Philips signs 7-year PACS deal with Ohio community hospital

Philips Healthcare has signed a seven-year iSite PACS replacement deal with East Liverpool City Hospital, a 154-bed community hospital serving a population base of 75,000 in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

iSite PACS will provide East Liverpool City Hospital in Ohio with filmless enterprise distribution and advanced visualization capabilities that provide an interface with the existing workflow. By leveraging the features and capabilities of the web-based iSite PACS, the hospital is positioned to improve patient care across the entire enterprise for clinicians, patients, technologists, the IT department and administrators, according to Philips.



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