MDX signs first North American PACS customer

MDX Corp., a Thornhill, Ontario-based division of DXStorm.com Inc., inked its first U.S. contract with the Portland Neurovascular Center of Portland, Ore. to install its Insight PACS.
   
Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
   
Insight can deliver any image to any device (including PDAs), includes field-specific clinical application modules (CAMs), and has an intuitive interface, MDX said.

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