Vital Images, Inc. Introduces VioStream to Provide Fast Access to Federated Image Repositories

MINNEAPOLIS, 2014-11-18 14:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vital Images, Inc. ("Vital"), announces enhancements in image management to its industry-leading VitreaView^® enterprise viewer with VioStream™ software. Today, many healthcare organizations are challenged to unify access to imaging content, often spread across a number of departmental PACS and distributed locations. Vital is now offering unique building blocks, which will enable full image access through electronic health records (EHRs).

"Healthcare is rapidly transforming and Vital navigates these changes by developing solutions to make our customers more efficient, informed and strategic," said Jim Litterer, General Manager at Vital. "Vital solves the most challenging hurdles through unique image management and analytics components. VioStream is one exciting example of how we're working to break through the traditional silos of data and enable unified and ubiquitous image access."

With the explosion of digital information, healthcare organizations struggle to find efficient ways to manage and access imaging data. Vital is developing a suite of flexible solutions tailored to work within customers' specific IT infrastructures, image access and data management goals, at reduced capital expenditure. VioStream is a server-side software product enabling a Web-based medical imaging viewer to connect to a variety of existing DICOM archives (PACS), convert DICOM data to Web-friendly formats, and view images at a substantially reduced time to first image. Traditional enterprise viewers require users to wait for a full query/retrieve to begin interacting with a study. VioStream eliminates obstacles toward accessing full imaging history of a patient, providing a longitudinal view of a patient's healthcare journey.

Vital's leadership in providing clinically meaningful, multi-modality advanced visualization and universal viewing solutions remains a strong foundation for its growth. The expansion into next generation data management components enables Vital to solve our customers' evolving needs.

About Vital Images, Inc.

Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company, is a leading provider of health imaging informatics solutions, including advanced visualization, enterprise image viewing solutions and business intelligence technology, designed to help healthcare organizations deliver exceptional care while optimizing resources across multi-facility organizations. The company's solutions are scalable to meet the unique needs of hospitals and imaging centers and are accessible throughout the enterprise anytime and anywhere. For more information, visit www.vitalimages.com or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

About Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, channels world-class capabilities in advanced electronic and electrical product and systems into five strategic business domains: Energy & Infrastructure, Community Solutions, Healthcare Systems & Services, Electronic Devices & Components, and Lifestyles Products & Services. Guided by the principles of The Basic Commitment of the Toshiba Group, "Committed to People, Committed to the Future", Toshiba promotes global operations towards securing "Growth Through Creativity and Innovation", and is contributing to the achievement of a world in which people everywhere live in safe, secure and comfortable society lives. Founded in Tokyo in 1875, today's Toshiba is at the heart of a global network of over 590 consolidated companies employing over 200,000 people worldwide, with annual sales surpassing 6.5 trillion yen (US$63 billion). To find out more about Toshiba, visit www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm

CONTACT: AT VITAL IMAGES:
         Nichole Gerszewski
         (952) 487-9647
         ngerszewski@vitalimages.com
         www.vitalimages.com