CoActiv Receives FDA Clearance for Digital Mammography Reads with CoActiv EXAMPACS
March 3, 2005 -- CoActiv Medical Business Solutions of Ridgefield, CT, a software and systems provider to hospitals and imaging centers, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved CoActiv EXAM-PACS, a picture archiving and communications system, for primary reads and archival storage of digital mammography exams. CoActiv's strategic partnership with Barco's line of 5 MP flat panel display systems streamlined the FDA approval for digital mammography diagnostic reads.
CoActiv EXAM-PACS acquires and archives digital mammography images using the lossless compression standards required by FDA guidelines, and allows radiologists and referring physicians to work in a fast, on-demand and virtually instantaneous recall environment. CoActiv's EXAM-Viewer software, along with Barco's 5 MP Medical Flat Grayscale Display for digital mammography, provide the high resolution, contrast, and calibration stability required for digital mammography reads. Since EXAM-PACS is a web-based, on-line PACS solution, the retrieval time for large digital mammography exams is greatly reduced for comparison viewing.
"Managing Digital Mammography exams can be a daunting task from an IT standpoint because of the size of each image, however, with CoActiv's EXAM-Vault on-line storage and archiving architecture, we provide a solution that is designed to increase exam archiving capacity and speed retrieval time, while actually lowering the price of storage as a facility increases volume," said Ed Heere, President of CoActiv Medical Business Solutions. "Without the encumbrances of the outdated legacy archive technology, we have essentially re-defined the art of On-Line PACS archiving with our EXAM-Vault solution. Our FDA approval for mammography reads positions CoActiv EXAM-PACS as a full image management solution for hospitals or imaging centers specializing in breast cancer prevention, detection and treatment."
CoActiv EXAM-PACS is a full solution PACS that is priced at about one-third the price of most other PACS providers. CoActiv EXAM-PACS modules can also be integrated with existing PACS products or directly with existing DICOM modalities providing the following stand-alone solutions:
CoActiv EXAM-Vault: an on-line and "quad-redundant," HIPAA-compliant archive solution that saves exams in 4 locations, 3 of which are on-line, for only pennies per exam.
CoActiv EXAM-Filer: a CD burning solution that creates self-contained, study CDs accessible from virtually any CD or DVD equipped Windows PC. The EXAM-Filer can receive directly from multiple DICOM modalities, or an existing PACS, and each EXAM-CD prominently highlights the imaging facility's logo, name and contact information.
EXAM-Sender: an innovative, patent pending, web-based application that instantly transmits exams, voice clips, reports and other information - automatically, securely and in background mode - to referring doctors.
About CoActiv
CoActiv Medical Business Solutions, a healthcare digital imaging solution provider headquartered in Ridgefield, CT, provides a complete line of PACS, tele-radiology and DICOM utilities and services. Through their EXAM-PACS solution, CoActiv provides an affordable but powerful PACS, easily scalable from small single sites to enterprise installations.
CoActiv, founded in 2002 by the management of its parent company, AMSYS Inc., is backed by nearly twenty years of broad corporate experience in healthcare IT solutions.
CoActiv Medical Business Solutions can be contacted toll-free at (877) COACTIV (262-2848) or on the Internet at www.coactiv.com. Contact: Paul E. Manko, Communications Director