BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Emageon Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise visual medical systems to hospitals and healthcare networks, announced today that it has entered into a digital healthcare information management agreement with MidMichigan Health, a major regional health system in Central Michigan.
The five-year agreement calls for the implementation of Emageon’s Enterprise Visual Medical System(TM) (EVMS) across the entire MidMichigan hospital system, including MidMichigan Medical Center-Midland, MidMichigan Medical Center-Gladwin, MidMichigan Medical Center-Clare and Gratiot Medical Center. MidMichigan Health is replacing an older, single vendor radiology PACS with Emageon’s enterprise product to provide enterprise-wide content management and visualization of medical images and related patient information. The new system will be tightly integrated with their hospital information system (HIS) and will include the migration of MidMichigan Health’s prior proprietary imaging studies to a DICOM-based, standards-based system.
“We undertook the selection process for our replacement PACS very carefully,” said Harlan Goodrich, Vice President and CIO. “Our goal was to implement an enterprise approach for our image management project and Emageon was able to accomplish this with their EVMS technology. Their technological understanding of our enterprise goals and objectives was one of the factors in the final decision. Emageon’s ability to provide advanced visualization tools for all physicians and each of our four Medical Centers through a web-enabled interface matched MidMichigan Health’s enterprise vision and architectural standards. Additionally, Emageon has a very strong presence in the Saginaw Valley which further supports its commitment to our project. MidMichigan Health is excited about the partnership with Emageon and looks forward to a long and productive relationship as we work together to support our healthcare continuum goals.”
“We are pleased to enter this relationship with one of Michigan’s leading healthcare systems,” said Chuck Jett, Emageon’s Chairman, CEO and President. “MidMichigan Health, like many of our other major healthcare network customers, was an early adopter of a departmental PACS system and moving forward to a robust enterprise architecture is a logical next step for them. We share a vision of a completely integrated medical imaging solution that will extend across MidMichigan Health’s entire enterprise. We believe MidMichigan Health is well prepared to take full advantage of our enterprise content management, radiology department workflow and enterprise-wide 3D medical imaging visualization products. We are honored to be a key element of their strategic enterprise vision.”
About MidMichigan Health
MidMichigan Health is a partnership of health providers, services and facilities in the heart of Michigan. It is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, led by a board of directors and a 120-person corporate membership. It traces its history back to 1984 with an affiliation between what was then Midland Hospital Center and Clare Osteopathic Hospital. Since then, MidMichigan Health has grown into a regional health system including 14 subsidiaries providing a wide range of health care services to communities throughout Michigan, including outpatient centers, home health care, nursing homes and assisted living facilities, hospice services, urgent care facilities, and specialty services, such as specialty imaging services, dialysis and radiation oncology. For more information, visit http://www.midmichigan.org.
About Emageon Inc.
Emageon provides an enterprise-level advanced visualization and infrastructure solution for the clinical analysis and management of digital medical images within multi-hospital networks, community hospitals and diagnostic imaging centers. Emageon’s software, including its HeartSuite set of cardiology solutions from its Camtronics subsidiary, provides physicians in multiple medical specialties such as cardiology, radiology, and orthopedics, among others, with dynamic tools to manipulate and analyze images in two and three dimensions. With these tools physicians have the ability to better understand internal anatomic structure and pathology, which can improve clinical diagnoses, disease screening and therapy planning. Emageon’s open standards-based solution is designed to help customers improve staff productivity, automate complex medical imaging workflow, lower total cost of ownership and provide better service to physicians and patients. For more information, please visit http://www.emageon.com.
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