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iPhone Browses Diagnostic Heart Images
    DURHAM, N.C., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Heart Imaging Technologies
(HeartIT) announced today that medical images can be viewed on Apple's new
iPhone (see examples at http://www.heartit.com ). Physicians can simply
click on a web link sent via email by one of their colleagues, enter their
password, and, for example, instantly view movies of a patient's beating
heart halfway around the world. They can even put their colleagues on
speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously
browsing through the imaging results.
    Viewing medical images traditionally requires dedicated workstations
costing tens of thousands of dollars, which in turn are connected to
proprietary picture archiving communications and storage (PACS) systems
costing millions of dollars more. In order to view medical images,
physicians must literally drive or walk to one of these workstations.
Recent advances in World Wide Web browser technologies and the web sites
that utilize their rich features, collectively referred to as Web 2.0, are
challenging these expensive and cumbersome proprietary approaches.
    Medical images displayed in a web browser have traditionally been of
lower quality and therefore had limited diagnostic utility. This technology
is the first to provide physicians with the ability to drill-down and view
medical images, including movies, on a hand-held device.
    "Patient privacy is obviously a critically-important issue on the
internet," said Brent Reed, HeartIT's Director of Software Development.
"Fortunately, medical privacy concerns can be addressed using the same
encryption technologies employed by online banking and credit card
transactions."
    Heart Imaging Technologies' headquarters are located near North
Carolina's Research Triangle Park. Formed in 2000, HeartIT provides
web-based medical image management services and computing systems to
regional health care systems, large hospitals and private clinics as well
as drug and device companies sponsoring multi-center clinical trials.
Worldwide, HeartIT's systems currently provide secure web browser access to
over 50 million medical images.
    Information: http://www.heartit.com

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SOURCE Heart Imaging Technologies
http://www.heartit.com
CONTACT:
Media, Cici Stevens of Heart Imaging
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