Emend, Talley team for data transfer tools

IT company Emend and Los Angeles-based communications company Talley have teamed up to provide turnkey data transfer tools to the healthcare industry.

Available technologies can fill both bandwidth and security requirements, according to the Los Angeles-based Emend.

“Diagnostic imaging centers have struggled in the past with conflicting priorities of security, bandwidth, and uncompressed images. Both our cross-campus and long-range licensed solutions can deliver speeds of up to one gigabit per second,” said Terry Schladetzky, president of Emend.


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