Apollo, Dell ink partnership

Apollo has entered into a strategic alliance with Dell to provide a system to manage, retrieve and share clinical multimedia images and data.

Apollo EPMM (Enterprise Patient Media Manager) brings together all information related to an individual patient from throughout the medical enterprise and makes it available to authorized personnel, Falls Church, Va.-based Apollo said.

Apollo EPMM will be added to Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive across a range of specialties. Apollo's system collects multimedia images such as lab reports, physician reports, digital slides, studies or pictures as they are being recorded.

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