Digisonics nets two installs

Digisonics has contracted with a medical center and contract research company in New England to deploy its cardiovascular products.

The pediatric cardiology department at Tufts Medical Center in Boston has upgraded their Cardiovascular Review system from Digisonics and implemented HL7 interfaces for real-time communication to its hospital information system.

M2S, a contract research company in West Lebanon, N.H., has implemented Digisonics for its echo analysis systems, which can be utilized over the web, according to Houston-based company.

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