The Lucid VivaNet

Lucid's VivaNet® is intended to change how — and how fast — dermatologists can consult with other medical specialists. Using VivaNet®, high resolution VivaScope® images taken in a doctor’s office can be transferred securely over Lucid’s VivaNet® for review by appropriate specialists in near real-time. This allows the dermatologist to make an informed clinical judgment, for a variety of skin conditions — while the patient is still in the office. Thus VivaNet® is an important link that aids physicians in forming timely clinical decisions.

The VivaNet® uses the Internet to link medical specialists to dermatologists who utilize Lucid's noninvasive VivaScope® confocal microscopes. These provide dermatoscopic-quality, full-color macroscopic pictures and — via Lucid's patented technology — reflectance confocal microscopy cellular resolution images of the patient's skin, in an all-digital format.

VivaNet® provides fast, accurate, and secure storage, retrieval, and transfer of VivaScope® digital cellular resolution images across the Internet, facilitating professional collaboration and consultation. During a typical session, once VivaScope® images are captured, they are uploaded via the Internet, along with other patient-related data, to a secure VivaNet® server. From there, the patient image set is immediately available for retrieval by and transfer to other authorized medical specialists.

The clear benefits arising from this combination of Lucid's patented VivaScope® and VivaNet® technologies — enabling near-real-time storage, retrieval, and communication of in vivo confocal images — is bringing these tools into routine clinical use in academic medical institutions and private dermatology practices.

VivaNet advantages:

• HIPAA compliant secure sharing of digital cellular resolution images among medical professionals
• Data integrity is ensured via DICOM standards compliant medical image storage, retrieval, and transfer
• Fast, accurate, secure information exchange to assist physicians in forming accurate clinical judgments of patient skin conditions
• Rapid, near-real-time clinical collaboration and reporting