Digisonics scores new contracts

Digisonics will deploy its OB-View software at a health system in Portland, Ore., and install an addtional PACS capability for a medical center in Texas.

Legacy Health Systems will be implementing Digisonics OB-View image analysis and reporting software at five hospitals in the Portland area. The web-based OB/GYN image management and reporting system will integrate existing PACS, EMRs and HIS, according to the Houston-based Digisonics.

Trinity Mother Francis Medical Center in Tyler, Texas, will add a Report-to-PACS link, enabling the facility to automatically convert their study images and finalized OB-Windows reports to DICOM files for storage and direct viewing in their Fuji Synapse PACS system, Digisonics said.

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