Cerner Corporation And Visual Technologies To Commercialize Visual Data Explorer(TM) Technology
PHOENIX, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Cerner Corporation (Kansas City, MO) and Visual Technologies, LLC (Phoenix, AZ) have signed an agreement which will provide an exciting new integrated data management tool for genetics researchers and clinical researchers to accelerate discovery and aid the examination and visualization of large, complex data sets.
The companies have announced that Cerner Corporation (www.cerner.com) will be a distributor of Visual Technologies' Visual Data Explorer(TM) life sciences solution. Clients who will benefit from this tool will include clinical laboratories and academic clinical researchers, university genetic research centers and consortia, biotechnology and biopharmaceutical companies and government laboratories.
"We are very pleased to be entering the clinical information systems market with a recognized global leader," said Brad Edwards, President and CEO of Visual Technologies. "We believe that this tool will be of benefit to clinical researchers as they struggle to understand and manage increasingly complex clinical data sets."
Visual Data Explorer is a powerful research tool to store, organize, and explore data -- including patient demographics, clinical and phenotypic data, genotypes and pedigrees -- to enable the interpretation and understanding of complex patterns within the data. The solution helps discover meaningful relationships and correlations using advanced analysis and visualization techniques.
"With Visual Data Explorer, our clients will be able to interact with data extracted from their Cerner systems on a very intuitive level," said Mark Hoffman, Ph.D., Director of Genomics Strategy at Cerner. "This will support new discoveries that will reveal previously unknown correlations."
"Visual Data Explorer provides unique and powerful capabilities for clinical researchers," said Janice Kurth, MD, PhD, Vice President of Life Sciences at Visual Technologies. "This solution accelerates the discovery of meaningful relationships within large clinical data sets, and effectively converts data into truly useful information."
About Visual Technologies, LLC
Visual Technologies, LLC (www.visual-technologies.net) is a leading provider of interactive visualization software and consulting services for the life sciences and financial services industries and other industries that rely on large data bases for business operations. The underlying design principles in Visual Technologies' solutions enable end users to view, query, and interpret information from multiple data sources in real time in a rich, highly interactive, visual environment. Since 1996, Visual Technologies has been a pioneer in the emerging data visualization and analysis software market and has developed a broad spectrum of interactive visual intelligence software solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Visual Technologies products such as Pedigree Prism(TM), DataVista Spectrum(TM), DataVista Explorer(TM), VantagePoint(TM), and StockPlot(TM) provide powerful tools for data analysis, interpretation and decision-making to create immediate understanding, faster and more accurate decisions, and clearer communication of results of large and complex data assets.
About Cerner
Cerner Corp. is taking the paper chart out of healthcare, eliminating error, variance and waste in the care process. With more than 1,500 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier of healthcare information technology. The following are trademarks of Cerner: Cerner, Cerner's logo. . www.cerner.com.
Visual Technologies, LLCCONTACT: Steven Rose of Visual Technologies, LLC, +1-760-294-8649,srose@visual-technologies.net