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Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Acuo Technologies' integrated medical imaging solution, the DICOM ServicesGrid, allows Rush University Medical Center to gain control of more than 40terabytes of existing medical data such as x-rays and cardiology images aswell as providing a robust image management layer for all future medicalimaging content. The Acuo solution provides Rush an open systems standardsbased automated system with business continuity resulting in a lower totalcost of ownership by eliminating the expense of multiple proprietary systems.
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The solution selected by Rush is designed to allow all medical images tobe stored on the Acuo archive, allowing the hospital's Electronic MedicalRecord (EMR) portal to have one location to retrieve patient images, insteadof multiple integrations and locations. The combined solution will alsoensure that all patient studies are safely stored, protected and can beaccessed from any Rush location in a consistent and reliable fashion.
Rush University Medical Center will also be using the Acuo DICOM AssistedMigration (ADAM) to move data from the existing proprietary archive into theAcuo vendor neutral archive, ensuring that Rush will be able to gain controlof their data and never pay for a migration again. The Acuo solution will beused as the PACS neutral Archive of Record for all future PACS systempurchases. This strategy will enable Rush to add applications directly to theAcuo Archive without expensive and complex integrations to existing and futurePACS. Using the standards based approach, the Acuo solution will eliminatethe costly and time consuming data migrations in the future.
"We are very pleased to initiate this relationship with one of thecountry's most prestigious hospital systems," said Jeff Timbrook CEO of AcuoTechnologies. "We have been very impressed with the technical team at Rush andare excited they share our vision of software middleware layer that offerssuperior image management, archiving, and data migration capabilities that areextensible and collaborative. Acuo delivers to Rush University a set ofapplications that extend and virtualizes storage, network, and applicationresources such as PACS and DICOM communications."
About Acuo Technologies
Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in St. Paul, MN, was founded in 2000with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative assetmanagement solution for medical DICOM images residing in a Picture Archivingand Communications System (PACS). Over 250 implementations around the worldhave deployed DICOM Services Grid(TM) software solutions. For moreinformation, visit www.acuotech.com.
About Rush University Medical Center
Rush University Medical Center is an academic medical center thatencompasses the more than 600 staffed-bed hospital (including Rush Children'sHospital), the Johnston R. Bowman Health Center and Rush University. RushUniversity, with more than 1,270 students, is home to one of the first medicalschools in the Midwest, and one of the nation's top-ranked nursing colleges.Rush University also offers graduate programs in allied health and the basicsciences. Rush is noted for bringing together clinical care and research toaddress major health problems, including arthritis and orthopedic disorders,cancer, heart disease, mental illness, neurological disorders and diseasesassociated with aging.
DICOM is the registered trademark of the National Electrical ManufacturersAssociation for its standards publications relating to digital communicationsof medical information.
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