RSNA: PACSGear to demonstrate enterprise suite

PACSGear (Booth 8908), the healthcare communications technology company based in Pleasanton, Calif., is introducing the PACSGear Enterprise Imaging Platform at the 97th Annual Meeting & Scientific Assembly of the RSNA, Nov. 27 to Dec. 2, in Chicago.

The enterprise suite includes MDR 7.0, an MPEG2/MPEG4-compliant video capture system and the PACSGear Media Server for video caching and streaming.

The platform also supports PACSGear’s PACS 2.0 initiative to include integration with electronic health records.

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