNow, its browser-based companion. With pertinent patient information at their fingertips, radiologists and physicians alike are equipped to make timely and informed reviews of medical images, free of the physical limitations of hard copies of x-rays and other diagnostic images.
As physicians and radiologists can access x-rays and other diagnostic images with just a single click from their PACS system, minimal training is required. Users of all skill levels get up and running with ImageNow quickly, allowing them to quickly experience the time savings ImageNow provides.
ImageNow is effective in many departments because it integrates with any application and is customizable. It has adapted to meet the individual needs of our clinics.
Christine Thomas
Project Manager
UT Med San Antonio
Many document management products cannot integrate with health information, clinical or business systems, or integration requires extensive programming that delays deployment. Other products are effective in a department such as HIM or in the back office, but are limited to department-level projects by insufficient functionality and integration capabilities.
ImageNow is different. Flexible integration options allow healthcare organizations to use ImageNow in concert with any existing application, including HIS suites from Epic, MEDITECH, GE, McKesson, Cerner and any other vendor, facilitating fast and cost-effective deployment across the enterprise. Regardless of the integration methods chosen, the result is the same: users will instantly retrieve any supporting document at the precise moment it’s needed, facilitating faster treatment, billing, invoice approval and more.
ImageNow includes a set of patented nonprogrammatic integration techniques called LearnMode for integrating with virtually any applications delivered to a Microsoft Windows desktop or Web browser. LearnMode provides a point-and-click method for integrating ImageNow and WebNow with three broad classes of applications without writing a single line of code:
Integrate ImageNow with line-of-business applications built with Visual Basic, C++, Java or any other standard and delivered to a MS Windows desktop.
Integrate ImageNow with terminal emulators, giving users instant access to documents directly from mainframe or host-based applications.
Integrate with browser-delivered applications, including those rendered using HTML, ActiveX, Java, Java Swing, Adobe, Flash or some combination of these.
ImageNow features HL7 capabilities that allow your healthcare organization to benefit from the power of the HL7 shared messaging structure alongside intuitive document management features.
ImageNow can process incoming HL7 messages from your HIS and business applications and automatically perform the required action, such as merging duplicate patient accounts, changing a patient’s name or deleting a document. ImageNow can also construct and send HL7 messages to your clinical and business systems to give users instant access to pertinent and current information.
Access ImageNow Programmatically by placing a button or hyperlink directly in application screens or forms. All major functions are easily accessible via COM. WebNow is easily referenced from any application that can launch a browser using a hyperlink.
Perceptive Software develops products that complement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, making it easy for our customers to develop tight, server-side integration between ImageNow and enterprise business systems. This is evident within the ImageNow Message Agent and ImageNow Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions, which enable ImageNow to send and receive information requests from applications and systems throughout your enterprise.
ImageNow Message Agent exposes a wide variety of Web service operations that can be used by customers to embed ImageNow functionality into existing applications, portals and business processes. For example, a physician could view his patients’ information directly from the physician portal while working remotely.
ImageNow ESB is Perceptive Software's latest SOA solution, providing the foundation for a new level of integration and data exchange with business applications. ImageNow ESB enables ImageNow to initiate a request of another application or system that exposes the functionality as a Web service. This request from ImageNow to the external environment can be the result of actions taken within ImageNow, such as a creating a new patient document.
We’d like the opportunity to prove the effectiveness of ImageNow integration. Contact us for an on-site demonstration during which ImageNow will integrate with live data in your existing systems.