Mill Creek Family Practice Selects InSiteOne as DICOM Image Storage Provider.

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2002 HIMSS 

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2002

Primary Care & Imaging Facility to Use InSiteOne's InDex Service

for Image Archive and Remote Diagnostic Review by Radiologists

HIMSS CONFERENCE--InSiteOne, a provider of onsite and offsite digital imaging storage and archiving services, today announced that Mill Creek Family Practice Clinic, a family healthcare practice that offers primary physician care and diagnostic imaging in Mill Creek, WA, has selected InSiteOne as its filmless DICOM image archive and retrieval services provider. Under the agreement, InSiteOne will supply Mill Creek with its InDex(TM) service, delivering the ability to digitally archive diagnostic images using InDex's pay-per-study service model. Using InDex, Mill Creek will also electronically transmit the studies to a local hospital-based radiology practice, where radiologists will review, diagnose and create reports far more quickly and efficiently than was possible in the old film-based environment.

"Mill Creek is a great application for the InDex service. The practice uniquely combines primary physician care with diagnostic imaging capabilities which is a real benefit and convenience to its patients," said Paul Dandrow, vice president of business development at InSiteOne. "InDex offers Mill Creek a quick and cost-effective solution for archiving digital images and also gives them the ability to quickly and easily transmit the images to the hospital for faster review and interpretation by the radiologists."

"We pride ourselves in offering quality services to our patients. Our diagnostic imaging capabilities save our patients the time and hassle of having to travel to other facilities. However, we were looking for solutions that enabled us to get the medical images read in a more timely manner," said Mark Anderson, M.D., managing partner at Mill Creek Family Center. "InDex offers us a simple solution that allows us to capture and archive digital images and, most importantly, enables hospital radiologists to remotely review and diagnose the images - all without taxing our IT systems or our bottom line."

The InDex Service

InSiteOne's InDex is designed to optimize the storage and archiving of medical images for healthcare facilities transitioning to filmless digital imaging. The InDex Web-enabled service is an affordable and versatile solution for short-term storage, retrieval and long-term archiving of DICOM and non-DICOM medical images including ultrasound, MRI, CT and radiotherapy. It offers hospitals, imaging centers and physician group practices of all sizes exceptional speed, flexibility, economy and security in accessing and archiving digital images.

InDex offers an immediate plug-and-play service with little or no modification required to the radiology department. Hospitals save significant time and money on image management, archival and retrieval - all without compromising performance or image availability and access. Leveraging its open architecture, InDex integrates with any PACS modality as well as hospital networks and information systems. Using any standard Web browser and a wide or local area network or dial-up connection, InDex provides fast real-time access and distribution of medical images. Additionally, radiologists and physicians can remotely access digital images from a physician's office, imaging center, home office or other locations.

About Mill Creek Family Practice Clinic

Mill Creek Family Practice Clinic is located in Mill Creek, Wash. just north of Seattle. Mill Creek is a unique facility that combines a primary care physician practice with state-of-the-art ultrasound, digital X-ray, DEXA, mammography and laboratory all in the same facility. Mill Creek delivers quality patient care and service with 10 providers and is open 7 days a week.

About InSiteOne

Headquartered in Wallingford, Conn., InSiteOne, Inc. (www.insiteone.com) is a leading service provider of Web-enabled digital image storage and archiving solutions to the medical community. Designed for facilities transitioning to filmless medical imaging environments, InSiteOne offers hospitals, imaging centers and physician group practices a flexible, affordable and secure service for on-demand access and storage of DICOM and non-DICOM radiological images. Integrating with any PACS component, InSiteOne's InDex(TM) is a cost-effective, pay-as-you-go service that delivers exceptional speed, scalability, economy, and security for short-term and long-term image storage management and archiving. Washington Hospital Center of Washington, D.C., the National Cancer Institute, and Saratoga Hospital of Saratoga, New York are among InSiteOne's customer sites.

InDex is a trademark of InSiteOne Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies.