Fighting a rare and life-threatening cancer, seven-year old Timmy Mason faces a situation where in the words of his father, “Lost days can mean a lost life.”
In previous contacts with specialists out of their area, Timmy's dad Tim had used the postal service to mail images on CDs because of the barriers many hospitals still have to sharing imaging files electronically. But the process often led to frustrating, life-threatening delays.
Once the Masons lost 22 days, Tim told us, when images they shipped got lost in the postal system and then got overlooked after they arrived at a hospital in Amsterdam. With a tumor like Timmy's, “You can go from something resectable to something inoperable in 20 days,” Tim noted.
Via Twitter, though, Tim had discovered eMix. With help from eMix general manager Florent Saint-Clair, a special account was set up for the Masons that enabled them to rush Timmy's MRI to Dr. Sidman. Should they need to send other imaging files to specialists in the future, they will do it with eMix.
“With eMix, you can be talking to someone and send the images at the same time,” said Tim. “By the end of the conversation they can have the images and be doing a consultation in real time. eMix closes the mile gap.”
Beating Timmy's cancer means, in part, winning the race against time. Towards that end, the Masons have made tremendous progress. They can now get crucial data to Timmy's doctors in minutes instead of days, with near-perfect reliability. No wonder it feels like the sun is shining a little brighter over the Cotswolds.