Contracts: Aspyra, Eclipsys, MEDRAD

Aspyra interfaced its CyberLAB LIS (laboratory information system) and CyberRAD RIS (radiology information system) with the Allscripts TouchWorks EHR at Olean Medical Group in Chicago. The integrated systems will serve more than 35 physicians in four office locations. Physicians will be able to create laboratory and radiology orders in the LIS, RIS, or TouchWorks and view the results in the EHR as well.


Children’s Hospital of Omaha, Neb, a pediatric specialty healthcare center, went live with Eclipsys Sunrise Pharmacy as the first step to improving the safety of its medication management processes and to enhance patient safety within a complex pediatric care environment.


MEDRAD has installed its 5,000th MEDRAD Vistron CT Injection System at Centro Radiologico Campinas, the diagnostic imaging service of Vera Cruz Hospital in Campinas, Brazil.

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