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Emageon Announces Release 3.0 of its Enterprise Image Archive and Distribution Management Software
 
Birmingham, AL- Emageon, a leading provider of enterprise solutions for diagnostic imaging, announced to say that development of its Enterprise Image Archive and Distribution Management software version 3.0 is complete and includes enhanced cardiology imaging support; low-cost, high-availability configurations; and inexpensive, all RAID archiving.

"This new release features an innovative, high-availability, clustered architecture and raises the bar for enterprise image management," said Gary York, Phd., Emageon's founder and chief technology officer.  "In addition to full support for cardiology and other DICOM-based imaging, we have further improved the performance, scalability and serviceability of our software while lowering the total coast ownership."

"Medical imaging as a tool for physicians is proliferating across almost all disciplines of medicine, creating an enormous volume of medical images that need to be stored and accessed digitally," said Emageon chief executive officer, Chuck Jett.  "Emageon has designedi ts software architecture and its company to enable a true multi-"ology" clinical image repository that is easily integrated with PACS systems, physician portals and electronic medical records.  The enhanced support for cardiology images is past of our ongoing software development dedicated to enterprise medical image management and will include further support for nuclear medicine, opthalmology, pathology, dermatology and others."

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.


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Noel Gartman
Emageon
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Delta Capital Management LLC
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