John Hopkins goes with Emageon for digital information management

Emageon Inc. has signed a digital healthcare information management agreement with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. As part of the agreement, Johns Hopkins will use Emageon's clinical content management product to provide DICOM archiving capabilities and web distribution and visualization of images and information to treating physicians in its acute-care hospitals and clinics, the company said.

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