Lithuanian hospital installs dicomPACS

Naujosios Akmens Hospital has purchased OR Technology’s multi-workstation dicomPACS for managing its CR images.

The new system will feature eight viewer workstations and one diagnostic station with dual monitors, Rostock, Germany-based OR Technology said. Naujosios Akmens Hospital, located in the northern city of Naujosios Akmen, Lithuania, will use the workstations for CR image diagnosis and internal distribution as well as to make patient CDs.

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