Vienna, Austria — (press release excerpt) — BMS Bayer Ltd. today announced the availability of EasyDose, the first Linux-based medical embedded device for radiologists.

According to EU health-directives and FDA recommendations, medical X-ray examination data (Area Dose Product) should be protocolled and stored for quality management purposes. Therefore BMS Bayer Ltd. developed EasyDose which communicates with hospital information systems, diagnostic medical equipment and measurement devices to gather and store X-ray exposure data automatically.

The EasyDose device, powered by a Cyrix GXM 233 processor, is based on Transmeta's Midori — an extremely small Linux distribution. The core system, a read-only filesystem, is placed on a 32MB CompactFlash card. A very slim system architecture enables EasyDose to complete it's startup sequence within seconds. Direct access to the framebuffer device controlled by the ParaGUI user-interface library prevents the usage of a heavy X11 display system. A built-in 6.5-inch touch screen provides mouse and keyboardless user interaction.

A standardized network communication interface is provided by connecting EasyDose to the LAN of a hospital using the established DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard. A convenient way to configure EasyDose is the integrated web based configuration interface (Midori).

“Developing on Linux, has enabled our development team to concentrate on the main project needs without having to carry an enormous unnecessary OS payload,” said Norbert Bayer, CEO and founder of BMS Bayer Ltd. “The reliability and stability of Linux accompanied by a carefully designed system architecture has proven LINUX to be a ideal companion within the very sensible medical environment.”

“Linux made our dreams come true,” added Alexander Pipelka, Chief software architect of BMS Bayer Ltd.. Now systems can be tailored to our needs.”

BMS Bayer GmbH (Vienna, Austria) specializes in Embedded DICOM based connectivity products and IP Multicasting solutions for high quality en/decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 within the hospital environment. The company's most successful application so far, ScanSeries, a multi-modality DICOM gateway, is used in about 50 hospitals in Europe.

 
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