Capitalizing on its commitment to keeping pace with developing technologies, Claron debuts at the 2013 HIMSS conference Windows 8 support for its Nil family of universal web image viewers. This includes the Windows 8 phone, the Surface RT and Professional tablets, and Windows 8 multi-touch desktop applications. Nil browsers include NilShare for referring physicians and NilRead for primary reading.

On the desktop, Nil supports both a touch and mouse interface on a desktop. The new Windows 8 platform will also provide Nil with the flexibility to run on any of today.s multiple-resolution displays, from a smart phone to a massive wall mounted multi-touch unit.

"Claron is committed to keeping pace with advancing technology and providing compatibility with the latest mobile and desktop platforms. Nil was created as a Web-based product specifically to help us adapt to new technologies quickly and easily," says Claudio Gatti, co-founder and co-CEO of Claron. "With the introduction of Windows 8, we anticipate a major wave of touch-based devices, and going forward, Nil will support them all."

Claron's Nil viewers is a web-based software solution that allows clinicians to securely visualize 2D and 3D imaging studies anywhere a Web browser is available with no application download. It is also compatible with Windows, Apple, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry including new Blackberry 10. Nil supports viewing from both local and cloud-based archives, allowing ease of access and high performance. Since its introduction at RSNA 2010, Nil has been integrated with the technologies of a growing number of partners in various imaging markets. The iOS application offers a complementary option to increases the ease of access to Nil on mobile devices.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

Anytime, Anywhere Medical Image Viewing App Now Available for BlackBerry 10 Smartphones

Claron Technology has been invited to showcase its new BlackBerry® 10 app for the Nil family of medical imaging viewers at BlackBerry Experience Forum events. Taking advantage of the enhanced multimedia and multi-touch functionality of the new BlackBerry 10 platform, the Nil app supports anytime, anywhere web-based review of a full range of medical imaging modalities and reports, such as X-Ray, CT and MRI.

Claron will demonstrate the new app's advanced features and convenience at the BlackBerry Experience events in Toronto on February 4 and Vancouver on February 13. The Nil app for BlackBerry 10 is compatible with the newly launched BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone, as well as the coming BlackBerry® Q10. The app is available today at no cost on the BlackBerry® World storefront.

With single-touch, ultra-fast functionality, the Claron app accesses a Nil viewer running either on Claron's NilCloud or a medical facility's dedicated Nil server. It complements Claron's zero-footprint Nil web viewer available on any desktop, tablet or other smartphones.

Nil provides medical facilities with an ideal complement to their existing PACS solution for secure, streamlined image access beyond the enterprise or existing IT infrastructure. Nil enables image access on-the-fly and takes advantage of highly optimized client-server communication to remain responsive even over limited bandwidth and high latency connections, such as cellular 3G.

Innovative Nil technology provides authorized users sophisticated exam viewing and manipulation capabilities, including 2D, multi-planar reformatting (MPR), 3D and echocardiology with full cine. Its window/level, zoom, pan, rotate and related features enable comprehensive image manipulation in either single or multiple window display.

"As an early and groundbreaking mobile platform with a high level of security, BlackBerry has always had a strong following in business and healthcare enterprises," says Claudio Gatti, co-founder and co-CEO of Claron. "We believe this will only grow with the new BlackBerry 10 platform and all its security and multimedia features. Claron is pleased to be among the firms invited to participate in the premiere enterprise events for BlackBerry 10 and to showcase our new BlackBerry app to business, IT and healthcare leaders. Use of Nil has been growing rapidly in general and we anticipate similar strong response for our new mobile technology in particular."

"Healthcare is an important part of the BlackBerry customer base, and we're pleased that Claron has launched the Nil app for BlackBerry 10," says Derek Peper, Vice President, Enterprise Partnerships, at BlackBerry. "The new BlackBerry 10 smartphones offer significantly faster performance and higher resolution displays - excellent for viewing medical images. We are extremely pleased to have an innovative partner like Claron as part of the BlackBerry Experience Forum events."

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians visualize, analyze, and securely distribute medical images on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare providers deliver more value to their patient by making physicians more efficient and connected. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

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Healthcare IT Innovator Plans for Major Introduction in 2013

Claron Technology Inc. announced today it has raised a first round of mezzanine financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). After 10 successful years in operation, the Canadian medical software company will use the funds to further accelerate its rapid growth, and strengthen its product engineering and distribution capabilities.

"We have seen tremendous demand in the market for our enterprise solutions for web medical image viewing and sharing,” stated Claudio Gatti, co-CEO and co-founder of Claron Technology. "The partnership with BDC allows us to enter into a new period of accelerated growth and to continue building our strong team of innovators."

"Claron is a strong illustration of a successful and rapidly expanding technology firm fueled by talented and committed entrepreneurs," said Enes Kula of the BDC's Subordinate Financing Group. "We are extremely pleased to support the company's continued growth and look forward to participating in its ongoing contributions to healthcare IT."

"BDC mezzanine financing will be key for our launch next year of a revolutionary product for the guided implantology market, said Doron Dekel, co-CEO and co-founder of Claron Technology." Our products fill important market needs and have been well received among all members of the dental community. Now, thanks to BDC, we have extra resources to introduce our newest technology into market more aggressively.”

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare providers deliver more value to their patients by making physicians more efficient and connected. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

About BDC: Canada’s business development bank, BDC, puts entrepreneurs first. With almost 2,000 employees and more than 100 business centres across the country, BDC offers financing, subordinate financing, venture capital and consulting services to more than 28,000 small and medium-sized companies. Their success is vital to Canada’s economic prosperity.

Claron Technology, a leading developer of software for advanced visualization and image distribution, has been selected to showcase its Nil (No Install) viewer in the RSNA 2012 IHE Image Sharing Demonstration. Nil zero footprint web-based viewer is a robust enterprise–class image sharing and visualization solution. Nil supports on-the-fly retrieval and viewing of images, reports and other imaging- related data from any XDS-I compliant archive using any web-enabled computer.

“Nil is a great tool to access HIE to retrieve historical exams and reports from multiple sites,” says Claudio Gatti, co-CEO of Claron. “With XDS-I included in its new federated search functionality, Nil can present a complete unified timeline for a patient with all the local and remote exams. Unlike other zero footprint viewers, Nil supports the same level of functionality as specialized standalone diagnostic reading stations.”

At the RSNA Image Sharing Demonstration, attendees will complete mock imaging procedures, from scheduling them on a RIS through results reporting. Then, they can access all data from the RSNA’s online XDS registry-repository and share information with other attendees using technology from participating image sharing vendors. The RSNA architecture is similar to the technology utilized in the RSNA Image Share pilot project, funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).

At RSNA, all showcased image exchange architecture will be based on the IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I) profile. Claron and other image sharing vendors were required to demonstrate the capabilities of their technology as part of the selection process.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare providers deliver more value to their patients by making physicians more efficient and connected. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

Claron Technology (Toronto, Canada), a leading developer of software for advanced visualization and analysis of medical images, and Hectec GmbH (Landshut, Germany), a developer of the most widely used digital orthopedic surgery planning system worldwide, announce a long-term partnership for joint development of novel orthopedic solutions. As part of the agreement, Hectec will license Claron's Withinsight Framework (WIF) medical image visualization and analysis toolkit and its new SpineMapper engine for automated mapping of spinal anatomical landmarks.

Since 2008, Claron's WIF platform has provided companies with comprehensive tools for the development of a diverse range of specialized medical imaging software applications by providing building blocks for correlated viewing, segmentation, registration and abnormality detection, as well as controlling multiple data volumes, clipping and colorizing spatial regions.

The new SpineMapper engine leverages Claron's patented fast whole-body atlas-based registration to automatically locate the spine and identify its useful anatomical landmarks in CT studies.

"Claron's technology will enable us to enhance and diversify our product line based on a proven platform that will accelerate development of a wide range of advanced software features," says Joern Seel, CEO of Hectec. "Claron is a visionary and dynamic company with a creative technical team. We believe the partnership will significantly streamline our product development cycle and enable the expansion of our orthopedic product line to support accurate, yet easy to use, 3D analysis and surgical planning."

"We are pleased to partner with Hectec, an internationally recognized leader in its field," says Doron Dekel, co-CEO and CTO of Claron. "The company's mediCAD solution sets the standard for digital orthopedic planning and has a large and loyal customer base. We share Hectec's vision of enabling orthopedic surgeons to work in 3D with ease by automating all the time consuming steps involved in 3D interactions, and believe the opportunities for our mutual growth will be significant."

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare providers deliver more value to their patients by making physicians more efficient and connected. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

About HECTEC GmbH: In 1994, HECTEC GmbH began developing a solution that gives orthopaedic surgeons digital tools for efficient and safe planning of joint operations.

In 1999, HECTEC became the first company in the world to provide a software program that allows for fully digitized pre-operative planning of a joint replacement with just a few inputs. With the aid of automatic calculations and special algorithms, doctors can save up to 85% of the time required for conventional planning.

With mediCAD, HECTEC is setting an innovative milestone in the history of surgical orthopaedics. With automatic archiving of critical information and complete traceability of findings and follow-ups, mediCAD provides the best possible framework for monitoring and documenting an operation.

Through close collaboration with leading medical technology companies and successful use of mediCAD in clinics around the world, HECTEC GmbH is now a global player in the medical software market.

NilRead, NilShare Robust Enterprise-Class Imaging Tools

Claron Technology, a leading developer of software for advanced visualization and analysis of medical images, debuts at RSNA 2012 market-leading enhancements that transform its family of Nil (No Install) cloud-based viewers into robust enterprise-class image visualization and sharing tools. Nil viewers include NilRead, a diagnostic quality zero-footprint web-based viewer, and NilShare, a streamlined viewer for clinicians and patients.

New for NilRead at RSNA 2012 is support for viewing federated historical patient exams across multiple PACS archives, vendor neutral archives (VNAs) and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). With NilRead, radiologists now can view a patient’s full exam history in diagnostic quality anytime, anywhere, on any device--whether on a dedicated reading station, a computer anywhere in the hospital, or a tablet or smartphone in a conference room. The newest version of NilRead also supports rules-based hanging protocols so that exams will always be displayed according to a physician’s preferences. At RSNA, NilRead also becomes the first zero-footprint web viewer to support multi-monitor image display.

“Both NilRead and NilShare have always supported a full range of DICOM modalities and advanced visualization capabilities such as slabs, MIP and volume rendering, as well as PET/CT fusion,” says Claudio Gatti, Co-CEO for Claron. “Now the suite has been expanded into a set of enterprise universal viewers supporting DICOM and non-DICOM images across the continuum of care. With this update, the Nil family also directly supports pathology whole slide imaging, including Big TIFF files as well as pathology DICOM.”

“We set out to make the Nil family robust, versatile, multi-functional viewers,” says Gatti. “NilShare was designed as a referring physician’s portal, but could easily serve as a non-diagnostic viewer for all departments across an entire facility or HIE, while NilRead boasts the functionality of a specialized in-house diagnostic viewer.”

New Skype integration of both viewers for voice, data and instant messaging adds to its impact as an important collaborative tool. This collaboration is further enabled by the existing NilFeed image sharing extension that allows remote sites to upload or download DICOM studies from a Nil server using only secure HTTPS protocol. NilFeed is recognized by a DICOM network as a service class provider, enabling images to be pushed to Nil from any DICOM source. Once NilFeed receives the data, it is automatically uploaded to the Nil archive and made available to selected Nil users. Non-DICOM images can be also easily attached to existing DICOM studies or supplied with their own demographics.

NilRead and NilShare can be integrated into any DICOM network and are available as turn-key systems for hospitals, imaging groups or radiology practices. Nil uses highly optimized client-server communication to remain responsive even over connections with limited bandwidth and high latency, such as cellular 3G.

NilShare was introduced in 2010 and was rapidly adopted by a number of U.S. modality and PACS vendors. NilRead is currently under FDA review for Class II 510k approval.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare providers deliver more value to their patients by making physicians more efficient and connected. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

Next-Generation Medical Imaging Software Development Platform Enhances Support for Lesion Segmentation and Tracking

Claron Technology introduces Withinsight Framework (WIF) version 2.1, which adds advanced new segmentation tools, registration enhancements, and performance improvements to the company's innovative platform supporting efficient and rapid development of medical image visualization software. Combined with Claron's patented fast whole-body atlas-based registration technology, these features enable the development of organ-specific automated and semi-automated volumetric lesion segmentation and tracking applications. Claron also added five new sample applications which demonstrate how to optimally use the functions and features added to WIF in the new release.

Since its introduction in 2008, WIF has provided leading healthcare companies with the software toolkit for the development of more than 30 applications, ranging from 3D ultrasound through MRI CAD, CTA vessel analysis, PACS image reading and sharing to therapy planning and guidance systems. Currently, these solutions are in use in thousands of clinical sites worldwide.

This newest product release delivers on Claron's commitment to providing leading edge technology that meets its partners' evolving needs. "Claron partners with some of today's most innovative healthcare technology developers," says Doron Dekel, Co-CEO, Claron Technology. "With on-going enhancements to WIF, we ensure these companies maintain market leadership positions without the large software maintenance expenses that in-house development requires. In addition to many incremental improvements to performance and functionality, this release offers a number of cutting-edge features, such as single-click segmentation of blob-shaped regions and powerful 3D region editing tools. Two of our partners have already started integrating these new features into their solutions, and we expect others to follow."

The WIF software development platform provides visualization, segmentation, registration and navigation functionality to support development of standalone, thin-client and zero-footprint medical imaging applications. Along with enhanced segmentation tools, WIF version 2.1 also provides support for additional modalities, including OPT data and multi-dimensional MR/NM, as well as additional registration techniques, while enhancing overall speed and performance.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to large multi-national device and IT vendors deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

Claron Technology has been featured on the BlackBerry Developer website. Claudio Gatti, co-founder and co-CEO of Claron, talks about why it made sense for the company to develop an application for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and the successful partnership with Research In Motion. Read the full article at https://developer.blackberry.com/whyblackberry/claron

Claron Technology announces release of an innovative tele-mentoring system co-developed by Claron and BrainsGate that provides simultaneous display of image guided surgeries onsite and in a remote location to enable remote surgical guidance. Representing a significant technological breakthrough, the new BrainsGate GuideView TeleSync system was specially designed to overcome the limitations of low OR bandwidth to communicate video remotely over a network as it appears on the local navigational display.

Physicians unfamiliar with advanced new medical procedures--especially those involving innovative technologies such as BrainsGate’s groundbreaking ischemic stroke system--benefit significantly from real-time support by experienced physicians. By supporting remote surgical instruction and guidance, BrainsGate enables physicians anywhere to learn from the expertise of experienced users and become proficient in performing the procedure. Additionally, with medical experts on-call to consult on the procedure as needed, the innovative guidance system will enhance post-training physician confidence and promote increased use of the system and potentially lifesaving surgical technique.

According to Zami Yerushalmy, Executive for Claron Technologies, the new tele-mentoring system solves a common IT problem in the operating room (OR). “The typically low bandwidth connection of the hospital OR results in long delays in information display on remote workstations when using a desktop image sharing application, making these systems problematic for tele-mentoring where real-time feedback is crucial,” he explains. “Moreover, desktop applications typically use compression technology to speed data transfer, significantly degrading image quality.”

To provide built-in tele-mentoring support for its new image-guided ischemic stroke platform, BrainsGate collaborated with Claron to overcome these problems and create a flexible, easy-to-implement solution.

“Our new SPG cerebral vasodilatation stroke treatment involves minimally invasive implantation of a neuro-stimulator. It is an exacting procedure with a significant learning curve,” comments Srulik Dvorsky, R&D Manager for BrainsGate. “Studies have shown that surgeons learning the procedure performed it faster and with significantly more success with real-time mentoring support. This support, however, demands precise synchronization between the local and remote workstations so that the mentor and OR physician share the same visual representation in real time and can work interactively to master new techniques and optimize the results. The advantage of the TeleSync system is its ability to transfer large amounts of information in real time, an ability which standard remote desktop applications lack.”

In the new Claron-BrainsGate solution, both the OR and remote mentor workstations actually run the same image guidance application locally—it is not shared over the Internet similarly to a desktop sharing application. Prior to the start of a mentoring session, the TeleSync system synchronizes the two workstations by transmitting all large volumetric imaging data. Following this, to minimize data transfer volume and optimize display time, the system transmits only ongoing changes. This information triggers the update to the remote screen locally in near real-time—almost as the computations are made to update the local screen itself.

Under the guidance of the system’s artificial intelligence, video updates of the surgical field are communicated at a compression level and frequency determined by the available bandwidth as well as the clinical usefulness of these images at the specific stage in the operation.

“The result,” according to Srulik Dvorsky, “is that a greater number of physicians can be trained in use of the system, regardless of their physical location, and patients anywhere can benefit from more advanced, immediate stroke treatment when seconds count.”

The new BrainsGate TeleSync system consists of multiple computers communicating over a digital network, usually the Internet. They include one or more local surgical guidance workstations at the healthcare institutions, one or more remote mentoring workstations, and a collaboration server. The workstations' connection to the Internet is typically controlled by firewall routers which prevent the workstations from being accessed by programs running outside the institution. To solve this problem, the collaboration server is set up to be accessible by programs running on all the other computers.

In addition to typical peripherals such as a display and input devices, the local workstation is outfitted with an optical or electromagnetic tracker to sense the position of the patient anatomy and the surgical instruments as well as video cameras to capture the surgical field.

Offering easy and flexible set-up, the remote mentoring workstation is typically a standard PC with no special peripherals.

TeleSync was created to support immediate use for virtual training and support of physicians at more than 70 sites worldwide that are participating in a pivotal clinical trial for the BrainsGate SPG implant device and image-guided implant procedure. This virtual training eliminates the need for BrainsGate personnel to travel onsite to provide instruction and allows maximum flexibility in the timing of training sessions.

Already, the benefits of tele-mentoring in SPG procedures have been demonstrated by comparison of early surgeries performed without real-time assistance and those performed later with virtual mentors using a simple screen sharing system. However, a more recent comparison with virtual collaborations using the new Guide View TeleSync system found that TeleSync’s superior training experience was far more beneficial for surgical performance.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

About BrainsGate Systems: BrainsGate is a medical device company committed to developing a novel treatment modality, electrical SPG stimulation. This platform technology has been shown to increase blood flow to the brain and as a result has broad potential for treating central nervous system disorders. BrainsGate is currently focusing on improving the outcome of patients suffering from ischemic stroke, in a 24 hour window after onset of symptoms. For more details, visit www.brainsgate.com.

Claron Technology introduces at SIIM 2012 the BlackBerry PlayBook app for the Nil family of medical imaging viewers, which support anytime, anywhere web-based review of a full range of imaging modalities and related data. The Claron Nil viewers include both NilRead for diagnostic applications and NilShare for referring physician and other non-diagnostic users.

The Nil app for the BlackBerry PlayBook provides one-click, ultra-fast access to the innovative image viewer running either on Claron's NilCloud or a medical facility's dedicated Nil server. The new app complements Claron.s zero-footprint Nil web viewer accessible on any desktop, tablet or smartphone. The new app is now available for the PlayBook for free on BlackBerry App Worl..

Innovative Nil technology provides authorized users sophisticated exam viewing and manipulation capabilities, including 2D, multi-planar reformatting (MPR), 3D and even echocardiology with full cine. It allows comprehensive image manipulation with window/level, zoom, pan, rotate and more in either single or multiple window layouts.

Nil allows medical facilities to securely distribute images and reports outside their network without maintaining a dedicated complex IT infrastructure. It is also a versatile, flexible and easy-to-use tool for image viewing on any mobile device, providing medical facilities with an ideal complement to their existing PACS solution.

Users access images from either cloud-based storage or by logging into their local Nil server. Nil web technology is compatible with all major desktop OS, and also includes dedicated apps for all the major smartphone ecosystems. Nil uses highly optimized client-server communication to remain highly responsive even over limited bandwidth and high latency connections, such as cellular 3G.

"Now BlackBerry PlayBook users have a new ultra-fast and convenient way to access images on Nil servers," says Claudio Gatti, co-founder and co-CEO of Claron. "BlackBerry devices are widely used in the medical environment, and we anticipate that the new Nil app for the BlackBerry PlayBook will be very popular among IT managers and physicians in today's fast-paced, HIPAA-conscious world."

"We're pleased that Claron is expanding support for the BlackBerry platform with their new Nil app for the PlayBook," said Peter Ng, Sr. Director, Alliances Strategy & Business Development at Research In Motion. "The BlackBerry PlayBook offers Nil customers an ultra-portable design, letting users easily carry the tablet with them. It also includes a high resolution display that offers sharp viewing, and delivers the responsive performance needed for handling medical images."

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

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Claron Technology introduces NilFeed, an image sharing extension for its family of Nil medical image viewers that enables easy, flexible communications among unrelated sites. Nil viewers, which include both diagnostic and referring physician offerings, run within a browser on any Web-enabled device. Using NilFeed, a Nil site can now collaborate easily and securely with any external medical facility, whatever its imaging infrastructure, without setting up and maintaining a dedicated VPN connection. A remote site can upload or download a DICOM study from a Nil server using only secure HTTPS protocol.

NilFeed is recognized by a DICOM network as a service class provider, enabling images to be easily pushed to Nil from any PACS. NilFeed also supports importing a DICOM file through Windows' regular drag and drop mechanism. Once imaging data has been received by NilFeed, it is automatically uploaded to the Nil archive and made available to Nil users.

John Wallace, System Manager for Vanderbilt Imaging Informatics, comments, "At VUMC, NilFeed is under clinical evaluation to enable our trauma specialists with the ability to assess potential community hospital transfer cases by uploading remote patient images. Previously, this type of image communication was accomplished with a dedicated VPN connection to our Access Center, but the approach was not scalable and was costly. NilFeed, used in conjunction with our on-site, virtualized Nil server, has already demonstrated the potential to significantly improve this critical trauma scenario. Our specialists are notified when a study has been uploaded, and they can quickly make an informed assessment based on the relevant images. They especially like the ability to interact with the referring doctor in a live, collaborative fashion before a transfer decision is made. NilFeed performs the live collaboration perfectly. The Claron engineers have been extremely easy to work with, and their dedication to developing NilFeed to meet our specific needs here at Vanderbilt has been excellent."

"Working with VUMC, we discovered several other clinical scenarios where NilFeed proved extremely useful," says Claudio Gatti, co-founder and co-CEO of Claron. "For example, it allows distributed research groups to collaborate on a clinical trial without shipping physical media. Using NilFeed, data can be easily uploaded and downloaded from a selected principal trial archive with minimal IT setup. NilFeed also enables direct site to site image sharing without storage of sensitive clinical data on a third party cloud system, allowing an institution to remain in full control of its HIPAA-compliance status."

NilFeed can also append non-DICOM images and PDF reports to any existing DICOM study, allowing data sharing from a variety of different imaging systems. In addition to PDF, most popular image formats are also supported, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG.

Claron's NilFeed is the latest addition to the growing Nil family. Nil viewers are a Web-based software solution that allows clinicians to securely visualize imaging studies anywhere a Web browser is available with no application download. It is compatible with Windows, Apple, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Nil apps for the major mobile ecosystems are also available. Nil supports viewing from both local and cloud-based archives, allowing ease of access and high performance. Since its introduction at RSNA 2010, Nil has been integrated with the technologies of a growing number of partners in various imaging markets, including Radiology, Eyecare and Pathology. NilFeed will be on display at Claron booth 410 at SIIM 2012.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

About Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a comprehensive healthcare facility dedicated to patient care, research, and biomedical education. Its reputation for excellence in each of these areas has made Vanderbilt a major patient referral center for the Mid-South. Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the Southeast choose Vanderbilt for their health care needs, not only because of its excellence in medical science, but also because the faculty and staff are dedicated to treating patients with dignity and compassion. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Claron Technology announces the introduction of an iPad and iPhone app for its family of Nil medical image viewers. Nil viewers-- which include both a diagnostic version introduced this year at RSNA and referring physician offering-- run on any device within a Web browser. Now, Claron offers even greater convenience for Apple technology users with a free Nil app available at the Apple Store. The new Nil iPhone/iPad product will provide complete access to all the functionalities of NilShare and NilRead, including side-by-side viewing, arrangement and comparison of multiple series/multiple studies. Series can be linked and viewed synchronized. The new Nil app also will support two new advanced viewing protocols for PET-CT or PET-MR data fusion and for optimized viewing of enhanced MR and CT studies.

"The NilRead viewer will now be easy to find on the Apple Store," says Claudio Gatti, co-founder and co-CEO of Claron. "This introduction combines the flexibility of Nil's Web approach to image viewing, with the established online and mobile markets provided by the iOS platform. Users will be able run the viewer from Claron Nil servers or enter their own private server address."

Claron's Nil viewer is a web-based software solution that allows clinicians to securely visualize 2D and 3D imaging studies anywhere a Web browser is available with no application download. It is compatible with Windows, Apple, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Nil supports viewing from both local and cloud-based archives, allowing ease of access and high performance. Since its introduction at RSNA 2010, Nil has been integrated with the technologies of a growing number of partners in various imaging markets. The iOS app offers a complementary option to increase the ease of access to Nil on mobile devices. This product introduces Claron's new family of Nil apps for all the major mobile platforms. It will be demonstrated at Claron booth at RSNA 2011 and available on the Apple app store by the end of the year.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing, image sharing and image distribution in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyze them, and securely distribute them on a variety of different platforms from desktop to smartphones. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, visit www.clarontech.com.

Claron Technology, a leading developer of software for advanced visualization and analysis of medical images, highlights major expansions and enhancements to its two major product families: Nil (No Install) and WIF (Withinsight Framework) at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.

Claron adds to its Nil cloud-based exam viewer family with NilRead, a full-featured viewer designed to enable diagnostic reading anywhere, anytime and on any device -- tablets, smartphones, laptops or desktops. The viewer includes support for all modalities, customizable hanging protocols, prior-current comparison, extensive measurements, many advanced visualization features (thin/thick slabs, MIP, volume rendering, PET/CT fusion), secure email bookmarks and real time collaboration.

The viewer complements existing viewer NilShare, which provides clinician and patient access to interactive reports and real-time consultations and collaboration. NilShare was introduced last year and was quickly licensed by a number of modality and PACS vendors.

Nil products provide anywhere, anytime viewing, visualization and manipulation of images from all modalities. Nil clients are programmed using pure AJAX (HTML and Javascript), supported on any web-enabled computing device, and provide both a mouse-based and multi-touch UI. With a zero-footprint architecture, Nil clients run securely and instantly and leave no trace in memory when closed, requiring no IT support. Nil server-side software requires no special graphics hardware, allowing it to be easily virtualized and run in a cloud environment. Nil uses highly optimized client-server communication to remain usefully responsive even over connections with limited bandwidth and high latency, such as cellular 3G.

NilShare and NilRead can be integrated in any DICOM network and are available as turn-key systems for hospitals, imaging groups or radiology practices. Claron plans to file a Class II 510k submission for NilRead with the FDA by the end of the year.

This RSNA, Claron will also debut release 2.0 of WIF, a rich collection of software building blocks for accelerating the development of a wide range of medical imaging applications. In this latest release, WIF has been ported to C#, expanded to provide over 10,000 functions and optimized to run faster and generate higher quality images. In addition to supporting desktop and thin-client deployment, it now also supports zero-footprint technology and powers members of the Nil products family. WIF was commercially introduced in 2008 and is already licensed by more than a dozen OEMs shipping products that visualize and manipulate CT, MRI, ultrasound, X-ray and ophthalmic images for diagnosis, analysis and guidance of therapy.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to large multi-national device and IT vendors deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

System Supports Image Guided Surgeries, Brain Stimulation and More

Claron Technology, a leading developer of software for advanced visualization and analysis of medical images, announced today issuance by the European Patent Office of patent no. 1527417B1 entitled "A Video Pose Tracking System and Method" for the company's MicronTracker system. One of the most advanced systems of its kind, Claron's MicronTracker optical pose tracking technology uses real-time stereoscopic vision to detect and track the location and orientation (pose) of specially marked objects in space. These objects, which may be a surgical tool or anatomical location, are marked using small checkered target patterns ("Xpoints").

Claron has held a U.S. patent for its MicronTracker technology since 2005, and it currently is in use worldwide by more than 250 medical centers, research sites and medical device OEMs.

Using visible light in real-time to detect marked objects, Claron's MicronTracker is a fully passive system, by contrast with older generation systems that require built-in infrared light emission. "Claron's MicronTracker, with its rich functionality, uses a fundamentally different, advanced approach than prior tracking technologies. Target patterns are detected reliably, and the location of a pattern's center is precisely pinpointed by Claron's advanced processing algorithms", says Zami Yerushalmy, Executive for Claron. "MicronTracker's calibration accuracy of 0.2mm RMS leads the field. It is the smallest and lightest certified tracking system on the market and provides a new level of flexibility for building clinical image-guidance and tracking applications."

Together with the company's Withinsight Framework (WIF), Claron also offers the MicronTracker through ClaroNav, a surgical and interventional navigation platform, which can be customized to guide a wide range of medical procedures. The ClaroNav platform accelerates the development of applications and systems for advanced guided surgeries, brain stimulation, ENT procedures and other clinical applications. It also helps support robot guided surgeries including ablation and biopsy.

With the MicronTracker, ClaroNav features the smallest and lightest camera available today, which is suited to the compact spaces required in medical applications. It delivers real-time sub-millimeter pose data at high frame rate and supports a high dynamic range mode to function reliably under operating room light conditions.

Claron offers four different MicronTracker models to support different fields of measurement, frame rate and precision. The systems can be configured with multiple cameras to increase the field of measurement size and reduce line-of-sight interruption. MicronTracker uses simple-to-prepare, printable target markers on paper or plastic sheets or DuraMark material tested to sustain over 100 cycles of steam sterilization. The system is Windows, Mac and Linux compatible and affordably priced.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to large multi-national device and IT vendors deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

Claron Technology, Inc., a leading developer of software for advanced visualization and analysis of medical images, debuts version 2.0 of Withinsight Framework (WIF), a powerful platform for the acceleration of medical image visualization applications. This next generation solution provides enhanced features and functionalities that now address the full range of imaging modalities, offer richer user interfaces with multiple modes of interaction and answer specific partner requests for enhancements.

Highlights of WIF 2.0 include a migration to the C# programming language, delivery of faster and higher quality rendering, registration and segmentation of images and built-in support for cloud-based image viewing.

“Zero-footprint applications that can be efficiently controlled using a multi-touch user interface are all but certain to become commonplace across the radiology and healthcare enterprise. This is a radical change in architecture, which will be challenging for many medical imaging software providers. With this release, we have taken the first steps in enabling our customers to make the transition more easily,” says Doron Dekel, co-CEO of Claron and architect of WIF. “Our rapidly evolving and diversifying Nil family of applications is a showcase of how WIF 2.0 supports mobile and cloud-based products. But, this is just the beginning.”

Commercially introduced in 2008, the WIF platform accelerates development of a diverse range of specialized medical imaging software by facilitating such computer tasks as automation of segmentation, registration and abnormality detection as well as controlling multiple data volumes and clipping and colorizing spatial regions. The platform is becoming increasingly powerful and versatile as the user and applications base expands. The number of companies using or developing applications on WIF has doubled in the past two years to more than twelve.

“The latest WIF release is faster, more robust and supports more than 10,000 functions. Today, it could easily be used to design rich and powerful systems, such as an entire PACS or an advanced visualization workstation,” says Claudio Gatti, Claron co-CEO. “Most of our users, however, are vendors of specialized imaging applications that benefit from WIF components that accelerate specific aspects of their development process. To date, applications built on the platform have ranged from specialized automated processing engines to clinical applications for analysis of breast MRI, lung CT and ophthalmology. They also include programs providing therapy guidance, for example, for neurology ENT and spine.”

Dekel points out that WIF, which is provided to customers as source code, has been ported from Visual Basic to C# because use of the C# language is much more prevalent in the medical imaging community. Other new enhancements include expanded support for images of all modalities, expanded segmentation methods, faster elastic registration, faster higher quality volume renderings and richer support for extracting, manipulating and rendering polygonal surfaces.

“Withinsight Framework is the only platform of its kind meeting the specialized needs of the medical imaging IT community and is the cornerstone of our firm’s own software development,” says Gatti. “This latest release with all its new features and benefits demonstrates our long-term commitment to continual upgrade and expansion of the platform for the benefit of all our end users,” comments Dekel.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to large multi-national device and IT vendors deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

Perfint Healthcare and Claron Technology announced today an agreement to partner in developing innovative products that will help clinicians plan and deliver therapy using CT, Ultrasound and MRI patient images. Perfint will lead the development with system integration, marketing and sales. Claron will contribute its image processing platform Withinsight Framework (WIF), extended and customized as needed for specific applications and target markets.

"Perfint, based in India, is keenly aware of the needs in emerging markets for low-cost, yet accurate and efficient, interventional image guidance products," says S Nandukumar, Perfint's CEO. "Using Claron's WIF platform and its deep expertise in image-guidance allows us to rapidly create, evolve and customize such products for different applications and markets."

"We share Perfint's enthusiasm for creating a new generation of simple, effective, low-cost image-guidance products, and are confident our technology will greatly accelerate their development and evolution," says Doron Dekel, Claron's Co-CEO and CTO. "We continue to expand WIF's range of building blocks for designing image-guidance products, which includes optical pose trackers as well as automated image registration, planning and tool guidance modules. Our technology's affordable price and our flexible model for business partnerships will help make Perfint's products successful in a wide range of countries and healthcare delivery models."

About Perfint Healthcare Pvt. Ltd: Perfint Healthcare is in the business of Interventional Oncology Assistance Solutions with an emphasis on Emerging Society needs, while being relevant in advanced societies. Perfint's first product PIGA CT, CE, UL certified, is a Robotic tool positioner for minimally invasive CT guided interventions like Biopsy, FNAC, Pain Management and ablation procedures. It has been installed in top hospitals and diagnostic centers in Asia Pacific, India and West East. PIGA CT is a Frost & Sullivan award winning product.  As it expands beyond Asia to EU, China and the USA, Perfint is also working towards launching its ROBIO series of Robotic positioners and a sector defining Ablation Assistance product during 2011 - '12. For more details, please visit www.perfinthealthcare.com.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to large multi-national device and IT vendors deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

Claron Technology, the Toronto-based medical imaging software innovator, has received International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification in three categories for its quality management system, testifying to the strength of its broad-based imaging IT solutions. From its recently introduced Nil zero-footprint web-based DICOM viewer to its ClaroNav surgical-guidance-by-video platform and versatile Withinsight Framework (WIF) advanced visualization software framework, Claron’s advanced technology has established the company as an industry innovator since its inception in 2001.

Claron was awarded ISO 13485: 2003 certification based on its ability to demonstrate consistent compliance with customer and regulatory requirements applicable to its medical devices and related services. Claron also met specialized ISO 13485 (CMDCAS) certification requirements for the sale of its medical devices in Canada and successfully showed compliance with ISO 14971:2007 by demonstrating an effective process for identifying, evaluating and controlling any potential risks associated with product use throughout its lifecycle.

“ISO standards are voluntary, and Claron’s certification clearly positions the company as a growing international technology player whose offerings can be implemented with a high level of confidence anywhere in the world, whether as a stand-alone solution or as part of an OEM product,” comments Claudio Gatti, Claron co-founder and co-CEO.

Gatti notes that Claron has helped bring to market key innovations in medical image processing, distribution and related technologies. “As a relatively small and specialized vendor, Claron has the ability to partner with clients to develop solutions that address genuine market demand,” he says, adding that now clients around the globe can be even more assured of the strength of that partnership.

“Claron’s strict adherence to ISO standards demonstrates its commitment to delivering the highest quality technology to the medical imaging market around the world. Importantly, our quality processes were carefully designed to ensure we will be able to maintain our rapid pace of innovation, while ensuring product integrity and reliability,” comments Doron Dekel, Claron co-founder and co-CEO.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to large multi-national device and IT vendors deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

Claron Technology today announced two new integrations of its zero footprint Nil viewer with CoActiv Medical and VoyantHealth cloud based solutions. Since its introduction at RSNA 2010, Nil has integrated with a growing number of partners in the radiology and ophthalmology/optometry market. Nil is a software solution allowing clinicians to securely visualize 2D and 3D imaging studies inside or outside the hospital network. It runs anywhere a Web browser is available, on Windows, Apple, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Nil users can organize collaboration sessions with their clinical partners where all participants share and annotate the same study in real time. By providing an enhanced experience to their clinicians, Nil allows hospitals, physician groups and imaging centers to maintain and increase their referral base.

"The Nil platform, with its innovative zero footprint foundation and ability to be fully virtualized, provides our customers the flexibility to integrate easily with their cloud based solutions," said Claudio Gatti, co-founder and Co-CEO of Claron Technology. "Customers can deploy Nil in their web based cloud solution without restrictions and implement the solution that is right for them."

CoActiv Medical’s recently announced EXAM-BROWSERTM universal clinical viewer is based on Claron’s Nil technology. “Finally, physicians have a sophisticated, but easy-to-use, method to communicate, consult and collaborate across multiple image platforms, including local PCs as well as mobile devices,” said Ed Heere, President and CEO of CoActiv. “CoActiv is excited about introducing this major innovation in medical image communications. EXAM-BROWSER will allow physicians to view any modality from any PACS in any format. Viewing anatomy as 3D structures will help all physicians as well as patients more fully understand a diagnosis. CoActiv is one of the industry's leading providers of secure, HIPAA compliant, medical image archiving and with the new viewer’s standards-based technology, images stored on the CoActiv Vendor-Neutral, Cloud-Based Archive can be viewed in conjunction with any PACS.”

Nil will also be deployed in the Orthopedic market through integration with VoyantHealth’s revolutionarily OrthoWeb. “The cloud technology platform allows us to deliver OrthoWeb to our customers using a completely new model”, says Zeev Glozman, CEO of Voyant Health. “Nil universal viewer is the perfect match for OrthoWeb allowing our user base to view and interact with images anywhere they can access OrthWeb. OrthoWeb is based on industry standard cloud technology like SaleForce and Amazon Cloud EC2, and Nil's ability to naturally operate in those environment made the integration process very smooth and efficient.”

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

About CoActiv: CoActiv Medical™ is a leading healthcare software and IT systems provider offering a full line of PACS, digital image cloud-based data storage services and related solutions for hospitals, imaging facilities and medical practices of all sizes. CoActiv’s EXAM-PACS® family of web-based PACS solutions provide leading edge, affordable and scalable image management with sophisticated tools that cater to the needs of radiologists as well as a full range of other imaging specialists.

About Voyant Health: Voyant Health has one mission: dramatically improve the orthopedic surgeon’s work life to support high-quality care and allow more time with patients. We help surgeons do this every day by delivering integrated workflow solutions for the clinic, the hospital, the operating room, and beyond.

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Medical imaging software developer Claron Technology, headquartered in Toronto, has been included in the 23rd annual PROFIT 200 ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine. Ranking Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 200 profiles the country's most successful growth companies. Published in the Summer issue of PROFIT and online at PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT 200 is Canada's largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.

This is the 3rd consecutive year in which Claron appears on the list. Last year, Claron was ranked 82nd, based on its 760% revenue growth from 2004 to 2009. This year, Claron was ranked 191, based on its 212% revenue growth to $3,339K CAD ($3.4M USD) in 2010. The company, which is privately owned by its founders, has been profitable each year since its inception 10 years ago.

"The PROFIT 200 companies are the innovative, high-growth enterprises Canada needs to compete on the global stage," says Ian Portsmouth, Editor-in-Chief of PROFIT Magazine. "PROFIT is proud to celebrate their achievements and ambitions, and we encourage all businesspeople to learn more about the many ways they've come so far, so fast."

"We see our repeated inclusion in the PROFIT 200 list as a recognition of our ability to be of growing value to our corporate partners even during times when the industry went through painful cost cutting. We continue to build that ability by broadening our technology platform, adding to our team of 30 exceptionally productive engineers and creating a minimal overhead environment that encourages contact between engineers and customers," says Doron Dekel, co-founder and Co-CEO. "We currently see strong market interest in Nil, our zero-footprint (no install) applications technology, ClaroNav, our surgical-guidance products suite, and WIF, our advanced visualization software framework. The combination of increased capacity to deliver value and increased interest in that value gives us reason to believe that our rapid growth will continue for some years to come," says Claudio Gatti, the other co-founder and Co-CEO.

About Claron Technology, Inc: Claron is dedicated to the application of image processing technology in medicine. It has extensive experience in developing systems that help clinicians identify anatomy and tissues of interest, visualize and analyse them, and safely navigate their instruments during surgical procedures. Claron helps healthcare vendors, ranging from young start-ups to giant device and IT vendors such as Philips, McKesson and Medtronic, deliver more value to their clinical customers faster by incorporating its technology into their products. Claron's technology is licensed in a range of formats, including low-level modules, platforms, sub-systems, applications and custom engineered exclusive solutions. For more details, please visit www.clarontech.com.

About PROFIT Magazine: PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success is Canada's preeminent publication dedicated to the management issues and opportunities facing small and mid-sized businesses. For 29 years, Canadian entrepreneurs and senior managers across a vast array of economic sectors have remained loyal to PROFIT because it's a timely and reliable source of actionable information that helps them achieve business success and get the recognition they deserve for generating positive economic and social change. Visit PROFIT online at PROFITguide.com.

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Claron Technology announced the introduction of Nil, a software solution allowing radiologists to give their referring physicians secure access to live reported studies inside or outside the hospital network. Physicians can access the data through a referring physician web portal and receive dynamic bookmarks through email or pdf reports with embedded live links. The live reports can contain complete 2D studies plus multiplanar and 3D reconstructions. All the common modalities are supported including X-ray , CR, DR, CT , MR, Pet-CT, SPECTS , US, SC and DICOM embedded PDF. The viewer can run anywhere a Web browser is available, on Windows, Apple, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

Radiologist can organize collaboration sessions with their referring physicians where all participants share and annotate the same study in real time. By providing an enhanced experience to their physicians, Nil allows hospitals, radiology groups and imaging centers to maintain and increase their referral base.

Nil extends to radiology the easy distribution and collaborations capabilities of the Web and the mobile world that we take for granted in many other parts of our lives. It has already been integrated by a major modality manufacturer and the feedback at RSNA has been phenomenal, especially on the collaboration functionality," says Claudio Gatti, co-CEO and co-founder of Claron Technology.

Nil is also a perfect match for providers of data storage both in the cloud or in more classical archiving solution. Nil is a non diagnostic tool, but it complies with HIPAA regulation by providing industry standard security access through Windows authentication and SSL encryption. The server backend is scalable to accommodate an expanding user base and it has been designed to run in a Web farm environment.

Visit Claron at booth 1006D in the Lakeside hall to get a live demonstration of Nil.

Claron was invited to participate in Ontario's Life Sciences Mission to Israel, led by Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty. During the one-week visit to Israel, Claron met with 11 current or prospective client companies, discussing collaborations in developing a wide range of exciting new technologies. A memorandum of understanding launching one such collaboration, between Claron and BrainsGate, was signed in a formal ceremony in Tel Aviv (see picture). The collaboration aims to develop a tele-mentoring system, allowing an expert at central location to guide and assist surgeons performing challenging image-guided procedures practically anywhere in the world.

Signing ceremony in Tel Aviv



Left to right: Jon Allen (Canada Ambassador to Israel), Dalton McGuinty (Premier of Ontario), Doron Dekel (co-CEO Claron Technology), Noam Levy (CFO BrainsGate), Yossi Opper (Israel's Chief Scientist), Sandra Pupatello (Ontario's Minister of Economic Development and Trade).

First deals signed during ontarion mission to middle east

Claron Technology is very proud to announce that it has been included in the 22nd annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies. Claron has qualified for the PROFIT 100 category in the 82nd position overall. Ranking Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 100 profiles the country's most successful growth companies. Published in the June issue of PROFIT and online at PROFIT100.com, the PROFIT 100 is Canada's largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.

Claron Technology is featured in the Ontario Showcase of MaRS Diagnostic Imaging report