St. Louis hospital selects Carestream PACS

St. Alexius Hospital has selected Carestream Health's PACS for its 200-bed facility.

The St. Louis-based hospital chose the platform to streamline workflow by enhancing communication with other information systems and delivering features for radiologists such as embedded 3D tools and 3D capabilities, an automatic registration feature that speeds interpretations of volumetric studies and a global patient worklist, according to the Rochester, N.Y.-based provider of medical imaging systems and healthcare IT.

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