WP: Rad@ is more like a solution configured in two major parts. The first is a laptop equipped with client-based PACS/RIS, and the other part is the monitor in this case an iPad Pro installed with the application. Physicians can access PACS/RIS and extract images the same way they do their laptop at a traditional workstation, but instead they view images on iPad Pros. To understand how this works, you can think of it as an extendable desktop, which means the user interface is on iPad Pro and what you see at hospital is identical.

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WP: The challenges we faced while developing Rad@ were not on the technical side. It was more about whether we wanted to make this a platform that’s user friendly for all vendors and hospitals/clinics. We could have made it available only for EBM PACS/RIS , but eventually we decided to do the opposite simply because of our customers. By making it a vendor neutral system, we believed it would help us to expand our customer base because it would be easy to use by anyone. Having said that, it is important to understand that Rad@ is designed for proprietary use, it’s not open source. Any system, however, can run on the Rad@ platform without integration.


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