DR Systems Lands Four New PACS Contracts Worth Nearly $5 Million.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- DR Systems today announced four new PACS (Picture ArChiving System) A storage and management system for high-resolution images. Typically pertaining to the medical field, images such as X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans require a greater amount of storage than other industries. contracts totaling nearly $5 million, with each contract worth more than $1 million. The facilities awarding the contracts are: E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]--Olympic Medical Center (Port Angeles Port Angeles (ăn`jələs), city (1990 pop. 17,710), seat of Clallam co., NW Wash., on Juan de Fuca Strait opposite Victoria, British Columbia; inc. 1890. , Wash.) E[acute accent]--Gottlieb Memorial Hospital (Melrose Park Melrose Park, village (1990 pop. 20,859), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb of Chicago; inc. 1893. It has large railroad yards and shops, steel mills, and factories that make a wide variety of products. , Ill.) E[acute accent]--Adirondack Medical Center (Saranac Lake, N.Y.) E[acute accent]--United Community Hospital (Grove City, Pa.) E[acute accent]"These new contracts -- plus our #1 ranking by MD Buyline -- are the latest indications of DR System's leadership in providing a cost effective, unified solution that adds efficiency to the entire diagnostic imaging patient exam workflow," said Rick Porritt, the company's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . E[acute accent]All of the hospitals except United Community Hospital have MEDITECH hospital information systems. DR Systems has interfaced its technology with MEDITECH at more than 35 other hospitals, including Howard County General Hospital (Columbia, Md.), Beaufort Memorial Hospital (Beaufort, S.C.), Merle merle a pattern of coat color pigmentation with dark, irregular blotches on a lighter background. Seen in some Collies and Welsh corgis. In shorthaired dogs, e.g. Great Danes and Dachshunds, the similar pattern is called dapple. West Medical Center (Klamath Falls, Ore.), and Williamson Medical Center (Franklin, Tenn.). E[acute accent]The PACS system being acquired by the four hospitals features: E[acute accent]--Common user-friendly interface at all the PACS workstations E[acute accent]--Referring doctors' ability to clinically review images and reports at their home or office E[acute accent]--Instant access to "in progress" study images by ER doctors E[acute accent]--Patented automated hanging protocols for reading physicians E[acute accent]--Report format preferences for individual referring physicians E[acute accent]--Fully integrated digital dictation, voice recognition, and transcription options. E[acute accent]DR Systems was rated the #1 PACS vendor by MD Buyline in its October 2005 Intelligence Report; ranked #2 by KLAS KLAS Keystone Library Automation System in the 2005 Community Hospital 2005 PACS Report; and ranked #3 in the 2005 KLAS Acute Care Report. E[acute accent]About Olympic Medical Center E[acute accent]Olympic Medical Center includes 126-bed Olympic Memorial Hospital. The center also owns and operates medical imaging centers, an oncology center, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, home health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , and a rehabilitation center. For more information, access http://www.olympicmedical.org/. E[acute accent]About Gottlieb Memorial Hospital E[acute accent]A non-profit, non-sectarian community hospital, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is a 36-acre medical center campus that includes 247 hospital beds; a Level II trauma center In the United States a Level II trauma center provides emergency medicine to trauma patients. A Level II trauma center works in collaboration with a Level I trauma center. It provides comprehensive trauma care and supplements the clinical expertise of a Level I institution. ; a heart center with open heart surgery outcomes that are among the best in the nation; a cancer care center; and the nationally renowned Gottlieb Health & Fitness Center. For more information, access http://www.gottliebhospital.org/. E[acute accent]About Adirondack Medical Center E[acute accent]Adirondack Medical Center serves New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State's Tri-Lakes region with two hospital sites, three rehabilitation clinics, and four primary health clinics. The AMC/Saranac Lake facility has 97 beds. AMC/Lake Placid offers a full range of outpatient services outpatient services Hospital-based services Managed care Medical and other services provided, to a nonadmitted Pt, by a hospital or other qualified facility–eg, mental health clinic, rural health clinic, mobile X-ray unit, free-standing dialysis unit Examples and a 24-hour emergency department. For more information, access http://www.amccares.org/. E[acute accent]About United Community Hospital E[acute accent]Located about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, United Community Hospital operates 95 acute care beds and 20 skilled nursing beds. The hospital has also opened four outpatient centers in Butler and Mercer Counties since 2001. For more information, access http://uchpa.org/. E[acute accent]About DR Systems E[acute accent]DR Systems, Inc. is the leading independent provider of scalable, film-free medical systems and paperless information systems for diagnostic imaging centers and hospitals. Since 1993, the company has helped more than 250 hospitals and imaging centers improve the management of patient information, eliminate film costs, and increase workflow speed, all while providing better clinical quality and patient care. DR Systems' unified RIS/PACS integrates numerous tools to improve financial performance and productivity, including: client-server and Web-based distribution; patented, automated hanging protocols for radiologists; and the report format preferences of individual referring physicians. For more information, call 800-794-5955 or visit www.dominator.com. |
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