Purview Offers Cloud Storage/Sharing Medical Image Platform

With a goal to
enable patients and disrupt the model of provider-controlled access
to medical images, Purview
(NimbleCo, LLC.)
announced the launch of
its medical image storage and sharing platform.

This cloud-based platform gives patients control over their
medical records, reduces health care costs and changes the
patient-provider dynamic.

Most patients
still receive medical images on disc or film, creating a
less-than-ideal scenario to obtain second opinions or maintain
lifetime medical records. Purview said that it aims to change this
process by providing patients with a secure online portal for medical
images that is accessible for both patients and providers.

"In
2013 no patient should be beholden to their doctor for access to
their medical records," said Phillip Jackson, GM and
co-founder, Purview. "We’ve been able to control our
financial records online for years. Why should patients have to go
back into the doctor’s office for a copy of their x-ray? Purview
provides a superior way for people to take a more active role in
their own medical care by giving patients power and control over
their medical images."

The company
said that any medical image can be uploaded to its cloud. Patients
and providers then have access to those images through an online or
mobile portal. From there, they can access, review, manage, share,
manipulate or collaborate over images in real time.

As described
by the company, patient benefits:

• Liberation
  of health records: With control over their images, patients no
  longer rely on physicians as gatekeepers for their medical history.

• Patient
  enablement and empowerment: It gives patients technology to
  advocate for themselves and take a more active role in managing their
  health care.

• Reduced
  health care costs: It eliminates wasteful health care spending
  that is costing the country billions of dollars every year. Providers
  no longer have to perform repeat procedures. They also shed overhead
  costs of physical storage or image production.

• Storage and
  sharing independent of proprietary platforms: It breaks the
  chains that have tied medial images to the enterprise. Patients have
  complete access to his/her medical images regardless of where they
  were created.

A Harris
Interactive/HealthDay
survey indicated that a growing number of Americans are interested in
using mobile devices to better manage their health care. Experts say,
however, that technology has yet to deliver progress to meet this
demand.

"Patients
are always connected to a mobile device and they want a say in their
health care," said Jackson. "Purview is here to
ensure that patients are empowered to take control of what is
rightfully theirs. Patients are demanding anywhere, anytime access
and we provide it."