INFINITT Healthcare Contracts with Seoul National University Hospital for Next Generation PACS

Seoul, Korea (PRWEB) June 11, 2012

INFINITT Healthcare, a leading developer of image and information management technologies for healthcare, announced on June 11, 2012 that it has contracted with Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) in Korea – a world renowned acute care hospital and school of medicine -- for its next generation PACS.

INFINITT Healthcare has provided PACS software and services to SNUH for more than 10 years, and will help extend its diagnostic capabilities by implementing the next generation PACS which is under development as a part of the WBS Project (World Best Software project), sponsored by the Korean Government).

SNUH is comprised of the main hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Dental Hospital, and the Clinical Research Institute. Approximately 2,000 inpatients and 7,000 outpatients are treated each day by 500 medical professors and 5,700 staff. This will be the first facility in the domestic market to implement this highly advanced technology.

The next generation PACS solution from of INFINITT Healthcare enables healthcare providers to manage images and data not only from radiology departments, but also from Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Cardiology and Internal Medicine. It also manages non-imaging and signal data produced from clinical departments. INFINITT’s next generation PACS has a specialized viewer for each clinical department s and offers CAD functionality, which automatically detects abnormalities of the on heart, colon, liver and lung.

In addition, a state-of-the-art computing technique enables the system to handle large volume data sets quickly and reliably. These improved efficiencies in data management improve the quality and timeliness of care and raise patients’ satisfaction level.

Ban Yong-Eum, the CEO of INFINITT Healthcare, said “It is a significant contract, and we look forward to making this PACS implementation a great success and a show site for our next generation PACS technology. We expect it to help expand large-hospital business overseas as well.”

About INFINITT Healthcare
With over 15 years of experience, INFINITT Healthcare has provided its affordable, state-of-the-art medical imaging and information capabilities to numerous Radiology, Cardiology, Orthopedics, and Dental healthcare facilities worldwide. Since the early origins of digital imaging and information technology, including Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), 3D Diagnosis Support System (Xelis), Radiology Information System (RIS), Tele-radiology and Clinical Information System (CIS), our INFINITT’s primary objective has been to develop the most advanced, cutting edge medical imaging and information solutions. Augmenting that objective is our strict compliance with worldwide industry standards such as DICOM, HL7, IHE, and HIPAA.

INFINITT Healthcare strives to become the World’s Best Brand in the Healthcare IT industry by providing the highest levels of service, standards compliance and scalability, addressing not only today’s imaging and information needs, but providing for the fully-digital enterprise of the future. We currently provide highly reliable services to 2,500 healthcare institutions in 38 countries.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.infinitt.com

About Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul National University Hospital was established in 1885 as the first modern hospital in Korea. It has a staff of approximately 5,700 medical professionals and 1,786 patient beds. Seoul National University Hospital has 240 imaging modalities and it produces 6,000 studies a day, which is about 2 million cases in a year generating 240 GB of data. 102 radiologists interpret those cases.

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