Cedara and IBM China team up

Cedara Software and IBM China have confirmed an agreement to explore opportunities in the Chinese marketplace.

 IBM and Cedara will promote Cedara software and IBM hardware and integrating it with their business partners' solutions.

 As the first step in this partnership, both companies will participate in the B-Soft user group meeting this month in China. B-soft is one of China's top hospital information systems (HIS) companies with a customer base of 700 hospitals.

 Cedara's PACS product suite includes I-Store, an image archiving and distribution system; I-Softview, a web-based image distribution server; and I-Reach, hospital system interface products.

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