Acuo announces collaborative development effort with Imaging Informatics team at UCMC

Acuo Technologies® announces a collaborative development effort with the Imaging Informatics team at the University of Chicago Medical Center.  At the core of the solution is Acuo's DICOM Services Grid™ for enterprise routing, which receives DICOM studies from various modalities, caches and routes image data to the departmental PACS for diagnostic processing.  The system also retains studies for access from other departments.  Research departments can access the Acuo cache directly, via DICOM or HL7 messaging, or through the UCMC Service Oriented Architecture Bus, which automates the retrieval of studies specific to the research environment.  Furthermore, image study meta-data will be populated with radiation dosage information, enabling users to monitor and track exposure over time.

"We are extremely pleased to collaborate with the highly skilled and innovative Imaging team at UCMC," stated Jeff Timbrook, CEO of Acuo.  "Development efforts with our industries' thought leaders will keep Acuo's market leading software development team efforts in front of the image management marketplace's needs ."

"An intelligent DICOM router that employs aggregation and federation capabilities has become an essential component of the modern imaging informatics infrastructure, especially when one is attempting to orchestrate the complex workflow necessary to support demanding clinical, quality, and research initiatives," states Paul J. Chang, M.D., FSIIM Professor and Vice-Chairman, Radiology Informatics, Medical Director, Pathology Informatics at the University of Chicago School of Medicine.