Barco named Edison Award finalist for its Coronis Uniti™ medical display system

Duluth, Ga. USA – 19 March 2015 – The Coronis Uniti™ display system, designed by healthcare visualization expert Barco, has been named a 2015 Award Finalist by the internationally renowned Edison Awards™. The distinguished awards, inspired by Thomas Edison’s persistence and inventiveness, recognize innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the global economy. “It’s exciting to see companies like Barco continuing Thomas Edison’s legacy of challenging conventional thinking,” said Frank Bonafilia, Edison Awards’ executive director. “Edison Awards recognizes the game-changing products and services, and the teams that brought them to consumers.” Award winners will be announced April 23, 2015 at the Edison Awards Annual Gala, held in the historic Ballroom of The Capitale in New York City.  “One display, any image” solution revolutionizes the reading room“We knew that we were changing the industry when we developed the Coronis Uniti™, the world’s first diagnostic display system to present both general radiology and mammography images on a single, large-screen display that unifies and streamlines workflow,” comments Lynda Domogalla, VP Product Marketing for Barco’s Healthcare division. “Its advanced features boost image quality, productivity and ergonomics, optimizing the image viewing experience while enabling radiologists to work more comfortably for longer reading periods. It is truly an investment that can last a lifetime.”  Edison Award nominees are judged by more than 3,000 senior business executives and academics from across the nation whose votes acknowledge the Finalists’ success in meeting the award’s stringent criteria of quality. The voting panel includes members of:  Chief Marketing Officer Council (CMO) Design Management Institute (DMI) American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Georgia State Marketing Roundtable (GSU) Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) Assoc. of Technology Mgmt & Applied Engineering (ATMAE) Past Edison Award winners Marketing professionals Scientists Designers Engineers Academics  The Edison Awards is a program conducted by Edison Universe, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to fostering future innovators. For more information about the Edison Awards, Edison Universe and a list of past winners, visit www.edisonawards.com. About BarcoBarco, a global technology company, designs and develops networked visualization products for the Entertainment, Enterprise and Healthcare markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and APAC. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with 3,250 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1.051 billion euro in 2014.