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Horos is free, open-source software that makes medical image viewing accessible for users across the globe. Purview, the Chief Sponsor of Horos has maintained and supported the Horos Project for nearly a decade, facilitating more than a million downloads across hundreds of countries. 

Purview’s support team receives questions about Horos every day, troubleshooting all of the paid and even unpaid inquiries on behalf of Horos. To help the Horos community make the most of their free desktop medical image viewer, the Purview team put together a list of the top 10 questions they receive most often and their answers.

If you’re a vet who uses Horos, you’ve probably experienced the struggle of not having an efficient way to share and store images in one centralized location across multiple workstations.  You've used either file-sharing services, emailed, or even burned a CD. These solutions are expensive, slow, clunky, disorganized, manual, and prone to error. 

In the past, medical imaging technology may have been an expensive capital investment for a typical veterinarian. Today, there are affordable solutions that can help you to streamline your workflows at a reasonable cost…

Ask any experienced personal injury attorney about whether using medical images enhances his or her ability to illustrate a complex story to the jury and you will get a resounding agreement. But if you ask them how difficult it is to make that happen, you will find that most pause, unsure of how to proceed.

Telehealth exploded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as patients and providers scrambled to find safe, effective ways to receive and deliver care remotely. While its popularity has more recently receded, it is fair to say that telehealth is now an engrained component of our healthcare delivery system.