The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto selects MyPACS™ Enterprise for Teaching File Management

The mission of The Hospital for Sick Children, affiliated with the University of Toronto, is to provide the best in family-centered, compassionate care, to lead in scientific and clinical advancement, and to prepare the next generation of leaders in child health. SickKids is the first customer north of the border to acquire MyPACS Enterprise, representing a new market opportunity for Vivalog products.

"We are so pleased that Canada's most research-intensive hospital with the largest center dedicated to improving children's health will benefit from such a robust clinical teaching file management system," said Rex Jakobovits, PhD, president of Vivalog Technologies. The addition of MyPACS Enterprise will allow doctors to easily and quickly create interdepartmental cases for collaborative use by the hospital's specialists, residents and clinical staff.

MyPACS Enterprise is popular because it combines intuitive authoring tools and a flexible viewer with powerful case management functionality. It is HIPAA compliant and supports MIRC, DICOM, SQL and XML connectivity. MyPACS Enterprise is designed for hospitals that seek a plug-and-play teaching file solution with the most innovative features available in enterprise knowledge management software.

About Vivalog Technologies

Vivalog Technologies, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, is a software development company providing collaborative web-based solutions for clinical research laboratories and hospitals. Vivalog's mission is to empower medical professionals to transform clinical data into knowledge. Through a Small Business Innovative Research grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Vivalog hosts MyPACS.net. This free web-based service supports the creation of on-line teaching files for radiologists and pathologists, and hosts some 50,000 images comprising 13,000 structured teaching cases in a searchable repository. The cases are being contributed by a community of thousands of clinicians who are affiliated with over 2000 medical institutions worldwide.