NovaRad scores Midwest PACS contract

Lincoln Medical Education Partnership (LMEP) in Lincoln, Neb., has selected PACS from NovaRad.

Through NovaRad’s distributor, Brown’s Medical Imaging, LMEP purchased both NovaPACS for off-site emergency backup and ClinicPACS, which will allow orthopedists to view images during patient consultation, for its facility that trains family medicine physicians and other healthcare professionals, said the American Fork, Utah-based company.

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