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InPhact Inc.

InPhact aims to combine teleradiology with picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). The teleradiology services use the web to get images to radiologists in diagnostic form and to referring physicians in review form. Unlike the new applications service providers (ASPs), InPhact goes further, not only managing the transmission and storage of images on line, but also the on-line transmission of other radiology services, such as billing, data-collection, transcription. The four-year-old company has raised $14 million, and includes among its investors GE Medical Systems and MDS Capital.

In the mid-1990s, teleradiology held promise as a way of connecting hospitals with clinics and radiologists in remote locations. Teleradiology would allow managed care organizations to select high-quality providers at low cost and keep services and dollars within their systems. It was also convenient for general radiologists to provide night, weekend, and vacation coverage and to allow them to participate on weekends or evenings in making initial emergency diagnoses at home. The radiologists would still have to go to the hospital, but not in such a rush.

Jeffrey Landman, MD, a successful neuroradiologist and founder and chairman of two outpatient imaging centers, was experimenting with beta sites...

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