lifeIMAGE inks Connecticut hospital contract

Internet service provider for diagnostic imaging information sharing lifeIMAGE has entered into an agreement with Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., for its diagnostic image sharing technology at the hospital. 

The 944-bed facility will use the platform to collect and share diagnostic imaging information in its New Haven, Conn.-based Smilow Cancer Hospital and within the trauma unit during emergency transfers from remote locations, according to Newton, Mass.-based lifeIMAGE.
 

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