Applications & Use Cases

Medical professionals use Mediphan DistanceDoc™ and MedRecorder™ products to provide their expertise to remotely located patients and practitioners, to make more efficient use of their time, and to cost-effectively archive medical pictures and images for future study. Applications include procedures and environments that use dicom images, ultrasound imaging equipment, EKG monitors and EKG training, ventilators, ambulance equipment, and many others.

Mediphan products help medical doctors, physicians, and other specialists in these environments to:

Remotely supervise procedures. From the nearest computer connected to the Internet, you can supervise residents performing procedures such as ultrasound imaging, EKG training, and more, even if you can’t break free to go to the procedure room. View example »»

Remote Supervision

Problem: A physician needs to supervise a resident performing an ultrasound procedure, but isn’t able to break away from her office to get to the procedure room.

Solution: From her office computer, Physician A logs on to the web to view the live procedure as the resident performs it and captures it using DistanceDoc™.

Using DistanceDoc™, a web-enabled remote physician conducts a consultation with staff while viewing the realtime vitals of a neonatal patient

Effectively consult with emergency rooms. When urgent care facilities call for your advice and consultation, you can discuss the patient over the phone while watching either a live or recorded image scan. View example»»

Remote Consultation

Problem: A nurse at the neonatal ICU pages a physician because a premature infant recently delivered by the physician is now presenting with life-threatening symptoms. The physician needs to consult, but is unable to rush to the neonatal unit at that moment.

Solution: The physician logs onto the Internet using his office computer. He views in real-time the information displayed on the numerous neonatal devices used to monitor the infant – this is possible because DistanceDoc™ has been connected to these devices. At the same time, he consults with the attending nurse over the phone. Based on the infant’s vital signs and the nurse’s additional information, the physician is able to make recommendations with confidence.

Using DistanceDoc™, a web-enabled remote physician conducts a consultation with staff while viewing the realtime vitals of a neonatal patient

Provide remote guidance to the field. From your office or home computer, you can guide imaging procedures performed by nurse practitioners in smaller clinics, sports team trainers treating injured athletes, technicians who can run equipment but are not experts in anatomy, etc. View example »»

Remote Guidance

Problem: A pulmonologist is the sole intensivist in a small community hospital intensive care unit. She is often consulted to manage patients on ventilators. She needs to be able to manage while optimizing her time.

Solution: She can log on to her office or home computer and view direct information from the ventilator and patient room. This is possible because DistanceDoc™ has been connected to the ventilator output and a camera in the patient’s room. The physician is able to remotely monitor the patient’s condition in real-time to guide therapeutic interventions.

Using DistanceDoc™, a specialist "virtually" guides a remotely located nurse practitioner through a procedure.

Cost-effectively record, archive and retrieve medical images. In environments where you do not bill for procedures such as emergency room ultrasound images, it may not be feasible to invest in a picture archive and communication system (PACS). MedRecorder provides an affordable and effective solution. View example »»

MedRecorder™

Problem: A local hospital does not bill for emergency room ultrasound images, making it economically unfeasible to invest in a picture archive and communication system (PACS) for these images. As a teaching hospital, however, there is physician demand for many of these images to be recorded and archived for future use.

Solution: The hospital purchases MedRecorder™ for each ultrasound device in the hospital. MedRecorder™ cost-effectively records and archives the images, which physicians can use for patient care, teaching, and quality assurance purposes. OBGYNs and other specialists can also give patients copies of their visits.

Using MedRecorder™, daily clinic records and ultrasound examinations are separately and automatically archived to digital media.

Record and organize the results of residents’ imaging procedures. Archive your residents’ studies for review and record case logs for evaluation and study.
Offload, store and retrieve studies,such asultrasonography, for future study.

Learn how other medical professionals are using DistanceDoc and MedRecorder™, or talk to us about using Mediphan products to be more productive and effective.