Answering the health care quality call to action

VisualDx is proving its prowess as an invaluable tool in many health care settings.

Public Health

Challenge: Ready for Anything at Any Time
Ally: VisualDx

South Carolina Implements VisualDx in 65 Hospitals
Logical Images has entered into a three-year agreement with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to implement the VisualDx recognition system in 65 South Carolina hospitals. More >

"VisualDx provides residents and attending physicians with a tremendous resource to help them quickly and correctly diagnose unusual conditions."

Indiana Improves Health Care Quality and Emergency Preparedness
The Indiana State Department of Health has launched a statewide deployment of VisualDx to aid clinicians in developing a more accurate patient-centered diagnosis while simultaneously improving emergency preparedness. More >

"I am very impressed by the ability of VisualDx to generate a working differential diagnosis from a description of skin lesions and signs that is accurate and includes both the common and exotic."

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Rural Health

Reality: Limited Resources
Ally: VisualDx

Maine Dartmouth Family Medical Residency Education Shifts from Hardcopy Resources
Dr. Daniel Onion, of Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, knows only too well the challenges of managing a family practice residency program that serves rural and underserved areas. More >

"We're able to find diseases we normally wouldn't have access to. It's a great resource."

Siloam Family Health Center Boosts Quality Care for Those in Need
This non-profit humanitarian organization in Nashville, TN, depends on volunteer physicians, residents, and medical students to provide free care to a largely immigrant and uninsured population. Because of the nature of the center, patients often have dermatology issues that exceed referral capacity. VisualDx, with its breadth and depth of images, presents conditions on a wide variety of skin types. More >

"The burden of poverty and stress of life keep many patients from seeking medical care early and from taking preventative measures, so they usually present with greater disease severity and complicated health needs. Having point-of-care access to VisualDx enables our clinicians to diagnose conditions quickly and accurately."

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Medical Education

Reality: Too Much to Learn in Too Little Time
Ally: VisualDx

University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry
Typically, training in "specialty medicine" such as dermatology is limited to 1-2 days during a 4-year medical curriculum. The University of Rochester tackled the problem of adequate teaching in specialty medicine with minimal access to specialists by using VisualDx to develop a new "dermatology walk rounds" program. The result is a strong boost in skill development and a more effective and diagnostically accurate learning environment. More >

"In dermatology, disease recognition is completely dependent on pattern recognition. Yet residents are often ill equipped to define various dermatological disease manifestations. VisualDx, with its comprehensive image base, is an excellent tutorial that strengthens pattern recognition ability. Using VisualDx, residents feel much better prepared to make accurate dermatological diagnoses."

University of Alabama, Birmingham Implements VisualDx as New Learning Tool for Faculty and Students
Following a successful pilot program, the University of Alabama School of Medicine at UAB has chosen to implement VisualDx as a Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences resource for faculty and students. VisualDx has become a valuable tool for the Department of Dermatology as well as Family and Internal Medicine. More >

"We're always looking for new learning tools, especially in fields like dermatology, where students have limited exposure and there are few core texts. VisualDx has brought an entirely new level to our offerings. We expect it to become one of our most valuable learning resources."

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Millitary Health

Challenge: Serve and Protect Our Military's Health
Ally: VisualDx

Department of Defense Tests VisualDx Throughout Pacific Theater
Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter (D-Fairport), Chair of the House Rules Committee, announced $2.4M in federal funds to allow Logical Images to expand business through a project with the US Navy. The Navy will use, test, and evaluate VisualDx on ships, submarines, and Navy medical facilities throughout the Pacific Theater. More >

"Not only will this funding promote growth and job creation here in Rochester, but it will also allow our military to access timely health care, even while at sea."