Minnesota children?s hospital chooses Medicalis for CDS

Minnesota Children's Hospital has selected Medicalis, a provider of clinical decision support (CDS) solutions, to enhance and enable its diagnostic imaging ordering process. 

The Kitchener, Ontario-based Medicalis said its network applies evidence-based clinical guidelines to physician orders and facilitates real-time access to their local radiologists.

Minnesota Children's, a non-for-profit healthcare system with 332 beds at two hospital campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, performs 120,000 radiology procedures annually.

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