Logical Images selected to demonstrate
visual diagnostic software at the G-8 summit
Press Release
June 3, 2004

VisualDx Featured in the Technology Exposition

Ashford, Kent, UK and Rochester, N.Y., USA — Logical Images has been chosen as one of only twenty companies to exhibit in the Technology Exposition at the G-8 Summit in Sea Island, Georgia, USA, 6th – 10th June, 2004. The company will demonstrate VisualDx, a software system that merges medical photos and text to help clinicians accurately diagnose and treat patients who present visual symptoms that may be caused by infectious diseases, agents of terrorism, drug eruptions, or common dermatology conditions.

In a joint statement, Michael O’Connor, President and David Bilcliffe, International Director, of Logical Images noted, “We are proud to be selected as an exhibitor at the G-8 Summit. VisualDx provides clinicians around the world with a way to quickly and easily increase diagnostic accuracy for visually diagnosable conditions. With instant access to thousands of medical photographs, a clinician can quickly assess the range in presentations for each disease on different skin types and view unusual variations. The system also helps improve health care in communities with limited or no access to a dermatologist or other specialist.”

VisualDx makes use of patient findings, such as: signs, symptoms, medications, medical history, travelogue, and lesion types. Building a just-in-time visual differential diagnosis. The system merges 7,000 images, covering more than 500 diseases, with text describing each disease; it offers clinical guidance, the differential diagnosis and which diagnostic tests to order. Other information includes treatment recommendations and related advice, for example public health notifications, vaccine and quarantine information. The VisualDx system features a number of elements, including Adult Dermatology; Dark Skin Dermatology; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Terrorism Recognition; Fever, Rash & Bioterrorism; Drug Eruptions; and Smallpox Vaccination.

Logical Images Wins Contract to Prepare New York City Hospitals for Early Detection of Bioterrorism: VisualDx Software to be Installed in 20 Hospitals & on Health Alert Network
Press Release
September 2, 2003

Logical Images, Inc., a global leader in image intensive medical diagnostic tools, today announced the company has received a contract from the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene to install its VisualDx diagnostic software in the emergency rooms of 20 hospitals located throughout New York City. The contract also includes VisualDx licenses for use within the NYC Department of Health, and on the Health Alert Network where it will be available to over 40,000 NYC physicians.

According to Michael O’Connor, President of Logical Images: "We are very pleased that the NYC Department of Health, in particular, has recognized the importance of early identification of bioterrorism at the point-of-care, and has validated VisualDx as the premier tool for early diagnosis. VisualDx is the only bioterror preparedness solution where daily use to diagnose common conditions automatically includes bioterrorism preparedness as part of its core capabilities. NYC clinicians now have a consistent and comprehensive decision support tool to help combat false negative diagnoses, which may endanger many, and false positive diagnoses, which bottleneck the system and waste valuable resources."

House approves $10 million in Reynolds' requests for area: Defense bill includes Congressman's request to fund Harris, Logical Images
Press Release
July 11, 2003

The House of Representatives tonight approved $10 million in area funding requests made by U.S. Representative Thomas M. Reynolds, R-Clarence, as part of a 2004 Defense spending bill that passed the House by a vote of 399 to 19.

Reynolds won requests for $7 million for Harris RF Communications and $3 million for Logical Images, both of Rochester.

The $3 million approved tonight will be used to acquire cutting edge software technology from Logical Images for the U.S. Army that will allow medical service specialists and clinicians to make diagnoses of dermatological diseases far more rapidly and accurately than is currently possible. The technology involves software that matches thousands of images of rashes, legions, and growths with symptoms in order to speed the diagnosis process.

"Logical Images has pioneered a new technology that can significantly improve the health care of our service personnel and their dependents," Reynolds said. "Making this diagnostic tool available to every military treatment facility worldwide would be an important advance in health service. Moreover, given the threat of bioterrorism we face today, we should consider it an imperative."


Rochester company leads fight against bioterrorism
Press Release
May 3, 2002

Logical Images, a Rochester based company, will be a featured sponsor and participant at the Convergence 2002 conference hosted by the University of Rochester on May 10th. The conference theme is "Facing the Threat of Bioterrorism" and aims to bring biomedical research together with scientific entrepreneurship, and industrial innovation to create compelling medical applications to fight bioterrorism.



Closing the gap in minority health care: New software for dark skin disease
Press Release
April 9, 2002

Minorities have limited access to specialty care and therefore rely heavily on their primary care physician for their health care needs. Unfortunately, many such doctors have little training in dermatology; and the references available to them are focused on white skin.

To help close the gap, more and more clinicians are turning to VisualDx: Dark Skin Dermatology, a unique software tool created by Logical Images for the diagnosis and treatment of skin disease in dark skinned patients. Edited by Dr. Paul Kelly, a leading expert in dark skin care at Drew University in LA, and designed for use by non-dermatologists, VisualDx's image and clinical knowledge base covers acute & chronic rash as well as growths & lesions in African-American, Hispanic, Indian, Asian, and other patients of color.



Logical Images, Inc donates web link with key bioterrorism information to medical societies and public health organizations
Press Release
March 4, 2002

Logical Images, Inc., a leading provider of point-of-care diagnostic and therapeutic software tools, donated a web link to the American Academy of Dermatology covering key bioterrorism information and illustrating the many ways cutaneous Anthrax can present with multiple images of actual Anthrax cases.



Bioterrorism: New software helps diagnose it (1411K PDF)
Press Release
March 15, 2001

Logical Images, Inc., makers of image-rich point-of-care diagnostic decision support software tools, has released VisualDx: Fever, Rash & Bioterrorism, a comprehensive software system to assist clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting with a fever, rash and suspected bioterrorism. The software's comprehensive infectious disease photograph collection, rich medical knowledge base and patient-oriented approach leverages the power of information technology and gives clinicians instant access to the critical information they need, whether their patient's fever and rash is due to a common ailment or bioterrorist assault.



Logical Images Inc. licenses largest collection of disease photographs (1131K PDF)
Press Release
October 23, 2000

Logical Images, Inc. has entered into an exclusive agreement with the Ronald O. Perlman Department of Dermatology at the NYU Medical Center licensing their collection of medical images for incorporation into a new generation of digital medical reference products.