Lexmark International has made another acquisition in the information management area with the $US37 purchase of Toronto-based Claron Technology, a provider of medical image viewing, distribution, sharing and collaboration software technology. 

Claron’s enterprise medical image viewing platform offers Web-based access to patient imaging studies from picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) or vendor neutral archives (VNAs), enabling referring physicians, clinicians and specialists to view patient imaging studies and collaborate in real time to improve patient care.  

Claron’s solutions help healthcare delivery organizations provide universal access to patient imaging studies and other content across and between healthcare enterprises. 

One of Claron’s leading medical image solutions is a universal Web-based zero-footprint viewer that enables diagnostic interpretation of medical images and related digital information on a variety of computers anytime, anywhere across a healthcare provider’s enterprise. This universal viewer supports viewing of all cleared digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) imaging modalities and both 2-D and 3-D viewing. It also requires no software to download while delivering a medical view comparable to any PACS solution.

Claron will report into Lexmark’s Perceptive Software. With this acquisition, Perceptive Software expands its offering to healthcare providers by enabling referring physicians and clinicians to access, view and collaborate on patient information and medical images that reside outside the electronic medical records (EMR) systems, while concurrently image-enabling the EMR and providing easy Web-based access via desktop and mobile devices.

 “Digital content in all forms continues to exponentially grow, particularly in healthcare.   Physicians, other providers and the health information exchanges must be equipped to utilize this content more quickly and collaborate more efficiently to better serve patients,” said Paul Rooke, Lexmark’s chairman and chief executive officer. “The acquisition of Claron further differentiates Lexmark by providing solutions to help physicians and providers view images across devices and the enterprise, enabling better collaboration and patient care.”