Intelerad Announces Partnership With Forcare

Addition of XDS capabilities will further Intelerad’s interoperability support and enhance customers’ cross-enterprise access to patient images and information

Intelerad Medical Systems, a leader in medical imaging PACS, RIS and workflow solutions, recently announced they have signed a teaming agreement to leverage Forcare’s IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) functionality to further enhance their cross-enterprise data sharing abilities.

“We are excited that Intelerad will leverage Forcare's standards-based health information exchange technology to complement their market-leading radiology interoperability suite,” said Andries Hamster, Founder & Chief Marketing Officer, Forcare. “Through this agreement, we look forward to helping them expand on these capabilities to pursue larger HIE projects.”

“At Intelerad, we are always looking for ways to extend the capabilities of our solutions and to offer more value to our clients,” said Chris Henri, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Intelerad. “By integrating Forcare’s capabilities into our solution suite, we will be able to offer our clients solutions that enable them to participate in modern health information exchanges.”

By integrating XDS technology, imaging enterprises are able to discover and retrieve relevant patient images and reports, and share related documents with affiliated enterprises. For radiologists, this helps improve quality through a better understanding of the patient’s history, while facilitating collaboration among healthcare providers and improving the continuity of care.

Rapid access to information stored in disparate repositories across the enterprise also improves the productivity of radiologists and technologists by reducing unnecessary patient transfers and exams. In addition, leveraging XDS-I can reduce operational costs associated with the acquisition, storage, management and sharing of medical records.

Information regarding Intelerad’s interoperability capabilities can be obtained at RSNA, at booth 2165 in South Hall A. For more information about Intelerad at RSNA 2014, visit http://www4.intelerad.com/e/5662/2014-12-02/xl266/889886637.

Information regarding Forcare’s HIE interoperability products can be obtained at RSNA, at booth 6453 in North Hall B. For more information about Forcare at RSNA 2014, visit http://www4.intelerad.com/e/5662/rsna2014/xl268/889886637.

About Forcare
Forcare was established in 2006 and is active in the Health Information Exchange (HIE) space. Forcare’s intelligent product suite facilitates HIE within and across organizational boundaries and is based on international IHE XDS standards. Today, Forcare has a leading position with large scale installations in hospitals both in EMEA and North America and is one of the few true independent solution providers in this space. For more information, visit www.forcare.com.

About Intelerad
Intelerad Medical Systems is a leader in distributed radiology, specializing in RIS, PACS and workflow solutions for healthcare organizations. Intelerad solutions increase productivity and streamline workflow by overcoming technical barriers in distributed and complex environments. Highly scalable, flexible and robust, Intelerad’s solutions offer high performance and industry leading customer service and support. Intelerad solutions are used in more than 1,000 sites across North America, Oceania and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.intelerad.com.