Fovia Utopia

I ' ve found over the years that the PACS field is rather mobile. A friend that worked for company A might now be found at company C having arrived there after doing time at firm B. You might remember back when Merge first bought out Amicas...there were some discussions about whom to keep and whom to let go, and I was rather vocal in urging (begging?) Merge to keep the folks who madeAmicasMerge PACS what it is. That didn ' t work out, but one of my friends from that realm is now with an amazing little company called Fovia. I sought him out at RSNA, as I usually do, and he showed me some cool stuff. Due to some personal things, I ' vebeen too lazy to write postponed my brief but exciting RSNA report from Fovia, but here it is. Finally.Fovia is in some ways the biggest PACS company you ' ve never heard of. Although it isn ' t a PACS company, and youhaveheard of ithere on these very pages.Fovia is a " behind the scenes " company. Think Intel. They make the chips, but you can ' t buy an Intel-branded computer. Fovia makes rendering software used by many PACS companies, including Merge. In case you didn ' t know, Fovia:Founded in 2003 and inventor of High Definition Volume Rendering ®Provides a highly scalable CPU-based, server-side rendering solution delivering images to clients applications anytime and anywhereOptimized for the CPU and delivers near perfect linear scalability as the # of cores increases. Does not require a GPU, or the headaches associated with OpenGL drive...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs