ST. PAUL, Minn., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Acuo Technologies(R), a company specializing in the development of high-performance grid software for intelligent medical image management, DICOM and storage virtualization, as well as data migration tools and services announces the appointment of healthcare IT industry veteran Michael Simon to further drive business development efforts “Powered by Acuo(TM)”. Simon has been actively assisting healthcare IT companies and entities in building and designing high performance and highly scalable healthcare IT infrastructure solutions for clinical data retention for approximately a decade.
“We are extremely pleased to recruit and bring onboard someone with Mike’s background and expertise to the Acuo team,” stated Jeff Timbrook, CEO of Acuo. “Mike’s skill set and experience is a perfect complement to promote the Acuo DICOM Services Grid(TM) solution to our ever growing family of partners and customers.”
Simon was most recently a global sales manager with EMC Corporation where he successfully helped design, manage and promote the sales efforts of integrated healthcare solutions by bridging partner channels together into a high impact global selling strategy. His customers represent the top five healthcare IT companies, PACS organizations and end user hospitals. Prior to EMC, Simon held a Sales and Marketing position with Arrow Electronics and served as COO of Global Telecommunication Services.
“What attracted me to Acuo Technologies is the true value the Acuo DICOM Services Grid(TM) software brings to healthcare IT infrastructures, as well as the very capable and savvy management and development team,” asserts Simon. “Enabling a true Integrated Healthcare Record is no longer unreachable because Acuo enables open standards to store, manage and make DICOM images and related content available to all hospital applications anywhere anytime.”
Timbrook commented, “We are fortunate to have Mike on board and attending the SIIM show in Providence, RI and representing Acuo, we encourage all our partners and customers to stop by our booth #1211 and make his acquaintance.”
About Acuo Technologies
Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in St. Paul, MN, was founded in 2000 with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative asset management solution for medical DICOM images residing in a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). Its first commercial product received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510-K approval in 2001. Since that time, over 130 plus implementations around the world have deployed AcuoMed/AcuoStore(TM) software solutions. For more information, visit http://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.
Acuo Technologies
CONTACT: Gennevieve Emery of Acuo Technologies, +1-612-804-9067,gemery@acuotech.com
Web site: http://www.acuotech.com/
