ROCHESTER, N.Y - Carestream Health, Inc., and Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC) have entered into an agreement that enables CMTC to begin selling Carestream Health's successful line of CARESTREAM PACS and Information Management Solutions in the U.S. effective immediately.

"We are finding increased interest from healthcare IT companies like CMTC that want to image-enable their applications with our medical imaging solutions to help customers better manage patient care and reduce costs," said Stevan Ramirez, General Manager of Healthcare Information Solutions for the Americas, Carestream Health.

The two companies have completed successful integration of Carestream Health's web-based, medical image viewing application with CMTC's innovative software that enables cross-enterprise sharing of electronic health records. CMTC and Carestream Health plan to offer a combined solution to several telemedicine networks later this year.
CMTC's software solutions enable a virtual team of clinicians - from multiple providers in various locations-to simultaneously access clinical information and images. These solutions help facilitate the complex process of physician collaboration with an efficient and comprehensive case-management platform. The company is an emerging leader in linking the medical expertise of healthcare professionals to efficiently expedite referrals, second opinions and transfers for patients.

"CMTC is committed to providing solutions for on-line clinical exchange services so doctors and healthcare organizations can securely share clinical information and diagnostic images, thereby helping patients receive the best quality care, regardless of where their medical information resides, " said Shimon Schurr, CEO, Collaborative Medical Technology. "By leveraging the Internet to move clinical information and diagnostic images, we connect physicians with experts to help deliver improved patient outcomes at the lowest cost."

Schurr explained that because Carestream Health has open, interoperable medical imaging solutions and powerful image viewing capabilities with streaming, its solutions are an ideal compliment to CMTC's platform for specialists that need to view images remotely as a critical part of the electronic medical record.

CMTC's plan is to offer these innovative systems from Carestream Health - and in many cases combining them with its growing portfolio of software solutions - to large regional medical centers; hospitals, telemedicine departments and specialty clinics; and federal government agencies such as the Veterans Health Administration to name a few.

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