Swissray receives DR order from Carolinas HealthCare System

Swissray International discloses terms of a digital radiography (DR) order from the Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, N.C.

 Swissray's ddR ModulairePlus will be installed at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC), an addition to the ddRModulaire currently in use in the facility's emergency department.

 Three other ddRModulaire Plus units have been ordered for emergency departments at CMC-Mercy, CMC-Pineville and CMC-University hospitals.

 Carolinas HealthCare System owns, leases and manages hospitals, nursing homes, physician practices, home health agencies, radiation therapy facilities, physical therapy facilities and other healthcare operations. The system has more than 4,900 beds.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

Trimed Popup
Trimed Popup