NovaRad wins three California RIS, PACS customers

Three facilities in California have purchased NovaRad’s PACS and RIS technologies.

The facilities include:
  • Southern Inyo Hospital of Lone Pine, Calif., purchased NovaPACS;
  • Corcoran District Hospital of Corcoran, Calif., purchased NovaPACS; and
  • John C. Fremont Healthcare District in Mariposa, Calif., purchased NovaRIS.
The American Fork, Utah-based NovaRad said its PACS offers image retrieval, full-feature viewer with intuitive interface, and seven-year, on-site archive with off-site emergency backup. The company said its web-based, open standards RIS generates reports, analyzes exams, measures profitability and facilitates paperless management of patient records.

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