GE signs $7.5 million contract with Virginia IDN

GE Healthcare has inked a 5-year, $7.5 million agreement with Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System to provide diagnostic and cardiac IT technologies to Inova Heart and Vascular Institute facility.

Under the terms of the agreement, Inova and GE will work together to outfit the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute facility as well as provide access to GE technologies for the other Inova hospitals and their satellite facilities and affiliates. According to GE, it will supply hospital-wide patient monitoring, wireless networks and telemetry, diagnostic imaging systems, equipment for 11 catheterization labs with the Centricity cardiology information management system, and a service support agreement.

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