Pharos Systems

For reading groups & individual radiologists

Read the study. Not the login screen.

Remote reading fails on friction: three sign-ins, a viewer that cannot find the priors, a report written somewhere the referrer will never see. Pharos puts the reader on the study in one step and keeps the images where they were acquired.

One reading session from link to signed report
  1. Open the assignment

    A signed hand-off carries the reader's identity, so the viewer opens already authenticated on the correct study.

  2. Review with priors

    Earlier studies for the same patient at that site are listed beside the current one; others can be pulled by query/retrieve.

  3. Write and verify

    The reporting desk opens from the viewer's own menu. Templates, key images, signature, verification.

  4. It leaves the building

    Printed at the site, sent to the patient as a signed link, or returned to the ordering hospital as a structured result.

The viewer

Built for reporting volume, not for demonstrations.

Presets that match the modality

Window and level presets per modality and body part, on the keys a radiologist already uses. Cine for multi-phase work.

Reformats that hold their measurements

Multiplanar and oblique reformats. Rotating an oblique does not discard the measurements you already placed on it — a failure common enough elsewhere that we treat it as a correctness requirement.

The facts on the image

Patient age and sex, acquisition technique and estimated effective dose are rendered in the corners, read from the acquisition data rather than assumed.

Volume work when it is needed

Hand-off to volume rendering for angiographic and bone reconstruction, from the same study, without exporting anything.

On a phone, honestly

The same study list and viewer laid out for a phone, installable to the home screen. Good for triage and a second look; the reporting desk stays on a diagnostic display.

Works on the network you actually have

Images stream over HTTPS from the site, so a reader on a domestic connection gets the study without a virtual private network client or a desktop install.

Scope & credentialing

A locum sees one site. Not the estate.

Access is granted, not inherited

Roles are defined per installation and every reader is scoped to the sites they are credentialed for. Adding a reader to a rota does not widen what they can query, and removing them closes it the same day.

  • Per-user site scope, enforced at the archive, not in the interface
  • A refusal is a refusal — the session is not silently ended
  • Share links for referrers are signed, expiring and individually revocable
  • Every retrieval and every share is recorded against the account that did it

Your archive does not move

Reading groups are routinely asked to migrate a client's archive into a vendor cloud before a single study can be read. We do not ask for that, and the commercial model does not depend on it.

  • Studies stay at the acquiring site or in the customer's own datacentre
  • No per-study fee for reading images you already hold
  • Existing archives can be read over query/retrieve rather than migrated
  • If you leave us, the studies are already where you would have wanted them

The reporting desk

An A4 sheet that prints the way it looks.

Reports are the product. Most of the detail below exists because a specific way of getting them wrong reached a patient, somewhere, once.

The letterhead band is real

A reserved band at the top of the page, invisible on screen and exact on paper, so a report printed on pre-printed stationery never collides with it.

Direction follows the report

Text direction is decided by the report's own body, not by the language the front desk has the interface set to. An English report printed from an Arabic interface stays left to right.

Names in the right script

The patient's name is rendered in their own script on the header and on the film, with correct shaping — not transliterated into whatever the printer found easiest.

Templates that belong to the department

Report templates are yours, versioned, and exportable between sites. Key images are referenced rather than embedded, so a long report stays a light document.

No dependency on a content network

The editor is served from the site itself. A branch that loses its internet can still open, write and print a report.

Three ways out

Printed on A4, shared as a signed public link, or returned to the ordering hospital as a structured HL7 result.

Try it on a study set of your own.

Send a de-identified set with the modalities you actually read and we will stand up an instance you can log in to, with your own templates loaded.