CMTC Invited to Become Member of Preeminent Cooperative Consortium

Catonsville, MD, November 12, 2015 (Newswire.com) -  

Catonsville MD (November 12, 2015) The National Science Foundation-funded Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR)(www.chmpr.umbc.edu), an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center is proud to announce the addition of Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC)(www.cmtcorp.com) as a member at its University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) site.

"CMTC's technology is expected to be of great assistance with several research studies that the Center has been conducting, particularly in the Health IT area. We look forward to working closely with their team led by Simon Schurr, CMTC's founder and CEO in utilizing CMTC's groundbreaking technology in several health projects," commented Dr. Yelena Yesha, Director, UMBC CHMPR. "The US healthcare market has major cost challenges and CHMPR appreciates how CMTC's technology may improve productivity in several ways."

Yelena Yesha, MD

The Center is in its sixth year of a fifteen year award and is composed of three university sites:  the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University of Utah (UU) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), as well as eighteen industry and government members including Dell Research™, NSA, Northrup Grumman™, NASA, LexisNexis™, NIST, D-Wave™ and the FDA.

“CMTC’s technology is expected to be of great assistance with several research studies that the Center has been conducting, particularly in the Health IT area. We look forward to working closely with their team led by Simon Schurr, CMTC’s founder and CEO in utilizing CMTC’s groundbreaking technology in several health projects,” commented Dr. Yelena Yesha, Director, UMBC CHMPR. “The US healthcare market has major cost challenges and CHMPR appreciates how CMTC’s technology may improve productivity in several ways.”

CMTC’s core product is its Physician Collaboration Platform (PCP) which aggregates and organizes disparate data sources to create and share a composite patient record that replaces inefficient and fragmented communications with a turnkey, on-demand, web-based solution. CMTC’s PCP enables healthcare professionals and their patients and caregivers to collaborate with multiple specialists anywhere in the world by sharing a patient’s relevant medical records, diagnosis and treatment plans, and radiology images in DICOM providing high-definition diagnostic quality which is readable on any internet-ready device. Interaction among these healthcare professionals is provided through a secure web portal to maximize accuracy, privacy and efficiency.

“We look forward to having the CMTC team work with the CHMPR and its members on a number of projects related to health,” said Morgan Crafts, Chairman of CHMPR’s Industry Advisory Board and Director, Technology Health IT at Northrop Grumman Information Systems. “CMTC’s collaborative technology should enable the Center to accelerate several current projects.”

“Our PCP can assist greatly with increasing productivity (less time spent and better health outcomes) for physicians, patients and payers by speeding up appointment-scheduling with the doctor, while providing the doctor with the necessary medical information to assess the patient’s situation," said Mr. Schurr, who also noted that CMTC is looking forward to working with CHMPR on high level healthcare projects.  

Contact The Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) or CMTC for more information.

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About The Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR)

The NSF Center for Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) and its affiliated industry and government partners aims to evolve as a national recognized research consortium of industry, government and academia whose focus is pioneering the application of hybrid multicore architectures to problems of national priority and transformative visualization. The CHMPR Mission is to advance the computational training of affiliated university students and faculty in hybrid multicore applications by engaging industry and government in forefront IT research projects.in the fields of Climate Change, Health, Assured Information and situation aware event driven simulations and visualizations. CHMPR’s research areas and programs draw on the diverse community available at the partnering universities to address industry’s current and future hybrid multicore application needs.

About Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC)

CMTC specializes in developing diagnostic and treatment collaboration solutions using innovative cloud-based applications that provide telehealth/telemedicine capabilities. Their robust and agile solutions suite is delivered as platform as a service (PaaS). The Physician Collaboration Platform (PCP) aggregates and organizes disparate data sources to create and share a composite patient record that replaces inefficient and fragmented communications with a turnkey, on-demand, web-based solution. CMTC’s Physician Collaboration Platform specialized technology enables a Case Manager to collaborate with multiple specialists by sharing a patients’ relevant medical records, diagnosis and treatment plans and radiology images in DICOM providing high-definition diagnostic quality, readable on any internet-ready device. Interaction between the physicians is provided through a secure web portal to maximize accuracy, privacy and efficiency. It enables hospitals and physicians to create, brand, and manage secure collaborative communities of clinicians/providers.