(July 22, 2014 - MILWAUKEE, WI) The 2014-15 U.S. News and World Report rankings of the nation's Best Hospitals were recently released. Over 40% of the cited top 17 hospitals depend on image archive and management software developed by TeraMedica.


This year's Best Hospitals list includes approximately 5,000 medical centers across the United States, ranking each facility in the 16 most common medical specialties. Hospitals with very high scores in at least six clinical departments earned a spot on the Honor Roll, with only 17 hospitals making this year's list. Those 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



"We are pleased to congratulate not only our clientele, but the entire list of providers that were named to the 2014-2015 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals list," commented TeraMedica President and CEO Jim Prekop. "As a truly vendor neutral solution provider, it is exciting for our entire organization to see that seven of the top seventeen hospitals utilize our image management software." Prekop added, "I expect this adoption to continue as the practice of enterprise image management further expands. 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 (VNA) solution back in 2001. Today, that system manages over 2 billion DICOM images, as well as 600,000 Non-DICOM objects."



Evercore integrates and manages patient-centric clinical content in the clinical and research settings across wide geographies, including standard DICOM objects. Evercore also possesses the ability to natively manage and distribute beyond DICOM using global standards such as MPG, JPG, PDF and many other critical clinical content such as treatment plans for cancer care or vital reports in non-standard formats.



TeraMedica's patented Smartstore™ module intelligently manages the total image lifecycle of all DICOM and non-DICOM content. The Univision™ module provides a multi-layer, zero-download image viewer, with seamless integration to any EMR/EHR/PHR/RHIO.



About TeraMedica® Inc.
TeraMedica, Inc., a global healthcare informatics company based in Milwaukee, WI, is the leading provider of vendor neutral, enterprise-wide solutions for unrestricted medical image management. The company began with the successful development of a cross-departmental, patient-centric clinical image archive for the Mayo Clinic in 2001. To date, TeraMedica has over 600 customer-driven deployments on six continents. Such flexibility can only be achieved by an organization that is committed to exceeding customer expectations using a technology platform that has been designed for adaptation. For more information, visit www.teramedica.com.

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