(live-PR.com) - BOSTON, MA
-- (Marketwire) -- 07/13/10 -- lifeIMAGE (
www.lifeimage.com ),
provider of the medical image e-sharing
platform, is the leading choice for the nation's top hospitals and medical
centers choosing a network to connect medical staff -- radiologists and
non-radiologists alike -- to vital patient imaging exams.
lifeIMAGE announced new agreements to deploy its diagnostic image
sharing technology within the country's most renowned medical centers, including
Shands HealthCare, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Baystate Medical Center
and Cook Children's Health Care System joining other prestigious hospital
systems in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and more. These institutions
represent top-rated specialty practices in neurology, cardiology, pediatrics and
more, and perform millions of imaging studies annually.
- Shands (Gainesville, Fla.), a top
50 healthcare system with nine hospitals and 80 practice areas, will use
lifeIMAGE initially for neurosurgical referrals.
- Sarasota Memorial (Sarasota, Fla.), among the largest acute care health
systems in Florida and named by Forbes among the top five percent of hospitals
in America, will solve its incoming CD issues and expedite cardiology
referrals using lifeIMAGE.
- Baystate (Springfield, Mass.), one of Leapfrog Group's top 45 hospitals in
the U.S. for quality and efficiency, a Thomson Reuters Top 100 Cardiovascular
Hospital, and a U.S. News & World Report 'Best Hospital' for endocrine and
diabetes care, is the western campus of Tufts University School of Medicine
and has won six Beacon Awards for Critical Care Excellence and is designated a
Magnet Hospital for nursing excellence. It will use lifeIMAGE technology to
manage incoming CD issues, especially in emergency room trauma cases.
- Cook Children's (Ft. Worth, Tex.), a magnet facility for pediatric care
for Fort Worth and 90 counties in North Central and West Texas, and one of
U.S. News & World Report's 'Best Children's Hospitals 2010-2011,' will use
lifeIMAGE to manage incoming CD issues for pediatric referrals and pediatric
trauma cases.
lifeIMAGE expands access to patients'
medical histories beyond the radiology department through its cloud-based
diagnostic image e-sharing platform, serving complex specialty practices and
diverse health care systems. lifeIMAGE allows patients, physicians and hospitals
to electronically collect, share and view diagnostic imaging records from any
facility, which solves the issue of CD incompatibility, reducing time and cost
associated with redundant exams, and avoiding excessive radiation exposure for
patients.
"This is a service we anticipate
will help considerably in facilitating both our acute and more routine distance
consulting efforts, thereby extending the considerable expertise we have at the
UF College of Medicine and within the Shands Healthcare system to help patients
throughout Florida," said Dr. Anthony A. Mancuso, professor and chairman,
Department of Radiology, UF College of Medicine and Shands
HealthCare."Access to images is a growing -- and critical
-- part of the healthcare system. lifeIMAGE is taking the initiative to provide
this access for any number of clinical uses across all image-intensive
specialties," said Hamid Tabatabaie, president and chief executive officer,
lifeIMAGE.
"Shands HealthCare, Sarasota Memorial, Baystate
Medical and Cook Children's all share a dedication to quality care and serve as
major referral centers, performing an incredible number of annual image exams.
These new relationships demonstrate the expansion of lifeIMAGE's clinically
valuable network for sharing critical imaging
information.""The big story behind these new customers is
that we're at the forefront of an emerging market in the healthcare industry and
will ultimately change the way healthcare institutions share information. We're
clearly already meeting the needs of radiologists, who have been at the vanguard
of technology automation adoption for two decades. At the same time, we're
meeting the growing need for better access to exam records by professionals
beyond radiology, across a spectrum of healthcare specialty practices," said
Tabatabaie.
lifeIMAGE customers perform nearly six million
imaging exams annually, including 1.5 million for these new customers alone.
Eleven of the nation's 'Best Hospitals,' as ranked by U.S. News & World
Report's 2009-2010 survey, have already selected
lifeIMAGE.
About lifeIMAGE
lifeIMAGE provides an
Internet service for universal e-sharing of diagnostic imaging information. The
service is designed to connect hospitals, radiology groups, and physicians, to
their patients everywhere. lifeIMAGE makes it possible to securely deliver or
receive patient imaging information wherever needed from wherever the
information originates. The goal of the lifeIMAGE platform is to help avoid
duplicate exams and eliminate unnecessary patient exposure to excessive
radiation. In an era of concerns about rising healthcare costs, lifeIMAGE is
investing in a platform that helps advance patient care, while reducing $10 to
$15 billion of unnecessary costs. For more information visit
www.lifeimage.com :
www.lifeimage.com/
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