BEAM Use Cases
BEAM allows trauma centers to quickly receive images well in advance of the patient's arrival.
BEAM is a perfect solution for trauma transfers. With BEAM, trauma centers can quickly receive images electronically into their PACS, providing ample time to prepare a treatment plan and assemble a trauma team prior to the patient’s arrival. BEAM is fast: images are transferred directly to the trauma center’s PACS. BEAM provides trauma clinicians with [...]
Sending images via BEAM lets consultants view images in their own viewer.
Improve patient care by quickly providing radiologists and other specialty physicians with easy access to images. BEAM allows secure and convenient sharing of patient images anywhere over the Internet, without a VPN connection. BEAM enables physicians to receive and review outside imaging exams and import them seamlessly into the patient’s local permanent electronic medical record. [...]
Monitor disease progression by requesting prior exams via BEAM.
Enabling secure and convenient sharing of patient images across multiple locations allows quick and simple access to all relevant prior exams for each patient encounter. Full access to all relevant priors with complete imaging data sets improves quality and timeliness of Radiologic interpretation and patient care by allowing the Radiologist to accurately monitor disease progression.
Snowbirds migrate with their bags, but what about their imaging exams?
Patients move and so should their images. Physicians need access to historic patient data in order to provide quality patient care and BEAM overcomes the complexities of accessing remote medical images. Providing access to images as patients move between providers enhances continuity of care.
CT down? Send the patient across town and BEAM the images back.
Smaller healthcare facilities do not have the luxury of redundant modalities. During downtimes BEAM enables a site to send patients to another neighboring facility for imaging. Those studies can be quickly BEAMed back to the source facility. Healthcare facilities have setup reciprocal relationships to cover each other during these either unexpected or scheduled downtimes.
Eliminate VPN setup and provide enhanced logging for tele-rad service.
BEAM enables tele-radiology operations of all sizes to gather and transport diagnostic image studies according to their preferred workflows. BEAM is better than VPN because it is scalable, stateless, and significantly higher in throughput (2-3x) compared with DICOM over WAN VPN.
Eliminate the wait and use BEAM to request diagnostic images within minutes.
One of the fundamental prerequisites for treatment planning is the localization of the target, which requires access to historical images. BEAM provides treatment planning teams the ability to receive diagnostic images from other area hospitals and imaging centers. This reduces the need for repeat imaging with it’s subsequent delays. Full access to all relevant priors [...]
Use BEAM to quickly transfer studies for second opinions.
BEAM allows secure and convenient sharing of patient images in support of second reads by enabling the simple and secure exchange of imaging studies. Getting a second opinions helps reassure patients and may provide additional insight to enhance patient care.
BEAM is 3G, 4G, and Wifi compatible for scans on the run.
Mobile imaging brings the latest technology in digital imaging directly to the patient. While mobile imaging is a convenience to the community it makes transporting images back to specialists for review difficult. BEAM facilitates rapid review of remote images through secure image exchange over the internet. BEAM is particularly robust in low-bandwidth and intermittent connections [...]
Send images easily and quickly to avoid the hassles of CDs.
Whether you are a physician or a healthcare institution you can use BEAM to collect and share imaging information anywhere. Burning CDs is inefficient, express mailing or couriering CDs is costly, adding Web Portals requires IT savvy, and installing VPN’s is an IT and legal management headache. BEAM streamlines the referral process and improves outreach [...]
BEAM back the images for storage in a regional repository, sans VPN.
State and regional repositories are designed to gather imaging data from many providers with the aim of supporting the flow of health information among physician practices, hospitals, radiology centers, other healthcare institutions and accreditation agencies. BEAM provides secure and convenient sharing of patient images from anywhere and supports this model of delivering the right health [...]
Research studies straddle the globe; BEAM brings the images back.
Organizations utilizing imaging technology as part of their trial protocol (e.g. Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device companies), can use BEAM as the ideal platform to gather cases from any number of locations for delivery to one or more clinical trial repositories. Zero set-up for the sending institution, flexibility, and ease of use enable research organizations [...]