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MyPACS Used as a Platform for Educational Outreach in Radiology and Medicine
Seattle, WA. MyPACS is increasingly being used for educational outreach in developing nations. The Society of Pediatric Radiology has adopted MyPACS as the core platform to support a formal international outreach endeavor. Under a pilot project, physicians in developing nations are invited to upload pediatric cases to MyPACS that they may lack expertise to diagnose. More Information
February 22, 2008
Diagnostic Imaging PACSweb calls MyPACS "YouTube for Radiology"
San Francisco, CA. In an interesting article, Douglas Page of PACSweb writes "MyPACS gives clinicians a free way to share knowledge. It has become a perfect example of a Web 2.0 social-networking application. Web 2.0 sites comprise useful user contributions assembled to exploit collective experience..." Read the Full Article
October 11, 2007
MyPACS.net Grows to 14,000 Registered Users, 4,000 Hospitals
Seattle, WA. Vivalog Technologies announced that the user base for the online medical image sharing site, MyPACS.net, has doubled in the past twelve months, to 14,000 registered users from 4,000 hospitals and imaging centers worldwide. Every month, users make 150,000 visits to the site, resulting in 2.3 million hits per month. The majority of visitors are radiologists or radiology residents, with additional traffic coming from cardiologists, pathologists, surgeons, and other physicians who work with images on a daily basis. “MyPACS.net has reached critical mass,” says Dr. Jakobovits, president of Vivalog Technologies. “The growth is self-fueling. The more users who join, the more reason there is to be part of the MyPACS community. It’s about channeling the collective expertise of the community to create an ever-growing knowledge repository that benefits everyone.” Users can sign up for free accounts and access nearly 20,000 cases for training, reference, and diagnostic decision support.More Information
November 15, 2007
Vivalog Technologies Triple MyPACS Enterprise Install Base
Seattle, WA , November 23, 2007 – In 2007, Vivalog Technologies tripled the customer base for its teaching file and knowledge management software, MyPACS Enterprise, to 30 installations. MyPACS is not a PACS, but rather a web-based knowledge management system that extends a hospital’s existing PACS with functionality for teaching files, decision support, conferencing, and sharing images beyond the hospital’s firewall. "Word is getting out that MyPACS is a really good product,” says Dr. Rex Jakobovits, president of Vivalog. “Every one of our sales has come from customers talking to their peers about how MyPACS saves their radiologists time, reduces diagnostic errors, improves communication, and makes it easier to conduct conferences. It’s been a good year.” More Information
November 15, 2007
See MyPACS at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting
Orlando, FL. Vivalog Technologies will be demonstrating MyPACS at the American Roentgen Ray Society annual meeting scheduled for May 6-11, 2007 in Orlando Florida. Come to booth #613 in the Exhibition Hall at the JW Marriott at the Grande Lakes Orlando and let us show you the great new features in recently released Version 5 of MyPACS.
April 30, 2007
See MyPACS at the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) annual meeting
Denver, CO. Vivalog Technologies will be demonstrating MyPACS at the 55th annual meeting of the Association of University Radiologists. The meeting is scheduled for April 24-28, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center. Come to Centennial Hall D and let us show you the great new features in recently released Version 5 of MyPACS.
April 17, 2007
Agfa Demonstrates PACS Integration with MyPACS Enterprise in Radiology of the Future Exhibit
RSNA, Chicago, IL. Vivalog Technologies announced that Agfa HealthCare will be demonstrating integrated of IMPAX PACS with MyPACS Enterprise Reference Case Manager to create a more streamlined interface for creating reference cases and teaching files from exams in the PACS. Agfa will be demonstrating the integration at their “Radiology of the Future” exhibit at RSNA. Integrating MyPACS with IMPAX enables radiologists to quickly create and retrieve reference cases in the reading room, saving them time and reducing errors. Press Release
November 26, 2006
GE Healthcare integrates Centricity PACS with MyPACS Enterprise Reference Case Manager for Decision Support at the Point of Care
RSNA, Chicago, IL. Vivalog Technologies of Seattle, WA announced that MyPACS Enterprise has been integrated with GE Healthcare’s Centricity PACS. The integration is being demonstrated at the GE Healthcare booth at RSNA. MyPACS Enterprise extends the PACS with added functionality for decision support and reference case authoring. The integration of MyPACS and Centricity results in a streamlined interface for creating reference cases and teaching files directly from the PACS. Press Release
November 26, 2006
Come see MyPACS at RSNA 2006 - Exhibitor Booth #2295
Chicago, IL. For the first time Vivalog will have a technical exhibit booth at the RSNA conference. So come by to booth #2295 in Hall A - South Building and let us show you the great new features of our soon to be released MyPACS Version 5.
November 26-30, 2006

Provox Announces VoxComparison and Vivalog Partnership
Roanoke, VA. Provox, a leading provider of speech recognition based radiology reporting and medical documentation solutions, and Vivalog Technologies, a leading provider of knowledge management solutions for imaging, announce the availability of VoxComparison, a new tool added to the VoxReports solution that allows radiologists to easily search for comparative studies at the point of dictating a study. In partnership with Vivalog, Provox enables radiologists to improve diagnoses and reduce errors during the report creation process by providing a seamless way to query reference cases contained in Vivalog’s decision support products. Press Release
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November 23, 2006

American College of Radiology licenses MyPACS Enterprise to offer ACR Learning File Online
Reston, VA. The American College of Radiology (ACR), one of the world’s largest medical specialty societies, headquartered in Reston, VA, has partnered with Vivalog Technologies of Seattle, WA to offer the acclaimed ACR Learning File case library online, hosted by the cutting-edge MyPACS Enterprise imaging application. Press Release
November 1, 2006
Vivalog to release much anticipated MyPACS Version 5.
Seattle, WA . Vivalog is excited to announce the scheduled release of MyPACS Version 5. The new version will include the next-generation case viewer which includes tabs and thumbnail images, automatic image resize, zoom and pan and annotation layers. In addition, we have leveraged Ajax technology to improve DICOM support, search functionality, and case authoring.
December 1, 2006
MyPACS Announces University of Pennsylvania as a new MyPACS Enterprise Customer
Philadelphia, PA. The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest customer of Vivalog's premium teaching file solution, MyPACS Enterprise.
October 15, 2006
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology upgrades to 65-author license
St. Louis, MO. The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology increased their original 15-author license to 65-authors to accomodate the increased demand. MyPACS has become so popular that more and more users want to be create cases.
October 15, 2006
St. Lukes of Aurora Healthcare purchases MyPACS Enterprise
Milwaukee, WI. Aurora St. Lukes Medical center has purchased Vivalog's premium teaching file solution, MyPACS Enterprise.
September 28, 2006
International Society of Radiology recognizes MyPACS as Best on the Web.
Bethesda, MD. The International Society of Radiology (ISR) has named MyPACS.net as Best on the Web. MyPACS.net earned this recognition for its role as a valuable asset to the international radiology community, both as a source of reference cases and as a tool for sharing cases between members. The ISR is the world organization of diagnostic radiology, with direct representation of the major continental radiology societies. One of ISR's constant and major efforts is to stimulate and encourage communication among radiologists and their societies. The principal function of the society is to support education efforts for radiologists, physicists, technologists and other radiation workers.
April 28, 2006
Mayo Clinic Deploys MyPACS Enterprise Foundation-Wide, Sees 10X Speedup of DICOM.
Rochester, MN. Mayo Clinic recently deployed MyPACS Enterprise to their Rochester Data Center, where it will be used by hundreds of radiologists throughout the foundation. The deployment coincides with a new release of MyPACS Enterprise, which improves the DICOM transmission and handling speed by a factor of ten. Users can now send entire exams from their PACS to the teaching file server, and then view the exams in their web browsers with minimal wait time. The MyPACS DICOM Viewer uses the latest AJAX technology to navigate the DICOM tree and retrieve studies in real time, all in a pure-HTML interface. The performance increase was necessary to support the heavy workflow anticipated by Mayo users, who will be using MyPACS Enterprise to create thousands of reference cases for training and decision-support. Mayo is involved in a focused effort to transfer existing cases from their Carman Digital Library to the new MyPACS server, where they will be more accessible by the entire foundation.
April 22, 2006
Vivalog Launches BioSCRIBE Beta
Seattle, WA. The highly anticipated BioSCRIBE Research Manager software was released this week to neuroimaging reserachers at the University of Washington Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC). BioSCRIBE allowsinvestigators to more easily acquire and manage multimedia research data, and to selectively share data and images with interdisciplinary collaborators. The software enables investigators to securely and selectively link data and images for easy access by demographics, physiologic properties, and experiment attributes. IBIC researchers are using BioSCRIBE to support a wide range of imaging projects.
April 18, 2006
Vivalog Expands International Customer Base, Signs SickKids, Toronto.
Toronto, CANADA. The Toronoto Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has purchased MyPACS Enterprise as part of their commitment to radiology training and decision-support. SickKids is the first customer north of the border to acquire MyPACS Enterprise, representing a new market opportunity for Vivalog products. SickKids is one of the largest paedeatric academic health science centers in the world, with an international reputation for excellence in health care, research, and teaching.
March 5, 2006
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Commissions New MyPACS Enterprise Features
St. Louis, MO. Washington University in St. Louis and the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have commissioned new features as part of their acquisition of the MyPACS Enterprise Teaching File Manager. The new release includes an enhanced training mode that gives authors more control over the interactive revealing of case findings. Other features include the ability to have multiple group-shared DICOM queues, and a public server for publishing cases outside the firewall. Mallinckrodt Institute is dedicated to providing high quality continuing medical education to physicians and other health professionals, and their radiology residency program ranks among the highest rated in the U.S.
February 25, 2006
MyPACS.net Receives its Thirteenth Thousandth Case; Visitors Exceeding 300,000 Page Views per Month.
Thousands of radiologists from 75 countries have contributed over ten thousand cases containing 40,000 images, making MyPACS the largest collaborative repository of radiology cases on the net. Traffic has steadily increased every month since MyPACS was first developed in 1999. Visitors now exceed 300,000 page views per month. Hundreds of new users sign up for accounts each month. The majority of users are radiologists and residents, but a growing number of surgeons, pathologists, and cardiologists are joining the MyPACS community.
November 1, 2006
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Upgrades to MyPACS Enterprise Version 4
Dallas, TX. The University of Texas, one of Vivalog's first customers, has purchased an upgrade to MyPACS Enterprise Version 4. The motivation for the upgrade was to benefit from the past year's worth of new features, including the advanced DICOM connectivity and improved case editor.
January 11, 2006
MyPACS on Display at the 2005 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting.
Chicago, IL. Vivalog invites RSNA attendees to drop by Inforad space #9505-MIRC in the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place, 9am-5pm Monday November 28 - Thursday December 1. New features will be demonstrated, including the PowerPoint converter and the Enhanced Case Editor.
November 28, 2005
Major New Features Added to MyPACS.net.
Seattle, WA. Vivalog Technologies has rolled out over 12 new features to MyPACS.net. Users of the free system can now benefit from features that were previously only available to MyPACS Enterprise customers, such as the Enhanced Case Editor that uses the latest AJAX web technology to make it easier and faster to create cases. "It's our way of saying thank you to the thousands of contributing radiologists who have made MyPACS the leading teaching file portal on the web," says Dr. Rex Jakobovits, president of Vivalog Technologies. The new features include a full HTML text editor, support for annotated images, and the ability to export cases to PowerPoint.
November 25, 2005
MyPACS Announces Two New Customer Acquisitions: University of Nebraska Medical Center and Hospital of St. Raphael.
New Haven, CT and Omaha, Nebraska. The University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, CT, have become the latest customers of Vivalog's premium teaching file solution, MyPACS Enterprise. Radiologists at both institutions are discovering how easy it is to create teaching files directly from their PACS. When interesting exams are encountered in daily practice, users send them to the teaching file server with a single click. From the MyPACS Case Editor, they can select key images, add text, and publish the case to the institution's secure online repository. Each institution is quickly developing their own growing legacy of cases for reference, training, and decision support.
November 15, 2005

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Purchases MyPACS Enterprise.
St. Louis, MO. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology has purchased MyPACS Enterprise as part of their commitment to offering their staff and residents the highest quality of knowledge management tools. MyPACS Enterprise is being rolled out in stages, enabling a smooth integration with their extensive existing educational infrastructure. Legacy cases are being migrated to MyPACS using the RNSA MIRC standard. Users are able to leverage MyPACS' support of LDAP directories to sign on to their new teaching file system using their existing hospital accounts and passwords.
October 28, 2005

Mayo Clinic Purchases Improved Certification Workflow Module; MyPACS Server to be Deployed at Rochester Data Center.
Rochester, MN. The Mayo Clinic will be moving their MyPACS Enterprise server from Scottsdale to the Rochester Data Center, where it can better serve the hundreds of radiologists who will be using it to create and review cases. To support the increased usage, Mayo purchased the enhanced certification workflow module, which facilitates a controlled review process. Residents' cases are reviewed by staff radiologists prior to making them available for department-wide access. Once a case has been certified, control of the case is transferred away from the original author, preserving the validity of the case for future generations of residents.
October 15, 2005

U.S. Radiologists Increasingly Using MyPACS.net to Help Physicians in Third World Countries.
Siem Riep, Cambodia. Members of the World Health Organization and Friends Without a Border are using MyPACS to help connect western radiologists with physicians in under-served countries. Physicians from Cambodia, Panama, and other countries are able to post difficult cases to MyPACS.net and solicit help from the international MyPACS community. Radiologists from across the world are more than happy to volunteer their opinions, posting comments to cases or responding by email. For example, Dr. Luy Lyda from the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia has posted numerous cases to MyPACS, and has received friendly advice from radiologists such as Phillip Silberberg of Childrens Hospital Omaha. The benefit is mutual. "It gives us a chance to see cases rarely found in the U.S., such as BURKHOLDERIA MEILIOIDOSIS," says Dr. Silberberg.
October 9, 2005
University of Washington Purchases MyPACS Enterprise; Rolls out to Six Locations.
Seattle, WA. The University of Washington Department of Radiology has purchased MyPACS Enterprise for use at six locations, including Harborview Hospital, the University of Washington Medical Center, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the VA Hospital, Seattle Childrens Hospital, and the Roosevelt Clinic. The teaching file server has been incorporated into the residency program, with residents required to submit several cases a month as part of their training. Faculty have embraced the system, and have been publishing cases from the Enterprise server to the free public server at MyPACS.net. Featured Collections from UW faculty members include Mike Richardson's UW Teaching File and John Hunter's MSK Collection.
July 15, 2005

Vivalog demonstrating MyPACS at the 2004 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting.
Chicago, IL. Vivalog invites RSNA attendees to drop by Inforad space #9504 in the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place, 9am-5pm Monday November 29 - Thursday December 2. New MyPACS teaching file system features will be demonstrated, including the upcoming web-based DICOM tools.
November 25, 2004

Vivalog Technologies Releases MyPACS Version 4.
Seattle, WA. Vivalog Technologies has rolled out MyPACS Version 4, which includes over 20 new features. An improved search engine returns results 300% faster, and allows users to sort results by relevance, date, title, or author. Additional highlights include the new Visit Tracker, which lets users easily identify cases that they've previously viewed, the Case Emailer that allows users to email cases to their colleagues, the Multi-Uploader that allows users to upload entire directories of images at once, and the DICOM Receiver that allows authorized users to send DICOM images directly to the teaching file server. For more information, view the complete list of new features.
November 20, 2004

Childrens Health System of Alabama at Birmingham Purchases MyPACS Enterprise.
Birmingham, AL. Childrens Health System of Alabama has acquired MyPACS Enterprise. Radiologists and residents will be able to create teaching files from cases encountered during daily practice and rounds. The system will also be used by pathologists for creating intradepartmental cases that include pathology images and radiology images. MyPACS Enterprise has now been acquired by five Childrens Hospitals across the US (Alabama, Cincinnati, Seattle, Atlanta, and Boston).
November 19, 2004

Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Purchases MyPACS Enterprise.
Atlanta, GA. Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the leading pediatric hospitals in treating childhood cancer, blood disorders, and heart ailments, has purchased MyPACS Enterprise as part of their commitment ot academic excellence. The radiology department will use MyPACS to create a repository of cases for training and decision support.
October 15, 2004

Mayo Clinic purchases Foundation-Wide License for MyPACS Enterprise.
Rochester, MN. After witnessing the enthusiastic adoption of the MyPACS teaching file management system at their Scottsdale clinic, the Mayo Clinic rolled out MyPACS throughout the enterprise, where it will be used by over 400 radiologists to create and share teaching files and reference cases. Users at Rochester, Jacksonville, and Scottsdale will begin using MyPACS as part of their ongoing training curriculum, including cross-facility collaboration. In addition to the thousands of new cases expected to be created by facutly and residents, thousands of legacy cases from the past 80 years will be imported into the system. For more information, see this report from Mayo describing their experience in evaluating and deploying MyPACS Enterprise.
September 21, 2004

Boston Childrens Hospital Purchases MyPACS Enterprise.
Boston, MA. Boston Childrens Hospital aquired MyPACS Enterprise and will be rolling it out department-wide. Radiologists will be able to create cases from their web browsers behind the firewall, and from remote computers connected via virtual private network. The hospital also acquired a secondary public server, which will allow cases to be anonymized and published to a branded server on the world wide web.
January 30, 2004

AJR article describes how MyPACS enhances clinician's access to the intellectual capital of interdepartmental conferences.
The Computers in Radiology section of the February 2004 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology features an article about how MyPACS is used to create teaching cases from clinical data, radiologic images, surgical images, and pathology slides that are presented at tumor board conferences. The resulting interdisciplinary case files are of educational value both during and after conference presentations and can be used by clinicians to gather appropriate historical, laboratory, imaging, surgical, and pathologic data on their patients. The article is called Improving Patient Care: The Use of a Digital Teaching File to Enhance Clinicians' Access to the Intellectual Capital of Interdepartmental Conferences.
January 21, 2004

Hierarchical Folders and Other Features added to MyPACS.net and MyPACS Enterprise.
Vivalog has rolled out a new set of features for their teaching file management software. The much-requested ability to create hierarchical virtual folders is now available, and users can now control when each image appears during the various stages of training mode. Furthermore, the MIRC connectivity features have been updated.
November 29, 2003

Vivalog demonstrating MyPACS at the 2003 Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting in Chicago, December 1st-4th
Vivalog invites RSNA attendees to drop by Inforad space #9510 in the Lakeside Center. New MyPACS teaching file system features will be demonstrated and visitors can learn the advantages of MyPACS over other existing options.
November 28, 2003

Vivalog awarded $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health
Vivalog today announced receipt of a three year Small Business Innovative Research grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health. The long-term objective of the research proposed is to develop new information technology that will significantly reduce barriers to interdisciplinary and cross-facility biomedical research collaboration. Vivalog’s research will result in commercial software that will allow mental health and neuroimaging investigators to (1) effectively design and execute custom experiment protocols and workflow, (2) more easily acquire and manage multimedia research data from heterogeneous clinical systems, and (3) selectively share data with remote interdisciplinary collaborators. The resulting software, to be called BioSCRIBE, will consist of a flexible, extensible toolkit for constructing web-based experiment management systems that are custom-tailored to the unique workflow and data models of the investigator’s own image-based research project. The toolkit will provide a visual interface for architecting a structural model of the researcher’s unique experiment processes and metadata. This model will be used to automatically generate a clinical information system that is tailored to manage the acquisition, analysis, and sharing of the research group’s multimodal experiment data. Software development will be driven by formative design evaluation, in collaboration with neuroimaging and mental health researchers at interdisciplinary centers at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School who will use the toolkit to support longitudinal research in autism, bipolar disorder, and other disorders.
November 25, 2003

Vivalog supports RSNA MIRC
The RSNA MIRC project develops tools to enable the medical imaging community to share images and information for education, research and clinical practice. For the past 2 years, Vivalog has been committed to serving as a MIRC solutions provider, helping to shape the standard, and demonstrating the power of MIRC as an exchange format for teaching files. All public cases in MyPACS.net are indexed by the RSNA MIRC query server, and users can export their cases as MIRC XML documents. MIRC documents can be imported directly into MyPACS. For example, users of RadPix (www.radpix.com) can publish teaching files directly to MyPACS using MIRC.
November 17, 2003

Vivalog presents scientific poster at the BISTI-sponsored Digital Biology Symposium at NIH headquarters. NIH convenes this symposium to explore how biologists and computer scientists are laying the foundation for scientific discoveries touching every aspect of the NIH mission. The purposes are 1) to demonstrate how computational approaches to biomedical research have yielded breakthroughs that advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and 2) to identify national research needs and opportunities in the computational and quantitative sciences critical to the future of biomedical discovery.
November 7, 2003

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas purchases MyPACS Enterprise Server
“We’re pleased to see more and more hospitals maximizing their overall investment in digital imaging by cultivating an accessible, enduring repository of their institution’s professional knowledge. Customers such as University of Texas are empowering their radiologists to record their clinical encounters as searchable cases, using the most time-efficient and user-friendly authoring tools,” said Vivalog President Rex Jakobovits.
October 15, 2003

Mayo Clinic at Scottsdale, Arizona purchases MyPACS Enterprise Server
Vivalog adds Mayo Clinic at Scottsdale as latest MyPACS customer. Dr. Beauchamp of Mayo says, “I have been trying for years to achieve what you have done with MyPACS. This product is simply outstanding. This is a monumental step forward in teaching and research.”
February 25, 2003

MyPACS integrates with RadPix Presentation Software
RadPix is a great way to create PowerPoint presentations from DICOM images. RadPix now lets you upload teaching files to MyPACS, without having to go through your web browser. Push DICOM images directly from your PACS to this Windows-based application, and then publish teaching files to MyPACS straight from your desktop! PACS to RadPix to MyPACS... a complete solution! Go to http://www.radpix.com/RadPix_to_MyPACS.html to find out how to upload teaching file cases to MyPACS.net.
January 31, 2003

MyPACS highlighted in Diagnostic Imaging's PACSweb article.
In an article titled Teaching file engines line up at infoRAD, by Douglas Page, he outlines the emerging methods for capturing and storing radiographic images for teaching files and Web-based image transfer and viewing.
December 16, 2002

MyPACS featured in the Computers in Radiology section of the July 2002 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology
In an article titled MyPACS.net: A Web-Based Teaching File Authoring Tool, authors Edward Weinberger, Rex Jakobovits, and Mark Halsted decribe the creation of MyPACS, a hosted teaching file authoring tool that allows easy uploading of images and descriptive information from any computer with Web access.
July 2002

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