DR Systems Lands Six New PACS Contracts Worth Nearly $3.5 Million.

SAN DIEGO -- DR Systems today announced six new RIS/PACS contracts totaling nearly $3.5 million. The facilities awarding the contracts are:

--Portneuf Medical Center (Pocatello, Idaho)

--Pueblo Medical Imaging (Las Vegas, Nev.)

--Grays Harbor Community Hospital (Aberdeen, Wash.)

--Idaho Medical Imaging (Pocatello, Idaho)

--Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital (Hamilton, Mont.)

--St. Joseph Medical Center (Polson, Mont.)

Among the facilities, Grays Harbor has a MEDITECH hospital information system and St. Joseph is served, along with a sister hospital, by a MEDITECH radiology information system. DR Systems has interfaced its technology with MEDITECH at more than 30 other hospitals, including Kalispell Regional Hospital (Kalispell, Mont.), Howard County General Hospital (Columbia, Md.), Beaufort Memorial Hospital (Beaufort, S.C.), Merle West Medical Center (Klamath Falls, Ore.), and Williamson Medical Center (Franklin, Tenn.).

The turnkey RIS/PACS systems that are being acquired by the facilities feature:

--Available single sign-on EMR integration with MEDITECH HCIS and other 3rd party HIS Web-based physician portals

--Common user-friendly interface at all the RIS/PACS workstations

--Referring doctors' ability to clinically review images and reports at their home or office

--Instant access to "in progress" study images by ER doctors

--Patented automated hanging protocols for reading physicians and report format preferences for individual referring physicians

--Fully integrated digital dictation, voice recognition and transcription options

DR Systems was rated the #1 PACS vendor by MD Buyline in its January 2006 Intelligence Report; ranked #2 by KLAS in the 2005 Community Hospital 2005 PACS Report; and ranked #3 in the 2005 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. 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.