Answering the health care quality call to action

Public Health Challenge: Ready for anything at any time
Public Health 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. The system will also be installed in the DHEC Central Office in Columbia and in health departments within all eight South Carolina public health regions. More >

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 >

Rural Health Reality: Limited resources
Rural Health 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. Hospitals everywhere face limited access to medical specialists and experts, and Augusta, ME, is no exception. More >

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. Shortly after deployment, the staff used VisualDx to broaden the differential diagnosis for a patient, thus allowing for consideration of a potentially dangerous condition.

Medical Education Reality: Too much to learn in too little time
Medical Education 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 >

University of Iowa School of Medicine Addresses "Knowledge Gap"
Forward-thinking leaders at the University of Iowa saw a need to improve diagnostic accuracy and medical education at the point of care for visually diagnosable disease. The Medical Library and Emergency Department collaborated to deploy VisualDx to augment available resources, and the system was rapidly adopted. Besides assisting in practice-based learning, diagnosis and pattern recognition, VisualDx is a teaching aid for disease variations due to skin type, age, and other factors. In addition to primary care, infectious disease, and emergency medicine residency programs, specialty programs such as pediatric urology, obstetrics/gynecology, and allergy/immunology quickly added VisualDx links to their own resource pages, underscoring the value of VisualDx to teach pattern recognition in specialty areas.

Government Challenge: Serve and protect our military's health
Government 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 >