DICOM Grid Closes $5M in Expansion Financing for DG Suite

Phoenix, AZ-based DICOM Grid closed a $5 million round of expansion financing today that the company hopes will allow for the expansion of its DG Suite cloud-based imaging platform. DICOM Grid provides real-time, vendor-neutral access to imaging studies. The company also announced that with this latest financing it will open DG Suite up to third-party development.

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