DR Systems Lands Multi-Facility, Enterprise-Wide PACS Contract with Samaritan Health Services.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. -- Samaritan Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract of Corvallis, Or., has awarded a multi-facility contract to DR Systems for its Dominator(TM) 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. . The turnkey systems will be installed at five Samaritan healthcare facilities, in the mid-Willamette Valley and Central Oregon Coast regions. Samaritan's enterprise PACS solutions includes DR Systems' Instant Reporter(TM), which delivers diagnostic results to the physician's personal computer automatically. Based on the physician's individual preferences, the images are properly windowed Win´dowed a. 1. Having windows or openings. and leveled, cropped and zoomed, in the proper series, and are annotated with montage, voice clip and full report. DR Systems' image Central Server and Communicator(TM) Web Server will be integrated into Samaritan's new IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) eServer(R) infrastructure and will be interfaced to the MEDITECH(R) MAGIC(R) HCIS HCIS Health Care Information System (British Library) HCIS Hwa Chong International School (Singapore) HCIS Homenet Computers Internet Services (Australia) . Samaritan facilities installing the DR Systems Dominator PACS are: Samaritan Albany General Hospital, in Albany; Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, in Lebanon; Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, in Newport; Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, in Corvallis; and Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, in Lincoln City. DR Systems has been recently rated the #1 PACS vendor by MD Buyline in their January 2005 Intelligence Report; ranked #2 by KLAS KLAS Keystone Library Automation System in their 2004 Top 20 Year End Best in KLAS Community Clinical and Ancillary Solutions Report; and ranked #3 in their 2004 Top 20 Year End Best in KLAS Acute Care Report. About DR Systems, Inc. DR Systems, Inc. is the leading independent provider of scalable, film-free medical systems and paperless information systems for diagnostic imaging centers and hospitals. For 12 years, 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 distribution 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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