Kimura IT 3eConference Remote Medical Image Diagnosis System: DigInfo

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A new way to diagnose illness' is coming to the rescue of people who live on remote islands and in the mountainous areas of Japan.

Kimura Informational Technology have developed a remote image diagnosis system utilizing their 3eConference web conferencing system allowing face-to-face real-time communication.

Conventional internet-based remote image diagnosis systems first hit the market around 1994. Although revolutionary at the time they only allowed images and documents to be exchanged. So, if a doctor sent information to a specialist to be diagnosed, they had to wait for the specialist's report and then if there were further questions or things to be discussed the whole process would have to be repeated.

With the new system, once the specialist sends back their initial diagnosis, the doctor and the specialist can go over the details of the diagnosis seemingly face-to-face.

They can then discuss problematic points by reviewing the same images and documents simultaneously.

The system can not only diagnose digital images of CT and MRI scans but also x-ray films and other analog images once they are digitally scanned.


"The system has high quality sound and video- the screen is quite smooth. This quality is very hard to come by with conventional medical conferencing systems but with ours it's standard."

The system supports Japanese, Chinese, English, and Korean.

The remote diagnosis system can display a maximum of 24 images on the screen, and up to 9 people can take part in a teleconference.

If connected to a series of servers, the system can support hundreds of people in a single conference.

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