Vendor-Neutral Archive Designed for Management, Distribution, and Archival of DICOM and Non-DICOM Clinical Content

A new universal clinical information technology (IT) platform was developed to provide with better access to all imaging data and a comprehensive system for facility, partner, and physician affiliation, while allowing the user to retire more expensive imaging archive systems across its facilities.

Acuo Technologies (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, USA), a developer of high-performance software and services for intelligent medical image lifecycle management and data migration, announced that Christus Health (Dallas, TX, USA) has selected the Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) as the company’s new vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solution. UCP3 will replace Christus’ existing picture archiving and communication system (PACS) archives while providing an enterprise foundation for future on-premise and cloud-based clinical content management.

UCP3 enables Christus to preserve its investment in existing PACS technology and storage assets, while providing an easier and more cost-effective avenue for replacement of these systems when the time is right. “We are pleased to be working with one of the country’s largest and most respected integrated delivery networks,” said Jeff Timbrook, CEO of Acuo Technologies. “It was clear during the evaluation process that Christus Health leaders, clinicians, and technologists share Acuo’s vision of the next generation of image management systems that are focused on delivering superior patient care while reducing costs throughout the enterprise.”

“Christus Health partnered with Acuo Technologies after a thorough evaluation of the top VNA middleware suppliers,” said George Conklin, CIO of Christus Health. “It was clear from the very start that Acuo’s level of expertise in this type of technology was solid. Their team truly understands how to improve and simplify what has up until now been a very complex problem for healthcare providers. Their UCP3 product will give us the flexibility to deploy technology in a way that meets the needs of those we serve.”

Acuo Technologies’ goal was to develop the first enterprise-wide collaborative Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) solution for medical image content, both Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) and non-DICOM. Today, Acuo supports more than 675 implementations of UCP3 worldwide.

Christus Health, an international Catholic, not-for-profit health system, is and is comprised of almost 350 services and facilities, including more than 50 hospitals and long-term care facilities, 175 clinics and outpatient centers and dozens of other health ministries and ventures. Christus services can be found in over 60 US cities in Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Georgia, and in Mexico.

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