MINNEAPOLIS, - Vital Images, Inc. ("Vital"), announces enhancements in image management to its industry-leading VitreaView(R) enterprise viewer with VioStream(TM) software. Today, many healthcare organizations are challenged to unify access to imaging content, often spread across a number of departmental PACS and distributed locations. Vital is now offering unique building blocks, which will enable full image access through electronic health records (EHRs).

"Healthcare is rapidly transforming and Vital navigates these changes by developing solutions to make our customers more efficient, informed and strategic," said Jim Litterer, General Manager at Vital. "Vital solves the most challenging hurdles through unique image management and analytics components. VioStream is one exciting example of how we're working to break through the traditional silos of data and enable unified and ubiquitous image access."

With the explosion of digital information, healthcare organizations struggle to find efficient ways to manage and access imaging data. Vital is developing a suite of flexible solutions tailored to work within customers' specific IT infrastructures, image access and data management goals, at reduced capital expenditure. VioStream is a server-side software product enabling a Web-based medical imaging viewer to connect to a variety of existing DICOM archives (PACS), convert DICOM data to Web-friendly formats, and view images at a substantially reduced time to first image. Traditional enterprise viewers require users to wait for a full query/retrieve to begin interacting with a study. VioStream eliminates obstacles toward accessing full imaging history of a patient, providing a longitudinal view of a patient's healthcare journey.

Vital's leadership in providing clinically meaningful, multi-modality advanced visualization and universal viewing solutions remains a strong foundation for its growth. The expansion into next generation data management components enables Vital to solve our customers' evolving needs.

About Vital Images, Inc.

Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company, is a

leading provider of health imaging informatics solutions, including

advanced visualization, enterprise image viewing solutions and business

intelligence technology, designed to help healthcare organizations

deliver exceptional care while optimizing resources across

multi-facility organizations. The company's solutions are scalable to

meet the unique needs of hospitals and imaging centers and are

accessible throughout the enterprise anytime and anywhere. For more

information, visit www.vitalimages.com or join the conversation on

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About Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, channels world-class

capabilities in advanced electronic and electrical product and systems

into five strategic business domains: Energy & Infrastructure,

Community Solutions, Healthcare Systems & Services, Electronic Devices

& Components, and Lifestyles Products & Services. Guided by the

principles of The Basic Commitment of the Toshiba Group, "Committed to

People, Committed to the Future", Toshiba promotes global operations

towards securing "Growth Through Creativity and Innovation", and is

contributing to the achievement of a world in which people everywhere

live in safe, secure and comfortable society lives. Founded in Tokyo in

1875, today's Toshiba is at the heart of a global network of over 590

consolidated companies employing over 200,000 people worldwide, with

annual sales surpassing 6.5 trillion yen (US$63 billion). To find out

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