Insight ™ System Architecture

To explain how telemedicine is directly supported by the Insight ™ image and data management system, it is necessary to give a brief introduction to the architecture of the system. The Insight ™ system is client/server-based: any application on the server generates screen images. When a new screen image is available, the image is compressed and transmitted to the user located at the client machine (see Figure 1).

Telemedicine and Insight™

As the Insight™ system architecture decouples the generation of screen images with the display of the images, the screen images may be transmitted to multiple users at the same time. This allows two or more users to view and interact simultaneously with image data and other patient data.

The unique streaming technology of Insight™ ensures that the user observes no difference between running Insight™ remotely on the server and running an application on the local client. To the user, the computer network transmitting the images may simply be considered as a long monitor cable. In addition, the streaming technology contains built-in encryption layers so that security protections are always active.

-A simple alternative to investing in expensive PACS workstations. A next-generation system that goes beyond current web-based solutions.

The Insight™ system for image and data management provides an extremely cost-effective way to give clinical users access to needed PACS functions. This is possible because of the unique architecture of the system.