The latest contracts and installations news

Agfa HealthCare announced today that the company has entered into a dual-source agreement for Agfa’s IMPAXTM 6.0 PACS with Health Management Associates, the premier operator of acute care hospitals primarily in the non-urban southeast and southwest areas of the United States.

Amerinet awarded InSiteOne with a three-year contract for digital imaging archiving. The list of product and service offerings from InSiteOne allows Amerinet to provide their members with a price conscience choice for data management and disaster recovery.
   
Amerinet is a healthcare group purchasing organization in the United States, partnering with members to improve their operating margins. More than 2,100 hospitals and 35,000 non-acute care facilities create new revenue and reduce expenses with Amerinet’s tools for group purchasing, supply chain management, clinical consulting, revenue cycle management, and information and education.

Commissure has commenced installation of its radiology speech reporting application RadWhere Suite at Cleveland Clinic.

Thomson Micromedex announced that BryanLGH Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb., and Hilo Medical Center in Hilo, Hawaii, have implemented Lab Advisor to help their clinicians make faster, more accurate care decisions when ordering and interpreting laboratory tests.

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Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.