Philips makes Xcelera available in North American market

Royal Philips Electronics has released Xcelera, a multi-modality image management, physician reporting and information distribution system, to the North American market.  

Xcelera brings clinical tools from various imaging modalities onto a centralized platform to foster clinical collaboration during patient diagnosis, according to Philips.

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