AuntMinnie.com Launches PACS Digital Community and Signs Emageon, Premier E-solutions Provider, as Sponsor.Business Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000 AuntMinnie.com(TM), one of the fastest growing online communities for radiology professionals worldwide, today announced the addition of the PACS (Picture ArChiving System) A storage and management system for high-resolution images. Typically pertaining to the medical field, images such as X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans require a greater amount of storage than other industries. (Picture Archiving Communications System In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. ) Digital Community, a new service designed to deliver customized, targeted PACS content to the radiology community. The new PACS site has been made possible through the sponsorship of Emageon, the Birmingham, AL company that provides scalable, high performance, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. e-solutions in diagnostic imaging for healthcare providers. PACS combine teleradiology, local area networks, and radiology information systems A Radiology Information System (RIS) is used by radiology departments to store, manipulate and distribute patient radiological data and imagery. The system generally consists of patient tracking and scheduling, result reporting and image tracking capabilities. to facilitate the management of medical images from various imaging modalities Modalities The factors and circumstances that cause a patient's symptoms to improve or worsen, including weather, time of day, effects of food, and similar factors. , the storage and retrieval of images, manipulation and display of medical images on a network, and the integration of radiological information into existing patient management and hospital information systems. Visitors can reach the PACS Digital Community through a link on the AuntMinnie.com web page or directly at www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=pac. Erik Ridley, AuntMinnie.com's Business Editor, commented, "In addition to serving as a one-stop online PACS news and informational resource, the PACS Digital Community facilitates interaction and collaborative learning Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers. Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task in which each among members through our discussion groups. We've also assembled a team of expert moderators who will be answering questions posed by our readers. The introduction of the PACS Digital Community is part of AuntMinnie.com's ongoing effort to create customized services for specific modalities and special editorial projects within medical imaging." "AuntMinnie.com continues to advance as a central information repository An information repository is an easy to deploy secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured and resource for the radiology community," says Noel Gartman, Vice President of Marketing for Emageon. "We are excited about sponsoring this new section focusing exclusively on PACS. PACS, especially for the entire enterprise is a hot issue," adds Gartman. Dr. Phillip Berman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AuntMinnie.com, stated, "We are extremely pleased with having Emageon as our PACS-sponsor, and believe that this agreement may serve as a prototype for future sponsorships." He went on to say, "The growing role and impact PACS will have on medical imaging, provides a great opportunity for AuntMinnie.com. We believe the PACS Digital Community will meet an unfulfilled need as the trusted location where healthcare professionals can obtain distilled, quality information and to become better informed about PACS. The PACS Digital Community should generate an additional boost to the growing traffic on AuntMinnie.com, in a similar fashion to Frontiers in Ultrasound which was launched in May." About Emageon: Emageon provides a web-enabled enterprise archive management and distribution solution. The extreme performance software, designed for the Java platform Running Java programs under the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java "platform" refers to the running of Java programs versus Java itself, which is a programming language. Java programs are machine independent and run intact on any hardware platform that has a Java interpreter (JVM). , allows Emageon to charge a one-time low cost per study fee for the legal life of the study that will easily scale from the smallest to the very largest imaging archives in the world. Additional information on Emageon is available at www.emageon.com. About AuntMinnie.com: AuntMinnie.com is a premier online information, transaction and education site for all individuals affiliated with the diagnostic imaging market. Rich in timely, original content and customer-centered products and services, AuntMinnie.com is intended to enhance the professional lives of its members through interaction, participation, exchange and commerce. AuntMinnie.com is a majority owned subsidiary of Lumisys, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : LUMI). Additional information on AuntMinnie.com is available at www.auntminnie.com. This news release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , including statements regarding the functionality and acceptance of the PACS Digital Community portion of the radiology portal and the expectations as to future customized services for other modalities and special editorial projects. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those forward looking statements, including competition from other Internet sites, market acceptance by the radiology community and those risks detailed from time to time in Lumisys' reports filed with the SEC, including the quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the period ended June 30, 2000. AuntMinnie.com is a trademark of AuntMinnie.com, Inc. |
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