Startup firm XRFiles of Redwood City, CA, has launched a Web-based personal image archive service for patients.
The service, www.xrfiles.com, includes a streaming no-compression DICOM viewer, as well as a data transfer engine that transports content from CDs or DICOM datasets to and from the service. It also offers personal folders and permissions-based access with a full audit trail. XRFiles can be used from most Internet-connected PCs, Macs, or Linux machines, according to the firm.
XRFiles, which is HIPAA-compliant, is mostly a free service to patients. It also is available for hospitals and healthcare networks seeking to improve their image distribution, to replace CD burning, or to add a patient image portal or a teaching files library.
The company was founded this year by Zvi Eintracht, founder and CEO of Web-based PACS developer RealTimeImage, and engineers from RealTimeImage, which was bought by IDX Systems in 2005. XRFiles announced that it will allow academic institutions and professional nonprofit groups to use the service for sharing teaching files at no cost.
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