DICOR

DICOR is another online collaboration tool, that allows a health facility of any size, to host basic telemedicine meetings, right from their website. DICOR stands for Diagnostic Image Collaborative Review, and that's exactly what it does. Doctors can share x-rays, EKG stripes, endoscopic images, MRI images, in real time, and make annotations, to arrive to consensous in a given case. In a DICOR enabled Urgency / Emergency Room, diagnostic images may be shared with medical specialists, to make fast life saving decisions.

DICOR developers claim that it interacts with Skype, making it easy to add audio and video to meetings. It can host meetings for up to 10 people, including the moderator. Diagnostic image review meetings are usually conformed by 4 people at the most. When audio and video are needed in meetings of larger groups (up to ten, the maximum that DICOR supports), then Conference can be used as a shell.

DICOR is web based on the attendees end. All they need is a Flash enabled Web browser. DICOR has been tested on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Avant, and it runs properly. The moderator or administrator of DICOR works from a simple small, easy to use interface that starts the meeting, stops the meeting, invites people, shares desktop, has whiteboard, shares images (JPG), shares desktop snapshots (specially useful in computer based EKG machines), sends files, and also sends URLs.

Emergency, Urgency, and operating rooms are fast paced places, with very little slack for errors. Software applications used in these places must be intuitive, easy to operate, and friendly.

Pros:


 * Friendly, intuitive, very easy to use
 * Spanish / English languages
 * 10 people can attend a meeting and review images from any place in the world
 * Interfaces with Skype for audio and video
 * It also interfaces with Conference (up to 10 people)

Cons:
 * Lacks audio
 * Lacks video
 * Is desktop based, therefore it is not fully web based

Links:
 * NewsWireToday
 * GAVEnterprise Dicor
 * American Telemedicine Association
 * Telemedicine Information Exchange