Johns Hopkins Medicine Selects Vital Images, Inc.’s, Universal Viewer After Side-by-Side Vendor Comparison

Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company and leading provider of advanced visualization and analysis solutions for healthcare providers, was selected by Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) to integrate into JHM’s Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system. VitreaView® was rated the highest in each of the evaluation categories, including performance, ease-of-use, user interface, clinical use and most recommended solution.

VitreaView helps physicians view images (DICOM and non-DICOM) from disparate databases across the enterprise. In addition, VitreaView provides physicians with easy-to-use, Web-based access to role-specific, patient-centric views of imaging history. The internal evaluation process and future plans at JHM were featured in an informatics Grand Rounds presentation.

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