Mercury and Acuo Technologies collaborate in hosted medical image
management
7 March 2006
Vienna, Austria. Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) has
announced an extended partnership with Acuo Technologies, a provider of
medical image management and archiving solutions, at the European Congress
of Radiology. Acuo, in collaboration with U.S. service providers, will
include Visage PACS, Mercury's image management solution, as a bundled
offering in its application service provider (ASP) offering in the United
States.
In cooperation with other providers, Acuo Technologies has created a
completely hosted solution for healthcare IT, including image-information
and other management systems. Under this partnership, hospitals, clinics and
physicians are able to access the web-based software from Visage PACS
locally via Acuo's peer-aware architecture, or centrally via
data-centre-hosted solutions. Radiologists and clinicians can access the
PACS solution at any time via the Internet and retrieve medical imaging data
for interpretation, as well as archive image data in the data centre. Visage
PACS offers comprehensive workflow optimization and supports standards such
as IHE and HL 7.
"In the ASP model as well, hospitals enjoy the full functionality of
Visage PACS. Data access is on demand via a browser and is in real time,"
said Marcelo Lima, Vice President of Commercial Imaging and Visualization at
Mercury Computer Systems. "In this way, doctors can store their image data
in a distributed or central approach without losing time, and use it for
interpretation."
In addition, hospitals opting for this outsourcing solution can reduce
the total cost of ownership. "Users only have to pay a usage fee, per study
or monthly, for example. Further investments for IT infrastructure and
software licensing are not needed," emphasized Shannon Werb, CTO at Acuo
Technologies. "Our provider partners make the necessary infrastructure
available in the data processing centre and undertake the entire hardware
and software maintenance. Thus, the users' expenditure of time and costs is
dramatically reduced. Because data are accessed via VPN, ultimate data
protection is ensured." Ten imaging centres and clinics in the United States
have already signed up for the ASP services.
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