Dell, BARCO Announce Alliance for the U.S. Healthcare Market; Dell to Offer Workstations With BarcoView Display Systems for Medical Customers.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2002 Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) and BARCO, designer and manufacturer of high-resolution display systems, today announced an alliance to provide advanced workstations to the U.S. healthcare U.S. Healthcare is a now-defunct healthcare company. The logo had an apple. The merger with Aetna In 1996, the company merged with Aetna, calling it Aetna U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Healthcare apple logo was next to the Aetna name, and U.S. Healthcare under it. U.S. market. Dell will bundle BARCO graphics Barco Graphics was the graphics division of the Belgian Barco Group. It was the result of the 1989 merger of Digitised Information Systems Corporation (D.I.S.C.), Aesthedes and Barco's own "Creative Group". adapters and high-performance displays with Dell Precision Dell Precision is a line of workstation computers produced by Dell, Inc.. Current Dell Precision Desktop Models
The agreement enables Dell to offer its healthcare customers workstations customized for the unique needs of radiologists, x-ray technicians, doctors and other medical personnel. Because the new workstations include BARCO's advanced graphics cards and drivers pre-loaded in Dell's factory, healthcare customers can purchase the systems ready-to-go. "Our healthcare customers have been asking for a powerful, industry-standard workstation," said Bill Rodrigues, Dell's vice president and general manager, education and healthcare. "With BARCO, we're now able to offer a workstation with advanced graphics, making it much easier for our healthcare customers to view medical images right in the lab or medical office." High performance workstations used by the medical community require periodic "recalibrations" to make sure the systems are displaying shades of Noun 1. shades of - something that reminds you of someone or something; "aren't there shades of 1948 here?" reminder - an experience that causes you to remember something gray accurately. The Dell Precision workstations include BARCO's MediCal(R) Pro quality assurance and calibration software, which allows the system to be quickly and easily recalibrated, ensuring a highly accurate image for the user. "It is now possible to go on-line and purchase complete, integrated systems, eliminating the typical challenges associated with integrating high-end graphics applications," said Mike Feinstein, Division Manager for BARCO's Medical Imaging Systems division. "These innovative systems will ship with all associated hardware as well as BARCO's MediCal(R) Pro QA and calibration software, ensuring 'as-new' performance for the life of the system." About BarcoView: BarcoView, with operation facilities in Kortrijk (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, Oregon (USA), designs and manufactures high-resolution display systems, displays, graphics controllers and display subsystems for highly demanding niche markets A niche market also known as a target market is a focused, targetable portion (subset) of a market sector. By definition, then, a business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers. such as C4I C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (US DoD) C4I Command Control Communications Computer and Intelligence , avionics, vessel and air traffic control, vehicle electronics, and medical imaging applications. Alongside Barco Projection Systems and BarcoVision, BarcoView is one of the three strategic activities of the BARCO Group, which are all active in Image Processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished . Barco Projection is in various markets of large screen visualization, whereas BarcoVision develops systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2000, the entire BARCO group delivered a turnover of euro 751 million. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange Brussels Stock Exchange (BSE) Stock exchange that handles the majority of securities transactions in Belgium. since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is member of the Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Sustainability Indexes. About Dell Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. (Nasdaq:DELL) is the world's No. 1 computer systems company and is a premier provider of products and services required for customers to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. The company's revenue for the past four quarters totaled $31.8 billion. Dell ranks No. 48 on the Fortune 500, No. 122 on the Fortune Global 500 and No. 7 on the Fortune Global "most admired" lists of companies. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at www.dell.com. Dell and Dell Precision are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Fortune and Fortune 500 are registered trademarks, and Fortune Global 500 is a trademark, of Time Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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