Candelis and FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. Collaborate to Offer Image Management Solutions For Diagnostic Imaging Systems

Candelis’ ImageGrid™ combined with Fujifilm’s ASPIRE Cristalle™ and Persona CT™ will provide high-performance imaging environments to improve patient outcomes.

Newport Beach, CA AND Lexington, MA (February 16, 2021)

Today, Candelis, Inc., a leading provider of innovative and cost-effective enterprise healthcare solutions, and Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and medical informatics solutions, announced a partnership to enhance the image workflow, management, and storage capabilities for the ASPIRE Cristalle 3D mammography system and Persona CT computed tomography solution.

The two companies will leverage each other’s technologies and industry resources to offer a unique solution in Women’s Healthcare and Computed Tomography. FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. will now offer the Candelis ImageGrid suite of products, including ImageGrid, ImageGrid Mini, and ImageGrid Plus, with the ASPIRE Cristalle Mammography System, to improve the data management challenges created by the large amount of data generated by 3D imaging. In addition, the ImageGrid suite of products and Candelis’ ASTRA cloud storage and image transfer services will be offered with the portfolio of Fujifilm’s diagnostic imaging solutions, including the Persona CT.

Candelis and Fujifilm have partnered to design an imaging environment that will allow radiologists to overcome common productivity challenges by using scalable storage and imaging transfer solutions for high-volume and complex diagnostic workflows. The partnership will provide a tomosynthesis optimized ecosystem behind the mammography gantry to seamlessly streamline workflow in small and large enterprise environments and distributed environments where remote reading and teleradiology is part of the workflow. Accordingly, the ImageGrid products will provide pre-fetching, routing, interfacing, and archiving functionalities for the imaging environments.

“We continue to build our reputation as an innovator in diagnostic imaging technology. This cooperation is a landmark deal for bringing cost-effective and efficient solutions for healthcare providers of any size. The powerful combination of the ASPIRE Cristalle and Persona CT with Candelis’ products will allow clinicians to overcome their productivity challenges and help patients receive their diagnosis faster,” said Rick Banner, Senior Director of Marketing, Modality Solutions, FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc.

“We are excited to collaborate with Fujifilm to provide our cost-effective solutions to a growing number of customers. The ImageGrid suite of products, in conjunction with the Aspire Cristalle and Persona CT, will provide Fujifilm’s customers with a solution that is highly optimized for automating and simplifying imaging workflows, while improving business efficiencies,” said Robert Van Uitert, PhD, Vice President of Marketing at Candelis.

The Candelis portfolio consists of image management, routing, and archiving solutions to optimize medical image workflow and storage. ImageGrid provides a feature-rich and scalable enterprise image management platform for end-to-end support of radiology workflows. ImageGrid Mini offers a robust and cost-effective image management on a single small footprint hardware platform. ImageGrid Plus is an enterprise class data management server ideal for facilities with a heavy image volume environment.

About Candelis, Inc.
Candelis, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative and cost-effective medical data management and image management solutions for hospitals, imaging centers and top tier healthcare equipment providers. With over 4,000 installations globally, these solutions optimize medical image reading and data storage workflows, significantly increase practice efficiencies, and improve the quality of services for radiologists, referring physicians and specialists. Candelis’ products provide enterprise-class image management and storage solutions, full-featured workstation viewers, seamlessly integrated workflow products, and ASTRA™ Cloud services. Candelis is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2020 Best Practices New Product Innovation Award for its Global Breast Imaging Workstation.

About Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A.
FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is a leading provider of innovative diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions that meet and exceed the evolving needs of healthcare facilities today and into the future. It's ever expanding medical imaging solutions span digital radiography (DR), detectors, portables and suites, mammography systems with digital breast tomosynthesis, computed tomography solutions for oncology and radiology applications, technologically advanced flexible and surgical endoscopy and fluoroscopy solutions. Fujifilm enables interoperability through its Systems Integration offering as well as its comprehensive, AI-supported Synapse® Enterprise Imaging portfolio, which includes the TeraMedica Division of Fujifilm. Fujifilm's in vitro diagnostics (IVD) portfolio includes clinical lab reagents, and biomarkers to assess the risk for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic liver disease. FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts. For more information please visit http://www.fujifilmhealthcare.com.

FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, brings cutting edge solutions to a broad range of global industries by leveraging its depth of knowledge and fundamental technologies developed in its relentless pursuit of innovation. Its proprietary core technologies contribute to the various fields including healthcare, graphic systems, highly functional materials, optical devices, digital imaging and document products. These products and services are based on its extensive portfolio of chemical, mechanical, optical, electronic and imaging technologies. For the year ended March 31, 2020, the company had global revenues of $22.1 billion, at an exchange rate of 109 yen to the dollar. Fujifilm is committed to responsible environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. For more information, please visit: http://www.fujifilmholdings.com.

 

Contact Information:

Candelis, Inc.
Tricia Buenvenida
tricia.buenvenida@candelis.com
(949) 798-8105

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc.
Marissa Confredo
marissa.confredo@fujifilm.com
914-343-4761