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The lack of Radiologists / Neuro-Radiologists in the country's rural areas or even in small residential nucleus, made the local physicians often have to send their patients to the major cities or central hospitals.
A group of engineers from various fields of health Informatics and engineering, dreamed that one day with a telemedicine project they could help institutions and health care professionals to reach the areas where it was up to then not possible, or facilitating the implementation of certain tasks in a more effective and safe way.
With this it became possible at any clinic or hospital to have a medical specialist in radiology 24 hours a day, thus covering the emergency medical needs, where sometimes the minutes are precious, and travel for patients, very risky and a consumer of resources.
In addition, traditional means of diagnosis of medical images were becoming increasingly expensive (with eco friendly necessity came the compulsory treatment of chemistry used in the development of films, special films, etc..), leading the way to implement a solution in which these resources could be partially economized, particularly on the issue of archiving and distribution of the image within the medical institutions.
The first step was the development of a server / archive of medical images (SAIDicom) that complies with the standard DICOM 3.
This allowed archival, reception and distribution of medical images (CT, MR, Digital Rx, etc.) at low cost, since most of tools (Internet Explorer web browser for example) would be free.
The next step was a tele-radiology application, since the solutions then available were far below the required specifications either by law or quality.
The development of an application (Telerad) that resulted in two products, for clinical reception and diagnosis TeleRad Client which can receive and help produce medical reports and TeleRad Server for medical imaging production centres that need the service.
The products started being solicited by the customers and today there is a vast range of applications developed in this field.
Today the group consists of experts in the areas of diagnostic imaging, medical equipment and medical information systems, developing partnerships and collaborating with several public institutions and private hospitals.
Our goal is not only the technical success, but also the improvement of health care and cost reduction.
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