MILPITAS, Calif., Sept. 15, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Sectra - the Swedish IT and medical company - today named Vianeta Communications of Milpitas, Calif. (USA), an official Sectra Clinical Solutions Network (CSN) partner.
"Sectra is one of the world's leading PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) developers," said Ralph Aceves, chief operating officer of Vianeta. The Silicon Valley-based IT firm has pioneered the use of XML technology to create a unified Web-based e-HIM platform called Vianeta Harmony.
"Internationally, Sectra PACS are marketed and sold through different partners. Sectra did their due diligence before admitting us into their exclusive network; so this announcement is both a validation of Vianeta engineering and a terrific marketing opportunity on several fronts, including the chance to expand beyond North America." Hospitals and clinics in the U.S. and Canada use Vianeta Harmony - the only native XML health IT solution on the market today - to reduce cost, improve revenue cycles, maximize efficiency, prevent errors, improve quality, ensure patient privacy and build a solid foundation for a true electronic medical record.
"We recognize the value Vianeta's speech recognition system offers radiologists," said Sectra Business Development Manager Martin Hakansson. "Both Sectra and Vianeta feature open architecture design so interoperability is never an issue for either of us with any vendor. However, CSN partners like Vianeta integrate clinical applications to Sectra PACS through our open interfaces, to ensure customers the ultimate in successful information exchange. That's what our Clinical Solutions Network is all about: identifying third-party vendors with cutting-edge expertise in specialized fields who can increase the functionality of our PACS products so our customers can relax and enjoy this new technology without wondering if it's going to play nicely with the other systems they also need."
By integrating with Sectra PACS, CSN partners provide Sectra customers with the freedom to choose the best clinical application available for solving their particular clinical needs. CSN is also available for university hospitals, giving researchers access to an open platform for developing research applications.
About Sectra
Headquartered in Linkoping, Sweden, Sectra is one of today's major diagnostic imaging providers with more than 500 installations worldwide. Sectra's core business is to deliver top-of-the-line, high-availability, robust enterprise diagnostic imaging for 24/7 operation. The market leader in Scandinavia with more than 50 percent of all film-free installations, Sectra also has a large number of systems installed in most major countries in Europe, the Far East and North America, in cooperation with partners. The company was named Frost & Sullivan "Medical Imaging Company of the Year" for 2004.
On the Net: Sectra sites: http://www.sectra.com and http://www.sectra.com/medical/partners
About Vianeta
Headquartered in northern California, Vianeta Communications provides XML-based software solutions for health information management that help healthcare organizations of any size or shape automate HIM processes. Hundreds of hospitals and clinics, 60,000 physicians and 4000 HIM staff members throughout North America use Vianeta Harmony products to effectively create, aggregate, manage, process and distribute patient health information, enabling their organizations to reduce cost, improve revenue cycles, maximize efficiency, prevent errors, improve quality, ensure patient privacy and build a solid foundation for a true electronic medical record.
Vianeta Harmony combines digital dictation, speech recognition, transcription, document scanning and distribution, and electronic integration with multiple hospital departmental systems, to unify health information into a central e-HIM platform. Clinicians can make care decisions, e-sign documents, and correspond quickly with coders and other internal/external staff by accessing digital patient folders that reside on this unified e-HIM platform from work, home or wherever.
Vianeta Harmony significantly reduces chart distribution costs and improves clinician satisfaction with automated printing and faxing to specific locations. Analysts can access chart deficiency information online and track flow of documentation. Coders can access complete patient records online for optimum efficiency thus enabling remote coding. Business offices can fulfill their HIM needs without burdening "Release of Information" staff. And patients can access records and communicate with caregivers online.
Incorporating Light Weight Portable Documents, XML and Web technologies, Vianeta Harmony affords 360-degree views and enterprise-wide control of HIM operations, automates workflow to reduce operating costs, and optimizes communication and coordination throughout the enterprise. And unlike other solutions that entail expensive Word deployments and proprietary hardware, Vianeta's open architecture minimizes IT investment and support needs.
On the Net: Vianeta site: http://www.vianeta.com
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