history
	The company originated as RSTAR, Inc. in March 1992. RSTAR was spun-out as a for-profit corporation from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to commercialize the world’s first PACS (Picture Archiving & Communication System). RSTAR as a research project team within the hospital had been designing and developing these systems for use at MGH since 1985. RSTAR was the first commercial medical company to be created by MGH since its’ founding in 1811. The company was the first to secure FDA clearance for wavelet compression. The company, its technology and ownership have changed and evolved considerably since 1992 and have been used to develop and support the world’s largest telemedicine network. This network continues to be used to assemble and securely transmit electronic patient records for second-opinion services by a consortium of American hospitals for international patients. Comprised of four of the top-six medical centers in the United States, the consortium consists of The Cleveland Clinic, Duke University Health System, Johns Hopkins Medicine and Partners HealthCare System Inc., which includes Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Representing over 8,000 physicians, scores of acclaimed specialists and sub-specialists and over $1.6 Billion in annual biomedical research funding, this consortium has provided about 12,000 second-opinion studies for patients in more than 20 countries since 1996 using OpenMed technology. Since inception in 1992, the company has remained headquartered in the Boston-area and been focused entirely on developing and commercializing clinical image management systems for medical enterprises. In early 2002, OpenMed Technologies Corporation (OMT), a company formed by the technology architects, purchased the technology and all associated assets and shifted the focus from telemedicine to the medical imaging needs of community hospitals. OMT is a private, profitable, 100% employee-owned, American company based in Boston (Woburn) and incorporated in the State of Delaware. OMT is focused on direct sales to small and medium-sized medical institutions and imaging centers of Radiology/Cardiology enterprise-wide PACS systems fully integrated into many healthcare information systems. OpenMed maintains a product development partnership with Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. Since September 2001, OpenMed products have been fully integrated with an automatic bi-directional HL7 interface with the MEDITECH healthcare information system in use at Ohio Valley Medical Center. In addition, OMT licenses OpenMed technology to vendors of hospital information systems (HIS) in need of a cost effective alternative to in-house development of multimedia clinical patient record capabilities seamlessly integrated into their products. Some marketplace analysts speculate that the next generation of medical information systems should seamlessly integrate HIS/RIS, multimedia clinical patient records and Radiology/Cardiology PACS images. Per-Sé Technologies launched an imbedded OEM version (Media Manager Module for Patient1^®) of several of OpenMed’s products in June 2002.