The Jackson Heart Study, a study that will examine the factors that influence the development of cardiovascular disease in African-American men and women, has selected Vericis from Camtronics Medical Systems of Hartland, WI, to manage the digital echocardiography images and reports collected for the study.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the initiative will be the world's first large-scale prospective cardiovascular disease study focused on African-Americans, involving 6,500 people over the next 30 years. The Jackson Heart Study is a joint project between the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Tougaloo College, and Jackson State University.
Vericis is an information- and image-management system for cardiology. The system configured for the Jackson Heart Study will acquire full-motion studies from four Agilent Technologies Sonos 4500 echocardiography systems via a local area network.
Studies will be reviewed at three Vericis Cardiac Workstations, two on-site at Jackson State’s Medical Mall and one at the University of Mississippi Medical Center's main hospital campus, that will be connected via wide area network.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
September 15, 2000
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