PHOENIX and LONDON, Dec. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- DICOM Grid, makers of the most comprehensive medical image management and exchange software, today announced a strategic partnership with London-based Cimar (UK) Ltd, the UK’s leading independent provider of online medical image sharing services, to meet increasing demand for virtual radiology solutions across the UK Healthcare sector. The partnership demonstrates DICOM Grid’s commitment to extending its cloud solutions in Europe while enabling Cimar to further expand its portfolio of solutions for medical image compression and transmission services.
To best serve its growing client base of private and NHS hospitals, Cimar now hosts a private cloud instance of DICOM Grid in the UK. Through this deployment, Cimar will provide new and existing customers with solutions that solve the UK’s health sectors data sharing needs, meet data protection and compliance requirements and provide robust, expandable redundancy options for legacy PACS within the region.
“The movement to the cloud, and away from legacy systems with their inherent high IT costs and challenging network complexity, is rapidly accelerating across the UK and Europe,” says Howard Jenkinson, CTO of Cimar. “Demand is high for a better, simpler, extremely flexible, and cost effective national solution to digitally share patients’ radiology and documents.” He continues, “Being one of the largest medical image clouds in the US, DICOM Grid’s solution is extremely well proven, and has been tailored by Cimar to perfectly align with NHS and national conformance pre-requisites. Our new UK Health Informatics cloud, coupled with DICOM Grid’s exceptionally rich functionality ensures that for the first time, a truly versatile turn-key portal can be implemented for clients in hours.”
Cimar’s Chairman, John Finn, adds “What makes DICOM Grids’ solution so powerful is that we know it works on an extremely large scale. It’s now in place and hosted in the UK and we know many NHS Trusts are voicing the need for greater efficiency, cost savings and the tools for better workflow flexibility. We are delighted to be contributing further to the Secretary of State’s vision of a paperless, truly data-sharing NHS by 2018".
Cimar’s clients include the NHS, UK-based hospitals, imaging and diagnostic centres, clinics, and CROs, seeking tools to better manage and distribute images in a digital environment.
“Cimar has a reputation for being on the pulse of advancements in medical imaging technology and is laser focused on the needs of its customers,” comments CEO, Morris Panner. “We are delighted to be joining forces. This partnership and the launch of the new data center in the UK are both important milestones in our expansion strategy to reach new global markets.”
About DICOM Grid
DICOM Grid is a global cloud platform for medical imaging information and applications. Its patented data security transforms medical imaging information into a dynamic data warehouse where open web services provide universal access to clinically rich data. Physicians can safely and easily deploy cloud applications for medical imaging collaboration, exchange, vendor-neutral archive, business continuity, EMR integration, bio-informatics, and more.
About CIMAR
Cimar is a healthcare information solutions company based in London and Manchester, and is the UK’s leading independent provider of secure, online medical image sharing services. Cimars’ solutions are currently solving data sharing requirements between multiple NHS Trusts, CCGs, imaging centres, and the private/independent sector.
Media Contact:Dana Tee, DICOM Grid, 9785016971, dtee@dicomgrid.com
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