GalileoMD
Medical Imaging Records and Image exchange
The Market
Healthcare costs are unsustainable, costing the US over $2.2 trillion. For all this spending, the country scores average or lower on many indicators of health care quality such as morbidity and mortality.
Advances in medical technology have given the physician vastly improved abilities to non invasively detect, diagnose, and treat disease, but these approaches are also one of the primary drivers of health care cost increase.
Hurdles
It has been estimated that between $3 and $10 billion are wasted in the U.S. annually on unnecessary or duplicate imaging. These imaging records are disparate and silo'd across multiple facilities under different medical record identities.
Physicians spend an inordinate amount of wasted time retrieving patient imaging records, and it is never readily available for rapid clinical decision making.
Clinical scenarios that face challenges with disparate medical imaging records and are ready for disruption by real-time imaging exchange:
Emergent care
When trauma or stroke patients are transferred from lower levels of care to tertiary care centers, prior imaging performed can be shared between health care providers in real time to save critical time, avoid re-imaging and excessive radiation exposure.
Patient record management
Handing imaging records to patients in CD format after a procedure or diagnostic study leaves the management of records in patient’s hands. This leads to incompatible formats, and poor and incomplete medical records.
Physician referrals
Incomplete patient medical records hinder physicians from delivering rapid and informed care in high volume imaging setting such as Oncology, Cardiology, Orthopedics, Pulmonary Critical Care
Competition
We match disparate records of a patient from multiple PACS systems across various locations into a single digital chart.
To display the imaging records, our platform will allow these images to be rendered in full clinical resolution in a zero-download clientless viewer. This viewer is fully HTML5 compliant, and can easily be embedded within any modern browser, including mobile tablets and handhelds. It is also developed from the ground up to integrate into any of the numerous telemedicine solutions already in existence without requiring any other client/software installation, transforming it into a Vendor Neutral Format.
Sam Wang, MS, MD - Founder/CEO
Anesthesiology trained, co-founder of REACH Health Inc. a telestroke network that serves to evaluate acute stroke patients for tPA use
Hoon Jung, MD - Founder/CMO
Ophthalmology trained, Major in the Air Force and practicing physician at Ross Eye Institute at SUNY Buffalo
Norberto Adame, Jr., MD - clinical consultant
Emergency Medicine trained, former Vice Chair of Maricopa Medical Center and physician with academic leadership, administrative , and educational involvement