Archiving firm Emageon has been selected by Kaiser Permanente to manage Kaiser's archiving of diagnostic images. Kaiser will use Emageon’s Enterprise Archive Manager for DICOM software suite to provide archiving capabilities for Kaiser’s acute care hospitals and clinics.
The contract runs through 2005, and covers all Kaiser Permanente facilities in the U.S, according to Birmingham, AL-based Emageon.
When fully deployed, Emageon’s software will manage more than six million diagnostic imaging studies per year, representing possibly the largest enterprise-class archive in the world, according to Emageon.
Kaiser, of Oakland, CA, has more than eight million members in 11 states and Washington, D.C.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersJanuary 31, 2001
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