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Frost & Sullivan Lauds
Cisco Healthcare Initiatives With Its Brand Development Strategy
Leadership Award
Other Topics: Medical
Informatics Mobile Monitoring Solutions,
Medical Informatics Imaging
Industry
PRNewswire
April 9, 2007
Palo Alto, CA -- Frost & Sullivan selected Cisco as the
recipient of the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Brand Development
Strategy Leadership Award for its efforts in healthcare and for
helping establish new standards of care in the North American
medical informatics market and integrally linking the brand with
the transformation of the medical imaging industry.
The Cisco Connected Imaging solution, designed specifically for
imaging and supported by the Cisco Medical-Grade Network, is
being specifically highlighted as an example of how radiology
services are being delivered today. |
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The new paradigm
for medical imaging informatics and picture archiving and
communication systems (PACS) technology has created the need for
a powerful back-end infrastructure for imaging. This is meant to
complement clinical applications with the needed image and
storage management capabilities.
The generalization of multi-site imaging within Integrated
Delivery Networks (IDN) networked imaging centers,
collaboration, and teleradiology networks illustrate the
decisive trend toward interconnection and image exchange. Image
and information sharing are increasingly taking place over
public networks and must be enabled by a secure, scalable
medical grade network foundation.
"Cisco's Connected Imaging solution has focus areas on image
acquisition, performance and management, image access, and
collaboration and reporting," says Frost & Sullivan Research
Analyst Nadim Daher. "The solution will help imaging facilities
keep up with the explosion of image data volumes, stay ahead of
compliance regulations, simplify anywhere-anytime image access,
and benefit from a shared infrastructure that also enables new
financial models for imaging services."
The Connected Imaging solution enables more robust integration
and interoperation of all imaging informatics applications. By
providing more efficient archiving and distribution across an
integrated IT network, it helps diverse entities collaborate and
communicate more effectively.
It also improves communication between all stakeholders of the
extended imaging enterprise, including C-level executives,
radiologists, referring physicians, and technologists, thus
improving productivity, supporting collaboration, and reducing
costs throughout the imaging workflow.
The connected enterprise creates an organization that can
benefit medical imaging with soaring gains in workflow
efficiency and productivity. With its broad portfolio of
imaging-specific technologies, the Cisco Connected Imaging
solution helps extend imaging beyond hospital walls and its
value proposition constitutes a definitive step into the future
of radiology.
At the provider level, Cisco's Connected Imaging solution and
those of its select best-in-class partners in every solution
area are taking imaging to the next level.
Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to the company
that has demonstrated excellence in brand development within the
industry. The award recognizes the company's ability to best
perceive consumer needs and develop marketing strategies that
elevate the brand's quality, style, and image to create an
overall value perception. Through a combination of unique
product quality, communication, distribution, and packaging
strategies, the recipient has demonstrated superior market
growth skills.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a
variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating
outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such
as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and
strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market
participants and measure performance through in-depth
interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order
to identify best practices in the industry.
About Cisco Healthcare
The next revolution in healthcare is not about medicine; it
is about using information to drive patient-centric, safe, and
efficient care starting with changing the way care is delivered.
Cisco is at the heart of this revolution. Through its "Connected
Health" vision, Cisco will enable collaboration across the care
continuum for safe, affordable and accessible healthcare. This
transformation will empower patients to control, manage and
influence their own healthcare. The strategic implementation of
IT can drive a significant improvement in healthcare costs while
improving healthcare quality.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has
been partnering with clients to support the development of
innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's
industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth
partnership services, and corporate management training to
identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an
extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies,
emerging companies, and the investment community by providing
comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global
perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets,
technologies, econometrics, and demographics. For more
information, visit http://www.awards.frost.com/ |
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