The advent of web cameras and personal computers has made it possible to conduct medical exams remotely. A remote user connects a webcam or exam camera to their computer’s USB port. They make a video call to a central hospital using Skype or Google or one of the popular telemedicine applications. The remote location now has access to a wide variety of experts who can view what the local clinician is seeing.

Interson leverages all of this infrastructure and offers remote ultrasound viewing. The remote location connects their USB ultrasound probe and streams their local view to the central hospital. The remote facility has access to experts who can help them with proper probe positioning to obtain the ideal view, and also provide a real-time diagnosis. The standard of care is improved and time and money are saved.

If real-time remote viewing is not an option, the local exam may be saved and forwarded to an expert for analysis. Saving a simple jpeg often is not enough for the expert to provide a diagnosis. Save all of the exam’s frames by selecting Cine Save and then send the frames to the expert. The expert can load the Cine file into their SeeMore application and adjust gains, intensity, and contrast to optimize the view. They can add annotations and make measurements. The expert can then save and archive the best frame of the exam.

With Remote Viewing a local clinic that may not have the proper resources or experience to diagnosis a particular condition can benefit from a subject matter expert without concern for the time or distance between their patient and the subject matter expert.