MILWAUKEE, November 10, 2006 – TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a leading provider of clinical storage, integration, and management software, today announced plans to contribute to a robust open source DICOM toolkit developed by a worldwide team of engineers.  TeraMedica CEO, Jim Prekop said, “TeraMedica is planning on dedicating resources to the continued success of the DCM4CHE project. It makes good sense for the healthcare industry to have multiple vendors collaborating on something as fundamental as a DICOM toolkit.  This is a continuation of our vision of open enterprise standards based architecture in healthcare IT.”
 

The open source DCM4CHE project was started in 2001 with the purpose of providing a high quality, high performance implementation of the DICOM standard and IHE actors using the Java programming language.  The project has matured throughout the years, and its products are used by many institutions, projects, and vendors worldwide.

“We use the DCM4CHE DICOM toolkit for several purposes including testing and research, and it has proved to be very useful in many situations.” said TeraMedica Lead Architect Damien Evans.  “Having a high quality, standards conforming DICOM toolkit available to the general public can improve vendor interoperability, and ultimately patient care.”

For more information on DCM4CHE, see http://www.dcm4che.org

About TeraMedica

TeraMedica provides medical informatics that will transform the doctor and patient relationship. TeraMedica offers a broad range of software that collects digital medical images from diverse data sources across vast health care systems and manages them in a single patient snapshot. TeraMedica is privately held and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. TeraMedica is committed to providing technology solutions to the health care field that enhance patient care.