AtheroEdge™ Service Model
AtheroPoint offers AtheroEdge™ through a service model for small offices and organizations wishing to try the product prior to purchasing.
How it works
Image Transfer to AtheroPoint™
AtheroEdge™ accepts medical images captured with most major ultrasound devices. Images displaying the Initma Media Thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery can be delivered to AtheroPoint™ utilizing one of the data transfer methods listed below:
- Secure FTP: patient reports can be transferred using a secure FTP account which will be setup on the AtheroPoint server.
- Compact Disc: Physicians can ship Compact Disc with patient reports that are to be analyzed by AtheroPoint.
- Physicians could provide access to their data server for AtheroPoint to download the images for analysis and report generation.
Patient report generated by AtheroEdge™
The power of AtheroEdge™ is in helping early diagnosis through speedy and accurate reporting. AtheroEdge™ provides the user a friendly means of saving, viewing and printing patient reports. After analyzing and processing images provided by the physician AtheroEdge™ generates a pdf report for each patient. This report contains the following:
- Patient’s information
- Patient’s demographics
- Attending physician’s and sonographer’s information
- OEM machine
- Acquisition parameters
- Methodology used for acquiring the image of IMT and values
- IMTV values in (average, maximum and minimum)
Response time for measurement analysis and report generation
AtheroEdge™ provides reliable, reproducible, accurate, fast full Vessel measurements. AtheroEdge™ software takes approximately 1 second to process and analyze one medical image. For an input of 100 patient records, it could take around 3 business days to analyze, process and generate report.
Mechanism for reporting measurements
Reports generated by AtheroEdge™ are sent back to the physician via one of the methods listed below.
- Post results into the secure FTP account created for the ordering physician in AtheroPoint server for download.
- Ship results via CD
- Upload results through secure file transfer into the account created for AtheroPoint in the physician’s data server.
Information security
AtheroPoint provides support to convert patient records into anonymous records before being analyzed and processed for report generation.