Terarecon’s success saga

Pranav Shah Sales Manager—India TeraRecon Inc

TeraRecon, a large and dedicated provider of advanced visualisation solutions for medical imaging, received “2012-New Product Innovation Award in Medical Imaging Informatics” from the respected independent research firm Frost & Sullivan. This award represents the seventh time that TeraRecon, Inc. has been recognised with a ‘Best Practices’ award from Frost & Sullivan, and the third time since 2010, following the ‘European Company of the Year’ Award in the category of Medical Imaging, Advanced Visualization Applications, and the North American Growth Leadership of the Year Award. Frost & Sullivan recognised the importance of combining a strong clinical value proposition with a viable and financially sound proposal in terms of department-wide and enterprise-wide information technology, and TeraRecon’s success in achieving this balance. The importance of quantitative imaging and the company’s commitment to this field was also highlighted: “TeraRecon’s leadership in quantitative imaging offers providers the opportunity to enhance their clinical decision-support capabilities by being able to more efficiently document, store, and mine image-based analytics.”

In November, TeraRecon made a news release announcing that more than 9,000 iNtuition licenses being deployed globally. iNtuition the flagship product from TeraRecon is an enterprise advanced visualisation solution. Based on revolutionary concept of server-client technology, the solution allows volumetric review of CT and MR studies to be reviewed and post processed, economically throughout the healthcare enterprise. Using this technology a radiologist can view and process 3D images of CT, MRI and PET from any standard PC in the hospital network. The company claims that it truly gives every physician an access to clinical and decision making tools for CT and MRI images from anywhere, which was never possible before. It provides a scalable, real-time and centrally shared rendering resource that enabled an unlimited number of concurrent thin client PC users.

At RSNA, TeraRecon showcased its suite of iNtuition Vendor Neutral applications. TeraRecon’s advanced visualisation solution has been Vendor Neutral since very beginning and this has been an important decisive factor while considering Enterprise advanced 3D solution. The company informs that it has been seeing increasing interest from various institutes to deploy Vendor Neutral Advanced Visualization solution so that they don’t really fall into a trap of working with companies with proprietary software.

New innovations displayed at RSNA includes:

• Ntuition: Enterprise-class professional advanced visualization with suite of clinical module
• EMV: Zero-footprint, browser based distribution of images
• Ntuition SHARE: CD-free image sharing
• Ntuition CLOUD: All iNtuition features via an in-house or hosted Private Cloud.

Testimonials for TeraRecon’s iNtuition – Enterprise Advanced Visualization

We have TeraRecon’s iNtuition server-client solution installed since early 2011 and I must say it is by far one of the most advanced and user friendly imaging software available today. TeraRecon’s unique server-client solution allows multiple radiologists to work on 3D imaging software from individual PC. We have purchased five concurrent users licenses so that at any given point five radiologists are able to work simultaneously and it really eases out our huge workload. System is robust with seldom breakdown. The clinical applications are very user friendly, built with lot of automation allowing complex tasks to be performed in seconds. Post processing for CT angiography is superior than other modality workstations. I personally recommend TeraRecon workstations and I am very happy working on it. – Dr Anagha Joshi, Professor – Dept of Radiology, LTMG Hospital, Mumbai We are very happy to have TeraRecon’s Enterprise Advanced Visualization which came together with Agfa PACS. TeraRecon’s iNtuition platform seamlessly integrates with Agfa’s PACS allowing radiologists to launch TeraRecon’s advanced 3D application right from their work list. The main challenge for any IT administrator is to streamline the entire radiology workflow so as to avoid any time delays and TeraRecon’s solution does exactly the same. TeraRecon application launches immediately allowing radiologists to perform complex 3D tasks in seconds. The other most important advantage of TeraRecon is their unique server-client technology which allows multiple concurrent users to work on 3D applications. At our institute we would have atleast 3-4 users working simultaneously on TeraRecon’s application. The server hardware requirement is considerably low and with just a 2U rack server they are able to support multiple users. The solution is also scalable so as to add more user licenses without any major hardware upgrade. In summary, I believe TeraRecon’s solution are very robust and powerful to support Enterprise Advanced Visualization needs. – Vishal G Parte, PACS Administrator, PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai