Digisonics adds to cardiac customer base

Digisonics has enhanced its DigiView customer roster with facilities in Florida and Texas.

VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla., has expanded its DigiView cardiovascular information and image analysis system (CVIS) with the addition of four more licenses at their site.

Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, implemented HL7 interfaces (ADT/Orders In and Results Out) to connect to an Epic Systems' hospital information systems (HIS). The HL7 interfaces will provide communication from the Digisonics DigiView software suite to/from the Epic HIS.

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