Acuo Technologies Announces Another Significant Growth Year in Sales to Further the Company's Market Leading Position

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Acuo Technologies®, the leader in high-performance software and services for intelligent medical image lifecycle management and data migration, announces another year of significant growth during fiscal year 2011. The company achieved sales growth of over 90% from the previous year and increased sales backlog over 50% from fiscal year end 2010.  The company signed over 25 software license deals with healthcare institutions world-wide, representing over 150 sites, including significant enterprise archive license contracts located in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Texas, Canada and the United Kingdom. In addition, the company signed over 40 new data migration services contracts.

"I am very pleased to see the unprecedented market acceptance of Acuo's Universal Clinical Platform solution suite," stated Jeff Timbrook, CEO. "2011 was another extraordinary year that continued to demonstrate our position as the market leader in enterprise clinical content management.  We saw significant growth in sales, added innovation to enhance our market leading product suite to add to our growing list of differentials, as well we strengthened and added to our impressive list of distribution partners.  We look forward to 2012 as we continue to ramp up for another significant growth year."

Acuo Technologies will be showcasing the latest release of its award winning Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) at HIMSS 2012, Booth #3069.  Version 6.0 adds additional functionality required for next generation Vendor Neutral Archive solutions with standards based (XDS) clinical repository and registry capabilities, unmatched infrastructure versatility, along with increased performance and scalability.  Acuo Technologies will also be demonstrating the latest capabilities at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase.  By freeing the archive function from PACS, the Universal Clinical Platform allows healthcare institutions to finally own their own digital imaging data offering institutions data liquidity, without future data migration headaches.

About Acuo Technologies

Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, was founded in 2000 with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) solution for medical image content, both DICOM and Non-DICOM. Today, Acuo supports implementations of UCP3 around the world, including locations in Africa, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South America, United States and the United Kingdom.  For more information on providing superior medical image lifecycle and content management while simplifying operations and reducing costs, visit www.acuotech.com.

DICOM is the registered trademark of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association for its standards publications relating to digital communications of medical information.

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