Acuo Technologies Announces Vendor Neutral Archiving Contract with Kettering Health Network, Dayton, Ohio

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Acuo Technologies®, the leader in high-performance software and services for intelligent medical image lifecycle management and data migration, announced today that Kettering Health Network (KHN) has selected the Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) as the company's new vendor neutral archive solution. UCP3 will replace Kettering's existing PACS archives while providing an enterprise foundation for future on-premise and cloud-based clinical content management.

Kettering Health Network will deploy the UCP3 to leverage their consolidated data center and business continuity design in order to provide reliable access to all imaging data through a comprehensive archiving middleware solution for their 8 hospitals and more than 30 clinics.  The UCP3 provides the tools supporting Kettering's growth strategy.  The Acuo solution offers the ability to rapidly interoperate with newly acquired systems, and incorporate them into the clinical workflow without requiring a lengthy and expensive replacement.

As part of the Kettering implementation, Acuo will migrate many years of radiology and cardiology images from various PACS in the health system into the Acuo UCP3.  The UCP3 will provide network physicians with a single location to retrieve clinical content, rather than having to navigate multiple system interfaces and archives. This approach will facilitate an image-enabled EMR to improve physician effectiveness and provide better patient care, while lowering operational costs.

"Our engagement with Kettering Health Network came through an industry consultant and involved extensive investigation into identifying a solution that had a migration tool as an inherent component of the VNA as well as proven experience of actually replacing existing PACS archives, not just becoming a disaster recovery copy," said Jeff Timbrook, CEO of Acuo Technologies.  "Acuo is excited to partner with Kettering leadership as they share Acuo's vision of the next generation of image management systems that are focused on delivering superior patient care while reducing costs throughout the enterprise."

"Kettering partnered with Acuo Technologies after a thorough evaluation of the top VNA middleware suppliers," said Jon Russell, CIO of Kettering. "It became clear that Acuo's level of expertise with this type of technology was extensive, based on the effort of the Acuo team, working with Kettering's team, to develop a solution, not just to sell a product.  The Acuo UCP3 offering gives us the flexibility to deploy technology in a way that meets our strategic needs."

About Acuo Technologies

Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in Minneapolis/St. Paul, 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 more than 675 implementations of UCP3 around the world.  For more information on providing superior medical image lifecycle and content management while simplifying operations and reducing costs, visit www.acuotech.com.

About Kettering Health Network

Kettering Health Network is a faith-based, not-for-profit healthcare system that improves quality of life through healthcare and education. The Network has seven hospitals: Kettering, Grandview, Sycamore, Southview, Greene Memorial, Fort Hamilton and Kettering Behavioral Health. Soin Hospital, currently under construction in Beavercreek, will be the eighth hospital in the Network and will open in early 2012. Kettering Health Network is recognized as a 2011 Thomson Reuters Top Ten Health System for the third consecutive year. Our patients benefit from the Medical Center's robust teaching and biomedical research programs.

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

SOURCE Acuo Technologies