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Emageon To Provide Next Generation
Enterprise-Wide Digital Imaging Services For Genesys Health System Genesys moves "Beyond Traditional PACS" with Emageon’s New Enterprise Image Management Solution, Utilizing "All Spinning" Storage Birmingham, AL (November 21, 2001) -- Emageon, a leading provider of enterprise solutions for diagnostic imaging, announced today that Genesys Health System in Grand Blanc, Michigan has selected Emageon's enterprise-class software technology solution to manage its entire acquisition, archiving, distribution and viewing of digital images.Genesys Health System will use Emageon's enterprise image management software suite to provide a total RAID-based, "all spinning" archive for its ten-county system. The five-year contract extends through 2006 and will also provide enterprise-wide diagnostic and clinical viewing of over 800,000 studies. Genesys Health System, a health ministry of Ascension Health, is a regionally integrated health care delivery system comprised of a group of affiliated medical campuses, outpatient centers, primary care locations and ancillary health care organizations serving the mid-Michigan counties of Genesee, Shiawassee, Lapeer, Oakland, Livingston and Tuscola, with an additional four counties in the secondary market. "Emageon’s unique and innovative approach to helping us meet our enterprise imaging goals was refreshing," said David Holland, Genesys’ vice president & CIO. "Their ‘all spinning’ enterprise solution will place Genesys at the forefront of digital imaging." Genesys’ vice president of diagnostic services, Nancy Kidder said, "Genesys Health System was an early pioneer in the use of ‘Radiology PACS’ and was one of the first hospitals in the country to move to a filmless environment. The realities were, however, that our needs to move to an enterprise solution were limited by our current infrastructure. Emageon’s enterprise approach to digital imaging was a quantum leap ahead of what traditional PACS companies were offering." "As we moved our imaging strategy to an enterprise level, it was clear that an open-based architecture system was critical to our future success," added Genesys’ Chief of Radiology, John Dobson, M.D. "Our legacy system’s proprietary approach of utilizing privately tagged fields would not allow us to attain our goals. Emageon’s philosophy and commitment to a truly open system will allow us to easily integrate ‘best of breed’ technologies as we continue to grow our enterprise." "Genesys Health System has over four years’ experience as a PACS user. With this experience, the team at Genesys is obviously a very sophisticated buyer of digital imaging technology," said Chuck Jett, Emageon’s CEO. "I believe our ability to compete and win in opportunities with a knowledgeable buyer like Genesys is a clear indication that Emageon's current technology and vision for the future are on the mark." About Genesys Health System Genesys Health System, a health ministry of Ascension Health, is a group of affiliated medical campuses, outpatient centers, primary care locations and ancillary health care organizations with more than 80 years of service to mid-Michigan. With annual revenues of over 340 million, Genesys is a regionally integrated health care delivery system comprised of a complete continuum of care primarily servicing Genesee, Shiawassee, Lapeer, Oakland, Livingston and Tuscola counties with an additional four counties in the secondary market. Genesys also offers outpatient ambulatory care, physical medicine treatment, substance abuse/addiction treatment, mental health services, recuperative or extended care, hospice services, home health care, pharmaceutical/medical supplies and equipment, and respite care. For more information, go to www.genesys.org. Ascension Health is the nation’s largest Catholic health ministry with 85,000 employees and a network of 54 acute care hospitals and 289 healthcare facilities, providing acute, long-term, community health, psychiatric, rehabilitation and residential care, sponsored by four provinces of the Daughters of Charity and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Nazareth. For more information, go to www.ascensionhealth.org. About Emageon Emageon provides affordable, enterprise-class solutions to manage digital medical images for hospitals, IDNs (integrated delivery networks) and healthcare systems. With essentially limitless scalability, Emageon’s enterprise solution can manage any size facility and complexity - even extremely large, multi-site, multi-specialty medical image repositories. Its high-performance software and open-systems approach eliminates technical obstacles that prevent a health care enterprise from converting to a fully digital environment. Emageon’s cost-effective, managed use business model eliminates financial obstacles to digital transformation and has two solution configurations. The first includes our enterprise archiving and distribution management software bundled with storage management hardware. The second features our integration-friendly, open-systems architecture and includes all necessary software, hardware, rapid-deployment implementation, process optimization and adoption success management. This total solution enhances diagnostic capability, patient care delivery and workflow efficiency of all involved physicians (radiologists, cardiologists, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, oncologists, etc.) and supporting staff (nurses, technologists, medical records personnel, etc.) as well as improved financial performance for the healthcare enterprise. For additional information on Emageon, visit www.emageon.com. Contact: Noel Gartman Emageon 205-980-7602 ngartman@emageon.com David Latham Delta Capital Management LLC 901-755-0949 yearwood@deltacapital.com |
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