FORUM from ZEISS – the exceptional workflow and review software for eye care professionals
Our data management solution gives you the right tools for clinical analysis, confident diagnosis and efficient processes. From now on you’ll have all examination data instantly available at your fingertips –up-to-date and paperless.
FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace
The FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace easily allows you to review and generate HFA reports directly in the FORUM Viewer. For follow-up visits, a Guided Progression Analysis (GPA) summary can be automatically produced following 3 or more exams. And, with just a single click of the mouse, baseline exams can be changed and outliers removed. In addition to the GPA screen, a serial overview of visual field exams is available. With FORUM you have on-demand access to visual fields, OCT scans, fundus images, and structure and function results wherever you are, whenever you want – including your office, at a workstation, or in the examination lanes.
FORUM allows the review of combined information from HFA, CIRRUS, and fundus images through a concise report that shows structural and functional data in support of rapid assessments.
FORUM® Clinical Displays
Fast access to clinically relevant data plays an increasingly important role in eye care today. FORUM greatly facilitates clinical case visualization by preparing ophthalmic data and images for case-specific reviews.
The FORUM® Clinical Displays for glaucoma automatically select relevant documents and images and visualize them in clinically meaningful views.
Clinical Displays for Glaucoma
FORUM® Clinical Displays offer specific clinical views. The benefits for clinical users include:
- Case-specific pre-selection of data and clinical views
- Saves time in finding relevant reports and priors
- Combines Visual Field reports, OCT reports and fundus images into a single screen
- Also includes the single page HFA-CIRRUS Combined Report
FORUM® Clinical Displays are specifically designed for clinicians to optimize their day-to-day workflow.
Product
Increase Workflow Efficiency with FORUM®
FORUM® supports eye care professionals in meeting their everyday challenges. It is offered in two main configurations:
FORUM® Archive – a central storage solution for ophthalmic examination data – and
FORUM® Archive & Viewer – a comprehensive software solution for eye care data management.
As a supplement to FORUM® Archive & Viewer, there is now also an app for iPads® that allows high-quality access to diagnostic patient data wherever and whenever doctors want.
Zeiss’ entry-level solutions FORUM GO® and FORUM GO® Glaucoma are ideal for small and mid-size practices with limited connectivity needs. Learn more about FORUM GO® here
FORUM® Archive & Viewer
Comprehensive eye care data management for better workflow efficiency
Your Challenge
Clinical excellence and workflow efficiency greatly depends on the ability to effectively manage, access and review data from different modalities and multiple patient visits. Over time, practices face the task of having to manage ever larger volumes of data. Yet it is essential to continue to be able to have immediate access to clinically relevant information – wherever and whenever you need it.
Our FORUM® Solution
The FORUM® Archive & Viewer eye care data management system streamlines practice workflow by providing access to all patient examinations – both locally and remotely. It facilitates assessments with case-specific clinical applications. Take, for example, the new FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace, which automatically prepares relevant information from the HFA™ II-i. With FORUM, HFA II-i and CIRRUS HD-OCT data can be seen in one combined report – both structure and function data. Using recognized standards such as DICOM and HL7, FORUM Archive & Viewer integrates seamlessly with existing practice IT landscapes (e.g. EMRs) and diagnostic instruments.
Outstanding Features
- Completely paperless data flow increases workflow efficiency and saves time, space and money
- FORUM® Viewer provides immediate access to all patient data
- Examination data is presented in clinically relevant ways (e.g. with the clinical displays)
- The new FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace provides interactive visual field analyses
- Access your patient data wherever you want with the FORUM® Viewer App for the iPad
- Standard-based (DICOM) communication ensures data consistency across all diagnostic instruments and systems
- Integration with Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management and Hospital Information Systems (HIS) via standard (e.g. HL7) and proprietary interfaces
- Connects both DICOM and non-DICOM instruments from Carl Zeiss as well as other manufacturers
- Multi-site architecture support for fast and convenient data access and exchange between different practice sites
- FORUM® Viewer runs on Windows and Mac operating systems, offering you maximum flexibility.
FORUM® Viewer App
Review patient data wherever you want
Your Challenge
In the mobile world we live in, easy access to information is absolutely crucial. Ophthalmology is no exception. Eye care professionals like yourself are increasingly mobile too. You have a growing demand for mobile solutions capable of providing workflow support beyond the eye care facility. For example, the ability to access patient examination data whenever and wherever needed offers greater flexibility in structuring your day.
Our FORUM® Solution
The FORUM Viewer App for iPad enables you to flexibly access and display patient data and records stored in the FORUM® Archive – at your convenience. It further expands your FORUM options, allowing you to preview examination data wherever and whenever you want prior to seeing a patient. You can conveniently display results during a patient consultation, discuss a case with a colleague, or review examination findings and reports from any location.
FORUM Archive
Central storage solution for ophthalmic exam data
Your Challenge
To move away from paper-based archiving of diagnostic exam data, eye care practices and institutions are looking for centralized electronic archiving solutions that provide data safety and compatibility with other viewing or archiving systems.
There is also the need for multiple diagnostic instruments to share raw data through a central database for increased flexibility. By enabling this data share, patient exams and their analysis (e.g. progression analyses) function independent of the individual instrument.
Our FORUM® Solution
FORUM® Archive centrally stores DICOM examination data from multiple diagnostic instruments, making it a true ophthalmic Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS).
As such, it also stores the raw data of ZEISS OCT instruments (e.g. CIRRUS HD-OCT) and visual field analyzers (Humphrey® Field Analyzer/HFA II-i), enabling access to all examination data from any instrument and Review software – regardless of which instrument a patient was examined on. FORUM Archive provides data safety and consistency across the board and is particularly useful for practices working with multiple CIRRUS OCTs or HFAs.
Outstanding Features
Centrally stores diagnostic data from ophthalmic DICOM instruments and integrates with other DICOM software systems Centrally stores raw data from ZEISS OCTs (e.g. CIRRUS HD-OCT) and visual field analyzers (Humphrey Field Analyzer/HFA-II-i) Enables retrieval of all examination data from ophthalmic instrument or Review workplace Enables instrument-independent raw data analysis by providing raw data access e.g. for CIRRUS HD-OCT Review software Backup functionality ensures data security and integrity
FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace, FORUM® LINK Tools and FORUM® ASSIST match – Enlarge and enhance your FORUM® world
The FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace gives you on-demand access to visual fields. With FORUM, visual fields, OCT scans, fundus images, and structure and function results are available wherever you are and whenever you want. The FORUM® LINK Tools – FORUM® LINK net and FORUM® LINK port – enable integration of Carl Zeiss legacy and third party instruments, non-DICOM or even non-networked. Identification of inconsistent patient records with FORUM ASSIST match allows the efficient merging and migration of patient data into the FORUM environment.
FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace
See the solution from every angle.
Doctors want the ability to analyze HFA™ data in their office – and now, with the FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace from Carl Zeiss, they have it. The FORUM Glaucoma Workplace uses the same STATPAC™ engine as the HFA. Guided Progression Analysis (GPA™) analyses are automatically performed and instantly available once three or more exams have been stored. For the first time, you can change the baselines for GPA analyses and generate HFA reports from a Mac or PC right in your practice.
Streamline your Workflow
The FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace easily allows you to review and generate HFA reports directly in the FORUM® Viewer. For follow-up visits, a GPA summary can be automatically produced following 3 or more exams. And, with just a single click of the mouse, baseline exams can be changed and outliers removed. Additional to the GPA screen a serial overview of visual field exams is available.
FORUM® gives you on-demand access to visual fields, OCT scans, fundus images, and structure and function results wherever you are, whenever you want – including your office, at a workstation, or in the examination lanes.
The FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace streamlines your assessments for more efficient patient flow. Now, instead of searching through stacks of paper reports, you can fully focus on the patient examination. GPA and Combined Reports save you time and simplify patient consultations, enhancing the patient education experience and potentially improving compliance.
Focus your Assessments
If necessary, you can adjust GPA parameters by conveniently changing the baseline, resetting the baseline after surgery, or excluding any outliers.
Master your Data
The FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace is a clinical application that is directly integrated into the FORUM® infrastructure. As an integral part of the modern FORUM platform, the FORUM Glaucoma Workplace lets you take full advantage of the latest FORUM enhancements and features, giving you an advanced user experience across all solutions. FORUM® ensures end-to-end data consistency across the board – between the HFA, CIRRUS, FORUM® and the FORUM® Glaucoma Workplace.
For a convenient start, ZEISS service technicians will assist you with all aspects of the software installation.
Outstanding Features
- Enables HFA analysis within the FORUM® Viewer
- Combines structure and function information from the CIRRUS HD-OCT and HFA in one report
- Automatically generates reports (eg. SFA, Overview, GPA, visual field reports)
- Enables interactive adjustment of GPA parameters (eg. change baseline)
- Shows evolution of the GPA triangle plots animated over time (“cine-mode”)
- Improves patient flow and education
FORUM® LINK Tools
Connecting non-DICOM instruments to the FORUM Central Archive for efficient data management
Your Challenge
More and more eye care practices are converting to digital data management. Yet the integration and documentation of data from many diagnostic instruments which cannot be connected to the network or which do not comply to the DICOM standard continues to be very cumbersome. Until now.
Our FORUM® Solution
With the FORUM® LINK Tools from Carl Zeiss, instruments from other manufacturers which do not have a DICOM or network interface can now also be seamlessly integrated into the enhanced FORUM® data management workflow.
FORUM® LINK net
With this application, images or reports from instruments without DICOM interface can be transferred and associated to the correct patient record in FORUM, where they are stored as DICOM files. Patient demographics do not have to be keyed in, but rather can be selected from work lists created in FORUM®.
FORUM® LINK Port
This application lets you link non-networked instruments to FORUM. The tool captures data from the instrument’s parallel printer port, converts them into DICOM files and transfers these files to FORUM. As with FORUM® LINK net, patient demographics can be selected from worklists created in FORUM®.
FORUM® ASSIST Match
Fast identification of patient record inconsistencies
Your Challenge
When migrating the legacy data of different diagnostic instruments to the enhanced data management environment of FORUM®, patient record inconsistencies such as duplicate files frequently occur due to alternate name spellings or different patient IDs. These data irregularities should quickly be removed by identifying and merging duplicate records. The first step in the data cleansing process is finding these duplicate records.
Our FORUM® Solution
FORUM® ASSIST match is a new and highly efficient software tool designed to quickly find duplicate patient records stored in the FORUM® Archive.
As such, it can save practices a tremendous amount of time, effort and costs in manually locating duplicate patient records. Once identified with FORUM® ASSIST match, the duplicate records can easily be merged.
Outstanding Features
- Performs a thorough and accurate scan of all FORUM Archive patient records
- Quickly identifies patient file inconsistencies
- Displays patient data inconsistencies in easy-to-understand overview
- Allows definition of individual search criteria
FORUM® ASSIST match 1.2 is currently under development and will only be available with FORUM 3.1.
* The displayed sample patient data are completely fictional. Any similarities to real persons are therefore purely coincidental.
| FORUM Archive | FORUM Viewer | ||
| Hardware | PC | Macintosh | |
| Processor | Intel Core i5 – 750 or similar | Intel Core i5 – 750 or similar | Hardware requirements corresponding to system requirements for OS X 10.8 |
| Free RAM | 4 GB min. If FORUM Archive & Viewer are running on the same hardware, 8GB are recommended. | 4 GB min. If FORUM Archive & Viewer are running on the same hardware, 8GB are recommended. | 4 GB min. |
| Free hard disc capacity | 8 GB min. | 8 GB min. | 8 GB min. |
| Screen resolution | 1280 x 800 pixels minimum | 1280 x 800 pixels minimum | 1280 x 800 pixels minimum |
| Operating system | Windows 7 (64 Bit) with Service Pack 1, Windows 8 (64 Bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 Bit) with Service Pack 1 | Windows XP (32 Bit) with Service Pack 3, Windows 7 (32 Bit and 64 Bit) with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1 (64 Bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 Bit) with Service Pack 1 or Windows Terminal Server 2008 R2 (64 Bit), | OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) |
Forum® Data Management System Brochure
Download