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When instituting a claim in medical malpractice and personal injury cases, many jurisdictions first require securing an expert’s certification. This legal document goes by a variety of names, sometimes referred to as a certificate of merit or an expert witness certificate. Its purpose is to verify the legitimacy of the medical basis for the legal claim. Courts use these to screen out frivolous lawsuits, avoiding unnecessary waste of the courts' resources.

Medical images have become an increasingly common part of medical examinations and diagnoses. It should then come as no surprise that medical images are playing a more important role in legal trials involving personal injuries, medical malpractice and sometimes criminal law. 

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.