StorageTek and Siemens Health Services, a division of Siemens AG`s Medical Engineering Group, have entered into a non-exclusive, multi-year co-marketing agreement to integrate, service and support scalable, high-capacity and high-performance medical image and data archive solutions.
The first of its kind for StorageTek in the healthcare industry, the co-marketing agreement brings together StorageTek`s medical image archive solutions, consisting of an integrated combination of automated tape cartridge systems, Raid disk, storage management software and professional services, with Siemens` medical imaging products, Picture Archive and Communication Systems (PACS) and healthcare information solutions.
StorageTek and Siemens have integrated systems installed and in full production mode in two radiology departments in the US. A full range of scalable solutions is available to the medical imaging and healthcare information systems market. StorageTek solutions have greater capacity and lower cost than optical storage systems and film-based archives.
"This agreement with StorageTek allows Siemens to include the resources of a company dedicated to information archiving technologies and solutions in our offerings," says Henri Primo, director IS, Siemens Health Services. "Siemens has addressed hospital-wide requirements for deep archival of all medical information, including PACS, across multiple departments and facilities. Our customers are asking us for a comprehensive approach in the area of archiving. PACS is an important part of the total picture in hospital information systems and is no longer a standalone system."
"Siemens` well established hospital relationships and very strong product offerings coupled with our ability to deliver high-capacity and reliable medical image and data archives will provide many benefits to our customers," says Darrell Royal, vice president of solutions integration, StorageTek. "This is an excellent opportunity for us as it provides us access to Siemens` existing customer base and new Siemens PACS customers."
Under the non-exclusive agreement, Siemens and StorageTek will jointly market and sell their complementary capabilities to a wide range of clinical, executive, administrative, technical and information systems (IS) professionals in the larger hospital and healthcare environment in the US. As one of the medical image archive contractors for Siemens, StorageTek will support Siemens` PACS and related applications, and will be responsible for the configuration and installation implementation and testing of the storage subsystem with the customer application. Siemens will lead the implementation through its logistics and service organisations. Siemens and StorageTek will be responsible for supporting their respective components.
StorageTek products are marketed in South Africa by MGX Holdings company CMS.
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