ClearCanvas, Inc. (Toronto, CA, USA), a medical imaging informatics company, announced a new partnership agreement with DPR (San Ramon, CA, USA), a technology company that provides intelligent imaging informatics solutions for the radiology industry. The companies will work together on joint marketing and sales efforts to further distribute their combined solutions.

DPR develops and markets CaseReader, a structured reporting system for medical imaging professionals. The company’s software automatically populates measurements, images, and other relevant information into a report based on key diagnostic activities performed by a radiologist. The widespread adoption of high-volume imaging modalities places considerable productivity restraints on radiology; the workflow associated with CaseReader is designed to speed up the reporting process, helping healthcare professionals to process huge amounts of medical imaging data at a faster pace.

ClearCanvas develops and markets diagnostic workstations, picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), and radiology information systems (RIS), allowing medical imaging clinics to capture, distribute, review, report, and archive digital images and associated information. The company’s products provide radiologists and other clinicians with a variety of advanced diagnostic tools while simplifying system management for information technology (IT) administrators. Clinical editions of the company’s products have received regulatory clearance from the US FDA and Health Canada, while CE marking is pending. ClearCanvas also provides open-source software platforms that are used by medical researchers and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) companies to accelerate development timelines and reduce costs.

CaseReader comes embedded with M*Modal Speech Understanding technology for both navigation and dictation purposes. This capability allows healthcare professionals to systematically navigate through patient studies using voice-driven commands. Direct access to case templates and CPT codes in the application help to ensures that reimbursements are maximized for reported exams. With a wide variety of reporting tools, the application looks to drastically reduce the potential for errors, lower costs and, while working in collaboration with the referring physician, save patients’ lives. CaseReader can be deployed either on a PACS server or in the Cloud.

ClearCanvas’ solutions are currently distributed by over 50 resellers around the world and used by more than 20,000 users in over 175 countries. The companies have previously worked together to tightly integrate their software into a unified solution. The first CaseReader installation will be a ClearCanvas site that is expected to become operational in July 2012. “We are excited to be expanding our relationship with ClearCanvas,” said Steve Douglas, president and CEO of DPR. “An integrated ClearCanvas and DPR solution will deliver dramatic radiology post processing analysis and reporting results. Delivering these important technology efficiencies to both new and established ClearCanvas customers will create exceptional value and growth for both companies.”

“We are excited by this new opportunity to work further with Steve and his team at DPR,” said Norman Young, president and CEO of ClearCanvas. “CaseReader is a very powerful solution which provides numerous benefits over other structured reporting solutions currently on the market, expediting the reporting process while reducing the potential for clerical errors. I think that a number of our customers and resellers will be very interested in DPR’s technology.”

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