OneMedNet Corporation, provider of BEAM™, the industry-leading, peer-to-peer (P2P) network for securely sharing medical images, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued to the company U.S. Patent No. 8,065,166, entitled “Methods, Systems, And Devices For Managing Medical Images And Records”, for its BEAM technology. OneMedNet’s patented P2P technology, BEAM, was developed [...]
OneMedNet Corporation, provider of BEAM™, an industry-leading, peer-to-peer (P2P) network for securely sharing medical images, announced today the release of BEAM 3.0, the latest version of its flagship solution. The BEAM network is a simple, secure way to provide medical image sharing over the Internet without a VPN connection. An increasingly popular alternative to CDs, [...]
OneMedNet Corporation, provider of BEAM™, an industry-leading, peer-to-peer (P2P) network for securely sharing medical images, was selected by Northern California PET Imaging Center (NCPIC) to reduce turnaround time for transferring very large studies to affiliated client facilities. NCPIC, a free-standing PET and CT Imaging Center located in Sacramento, CA, serving multiple area hospitals and clinics, [...]
OneMedNet Corporation, provider of BEAM™, an industry-leading, peer-to-peer (P2P) network for securely sharing medical images, announced today the successful completion of a pilot project sponsored by Hawaii’s Department of Health. Hospitals throughout the state of Hawaii now use the BEAM network as a result of the successful pilot, which demonstrated the patient care benefits of [...]
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