A Diagnostics & Imaging Week

Exogen, a business solutions subsidiary of Technology Solutions (both Chicago), said it has been chosen by North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System (Lake Success, New York) to manage the data migration and consolidation of medical image data from its legacy systems to its enterprise medical image storage system.

Exogen says that its Data Certainty solution combines its new technology with professional services to provide what it said is the industry’s “most comprehensive approach to analyzing, characterizing, cleansing and ensuring the migrating of legacy medical image data into a consolidated enterprise approach.”

“Exogen’s Data Certainty approach is unique,” said John Bosco, chief information officer for North Shore-LIJ Health System. “Exogen takes a very holistic and complete approach to ensuring the integrity and migration of our data. Prior to moving one pixel of data, they were able to characterize our legacy data, tell us what was good and bad, what could be cleansed, and how fast the migration would take. This compares to the industry norm where vendors either provide you a piece of software to move the data yourself or worse, they begin moving data without regard to its integrity or impact to the organization.”

Milton Silva-Craig, president/CEO of Exogen, said, “We look forward to helping North Shore-LIJ leverage their medical image data in a more meaningful manner.”

North Shore-LIJ Health System describes itself as the nation’s third-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system.

Home Diagnostics (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) reported that it has been contracted to be the exclusive supplier of a co-branded blood glucose monitoring system for Rite Aid (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) drug stores. Home Diagnostics’ TRUEtrack will be available as the TRUEtrack for Rite Aid blood glucose monitoring system at 5,000 Rite Aid stores across the U.S. starting in March.

TRUEtrack uses biosensor and chip coding technology to generate accurate results in 10 seconds from a single microliter of blood. The TRUEtrack meter and test strips typically cost up to 30 percent1 less than other systems and are covered by Medicare and most insurance plans.