ITL signs RIS-PACS contract with St. Anthony Community Hospital

Image Technology Laboratories Inc. (ITL) has finalized the details of a five-year contract with St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick, N.Y., to install the company's WarpSpeed RIS-PACS.

A second installation will be done at an offsite location enabling the two sites to function as a single virtual radiology practice.

St. Anthony Community Hospital, a member of Bon Secours Charity Health System, is a non-profit 73-bed facility, which provides emergency, medical, surgical, and ob/gyn acute-care services to residents of southern Orange County, N.Y., and Sussex County, N.J.

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