If you haven't noticed already, it's trade show season here in the US. In fact, I'm writing this post after setting up our booth at the Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) in Boston! Next week, June 3 - 6, LEAD will be exhibiting at Microsoft's TechEd North America in New Orleans in booth #328.

We look forward to showcasing our entire document, medical, raster and multimedia imaging product lines. Not only do we have the latest and greatest imaging SDK features for all the wonderful Microsoft products featured at TechEd like .NET, Win 32/64, Windows 8, WinRT, Surface, and Windows Phones, but we also have the most powerful and versatile cross-platform imaging libraries for HTML5, iOS, OS X, Android and Linux in case you are looking to port your Microsoft apps to additional platforms.

HIMSS 2014 is approaching soon, and LEAD Technologies has big plans for this year's show! Of course, LEAD will be demonstrating the full line of LEADTOOLS version 18 SDKs including medical imaging, document imaging and Multimedia product offerings. In addition, LEAD will be highlighting how LEADTOOLS can be used to quickly and easily achieve specific tasks and uses important to the healthcare industry, including Stage 2 Meaningful Use qualification and Cloud adoption.

Leverage LEADTOOLS HTML5 Medical Viewer and PACS Framework to allow customers to satisfy Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements

• HTML5 Medical Viewer
  • Patients and providers can view DICOM images anywhere, from any desktop, tablet or mobile device
  • Facilitate computerized order entry for modalities with MWL/MPPS
• PACS Framework
  • Ease the creation and management of computerized order entry
  • Integrate older legacy systems and modalities into your digital PACS and EHR systems with Print to PACS

Take your solution to the Cloud with LEADTOOLS

• PACS Server Framework provides robust cloud storage and disaster recovery capabilities
• HTML5 Medical Viewer Framework may be hosted on the Cloud and scaled to handle enterprise level demands

Visit LEAD Technologies at HIMSS Booth #3839

In addition to these features, LEADTOOLS will have much more on display at HIMSS. While you are in Orlando enjoying the break from cold weather, we hope you take the time to visit our booth to meet LEAD's imaging experts and check out the latest medical imaging technology in LEADTOOLS.

HIMSS 2014 is right around the corner and we hope to see many of you next week! In addition to Device Independent Viewing and Cloud Technology, another major focus during the exhibit will be on how LEADTOOLS can be used to build an economically sustainable healthcare solution and improve business intelligence by mining big data.

Create an Economically Sustainable Healthcare System using LEADTOOLS

• The LEADTOOLS Print-to-PACS functionality can incorporate legacy systems into a digital workflow
• The Cloud Storage interface of the LEADTOOLS PACS Server Framework reduces implementation time and resources, and can reduce ongoing operational costs
• The load balanceable LEADTOOLS PACS Storage Server and HTML5 Medical Viewer can easily scale upwards in a cost effective manner to meet the growth and the demands of any enterprise
• Automate business processes with recognition technologies such as barcode, OCR, ICR, OMR and forms processing

Manage Big Data with LEADTOOLS

• Use LEADTOOLS PDF/A capabilities to normalize all of your documents and images into one format type
• Use the LEADTOOLS Recognition engines to extract metadata

Visit Us at HIMSS Booth #3839

In addition to these features, we will have much more on display at HIMSS including our full line of LEADTOOLS Version 18 SDKs including Medical imaging, Document imaging and Multimedia product offerings. While you are in Orlando enjoying the break from cold weather, we hope you take the time to visit our booth to meet our imaging experts and check out the latest medical and document imaging technology in LEADTOOLS.

With more than a year under its belt, LEADTOOLS Anywhere™ is continuing to push the digital imaging software development kit market forward with its native libraries for iOS, OS X, Android, WinRT, Windows Phone and more. This week we have released a free Annotations and Markup demo app on Google Play and the Windows Store for use on your Apple, Android, WinRT and Windows Phone devices.

• iOS
• OS X
• Android
• WinRT
• Windows Phone

As a reminder, LEADTOOLS has many additional demos available for iOS, Android, WinRT and Windows Phone including features such as OCR, Barcode, DICOM and more. If you are a mobile application developer, you can see first-hand how LEADTOOLS works on your devices. As an additional benefit, they serve as a living example of how using LEADTOOLS will have positive effects during the approval process for your app's respective stores.

Last week, I officially introduced LEADTOOLS Version 18 for the first time and gave a bird's eye view of the changes coming to the product line. Today I'm covering the fun stuff: features!

LEADTOOLS Anywhere

Of course, the marquee update in version 18 is the completion of LEADTOOLS Anywhere. Announced last spring, our executive management put forth a vision and plan to incrementally release cross-platform versions of LEADTOOLS. First came zero footprint HTML5 and JavaScript tools, then native libraries for WinRT (the new Windows 8 platform previously called Metro), and now with version 18 there will be native libraries for iOS, OS X, Android and Linux.