Siemens, Intermountain ink $11.7 M deal

Siemens Healthcare has signed an $11.7 million, multi-year contract with Intermountain Healthcare to deploy Siemens Image Sharing & Archiving (ISA) vendor-neutral archive.

The Salt Lake City-based healthcare system will use ISA to handle its enterprise imaging needs, according to the company. Siemens ISA, a hosted vendor-neutral archive, stores images from varied modalities in the Siemens Healthcare Computing Center. Images are redundantly hosted in a Dell data center, and the archive is managed with Dell’s clinical data management software.

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