Contracts: Siemens, Varian

Siemens Medical Solutions and University Hospitals (UH) of Cleveland, Ohio, announced that two facilities within UH have recently gone live on Soarian Financials, Siemens revenue cycle management solution. Brown Memorial Hospital (Conneaut, Ohio) and Memorial Hospital of Geneva (Geneva, Ohio) converted three million patient records and 10 years worth of visit details into the new system.

Clinicians at UZ Gasthuisberg, a university hospital in Leuven, Belgium, are using a new Varian Medical Systems Clinac medical linear accelerator equipped with an On-Board Imager device to capture high-quality images of tumors at the time of treatment.

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