Carestream Health, Inc. is an internationally successful company providing medical and dental imaging systems and information technology solutions; molecular imaging systems; and non-destructive testing products to a broad base of customers around the world.
Carestream Health joined the WHITIA alliance in 2008 and is a supplier of the computed radiography system (CR System) used by WHITIA. Carestream Health donated four systems to WHITIA which are currently being used at WHITIA sites around the world. The CR system is an important part of the WHITIA solution because it enables the digital capacity of the WHIS-RAD system. CR converts the image into digital data which in turn is automatically transferred and processed at the workstation.
Sedecal has been serving medical professionals with radiology solutions for over 25 years. They carry an extensive line of imaging equipment and accessories for orthopedics, podiatry and veterinary practices. Sedecal began its involvement with WHITIA in 2008 through their donation of ten X-ray units. The World Health Imaging System for Radiography (WHIS-RAD) is developed specifically for underdeveloped and underserved areas of the world which have special requirements. The equipment provides high quality images, is safe to use, reliable and is easy to learn. Additionally, it has the ability to operate where power is unreliable and unavailable for periods of time.
Northwestern has a history of adopting philanthropic and research based projects around the world. WHITIA was developed through a Northwestern University and Rotary initiative to bring X-ray to underserved communities.
In 2007, Northwestern developed a student project which outlined the benefits of retrofitting analog x-ray for underserved areas around the world. It then became clear that there was a need for an organization to facilitate the deployment of these units and ensure sustainability. This led to the formation of WHITIA. Northwestern University serves as an essential partner for WHITIA serving as a resource for contacts and advisement.
SIIM is a proud leader in health care professional organizations, representing interests and goals of those who work with and whose work is affected by the rapidly changing world of information and imaging technologies. SIIM seeks to spearhead research, education, and discovery of innovative solutions, and to explore new technologies and applications to improve the delivery of medical imaging services and the quality and safety of patient care.
Merge Healthcare uses decades of technology expertise, intellectual property and innovative software development to build stable, customized solutions for healthcare customers worldwide. Merge Healthcare's OEM solutions improve the process of transferring diagnostic data and images, and support integration of data from imaging procedures into broader health IT applications. These solutions provide an advanced start to software development, and are quietly inside many of today's medical imaging systems.
The software systems which manage the digital images have been provided through a partnership with Merge Healthcare. Merge has pledged staff time, software licensing and product development assistance for the current and next generation of WHITIA solutions.
Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto Service Above Self, Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world.
WHITIA’s partnership with Rotary began with the formation of WHITIA. WHITIA serves as an organizing body that helps fulfill Rotary’s goal of placing X-ray systems in underserved areas. This partnership has been mutually successful and WHITIA looks forward to continuing this affiliation.
McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,100 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Rome, San Diego, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. Extending our reach to Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.
McDermott Will and Emery has provided WHITIA with the necessary legal counsel to help form our non-profit organization and continues to offer ongoing support with our mission.
UCT has a mission to be an outstanding teaching and research university, educating for life and addressing the challenges facing our society.
UCT is committed to academic freedom, critical scholarship, rational and creative thought, and free enquiry. It is their mission to ensure that these ideals live; this necessarily requires a dynamic process of finding the balance between freedom and responsibility, rights and obligations, autonomy and accountability, transparency and efficiency, and permanence and transience; and of doing this through consultation and debate.