Caringo, Inc. the leading provider of content storage software for active and archive content and Karos Health, a leader in clinical information exchange software that facilitates collaboration between healthcare providers, today announced a partnership to deliver an infrastructure solution enabling healthcare providers to store, secure and seamlessly exchange vast amounts of clinical information across organizations. The two companies bring together Karos Rialto, a software solution that establishes clinical information exchange networks with Caringo CAStor, software that enables scalable and reliable content storage.

The combined solution allows healthcare providers to resolve major challenges:

• The storage and retrieval of an ever-growing amount of clinical information and;
• Timely and secure exchange of information with other healthcare providers.

Caringo CAStor is ideally suited for storing the massive volume of patient information and medical images generated at healthcare facilities offering the scalability and ease of use required by providers. Karos Rialto manages the complexity of clinical information exchange networks and enables healthcare providers to share clinical documents created along the pathway of patient care, simplifying the process and helping to improve outcomes. Together, the technologies address all types and formats of information creating a next generation health information exchange that eliminates incompatibilities and makes sharing data between systems and organizations fluid.

“With the move toward the electronic health record and new demands to electronically share medical information within and across organizations, Karos Health is an ideal partner” said Mark Goros, CEO at Caringo. “Rialto provides a seamless way for organizations to share healthcare information stored in CAStor clusters across mixed clinical systems and distributed locations.”

“For the healthcare market to embrace and adopt a clinical information exchange network, enabling technology and tools must be accessible, easy to implement, and require little to no disruption to the healthcare provider. Karos Health and Caringo share a common architectural philosophy that embraces open standards and a federated model for clinical information exchange and storage, making our joint solution incredibly accessible to the broader marketplace. We are very excited about the potential in this partnership,” said Rick Stroobosscher, President of Karos Health.

About Caringo CAStor

CAStor is object-based storage software that seamlessly scales to meet capacity demands that is simple to manage and administer. It provides the flexibility to build an affordable storage cluster on standard server hardware and includes robust archive features to ensure the retention and preservation of critical information to meet regulatory compliance.

About Karos Rialto

Rialto uses industry standards to enable collaboration between healthcare providers and the patient by providing secure access to the patient’s complete health record, anywhere, anytime. Rialto manages the complexity of clinical information exchange networks and enables healthcare providers to share clinical documents through every step of the patient’s care pathway.

About Caringo

Caringo Inc. is an innovative software provider focused on delivering the most advanced object-based storage technology for accessing, storing and distributing file-based data. Its flagship product, CAStor, dramatically improves the scope and economics of object storage by enabling customers to implement robust storage clusters without being locked into proprietary hardware. Founded on the operating principle that things should be made as simple as possible and a customer-first focus, Caringo makes content and file storage affordable, scalable, fast and easy. More information can be found at www.caringo.com.

About Karos Health

Karos Health is focused on elevating the quality of patient care by enabling the sharing of clinical information. Karos’ flagship product Rialto empowers healthcare enterprises to enable cross community access to information, facilitating collaboration between healthcare providers and patients. Rialto is based on open standards that ensure safe and secure handling of patient health information and is backed by a team with decades of experience in healthcare interoperability. For more information about Karos, visit www.karoshealth.com.

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Caringo and CAStor are trademarks of Caringo, Inc. Other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names of their respective owners.

Contact Information

Derek Gascon
VP Marketing
Caringo
derek.gascon@caringo.com
+1 760 672 2095

Patricia Beretta
Marketing
Karos Health
patricia.beretta@karoshealth.com
+1 519 594 0940