PUTTING A FINGER ON THE PROBLEM

During the fall of 1998 at Rush Medical Center, innovation designer, Armin Moehrle, observed radiologists interpreting images in a lab of monitors. He watched the doctors press and tap the screen before turning away to a keyboard to articulate their findings. When the monitors went dark, a striking fact came to light. Hundreds of fingerprints cluttered the surface of the glass. Realizing that these marks held a wealth of location data all but gone to waste, the would-be inventor snapped a photograph of the spotted screen, considering the question, “what if the act of pointing did the work of both showing and telling?”

After over a decade of research, MEDKEN TOUCH™ is the answer. Joined by CTO Mark Thorpe, MEDKEN is a team of radiologists, designers, and software engineers who strictly follow user-centered design principles to create medical knowledge solutions that work.

MEDKEN is proud to be partially funded by the National Science Foundation under NSF award 0945953. TOUCH™ is currently configured for use in mammography. Availability in other subspecialties is projected for 2013, FDA approval pending.