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Baltimore, MD. March 19, 2006. Digital Healthcare Inc, the Baltimore-based clinicalimaging and workflow management company today announced the availability of itslatest version of OcuLab iPÂ for clinical ophthalmology. This innovative productwill be introduced at the ASCRS upcoming meeting in San Francisco, March 17-22,2006.
The new OcuLab system features a wide range of improvements including a newinterface to OCT instruments with the XML export function enabled, new highresolution digital CCD cameras for improved imaging on fundus cameras, improvedpatient management workflow modules, patient appointment tracking and enhanced imageprocessing and analysis functions. The company also announced the availability ofits Web based ophthalmology viewer that allows images and patient historical data tobe viewed over a web portal from home or remote locations.
Announcing the availability of version 1.9 Digital HealthcareÂ's CEO Gerry Skews said We are delighted with the progress we are making in clinical ophthalmology with ournew iP platform, the feedback and response from customers is positive andencouraging. We look forward to further extending the product in the future.Â
The iP system is a rapid applications development platform built on the highlyacclaimed Microsoft .NET framework. The system is a service oriented architecture(SOA) where the individual services are connected using a programmable workflowengine. In this way it becomes possible to develop complex applications that involvehigh performance imaging. The company has already announced products for DiabeticRetinal Diagnostic Imaging and is currently developing applications forpharmaceutical trials management. In February 2006, Digital Healthcare was awardedthe  Best in Class MS Health Users Group award for acute care with its OptoMize iP system.
About Digital Healthcare, Inc:Based in Baltimore, Maryland with a Midwest office in Madison, Wisconsin, DigitalHealthcare develops advanced imaging and workflow technologies for a range ofhealthcare applications. Digital Healthcare designed a rapid applicationsdevelopment platform based on Microsoft .NET connected technologies framework callediPÂ and the company now offers products in Clinical Ophthalmology, Remote RetinalDiagnostic Imaging and Digital Reading Centers. The company counts several major USdefense organizations and several leading academic institutions among its earlyadopters. Digital HealthcareÂ's parent company is based in Cambridge, England, andwas formed as a management buyout from Perkin Elmer Life Sciences (NYSE: PKI) in1999.
For more information, please contact the following:Media Contact: Monica L. Bush - mlb@digital-healthcare.com Technical Contact: Tony Dolezal - tjd@digital-healthcare.com CEO: Gerry Skews - gns@digital-healthcare.comWeb site: www.digital-healthcare.comPle ase Note:Digital Healthcare is attending the 2006 ASCRS meeting in San Francisco betweenMarch 18 Â 22, 2006.You would be most welcome to visit our booth #2244 if you have an opportunity.###
