From hospital disc to trial exhibit.

That is the case it was built for. A hospital disc that will not open is almost never damaged — it carries its own Windows-only viewer, or the images are compressed in a format (usually JPEG 2000 or a lossless JPEG variant) that ordinary software has no decoder for. We decode 53 of the 62 formats in the DICOM standard: every one that holds an image. Drag in the disc's whole folder, the records vendor's ZIP, or loose files with no extension, and it opens in this browser — Mac, Windows, or the iPad in the conference room.

Everything that arrives is logged with a cryptographic fingerprint, so a year later you can show exactly what was received, from whom, and that not one pixel has changed since.

One link. You choose which studies it covers, whether it expires, whether it needs a passcode, and whether downloading is allowed — then your expert opens it in their own browser with nothing to install and no account to create. They can measure, mark key images, and export report-ready figures themselves — and write the report right there, beside the imaging it opines on. A submitted report freezes: readable and printable for ever, editable never, so the version you cite is the version they signed.

Every open is logged: who, what, when. When you need to show that opposing counsel or the reviewing physician actually received and viewed the imaging, the matter's access report is one click. A radiology expert bills several hundred dollars an hour — none of it should be spent fighting a disc.

It is built for it. Matters are isolated from each other; every file is encrypted in transit and at rest; sharing is off until you create a link, and every link is scoped, revocable, and logged. The audit ledger records every access to the matter — including your own — and exports with the file when you close it out.

Nothing is ever used to train anything, nothing is sold, and when a matter is destroyed at close-out you receive a destruction report listing exactly what was deleted and when — the artifact a qualified protective order asks you to keep. Our security summary answers the vendor-diligence questions ethics opinions expect you to ask; it is linked in the footer, written to be read.

Yes — with a record, not a promise. Every matter keeps an append-only audit ledger: studies claimed, quarantine decisions, every link minted or revoked, every open by every link holder, holds placed and released. Entries are written as events occur and nothing updates or deletes a row — it is built as a legal artifact, not a log file.

One click prints the matter’s chain-of-custody report: the studies in scope, the records still outstanding, every link ever created, and the full ledger in plain English. Generating the report is itself a recorded event, and appears as its own final line.

Yes. When legal process names a matter — a subpoena, a preservation letter — it goes under a legal hold, and while the hold stands nothing in the deletion machinery can touch its data: delete actions refuse with an explanation, account close-out is blocked, and the automated cleanup skips it. Placing and releasing a hold are both recorded on the matter’s ledger, reason included.

Preservation is also the resting state, not a mode: studies are immutable once ingested, and the original files are kept exactly as they were received — so what you produce later is what arrived.

A firm holding imaging under its client’s own authorization is often outside HIPAA’s vendor rules entirely — but the answer does not lean on that. The concrete measures HIPAA obligations look for are built and described, not badged: encryption in transit and at rest on our own hardware, role-scoped revocable links, an append-only record of every access, and deletion you control.

If your checklist requires a business associate agreement: our BAA template is in counsel review — ask us where it stands. The full mechanics are on the security page, written to be read.

Your first matter is free — open the disc that is on your desk right now. After that it is a flat $79 per matter, once, for as long as the matter runs: every study, every share link, every export. Firms with steady volume switch to the firm plan — one flat monthly price, unlimited matters, unlimited users, unlimited links.

Nothing is metered. No per-user seats, no per-study counting, no share-link allowances — if a plan covers a matter, it covers all of it. A per-case receipt names the matter, so the cost bills to the case like any other disbursement. And there is no setup fee, no sales call and no annual contract anywhere: a disc that arrives at 9pm can be in front of your expert the same evening. The whole price list is a page of text.

Yes — it is a web page, so anything with a browser works, and there is nothing to install. That matters because the viewer program burned onto an imaging disc is almost always a Windows .exe, which is why Mac offices end up here. On an iPad, use the ZIP from the records vendor or portal rather than the physical disc.

Yes. Deleting your account removes your studies and your records straight away. The one honest caveat: encrypted backups roll over on a 30-day cycle, so a copy can exist in a backup for up to 30 days before it expires on its own.

No. It is a viewer: it decodes what is in the file and shows it to you, accurately and without altering the pixels. It is not certified as a medical device, it makes no clinical claim, and it does not interpret anything or suggest findings.

What we do stand over is fidelity. Every decoder is checked against an independent reference implementation across a 1,347-file corpus, and it only passes when every pixel matches — so the numbers you measure are the numbers in the file. A viewer that merely looks right can be quietly wrong about a value you are about to act on.

Slicefield is a litigation review and collaboration platform, not a diagnostic device, and does not claim FDA clearance. Diagnosis happened at the treating provider, whose radiologist read the scan on their own clinical systems. An expert reviewing imaging for a case is forming an opinion on the records — not rendering a primary diagnosis.

There is a 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. Email support@slicefield.com.