New White Paper: Integrating HL7 into Medical Applications with LEADTOOLS

Posted on 2015-06-01 by Walter

This month, we have published a white paper on the new LEADTOOLS HL7 SDK technology that was added in Version 19. A versatile and popular messaging standard for medical applications, HL7 truly broadens the scope of LEADTOOLS SDKs. Since HL7 is a messaging standard for interoperability between any healthcare application, this new library within LEADTOOLS V19 can be used across the board in imaging (PACS) and non-imaging (EHR, RIS, HIS, billing, patient tracking, etc.) applications alike.

If you are developing any kind of application for the healthcare industry, this white paper is especially relevant as HL7 is already the worldwide messaging standard for the exchange of patient care and clinical information. We hope you enjoy this informative read about such an important standard, its general uses and how customers are using LEADTOOLS to implement it.

Integrating HL7 into Medical Applications with LEADTOOLS
Health Level Seven (HL7) Messaging has gained widespread popularity and acceptance as a flexible standard of exchanging structured electronic health information. HL7 can enable communication and interoperability between standardized information and imaging systems such as Electronic Health Records (EHR), Hospital Information System (HIS), Radiology Information System (RIS), Laboratory Information System (LIS) and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), as well as any individual practice management or front-office application used by healthcare providers for tasks such as billing and patient tracking. The LEADTOOLS HL7 SDK simplifies the integration of complex HL7 standards into any healthcare application and developers can create full-featured, HL7-compliant PACS in record time.

In addition to the PDF download format, we have also published this white paper on The CodeProject.

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New Medical Imaging Features in LEADTOOLS Version 19 Update

Posted on 2015-05-21 by Walter
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A few days ago, we announced the latest major update to LEADTOOLS Version 19 and listed the updates made to the Document Imaging Engine. Today we’re continuing in the excitement of this release and highlighting what’s new in the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Engine.

HTML5 Medical Viewer

  • MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) with cross hairs
  • Reference line enhancements
  • User-interface tools and actions
    • Equalization spyglass
    • Shutter
    • Probe
    • Revealer

Desktop Medical Viewer

  • Customization options for cell borders, orientation, window level range and more
  • Annotation types
    • Norberg
    • PolyRuler
  • Cobb Angle
  • Control order of click precedence for annotations and mouse actions
  • Cine playback option for stopping playback on last frame

DICOM Storage Server

  • New export feature with options to anonymize and/or create DICOMDIR
  • Search for "Other Patient IDs" tag
  • Logging improvements
  • Security updates

PACS Framework

  • Study Date option for Patient Updater
  • Options for sending Storage Commit responses on the same connection
  • Customization options for PACS service EXE

HL7

  • Support for sending message versions 2.5.1 and 2.3.1
  • Field validation
  • Ability to save messages in HL7 demo

DICOM

  • Memory optimizations for large images and C-Store requests
  • New callbacks and helpers to help identify corrupt and problematic data set files

CCOW

  • Redesigned server is simpler and more customizable
  • CCOW web interfaces
  • JavaScript library for communicating with CCOW components

To read more about this exciting update, see the official press release!

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New Document Imaging Features in LEADTOOLS Version 19 Update

Posted on 2015-05-19 by Walter
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Today, we are happy to announce a major update to LEADTOOLS Version 19. Special focus was given to the LEADTOOLS Document and Medical Imaging engines, each of which we will cover in a blog post.

First up, let’s take a look at what’s new in the Document Imaging Engine:

OCR

  • Faster deskew on high resolution (600DPI and greater) images
  • Memory optimizations for auto zoning algorithm (up to 60%)
  • Improved paragraph, font and zone detection
  • Support for vertical text zones
  • Detect vertical and horizontal table cell direction
  • Text Book option which enhances graphic zone detection through cleaning of noisy texts
  • Memory and speed enhancements for Advantage OCR engine’s Native spell checker
  • Native x64 support for Professional OCR engine
  • Rotation angle support for all engines

Forms

  • Improved invoice recognition accuracy

Documents SDK

  • Convert and Save documents with the zero-footprint HTML5 Document Viewer
  • Faster SVG and raster image rendering, thumbnail generation and bookmark extraction in Document Viewer
  • Faster OCR and SVG conversion using multi-threading in the Document Converter
  • Support for ZIP compression in the Document Converter
  • Enhanced output for PDF and Word
  • Support for vertical text zones
  • SVG viewing and conversion support for HTML, RTF and TEXT
  • DOCX and PPTX support for Windows Phone 8.1

Annotations

  • Faster DirectX rendering engine for WPF and WinRT
  • Fill objects with linear gradient brush
  • Improved clip drawing for objects outside container bounds
  • Draw and edit annotations at the same time
  • Drag and drop for multiple containers
  • Pan and zoom objects while they are still selected
  • Select objects using extended key
  • Advanced text editor for HTML5 annotations
  • RenderedObjectBounds property for calculating real bounds

Barcode

  • Perspective correction for PDF417 barcode
  • More accurate detection for corrupted barcodes
  • Improved detection of small 1D linear barcodes

Formats

  • XMP metadata
  • Read metadata from Office and vector formats

Web Scanning

  • Send and receive user data to scanning service and upload server
  • Customization options for scanning service

Stay tuned to see a list of new features and updates to our Medical Imaging SDKs. To read more about this exciting update, see the official press release!

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New White Paper: Reading and Processing Checks with LEADTOOLS

Posted on 2015-05-01 by Walter

In this month’s white paper, we’re covering one of the most practical and popular new features from LEADTOOLS Version 19: Check Processing. In the few short months that LEADTOOLS V19 has been available, there have been a considerable number of companies deploying this advanced technology into new applications.

At first glance, LEADTOOLS’ check scanning technology may appear limited in scope due to the claim that checks are obsolete, but our customers are proving its versatility in many innovative ways. Keep reading to find out how it’s being used, how LEADTOOLS image processing is making it possible to use low quality images from mobile devices, and how easy it is to include all of this in your application!

Reading and Processing Checks with LEADTOOLS
As much as credit cards and digital wallets have tried to take over, checks are still a very prevalent and practical way to make payments and financial transactions. However, just because consumers and businesses are still relying on traditional, paper-based financial transactions doesn’t mean that technology can’t streamline deposits and improve customer satisfaction. How are financial institutions implementing these features? And what benefits are there for other businesses not in the financial sector? LEADTOOLS includes a robust Check Scanning and Processing SDK that combines MICR and OCR to process checks and is already being used by a number of applications across banking, insurance and retail industries.

If you would like to read it in an online format, we have also published this white paper on The CodeProject.

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Visit LEAD Technologies at Microsoft Ignite 2015 in 2 Weeks!

Posted on 2015-04-15 by Katie
Ignite 2015 logo

Are you ready for Microsoft’s brand-new enterprise tech conference, Microsoft Ignite? As a long-time exhibitor at Microsoft’s other individual shows, we are excited to see what’s buzzing and meet with other software developers, project managers, integrators and exhibitors. If you are planning to attend and have yet to set up a meeting with our representatives at the conference, please send an email to Ignite-2015@leadtools.com to reserve some time with our imaging experts!

Microsoft Ignite Details

May 4 – 8, 2015
Chicago, IL
Booth # 516

In case you missed our first blog post announcing our plans to exhibit at Microsoft Ignite, we will be showcasing our entire LEADTOOLS Version 19 product line which will help developers create applications for many of the conference’s themes and talking points including cloud infrastructure, big data, mobility and more.

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