Lucid Launches VivaNetR Telemedicine Server for Dermatology Applications

Feb. 14, 2008 - PRLog -- ROCHESTER, NY, USA, - Lucid, Inc. (www.lucid-tech.com) today announced the launch of its secure VivaNetR telemedicine server and network.  The network is designed to transfer and manage clinical data between dermatology practitioners using Lucid's non-invasive VivaScopeR Confocal Imagers with pathologists or other medical specialists.

Lucid's VivaScopeR confocal imager microscopes provide non-invasive, in-vivo cellular resolution images of skin.  Dermatologists can use the images to form a clinical judgment for a variety of skin conditions -- without the need to excise tissue.

The VivaNetR network provides fast, accurate and secure storage, retrieval, and transfer of VivaScope images across the Internet or Lucid's private network service.  Its launch will make VivaScopeR images available for review by other dermatologists and pathologists in minutes - thus enabling rapid, real-time professional collaboration.  

"With VivaNetR, practitioners can rapidly receive a pathologic interpretation of confocal images from a VivaScopeR session, potentially assisting physicians in arriving at a clinical judgment while a patient is still in the doctor's office," said Jay Eastman, CEO, Lucid Inc.

"Just as MRI and CT scans have largely eliminated the need for routine 'exploratory surgery', the use of the VivaNetR network in conjunction with VivaScopeR confocal microscopes may one day eliminate the need for routine invasive skin biopsies," he said.

During a typical session, once VivaScopeR images are captured, they are uploaded to the secure VivaNetR server, along with other patient-related data. From there, the patient image set is immediately available for retrieval by and transfer to other authorized practitioners.

The advantages of the VivaNetR network include:
   . Secure sharing of digital cellular resolution images among medical professionals
   . Fast, accurate, secure information exchange to enable clinical judgments of patient skin lesions
   . Rapid, near-real-time clinical reporting
   . Ensured HIPAA compliance, privacy, and data integrity via DICOM-compliant, standardized medical image storage, retrieval, and transfer


The VivaNetR network has been launched for near term use by dermatologists, as users of the VivaScopeR microscopes, and pathologists, as readers of VivaScope images, in the US, Europe and Australia.  For more information, visit http://www.lucid-tech.com or call +1-585-239-9800.

About Lucid, Inc.

VivaNetR and VivaScopeR are registered trademarks of Lucid, Inc.

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Press contacts:
   . Don Goncalves, +1-781-793-9380, dgoncalves@tizinc.com
   . Brandie Gerrish, +1-781-793-9380, bgerrish@tizinc.com

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Lucid, Inc. (www.lucid-tech.com), based in Rochester, New York (USA) is a medical device and information company with offices in North America, Europe, and Australia.  Lucid is dedicated to providing improved care for dermatology patients by coupling its noninvasive VivaScopeR cellular imaging technology with its innovative VivaNetR medical information system to allow secure, HIPAA compliant, near real-time collaboration between dermatologists and other medical specialists.  The VivaNetR system provides rapid online medical image transfer, storage, and retrieval thus enabling these critical collaborative consultations. The technologies delivered by Lucid provide images that physicians use in forming critical clinical judgments in cases of dermatologic disease, while ensuring patient comfort and piece of mind.