TeraMedica’s Versatile Evercore Vendor Neutral Architecture to Launch IT Initiatives at Renown
(February 21, 2012 - MILWAUKEE, WI) TeraMedica, Inc., a healthcare informatics company based in Milwaukee, announced that following the signing of an agreement between the parties Nov. 30, 2011, Renown Health, Reno’s only locally owned not-for-profit integrated health network, will implement TeraMedica's Evercore®Enterprise Vendor Neutral Architecture (VNA) in mid-2012. Specifically, Renown Health will utilize TeraMedica’s Evercore Smartstore™ DICOM and non-DICOM modules, as well as Evercore Univision.
The modules will give physicians virtual access to image data and will help medical professionals manage the storage and distribution of digital medical images as well as other clinical content across healthcare and hospital systems, gathering images from imaging devices or PACS, storing them and distributing them to the point of patient care. The complete deployment includes numerous regional facilities throughout a 17-county area in northern Nevada, Lake Tahoe and northeast California.
“Renown Health was looking to accomplish a number of priorities from a technical standpoint,” said Jim Prekop, TeraMedica’s President and CEO. “Their overarching goal was to bring replacement PACS and new hardware infrastructure under one umbrella. Our patented technology, Evercore, has the flexibility and scalability to give Renown what they needed and more.”
“Renown’s investment in TeraMedica’s Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite will enable us to provide convenient clinician access to images across our Diagnostic Imaging, Cardiology and Radiation Oncology services.” said Chuck Scully, Renown Health’s CIO. “Once we discovered how Evercore could address those areas and more, we knew TeraMedica was the right solution to provide access to our patients’ extensive digital imaging history. We are confident TeraMedica will allow us to manage our future image volume under any strategic scenario.” Added Scully, “With important regional service imparities like Trauma, Stroke, Cardiology and Oncology, our two acute care hospitals, rehabilitation hospital, primary, specialist and urgent care networks, significant outpatient imaging and more, we anticipate that Evercore’s benefits will be realized quickly.”
Evercore integrates and manages patient-centric clinical content in the clinical and research settings across wide geographies, including standard DICOM objects. Evercore also possesses the ability to natively manage and distribute beyond DICOM using global standards such as MPG, JPG, PDF and many other critical clinical content such as treatment plans for cancer care or vital reports in non-standard formats.
TeraMedica’s patented Smartstore™ module intelligently manages the total image lifecycle of DICOM and beyond. The Univision™ module provides a multi-layer, zero-download image viewer, with seamless integration to any EMR/EHR/PHR/RHIO. TeraMedica's vendor-independent platform connects multiple PACS to any storage system, thus ending cumbersome data migration.
About Renown Health
Renown Health is northern Nevada’s largest and Reno’s only locally owned not-for-profit integrated health network and a nationally recognized healthcare leader. Renown Health is one of the Top 100 integrated health networks in the country and the only Top 100 recognized integrated health networks in the state of Nevada. We proudly offer the region an integrated solution for all of the community’s healthcare needs.
About TeraMedica® Inc.
TeraMedica is a healthcare informatics company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. TeraMedica’s software manages the storage and distribution of digital medical images as well as other clinical content across healthcare and hospital systems, gathering images from imaging devices or PACS, storing them, and distributing them to the point of patient care. TeraMedica’s technology gives physicians virtual access to image data. TeraMedica software uses an advanced enterprise-scale database and “intelligent”, or rules-based, business logic to deliver fast, efficient image management. For more information visit: www.teramedica.com.
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Renown Health, TeraMedica, Evercore®, Vendor Neutral Archive, Vendor Neutral Architecture, Smartstore™, clinical enterprise suite, healthcare technology, healthcare informatics, PACS, DICOM, non-DICOM, clinical image management
Patented Platform Provides Security, Scalability and Flexibility in the Cloud
(February 20th, 2012 - MILWAUKEE, WI) TeraMedica today announced that it now features expanded flexibility in intelligent clinical image lifecycle management, further ease of data storage, and a greater reduction of operating costs through its new cloud storage solution. Its Evercore® Clinical Enterprise Suite, the leading Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) in the industry, now provides more storage options through off-site cloud archiving. TeraMedica is pleased to offer this complete cloud storage solution in partnership with Logicalis.
“Our patented Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite highlights our commitment to offering choices in improving patient care, reducing cost of healthcare and enhancing physician acceptance in the new patient-centered electronic medical domain,” said Jim Prekop, TeraMedica President and CEO. “Our patented platform was the first to truly offer clinical image lifecycle management, and it’s a natural fit that TeraMedica would also provide the most comprehensive cloud offering in the market.”
“From our work in the industry, we know that medical images often aren’t accessed or needed more than once. So it only makes sense to farm that data off to the cloud,” said Ed Brown, TeraMedica Vice President of Business Development. “Utilizing our intelligent clinical image cloud management services, Evercore Smartstore™ automatically and efficiently moves the data that healthcare providers don’t need to access on an everyday basis, thus significantly saving on storage costs.”
Evercore’s flexible and scalable architecture integrates and manages patient-centric clinical content in the clinical and research settings across wide geographies, including standard DICOM objects. Evercore natively manages and distributes data beyond DICOM using global standards such as MPG, JPG, PDF and many other critical clinical content such as treatment plans for cancer care or vital reports in unstructured data formats.
TeraMedica’s patented Smartstore module intelligently manages the total image lifecycle of DICOM and beyond. Smartstore provides shared enterprise infrastructure for managing clinical content based on business policies, specifically tailored to meet the needs of individual hospitals and/or departments. Evercore’s Univision™ module features a multi-layer, zero-download image viewer, with seamless integration to any EMR/EHR/PHR/RHIO. TeraMedica's vendor-independent platform connects multiple PACS to any storage system, thus ending cumbersome data migration.
Logicalis, a $1 billion provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, offers TeraMedica customers an off-site archiving solution powered by the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud. The Logicalis Enterprise Cloud is an enterprise-class public cloud offering capable of running business critical applications and supporting leading healthcare applications. It offers TeraMedica customers one of the most flexible cloud archive solutions and adheres to the highest industry standards for data centers.
“Our cloud solution for TeraMedica customers is built from a flexible computing architecture that provides the computing power, memory, storage and bandwidth for an off-site archiving of medical images,” stated Mike Martin, Logicalis Director of Cloud Computing. In addition, Logicalis provides cloud infrastructure, managed services and HIPAA compliant data handling.
About TeraMedica® Inc.
TeraMedica is a healthcare informatics company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. TeraMedica’s software manages the storage and distribution of digital medical images as well as other clinical content across healthcare and hospital systems, gathering images from imaging devices or PACS, storing them, and distributing them to the point of patient care. TeraMedica’s technology gives physicians virtual access to image data. TeraMedica software uses an advanced enterprise-scale database and “intelligent”, or rules-based, business logic to deliver fast, efficient image management. For more information visit: www.teramedica.com.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded on a superior breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications & collaboration, data center, and cloud computing and managed services. Logicalis Group employs nearly 2,500 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of over $1 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of the leading IT and Communications solution integrators, specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services. The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of approximately $5 billion.
For more information, visit http://www.us.logicalis.com/
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Cloud, cloud storage, intelligent use of the cloud, TeraMedica, Evercore®, Vendor Neutral Archive, Vendor Neutral Architecture, Smartstore™, clinical enterprise suite, healthcare technology, healthcare informatics, PACS, DICOM, non-DICOM, clinical image management, Logicalis
Evercore’s Vendor Neutral Architecture Expands the Utility and Access of Clinical Data
(November 21, 2011 - MILWAUKEE, WI) TeraMedica’s Evercore® Clinical Enterprise Suite, the leading Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) in the industry, is now both MINT (Medical Imaging Network Transport) and XDS (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing Profile) enabled. MINT provides improved patient care through faster access to medical data with no need for redundant data. XDS enables existing clinical information systems to connect to IHE XDS-based healthcare information exchanges. Both of these technologies are highlighted at RSNA 2011 in Booth 3002 in the South Hall of McCormick Place.
“TeraMedica continually works to incorporate the latest advances in technology to enhance patient care,” said Mark Wheeler, TeraMedica’s Vice President of Product Development. “By incorporating MINT and XDS into our Evercore clinical data repository, TeraMedica significantly increases access speed and greatly expands the methods by which medical data may be retrieved.”
Evercore’s support of MINT eliminates the need for DICOM routing and application-specific caches. Evercore’s use of MINT allows for direct access to the metadata, independent of the pixel data, removing data duplication. MINT also encodes the data in XML, the enterprise standard. Image viewing capabilities for MINT are provided through a partnership with Vital, A Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company.
In addition, TeraMedica now delivers the XDS within its Evercore® Clinical Enterprise Suite. Evercore delivers a full suite of XDS and XDS-I functionality in compliance with the IHE IT Integration Profile. By delivering the XDS-I functionality, Evercore enables web-access to DICOM images through the WADO standard and also optimizes performance through streaming capability for storing and retrieving.
For a demonstration or more information on the benefits of Evercore utilizing MINT and XDS, visit TeraMedica’s Booth #3002 in Chicago’s McCormick Place South during RSNA 2011.
Evercore’s flexible and scalable architecture integrates and manages patient-centric clinical content in clinical and research settings across wide geographies. Evercore natively manages and distributes data beyond DICOM using global standards such as MPG, JPG, PDF and many types of critical clinical content such as treatment plans for cancer care or vital reports in unstructured data formats.
TeraMedica’s patented Smartstore™ module intelligently manages the total image lifecycle of DICOM and beyond. Smartstore provides a shared enterprise infrastructure for managing clinical content based on business policies, specifically tailored to meet the needs of individual hospitals and/or departments. TeraMedica's vendor-independent platform connects multiple PACS to any storage system, thus ending cumbersome data migration.
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About TeraMedica® Inc.
TeraMedica is a healthcare informatics company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. TeraMedica’s software manages the storage and distribution of digital medical images as well as other clinical content across healthcare and hospital systems, gathering images from imaging devices or PACS, storing them, and distributing them to the point of patient care. TeraMedica’s technology gives physicians virtual access to image data. TeraMedica software uses an advanced enterprise-scale database and “intelligent”, or rules-based, business logic to deliver fast, efficient image management. For more information visit: www.teramedica.com.
Keywords
XDS, XDSi, XDS-I, MINT, VNA, TeraMedica, Evercore®, Vendor Neutral Archive, Vendor Neutral Architecture, Smartstore™, clinical enterprise suite, healthcare technology, healthcare informatics, PACS, DICOM, non-DICOM, clinical image management
Evercore Smartstore™ and Univision Zero-Download Viewer Achieves Visible Light Workflow and EMR Visualization
(November 15th, 2011 - MILWAUKEE, WI) TeraMedica announced that following the signing of an agreement between the parties on September 30, 2011, Stanford Hospital & Clinics will be implementing TeraMedica's Evercore® Enterprise Vendor Neutral Architecture (VNA) in early 2012. Specifically, Stanford Hospital & Clinics will be utilizing TeraMedica’s Evercore Smartstore™ and Univision modules.
“Evercore allows for unlimited image distribution and native viewing of visible light objects,” said Jim Prekop, TeraMedica’s President and CEO. “Our patented solution is able to address requirements by delivering storage and access of visible light data seamlessly across an open architecture.”
Added Prekop: “Our Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite provides viewing and distribution of data through Epic, via the Evercore Univision module, anywhere the Epic Hyperspace is available to the user population. By implementing TeraMedica’s scalable Vendor Neutral Architecture, a hospital can further enhance its patient care and take great strides towards meaningful use.”
Prekop further commented: “TeraMedica developed an ActiveX Evercore to interface to EpicAPI for the storage of visible (non-DICOM) data (photos) into Evercore through Epic. The ActiveX Evercore interface allows medical assistants to retire their ‘sneaker net’ and upload photos immediately after acquisition from the exam room. Previously, the workflow required medical assistants to walk a camera to and from a file room for uploading. The files were then sent to a shared folder location on the network without patient or encounter context.”
Evercore integrates and manages patient-centric clinical content in the clinical and research settings across wide geographies, including standard DICOM objects. Evercore also possesses the ability to natively manage and distribute beyond DICOM using global standards such as MPG, JPG, PDF and many other critical clinical content such as treatment plans for cancer care or vital reports in non-standard formats.
TeraMedica’s patented Smartstore™ module intelligently manages the total image lifecycle of DICOM and beyond. The Univision™ module provides a multi-layer, zero-download image viewer, with seamless integration to any EMR/EHR/PHR/RHIO. TeraMedica's vendor-independent platform connects multiple PACS to any storage system, thus ending cumbersome data migration.
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About TeraMedica® Inc.
TeraMedica is a healthcare informatics company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. TeraMedica’s software manages the storage and distribution of digital medical images as well as other clinical content across healthcare and hospital systems, gathering images from imaging devices or PACS, storing them, and distributing them to the point of patient care. TeraMedica’s technology gives physicians virtual access to image data. TeraMedica software uses an advanced enterprise-scale database and “intelligent”, or rules-based, business logic to deliver fast, efficient image management. For more information visit: www.teramedica.com.
Keywords
Stanford Hospitals & Clinics, TeraMedica, Evercore®, Vendor Neutral Archive, Vendor Neutral Architecture, Smartstore™, clinical enterprise suite, healthcare technology, healthcare informatics, PACS, DICOM, non-DICOM, clinical image management
