BARCO Awarded Multi-Million Euro Deal to Supply its MEDIS® Diagnostic Display Systems
Kortrijk, November 7, 2002, BARCO has been selected to supply its acclaimed MEDIS® medical greyscale display systems for installation at key sites of the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH) in Taiwan.
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH), owned by the industrial consortium Formosa Plastics of Taiwan, is one of the largest private hospital groups in Asia. CGMH has recently embarked on an ambitious PACS project and has chosen BARCO for its medical imaging display needs. For this project BARCO will deliver a large quantity of its MeDis® display systems as well as some of its newest CORONIS® flat panel display systems.Mr. Vincent Hung, Director of the Medical Information Department of CGMH, comments: “The Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is known for its high standard of patient care as well as for its modern infrastructure and facilities. It is therefore no surprise that for its PACS project CGMH has chosen BARCO. The local presence of BARCO in Taiwan is obviously an additional reason for CGMH’s decision”.
BARCO’s MeDis® display systems are designed to deliver exceptional image quality conform with international standards for medical imaging (DICOM) and consistent with the critical requirements for clinical and diagnostic reading. Each MeDis® system consists of one or more high-resolution greyscale displays, a single or dual-head high-speed display controller and a dedicated softcopy QA management software package.
Mr. Marc G. Poot, Director Asia for BARCO’s Medical Imaging Systems division in Taiwan adds: ”BARCO’s MeDis® display system offers the medical profession an imaging solution of unsurpassed quality that meets the stringent requirements of a filmless softcopy environment. CGMH’s decision to use MeDis® systems confirms not only the importance of image quality, but also attests the position of BARCO in the field of medical imaging. We are very pleased to have CGMH as an important user.”
The CGMH project is expected to be completed by the end of 2002 and will be a strategic reference site for BARCO’s medical imaging business in Asia.
About BARCO
BARCO has three key activities which are all active in Image Processing. BarcoProjection is in various markets of large screen visualization. BarcoView develops and manufactures display systems for life critical applications, while BarcoVision is in systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2001, the entire BARCO group delivered a turnover of 792 million EUR. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
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