Description

The Image Viewing Solution (IVS) mobile application (app) allows U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians and other medical professionals to search for and view patients’ clinical images. The IVS aggregates images from VA enterprise medical facilities, offering easily accessible diagnostic-grade images, capabilities to work with images (e.g., scrolling, panning, zooming, adjusting window/level) and a tool to collaborate with other VA clinical staff.
The IVS app protects Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) as well as the fidelity of the image, ensuring IVS usage is HIPAA compliant and that images cannot be manipulated.
- Find patients by searching specific archives or all of VA’s databases
- View and work with images in the IVS Study Browser
- Collaborate with other health care professionals
- View images from different perspectives (e.g., 2D, MIP/MPR, 3D)
- Work with images in a variety of ways, such as zooming, flipping, highlighting and measuring on an image
IVS Mobile App Quick Start Guide Training Video
Time: 3:30 minutes
Outreach Materials
Image Viewing Solution Promotional Toolkit
VA providers and other VA staff can use this toolkit to raise awareness about and promote the use of the Image Viewing Solution app. Outreach materials for other apps can be found in the Connected Care Promotional Toolkit Directory.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Scroll (several lines with an up and down arrows icon) – When selected, click and drag up and down to scroll through the images in a series. This view is available for 2D and MIP/MPR view modes only.
- Zoom (magnifying glass with a + icon) – When selected, click and drag up and down to zoom in and out of the image.
- Window/Level (half shaded sun icon) – When selected, click and drag left and right or up and down to adjust window level.
- 2D - Slice +/- – Tap and hold the white bar on the right side of the screen, then move your finger up and down to scroll through an image series.
- Zoom – Tap and hold two fingers on the screen simultaneously, the move them outward in opposite directions to zoom in on an area.
- Window/Level - Double tap and hold, then drag up, down, left or right to adjust window level.
- MIP/MPR Change View – Tap and hold the screen, then drag left or right to change view.
- 3D - Rotate – Tap and hold the screen, then drag in any direction to rotate the image.
- Link Views (chain icon) – In 2D mode, you can scroll through images by moving the wheel of your mouse, and you may view up to four images at one time. If you are viewing two or more images at one time, you can link your views together so that when you scroll through one image, the other images scroll simultaneously. You can unlink your views to scroll through one image while the others remain fixed.
- 1x1 Layout (box icon) – One image.
- 1x2 Layout (vertical rectangles icon) – Two images side by side.
- 2x1 Layout (horizontal rectangles icon) – Two images stacked top and bottom.
- 2x2 Layout (four squares icon) – Four images in a square.
- Reset – Only the image you are accessing the Tools menu from will reset.
- Window/Level Presets – Several preset views will appear. These presets are to view certain elements or materials within an image, such as soft tissue or bone. For 2D images, click the preset you would like to use, and the width and level will adjust accordingly.
- Lens – A magnifying glass tool will appear. Click and drag to move the magnifying glass across the image.
- Reset – Only the image you are accessing the Tools menu from will reset.
- Presets – Several preset views will appear. Tap the preset you would like to use, and the width and level will adjust accordingly.
- Lens – A magnifying glass tool will appear. Tap and hold, then drag to move the magnifying glass across the image.
- Green - Slices taken from left to right (sagittal).
- Blue - Slices taken from front to back (coronal).
- Red - Slices taken from top to bottom (axial).
- Move a plane perpendicularly or in parallel orthogonally – Click on any solid part of the perpendicular positional lines over the image. Hold down and drag up, down, right or left to reposition.
- Freely move positional lines – Click on the center of the cross hair at the bottom left of the large image and drag.
- Re-center the positional lines – Click on the intersection of the perpendicular positional lines. Hold down and drag to reposition.
- Triangulate a point – When using the web app, hold down Ctrl (or Command on a Mac) and click anywhere on any of the three smaller images in the strip view. The point will be reflected in the other two smaller images, and the large image on the right will adjust accordingly.
- Move the lens over the volume – Left click on the magnified area in the lens and hold down. Drag the lens to reposition.
- Move the lens through volume – Click on the magnified part of the lens and scroll the wheel of your mouse up or down to push the lens deeper into the volume and back out.
- Adjust the level of the lens’s magnification – Click on the magnified part of the image in the circular lens. Scroll the wheel of your mouse up to increase magnification or scroll the wheel of your mouse down to decrease magnification.