Physicians at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, are gaining instant access to patient imaging studies via the Web on devices such as the iPad using the Carestream Vue Motion viewer.

As a zero-footprint Web-based viewer, Vue Motion allows physicians to review images quickly on Web-enabled devices. It also delivers side-by-side comparisons of current and prior images. Physicians used to sit at a workstation and open the PACS and EMR applications to view x-ray images prior to seeing patients.

One of the things that impressed radiologists was the ability for Vue Motion to pull a patient¹s record based on a single field, such as the name. “You don’t need to know the record number. If you input the name, it conducts a global search, pulls files and you can easily find the correct patient,” said Tom Quaranta, PACS administrator, department of radiology, Tufts Medical Center.