Digital archiving firm Wam!Net announced several new clients at last month’s RSNA meeting. In one new relationship, Stentor has chosen the Eagan, MN-based firm to host its iSite medical image and information management system.
Diagnostic quality images will be delivered through a Wam!Net secured managed network, according to the firm. South San Francisco, CA-based Stentor’s iSite application allows hospitals and clinic subscribers to receive full-fidelity images on demand, according to Wam!Net.
Wam!Net also said that speech recognition firm Vocalex has signed on to use the company’s managed network and hosting services. Centerville, OH-based Vocalex will host its speech recognition application at Wam!Net’s data center, which it can access via standard analog phones, personal computer, or by a handheld digital recorder, according to Wam!Net.
Dictated Vocalex sound files are sent to the Wam!Net data center, where speech recognition software transcribes the information into a text file. The report is then transferred via Wam!Net’s global network or the Internet to a trained medical editor. The recognized text is then edited for errors, and a report is formatted and returned to the physician for approval, according to Wam!Net.
In other alliances, Wam!Net announced that archive management software provider FileLink will support Wam!Net’s private, IP-based global network and Wam!Base remote archive service.
The Wam!Net services will complement Bloomington, MN-based FileLink’s software portfolio, which automates storage and retrieval across a variety of on-site storage hardware devices, according to Wam!Net. The Wam!Net services will allow FileLink customers to securely send and retrieve digital medical images from a centralized, remote archive, according to the vendor.
Wam!Net has also signed on cMore Medical Systems, which will use the Wam!Base remote centralized archive service as a daily backup to its automated clinical documentation software. Minneapolis-based cMore will begin offering the Wam!Net service in the first quarter of 2001.
In customer news, Massachusetts General Hospital has selected Wam!Net subsidiary Wam!Net Global Healthcare to provide connectivity between the Boston hospital and its London-based staff neuroradiologist, Dr. Sandra Rincon.
A Wam!Net direct connection will be installed both at MGH’s information systems department and the London home office of Dr. Rincon, allowing her to review cases using a browser on the desktop of her personal computer, according to Wam!Net. She will be able to receive and read MRI and CT files within minutes, according to the company. This will be the first time MGH will conduct remote interpretation of diagnostic images for the hospital outside of the U.S.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersDecember 18, 2000
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