Afrigather Intelerad Medical Programs and Life Picture are merging in a deal – phrases of which weren’t disclosed – that the businesses say will create the biggest medical picture trade community.
Advancing medical picture interoperability is a key information trade purpose of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Intelerad, the Raleigh, North Carolina- and Montreal-based enterprise imaging supplier hopes to advance entry to digital well being data by combining two of the biggest image-sharing networks, and guaranteeing open entry between networks.
This previous 12 months, Intelerad acquired Ambra Well being, a step that Morris Panner, Intelerad president and former Ambra CEO, says extra quickly achieves a becoming a member of imaginative and prescient of a nationwide digital picture community within the announcement.
Connecting 13,000 amenities with greater than 160,000 U.S. suppliers and 58,000 international clinics, Life Picture is the one medical proof community offering large-scale, heterogeneous, de-identified imaging units which are linkable to longitudinal information for medical analysis.
Collectively, Intelerad and Life Picture handle greater than 80 billion photos worldwide, and are utilized by blue chip well being methods comparable to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and NewYork Presbyterian.
“Bringing collectively two of the business’s main picture trade suppliers additional solidifies Intelerad’s dedication to serving to clinicians and sufferers lead the revolution in imaging from a world of siloed PACS to a way forward for interoperable picture trade,” stated Intelerad CEO Mike Lipps in a press release.
“As an advocate for radiology’s crucial function in well being fairness, I’m so inspired by the announcement of this expanded community and its dedication to interoperability,” added Dr. Geraldine McGinty, previous President of the American Faculty of Radiology in a press release shared by the businesses.
The merger lays additional groundwork for the continuing elimination of costly CD-ROMs as the first technique of picture switch, and to assist assist the healthcare business’s interoperability targets.
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT Information.
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