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News Center - 1999 Press
Releases - 1st Quarter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Data
General, Markcare Medical Systems And Worldcare Technologies Announce A
Strategic Alliance To Provide Integrated Clinical Information Management
Solutions To The Healthcare Industry
WESTBORO, MA -- January 12, 1999 -- Data General Corporation,
MarkCare Medical Systems, Inc., and WorldCare Technologies, Inc. announced
today a strategic alliance to provide integrated clinical information
management solutions combining telemedicine and PACS (Picture Archiving and
Communication Systems) to the healthcare industry. The companies are leaders
in providing PACS, telemedicine, and computing products to healthcare
institutions around the world.
The alliance will combine the products, services, and market reach of each
company to provide an integrated, scalable solution for managing
multi-specialty clinical information within a healthcare enterprise and
across regional and national networks interconnecting medical institutions
and primary care clinics.
Data General, MarkCare Medical Systems, and WorldCare Technologies are
already working together on large-scale projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, and
the US.
"This alliance is a natural step forward to combine the vision,
technical strength, and marketing reach of the three industry leaders to
advance the development of clinical information solutions and
multi-specialty, multimedia medical systems," said Bob Iacono, Data
General vice president, Worldwide Healthcare Division.
The clinical information management solutions provided to healthcare
enterprises are anchored in a state-of-the-art radiology image management
system (IMS) developed by MarkCare Medical Systems that runs on Data
General's AViiONâ server and CLARiiONâ storage platform.
"IMS is the major component of delivering and implementing a successful
CIMS. This alliance is another step of providing the enterprise-wide PACS /
Telemedicine system based on the open system, computing expertise, product
flexibility and industry knowledge of all the partners," said Leo
Futerman, Vice President of MarkCare Medical Systems.
Building on the IMS, WorldCare Technologies clinical information management
server, OpenMed Manager, extends the solution beyond the healthcare
enterprise to receive, route, and manage patients' clinical cases among
hospitals, primary care clinics, and other healthcare facilities. WorldCare
Technologies' product suite provides a complete range of clinical information
and image capture and viewing applications that support primary and secondary
diagnosis and treatment management and web-access to multimedia patient
clinical records. In addition, WorldCare Technologies' product suite is
capable of augmenting radiology image studies with other clinical information
as well as other specialty data including, pathology, dermatology, and
ophthalmology.
"The potential of extending WorldCare Technologies' private network and
internet-based solutions within the enterprise and the radiology department
and making them available to healthcare systems worldwide is a key driver
behind our alliance with Data General and MarkCare Medical Systems," said
Eman Safadi, Chief Operating Officer of WorldCare Technologies.
Data General Corporation (NYSE: DGN), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, is a
major supplier of storage and enterprise computing solutions for customers
worldwide. The company's products include high-end NT and UNIX AViiON
servers, CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, and related software and
services. Data General reported fiscal 1998 revenues of $1.5 billion.
Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available
on the Internet at www.dg.com/ .
MarkCare Medical Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Mark Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq
Small Cap Market: MCSI), manufactures and distributes a wide range of medical
imaging systems, which complement all of the major medical imaging
modalities. These imaging systems include, multi modality workstations,
filmless and semi-filmless PACS, electronic data links for a wide range of
medical imaging devices, intelligent image management and archiving system.
WorldCare Technologies, Inc.
is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art, internet-enabled telemedicine and
clinical information management solutions for electronic healthcare delivery.
WorldCare Technologies solutions power an international telemedicine service
network encompassing 12 countries worldwide and connecting some of the famous
hospitals in the world including Massachusetts General Hospital, Cleveland
Clinic Foundation, Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Healthcare
Systems, The London Clinic, UK, and Pantai Hospital, Malaysia.
AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation.
All other brand names and product names referred to in this press release are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
For More Information, Press Only:
Data General Corp.
Jim Dunlap
508/898-6546
jim_dunlap@dg.com
MarkCare Medical Systems
Mike Nafash
973/893-0500 Ext. 108
WorldCare Technologies
Anita Cosgrove
440/646-2475
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