The smile and the price received in Boston hands, Sébastien Jodogne a Visé 35, adjusts slowly to the request of the media. Because since last Sunday interview requests succeed. And for good reason: the Award for the Advancement of Free Software , the price he has received, is the most prestigious international distinction that annually recognizes an individual for his contribution to the development free software.
Innovative, high performance and community service
This is in 2011, in the University Hospital of Liège, qu’Orthanc was born. Access this free software was developed to facilitate the exchange of medical imaging between the different services of the same hospital, but also from one hospital to another. It comes in the form of an interface containing all the scanners, radios, MRI, etc. of a patient, viewable in 3D.
Tools in this area already existed but are extremely expensive and much less effective qu’Orthanc. This software and therefore meets a real need of hospitals, at a time when the imaging flows are ever more numerous and more complex. “ Our main objective is not to make money, says Sébastien Jodogne, but to provide a tool which is lacking in all hospitals and put at their disposal, and for the benefit of everyone’s health. “
” A drop of oil needed in the workings often seized “
The free software was developed at the University Hospital of Liège where he took office in 2012. A real time saver and energy for physicians since then work daily with Orthanc.
“ It allowed us to work faster says Philippe Martinive, radiation oncologist at the University Hospital of Liège, and be certain that the transfer will happen, without having to waste time calling, waiting for a CD on which were engraved the images. We run no more after a doctor and one should wait, in case of loss of an image, its reproduction by the imaging system from another hospital or here “ and radiotherapist adding: .” C ‘ is truly the drop of oil that enables our mechanics often seized earlier, more will ever be. “
At the hospital service, but also the patient, who, through Orthanc, can take control of his health: “ It has total freedom on what it does for its own personal data, it is he who decides how it will exploit them and to whom it will communicate. Orthanc allows to reconcile technology and humanism “ concludes the Liège winner.
International Success
Ironically as he has so far – before the award ceremony – the subject of any support from the Walloon Government, the software already enjoyed considerable success beyond our borders He has indeed been downloaded over 9,000 times around the world, from Russia to Brazil, via Malaysia
And for those who wonder where the name comes from. Orthanc, this requires to dive back into the bestseller Tolkien, the “Lord of the Rings”, the story has fascinated Sébastien Jodogne. Orthanc is actually the name of the tower of the sorcerer Saruman in which is located a stone Magic that allows remote viewing. Let the function that also fulfills the free software in the medical field.
Perrine Willamme
To understand in pictures how the Orthanc software, see our report produced at the University Hospital of Liège
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