Vital to develop pediatric cardiac app with Arkansas Children's Hospital
Advanced visualization developer Vital Images is collaborating with Arkansas Children's Hospital of Little Rock to develop a Vitrea pediatric cardiac application designed to meet cardiac features and patient care requirements presented by pediatric patients.

Vital stated that it plans to launch the Vitrea pediatric cardiac application in mid-2010. According to the Minnetonka, Minn.-based company, the new application will be demonstrated at the 2010 Society for Pediatric Radiology annual meeting during April 13-17 in Boston as a work in progress.



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