Press Releases
WHITIA Announces Launch of Healthy Communities Initiative and Selection of Alivio Medical Center as Its First U.S. Project Site
"CHICAGO, IL, January 12, 2011—WHITIA, a global non-profit social venture focused on bringing affordable healthcare technologies to medical facilities in limited-resource areas, today announced the launch of its Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI). Through HCI, WHITIA will help urban and rural community health centers obtain essential healthcare technologies such as digital X-ray and telemedicine systems. WHITIA’s first HCI project will be a digital X-ray installation at Alivio Medical Center, a bilingual, bicultural community health center located on Chicago’s Southwest side" Read More
WHITIA Announces the Completion of Digital X-ray Pilot Sites in Urban and Rural Guatemala
"CHICAGO, IL, January 4, 2011—WHITIA, a global non‐profit social venture focused on bringing affordable healthcare technologies to medical facilities in limited‐resource areas, today announced that it has completed two digital X‐ray pilot site installations in Guatemala. The organization said that these sites will serve as the model for both urban and rural installations throughout the country." Read More
Not-for-profit Targets HIV/Tuberculosis Co-Epidemic and Black Lung with Remote X-ray Screening Solution
"Chicago – November 29, 2009 – WHITIA today unveiled Remi-d, a new product concept that is intended to provide remote-operated X-ray capabilities for use in screening across areas of the developing world experiencing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Tuberculosis (TB) co-epidemic, high incidences of Black Lung disease, or outbreaks of other infectious respiratory diseases. Remi-d is a remote-controlled, self-contained, digital medical X-ray device intended to meet the imaging needs of resource-limited areas such as sub-Saharan Africa, South and Central America and Southeast Asia, where radiologists and technologists are in short supply." Read More
WHITIA Press Release
"July 22, 2009-Chicago IL- The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) today announced exciting
changes which will further accelerate its efforts to improve the lives and health status of people in the
developing world. WHIA is changing its name to World Health Imaging, Telemedicine and Informatics
Alliance (WHITIA)." Read More
SIIM 2009 Press Release
"June 4, 2009 – Charlotte, NC – Today, the World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) announced that the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) has agreed to support WHIA in its efforts to deliver thousands of sustainable diagnostic digital imaging systems to developing communities across the globe." Read More
HIMMS 2009 Press Release
"Chicago, IL, April 6, 2009 -- The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) announced that it has cemented key partnerships that will enable it to significantly ramp up its efforts to bring digital imaging technology to sites in need around the world." Read More
