Findings presented this week at the Medicine 2.0 World Congress in London got the attention of many radiologists.

Medical imaging software from the Canadian company Calgary Scientific Inc. was able to turn up images six times faster than other image viewing systems, according to a study conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona that compared three image viewing products in terms of diagnostic quality, access time to images, technical reliability and clinicians satisfaction.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved software, called ResolutionMD, is perhaps most well-known for allowing physicians to view images on mobile devices, including Android and Apple devices.
For the study, seventeen clinicians — made up of seven radiologists, four surgeons, four neurologists, and two oncologists accessed images with ResolutionMD on an Apple iPad and two desktop applications; a commercial PACS station; and an in-house developed image viewing system. Analyzing a total of 552 image-viewing events, the time for radiologists to access images for reading using ResolutionMD were 2.7 minutes compared with 12.3 and 17.5 minutes for the other systems respectively, according to a statement from Calgary Scientific.

"The results of this study, undertaken by one of the most respected institutions in the world, should be very compelling to the health care industry," said Pierre Lemire, president and CTO of Calgary Scientific. "When you dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to view an image and multiply that by the large and growing number of images that are viewed in a year, the cost savings are measurable and significant."

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