Software provides healthcare data aggregation engine.
Press Release Summary:
Offered as component of Acuo DICOM Services Grid(TM), PACS Aggregation Engine can be used with any third party DICOM-compliant application to enable features that can help healthcare organizations leverage IT resources and improve patient care. Examples of applications include location of DICOM objects across multiple DICOM devices in one query; pre-fetching content from multiple DICOM devices with one request; and data migration from multiple DICOM archives.
Original Press Release:
Acuo Technologies(R) Announces Availability of Its PACS Aggregation Engine
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 27 -- HIMMS Booth #6755 -- Acuo Technologies(R), a company specializing in the creation of high-performance software for intelligent medical image management, storage and data migration, announced the availability of a new software component, the PACS Aggregation Engine.
Acuo Technologies' PACS Aggregation Engine, a component of the Acuo DICOM Services Grid(TM), can be licensed and used with any third party DICOM- compliant application, such as DICOM workstations and traditional department PACS, to enable a number of advanced features that can help healthcare organizations leverage their IT resources and improve patient care. Common applications include location of DICOM objects across multiple DICOM devices in a single query; pre-fetching content from multiple DICOM devices with a single request; and data migration from multiple DICOM archives.
"Acuo's software suite, the DICOM Services Grid, is designed to provide a Grid computing environment to enable aggregation and federation functionality for sharing of DICOM data through virtualization," said Shannon M. Werb, Acuo's chief operating officer. "Acuo is excited about continuing to offer the market innovative products, such as the PACS Aggregation Engine, to meet the increasing demand from healthcare IT for these capabilities."
Acuo Technologies(R) is demonstrating Acuo DICOM Services Grid software in Booth 6755 at the HIMSS Conference being held at the New Orleans Conference Center, February 26 through March 1, 2007 in Louisiana.
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 this time, over 90 medical sites around the world have deployed AcuoMed/AcuoStore software 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.
CONTACT: Jessica Smith of Fleishman-Hillard for Acuo Technologies, +1-612-573-3149, Jessica.smith@fleishman.com
