Vitrea(R) - Quality Rendering and Speed Accessible with Remote Viewing
CHICAGO, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RSNA Booth #6513 -- Vital
Images, Inc. (Nasdaq: VTAL), a leading provider of enterprise-wide advanced
visualization and analysis solutions, today announced its comprehensive ViTAL
Solutions portfolio for the 91st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), November 27-December 1. The
company will highlight Vitrea-quality rendering performance and workflow
restore in ViTALConnect(TM), the company's Web-based analysis and distribution
solution, and enhancements to clinical applications within its flagship
Vitrea(R) and ViTALCardia solutions. These combined solution components
deliver a scalable and customizable enterprise-wide advanced visualization and
analysis solution and enable their customary inclusion into expanded clinical
review.
"Vital Images is known as a superior provider of advanced visualization
and analysis tools," said Paul J. Chang, M.D., director, radiology informatics
at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "The company clearly
understands the need for these tools throughout the complete enterprise
workflow, from the radiology technologist, to the PACS (picture archiving and
communications systems), to the referring clinicians. With Vital Images'
increased integration capabilities and Web-based deployment of ViTALConnect,
advanced analysis can be distributed anywhere it is required."
ViTAL Solutions Components Featured at RSNA include:
Vitrea(R)
Vitrea(R) will highlight CAD-driven (computer-aided detection) workflow
optimization and feature improvements to Vital Images' market-leading clinical
applications, as well as support for the large datasets increasingly customary
in routine clinical review. Vitrea will be shown integrated into many PACS
partners' solutions that provide the benefits of the advanced visualization
and analysis, integrated into the PACS review workflow.
ViTALConnect(TM)
ViTALConnect will showcase its server-based rendering with Vitrea-quality
rendering and speed. ViTALConnect will also introduce its software
collaboration tools, facilitating interactive communication and clinical
collaboration between radiologists and referring physicians, including the
ability for remote users to restore the original Vitrea workflow and report.
Partnering with Commissure, an early-stage workflow company, Vital Images
is integrating technologies that will enhance the radiologist's and referring
clinician's workflow by consolidating status information and producing a real-
time work list. From this work list, a user may launch directly into a
clinical application workflow supplied by Vital Images, which is linked to a
voice-driven report authoring system, and create a multi-media report for the
clinicians.
ViTALCardia
ViTALCardia is Vital Images' comprehensive cardiac image analysis solution
that addresses the unique requirements for three- and four-dimensional cardiac
imaging and review. ViTALCardia will highlight usability and feature
enhancements including large data support required for cardiac analysis, and
easy communication throughout the enterprise with customizable cardiac
reports. Components of ViTALCardia include: CT Cardiac, General Vessel Probe,
Cardiac Functional Analysis, VScore(TM) for coronary artery calcium scoring,
and Automated Vessel Measurement for stenosis measurement. ViTALCardia can be
enabled on ViTALConnect.
The company recently announced a partnership with Medis, featuring the
incorporation of the Medis quantitative cardiac MR application to complement
Vital Images' cardiac CT analysis package.
ViTAL Relationships
Vital Images has leveraged its partnership strength and expanded its
strategic partnerships, integrating advanced clinical applications with
industry-leading PACS solutions. Vital Images is showcasing PACS
relationships with several major PACS providers, including McKesson Imaging
Group, Eclipsys, Sectra and DR Systems.
The company will highlight its CAD partnerships complementing Vitrea's
automated and anticipatory clinical workflow. Vital Images will feature its
long-term relationship with R2 Technology, Inc., featuring automatic lung
nodule detection, automatic measurement of temporal change and pulmonary
arterial review. InnerviewGI(TM), the company's CT colonography application,
features a work-in-progress application for automated polyp detection and
measurement in partnership with Medicsight, PLC. Vital Images will also
display the integration of Confirma's CADStream application for the automatic
detection of breast lesions using MRI.
"Our many partnerships highlighted at RSNA underscore Vital Images' focus
on growing, cultivating and extending the reach of our comprehensive ViTAL
Solutions portfolio," said Jay D. Miller, Vital Images' president and chief
executive officer. "The breadth and depth of these relationships reflect the
expansion of the requirement and extent of ViTAL Solutions in routine clinical
review."
About Vital Images
Vital Images, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, is a leading provider of
enterprise-wide advanced visualization software solutions for use in disease-
screening applications, clinical diagnosis and therapy planning. Vital Images
is a recognized innovative leader in medical technology, as indicated by its
recent receipt of the Tekne award, which honors companies and innovations that
positively impact Minnesota's technology-based economy. The company's
technology gives radiologists, cardiologists, oncologists and other medical
specialists time-saving productivity and communications tools that can be
accessed throughout the enterprise and via the Web for easy use in the day-to-
day practice of medicine. Press releases, examples of medical images and
other corporate information are available on Vital Images' Web site at
http://www.vitalimages.com .
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve
risks and uncertainties which could cause results to differ materially from
those projected, including dependence on market growth, the timely
availability and acceptance of new products, the impact of competitive
products and pricing, dependence on major customers, fluctuations in quarterly
results, third-party reimbursement and other risks detailed from time to time
in Vital Images' SEC reports, including its most recent report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Vitrea(R) is a registered trademark and ViTALConnect(TM) is a trademark of
Vital Images, Inc. Vital Images disclaims any proprietary interest in the
marks and names of others.
SOURCE Vital Images, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Susan A. Wood, Executive Vice President,
Marketing, or Michael H. Carrel, Chief Operating Officer and
Chief Financial Officer of Vital Images, Inc., +1-952-487-9500,
or Nancy A. Johnson, +1-612-455-1745, njohnson@psbpr.com , or
Marian Briggs, +1-612-455-1742, mbriggs@psbpr.com , both of
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