eMix, a new business venture incubated by DR Systems, today announced an additional list of medical facilities that are taking part in beta trials of eMix, the cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and reports. Earlier, eMix had announced a partial list of participating facilities.
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The total number of facilities in the process of implementing eMix is now 21. The newly announced institutions are:
- Seattle Children’s Hospital (Seattle, Wash.)
- Imaging Healthcare Specialists (San Diego, Calif.)
- Rapid City Medical Center, LLP (Rapid City, S.D.)
- South Peninsula Hospital (Homer, Ark.)
- Benifis Health System (Great Falls, Mont.)
- Great Falls Clinic (Great Falls, Mont.)
- St. Luke Community Hospital (Ronan, Mont.)
- Kalispell Regional Medical Center (Kalispell, Mont.)
- St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences (Missoula, Mont.)
- Community Memorial Hospital of Ventura (Ventura, Calif.)
These beta sites demonstrate several notable qualities of eMix. The facilities are diverse both geographically and in terms of circumstances, including both urban and rural healthcare. The trials also show the scalability of eMix. Among institutions launching eMix are community hospitals, larger hospitals, medical centers, imaging centers, and radiology practices.
eMix is a vendor-neutral solution to the challenge of securely sharing electronic medical image and report data. For example, between the 10 facilities, picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) by 6 different vendors are involved in the beta tests, including PACS from Agfa, AMICAS, DR Systems, GE Centricity, GE Centricity-IW, McKesson, and Phillips.