EMC

EMC (Booth 6233) is showcasing its EMC Open Systems Archive Solution for healthcare organizations. Based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and deployed in a modular fashion, the offering aggregates content from clinical, operational and financial applications. The solution provides an information repository. The EMC Open System Archive Solution leverages medical image management software to facilitate a DICOM-compliant infrastructure that supports standards-based migration of medical images and infrastructure, capturing meta-data from content assets and collects the information into a virtual physical repository.

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