IDC plants DR system at two Florida hospitals

Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) has installed its Xplorer 1800 digital radiography (DR) system at two Florida-based hospitals: Shands Jacksonville and Jackson County Hospital.

Shands Jacksonville, affiliated with the University of Florida School of Medicine, is a 695-bed hospital with a level-one trauma center that performs more than 180,000 radiology procedures annually. Three Xplorer systems will be installed in the main radiology department and interfaced to Shands' Merge-eFilm PACS (picture archiving and communication systems).

Jackson County Hospital's radiology department performs 40,000 procedures each year. The facility installed IDC's 1800 DR system in its emergency department.

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