Contracts: Commissure, CPU, EMC, NovaRad, Philips, Siemens, Zonare

Commissure recently commenced installation of its radiology speech reporting application RadWhere Suite at Beverly Hospital in Beverly, Mass. In addition to utilizing the application within its radiology department, Beverly Hospital is also looking at applying a number of RadWhere Suite’s features to its cardiology workflow.
 

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based medical billing company Medical Billing Management has selected CPU Medical Management Systems Web MED/FM practice management software application to enhance their account management services.
 

Elite Imaging, an imaging facility in South Florida, has installed a Siemens MAGNETOM Trio 3-Tesla (3T) at its new facility in Aventura, Fla.
 

EMC announced that Bassett Healthcare has chosen an EMC CLARiiON CX3-80 storage system for its information infrastructure. Based on the new EMC CLARiiON UltraScale architecture, the storage system will provide the foundation for Bassett Healthcare’s three-year strategic IT initiative.
 

Five facilities in the Midwest have inked deals to install NovaPACS from NovaRad. The newly signed facilities include Central Nebraska Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, Grand Island, Neb.; 25-bed Grape Community Hospital, Hamburg, Iowa; 89-bed Mitchell County Hospital, Beloit, Kan.; 21-bed Pawnee County Memorial Hospital, Pawnee City, Neb.; and 25-bed York General Hospital, York, Neb.
 

Philips Medical Systems and the Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) announced a multiyear agreement to install diagnostic imaging equipment and a comprehensive healthcare informatics system throughout PVHS, which serves patients and families in northern Colorado, southern Wyoming, and western Nebraska. Patients will benefit from the new Philips diagnostic imaging equipment including magnetic resonance, CT, cardiology and radiology PACS, nuclear medicine, general and cardiac ultrasound, and digital and general radiography and fluoroscopy. 
 

Overlake Hospital Medical Center, a leading Washington state healthcare facility that serves the Seattle area, announced it recently completed the installation of the z.one ultrasound system from ZONARE Medical Systems.

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CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

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