vRad Wins Stevie Award In Collaboration Solution Category

imageVirtual Radiologic (vRad), a national technology-enabled radiology practice, has received a 2011 Stevie® Award for Sales & Customer Service. The practice won the award in the Collaboration Solution category for its vRad ® Results (SM) cloud communication tool. This marks the second year consecutive year that Stevie Awards, which organizes several business awards shows worldwide, has selected vRad as a Stevie Award recipient. The practice’s entry in this year’s awards competition was among more than 800 such submissions from companies of all sizes and myriad industries. vRad ® Results is touted as providing secure access to images and radiology reports for entire patient care teams via mobile digital devices and the Internet. It delivers time-sensitive radiology results to ordering physicians on their computers or Apple(R) iPhone® or iPad ™ mobile digital devices. Ordering physicians can utilize it to receive alerts, read complete radiology reports, view key non-diagnostic images.

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