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DISC and eMed Offer the Medical Marketplace an Ideal Solution for Medical Image Archives.


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MILPITAS, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 28, 2000

DISC, Incorporated (Nasdaq:DCSR DCSR Defense Supply Center Richmond (Richmond, VA)
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) announced that eMed is pleased to include DISC's family of automated au·to·mate  
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 optical storage libraries See optical disc library.  in its Archive Management product suite.

DISC's automated optical storage libraries, storing from 104 Gigabytes to 5 Terabytes of data, create the ideal archive for the medical marketplace offering long-term secure storage and fast retrieval of images at a reasonable price. Relative to RAID magnetic disc systems, DISC's optical libraries provide customers large capacity storage at a fraction of the cost of on-line storage solutions.

DISC's 5.25&uot; magneto-optical storage libraries are combined with eMed's software as part of eMed's FRAMEWAVE Compression Archive. This allows customers the ability to securely store images from multiple sites thereby creating a central archive location for images throughout the enterprise. DISC's scalable library configurations store up to 1,070 MO disks. The high-performance of the DISC automated libraries allows the user the ability to quickly review medical images and related patient information at their review area.

Both DISC and eMed aim to offer unmatched price and performance at any scale. eMed's products permit the coordinated transmission and review of medical images and related patient information over local and wide area networks and the Internet. DISC's magneto magneto: see generator.
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 optical libraries and disks with the highest possible data density (5.2GB per disc) are used to maximize cost effective image archival. This combination provides immediate and reliable access to images for healthcare professionals.

&uot;Today the healthcare industry is faced with an increasing demand for cost effective image management solutions that support the evolution of diagnostic imaging from a film-based to an electronic, information-based enterprise,&uot; stated J. Richard Ellis There are several prominent people named Richard Ellis, including
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, President of DISC. &uot;We are pleased to provide eMed with a reliable image archive that is fully scalable to meet the growing demands of their customers' image management systems.&uot;

About eMed

eMed Technologies Corporation is a leading provider of systems and services that improve the process of managing and distributing medical images and related patient information. Radiologists use eMed products and services to more efficiently manage their practice and to provide their customers, the referring physicians, greater access to clinical patient information and other relevant content via the Internet and other networks. eMed's market-leading products are cost effective and reliable.

About DISC

DISC is an industry leader in high capacity, automated 5.25-inch and CD optical storage libraries. DISC manufactures products ranging in capacity from 20 to over 1,000 cartridges
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 in several models, many of which are field upgradable to higher capacities. All models share a common architecture and modular design In the context of systems engineering, modular design — or "modularity in design" — is an approach aiming to subdivide a system into smaller parts (modules) that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities.  oriented o·ri·ent  
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 toward high performance and reliability. DISC libraries are sold with systems solutions by OEMs, System Integrators, VARs and Distributors in North and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and the Far East.

DISC Headquarters -- 800/944-3472 or 408/934-7000 eMed Headquarters -- 781/862-0000
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