Acuo Technologies, LLC Announces Innovation Collaboration with the University of Chicago Medical Center

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Acuo Technologies® announces a collaborative development effort with the Imaging Informatics team at the University of Chicago Medical Center. At the core of the solution is Acuo's DICOM Services Grid for enterprise routing, which receives DICOM studies from various modalities, caches and routes image data to the departmental PACS for diagnostic processing. The system also retains studies for access from other departments. Research departments can access the Acuo cache directly, via DICOM or HL7 messaging, or through the UCMC Service Oriented Architecture Bus, which automates the retrieval of studies specific to the research environment. Furthermore, image study meta-data will be populated with radiation dosage information, enabling users to monitor and track exposure over time.

"We are extremely pleased to collaborate with the highly skilled and innovative Imaging team at UCMC," stated Jeff Timbrook, CEO of Acuo. "Development efforts with our industries' thought leaders will keep Acuo's market leading software development team efforts in front of the image management marketplace's needs ."

"An intelligent DICOM router that employs aggregation and federation capabilities has become an essential component of the modern imaging informatics infrastructure, especially when one is attempting to orchestrate the complex workflow necessary to support demanding clinical, quality, and research initiatives," states Paul J. Chang, M.D., FSIIM Professor and Vice-Chairman, Radiology Informatics, Medical Director, Pathology Informatics at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

About Acuo Technologies:

For over a decade, Acuo Technologies has been delivering innovative solutions that put healthcare providers in control of their data. Strong adherence to industry standards combined with patented middleware solutions provide scalable and customizable storage management solutions that deliver the ultimate promise of vendor independence and freedom to choose the best options that meet the needs of the enterprise. By choosing to deploy over 550 DICOM Services Grid software solutions around the world, Acuo customers are in better control of their data.

Please visit Acuo Technologies @ Booth # 7560, Hall B @ RSNA 2010 November 28th December 2nd to learn more about the Acuo portfolio of migration services & advanced storage management solutions. For more information, visit www.acuotech.com.

DICOM is the registered trademark of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association for its standards publications relating to digital communications of medical information.

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