The US News and World Report has released its 2014-2015 ranking of the country’s best hospitals, a list that includes approximately 5,000 facilities evaluated according to the 16 most common medical specialties. Of those, hospitals with high scores in at least six divisions earn a place on the publication’s honor roll. Vendor neutral archive provider TeraMedica has announced that 7 of the 17 hospitals on the honor roll use its image archive and management software.

The top hospitals include:

  • Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota ?Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
  • Cleveland Clinic
  • UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles ?New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, New York
  • Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia ?UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco?Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago?University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles ?UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
  • NYU Langone Medical Center, New York ?Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
  • Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis

TeraMedica President and CEO Jim Prekop congratulated the top hospitals, noting, “I expect this adoption to continue as the practice of enterprise image management further expands.”

He added, “Importantly, we also recognize that our success in this rapidly growing technology segment started when our first customer, the Mayo Clinic, installed TeraMedica’s vendor neutral archive solution back in 2001. Today, that system manages over 2 billion DICOM images, as well as 600,000 non-DICOM objects.”

In addition to managing standard DICOM objects, the TeraMedica VNA can natively manage and distribute MPG, JPG, and PDF files, as well as other critical clinical content in non-standard formats, such as cancer care treatment plans. The Smartstore module manages the image lifecycle of all DICOM and non-DICOM content, while the Univision module provides a zero-download image viewer with integration to any EMR, EHR, PHR, or RHIO.

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