The introduction of digital technologies in the medical imaging field and of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) in the hospitals is causing deep changes in the way the medical image is used and distributed. Today, the specialized physician often performs his diagnosis by analyzing one or more medical images displayed on a diagnostic monitor, instead of looking at a radiographic film mounted on a diaphanoscope.

A typical PACS installation provides for viewing stations in several rooms of the hospitals: a viewing station usually consists of a Personal Computer or a Workstation powered by a dedicated software for the display, analysis and manipulation of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard-compliant medical images.
The installation and maintenance of such a software is usually quite expensive, since normally it is a complex application that needs to be installed locally on every host acting as viewing station. This station, connected to the DICOM network, is able to retrieve the medical images either from the local hard drive or from a remote dedicated archive present on the DICOM network.

There are situations in which it could be useful to be able to display the medical images even outside the boundaries of the hospital's DICOM network, perhaps by a common Personal Computer with basic software installed.
RemotEye is a DICOM image viewer allowing to display DICOM images that physically are remote with respect to the viewing site and that are reachable through the Internet or Intranet networks.

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