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Vijay Ramanathan, President & CEO, RamSoftRamSoft's entire range of scalable radiology workflow solutions is built on a single platform database infrastructure, to help minimize redundant tasks, decrease data errors, and boost consistency throughout healthcare practices. The firm’s PowerServer series of RIS/PACS, Teleradiology, and image management systems are equipped with a PowerServer Workflow Engine to automate and streamline the radiology workflow for outpatient practices, radiology groups, and hospitals. The firm offers a consolidated workflow through customizable and unified worklists that enable physicians to track the exams through the scheduling, registration, imaging, reporting and report-distribution phases.
For radiologists, aggregating data and images from multiple facilities and modalities ranging from single image chest X-rays or very large datasets such as digital breast tomosynthesis, RamSoft’s unified worklist facilitate a seamless workflow with simple status transitions to suit each ordering physician's or facility’s requirements. “A top-down and bottom-up worklist approach allows radiologists to have exceptionally productive experiences instead of searching for studies and figuring out tasks individually,” states Vijay Ramanathan, President & CEO of RamSoft.
A top-down and bottom-up worklist approach allows radiologists to have exceptionally productive experiences instead of searching for studies and figuring out tasks individually
The company’s Rapid Results viewer allows referring physicians to click on a hyperlink within the diagnostic reports and obtain direct access to the images, and then view and manipulate those images from any browser or mobile device. The firm also offers remote rendering capability that allows images or frames to be rendered as requested by physicians without the need to transfer entire datasets.
Furthermore, RamSoft offers a comprehensive RIS/PACS designed for Teleradiology with a singular focus on streamlining radiology workflows. For instance, a southern Georgia-based radiologist leveraged RamSoft’s technology to deliver radiology services to hospitals and ambulatory centers. The firm tied up with a hosting partner with multiple Internet Service Providers to resolve connectivity and infrastructure-related issues while setting up the teleradiology practice and delivered the software solutions to connect with different hospitals and aggregate the data from them. By collaborating with this customer, RamSoft has nurtured this practice to a point today where there are more than 30 specialized radiologists in this group that cater to around 20 hospitals and ambulatory centers. As a result, the patients in the community have access to highly specialized radiologists who provide radiology sub-specialty expertise to facilities across the region.
Ramanathan believes that radiology has plenty of room to grow with regards to improving both physician and patient access to healthcare information. In an age when patients have sophisticated technology readily available on their smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, RamSoft wants to leverage this expanding internet connectivity to simplify the access to diagnostic images and speed up the delivery of healthcare information. “A key disruption in the diagnostic imaging space today is the ease of access, and the ubiquity of it all is bringing down the proprietary barriers that prevent access to images,” concludes Ramanathan.
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RamSoft
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Vijay Ramanathan, President & CEO, RamSoft
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Delivers fully customizable, feature-rich imaging workflow solutions to accelerate productivity, stimulate business growth, automate workflows, and improve patient care
RamSoft News
Progressive Loading Launched on RamSofts OmegaAI Cloud-Native Radiological Software Platform
RamSoft, a global leader in novel cloud-based RIS/PACS radiology solutions for imaging centers and teleradiology providers, has launched Progressive Loading. This unique feature of OmegaAI, RamSoft’s cloud-native radiological software built on Microsoft Azure, allows a radiologist to quickly load a large imaging study via a web browser. A radiologist can begin to read and interact with new studies with no delay; the first images load almost immediately and secondary images load progressively in the background while the radiologist interacts with the study. Because the platform is cloud-native, image loading is fast regardless of what type of network is being used, and the performance is faster than traditional cloud-based deployments and most on-premises networks.
By building its cloud-native platform using Progressive Loading, OmegaAI can deliver the first images of a 3,000-slice CT data set, for example, in one second or less over standard internet connectivity without a VPN. RamSoft recently completed an internal validation study in which images of a breast tomosynthesis test study were transferred from OmegaAI in the USA and manipulated by a radiologist in India using the OmegaAI reader within one second.
“Some radiologists are still skeptical that cloud-native radiology software accessed via a web browser on a standard Internet connection can allow them to review and analyze medical images from multiple modalities with the same ease as traditional on-premises radiology software,” said Siva Ramanathan, RamSoft’s Chief Technology Officer. “OmegaAI was purposely built as a cloud-native platform. Its cloud-native architecture enables innovative software solutions that can load large image data sets much faster than traditional cloud platforms, and faster than on-prem installations. We repeatedly see radiologists react in amazement when they realize that they are looking at large radiology images delivered via a zero-footprint reader in a web browser. As our team developed OmegaAI, we worked diligently on delivering a cloud-native radiology experience with an image presentation speed that is faster than legacy on-prem radiology software. Our implementation of Progressive Loading helps us deliver on that promise even more.”
“Medical imaging plays a vital role in healthcare. The ability to deliver large radiology images quickly and efficiently is not merely a matter of convenience but a critical necessity. It can help reduce workload burdens and enable radiologists to expedite analysis, diagnosis, and treatment, thereby helping to enhance patient care and outcomes with precision and efficacy,” said Dr. Helia Mohammadi, Chief AI and Precision Health Officer, Microsoft. “RamSoft’s integration of Microsoft Azure to accelerate healthcare innovation is a great example of how technology can be leveraged to improve provider and patient experiences.”
A key benefit of cloud-native RIS/PACS systems is the ability to deploy the platform without local servers or high-performance local computing workstations and without a VPN or high-speed networks. By integrating Azure services including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Blob Storage, OmegaAI also provides the highest levels of cybersecurity, HIPAA compliance, and scalability.