New York healthcare system chooses Exogen

North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System has chosen Exogen, a business solutions company and wholly owned subsidiary of Technology Solutions Company, to manage the data migration and consolidation of medical image data from its systems to its enterprise medical image storage system.

The Chicago-based Exogen said its Data Certainty solution combines its patent-pending technology with its professional services to provide the industry’s approach to analyzing, characterizing, cleansing and ensuring the migrating of medical image data into a consolidated enterprise approach.

A nonprofit, secular healthcare system, the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Long Island, Queens and Staten Island services more than five million people. Including its clinical affiliates, the health system consists of 16 hospitals, 13 long-term care facilities, a medical research institute, four trauma centers, five home health agencies and dozens of outpatient centers. The members and affiliates of North Shore-LIJ house more than 9,300 beds, and are staffed by more than 8,000 physicians, about 11,000 nurses and a total workforce of more than 38,000.

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