Medima goes to Turkey

Paperless health IT system provider Medima Solutions has inked a distribution agreement with iMedIT Imaging & Medical Information Technology based in Turkey. Through the agreement, within the Turkish market iMedIT will distribute Medima’s PacsPrinter and document scanning system PacsScanner with their PACS.

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