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DR Systems Lands PACS Contracts With Hi-Desert Medical Center and Newport Community Hospital

Posted on: Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 09:00 CDT

DR Systems today announced two new PACS contracts totaling more than $1 million. Hi-Desert Medical Center (Joshua Tree, Calif.) awarded a contract worth nearly $800,000 to the company. DR Systems' second new contract, with Newport Community Hospital (Newport, Wash.), is for approximately $260,000.

Both Hi-Desert and Newport have MEDITECH hospital information systems. 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 PACS system that is being acquired by Hi-Desert and Newport features:

-- Available single sign-on EMR integration with MEDITECH HCIS

-- Common user-friendly interface at all the 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 July 2005 Intelligence Report; ranked #2 by KLAS 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 Hi-Desert Medical Center

Hi-Desert Medical Center is a non-profit, 59-bed acute care hospital. It is the sole primary provider of health services in the Morongo Basin of California, serving a population of more than 68,000. For more information, access http://serv1.hdmc.org/.

About Newport Community Hospital

Newport Community Hospital, a part of Newport Hospital and Health Services, is a 24-bed Trauma Level IV facility located 42 miles north of Spokane. For more information, access http://www.phd1.org/.

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 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.

Source: Business Wire

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