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Buyline.DR Systems to Exhibit Enhanced EMR and RIS Capabilities at HIMSS

Jan 12, 2006

SAN DIEGO - January 12, 2006 - DR Systems will be exhibiting its unified RIS/PACS platform, including enhanced EMR integration, enhanced RIS features, and new paradigms in medical image management at the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Rated #1 by MD Buyline and #3 by KLAS, DR Systems provides hospitals and imaging centers a fully unified, simplified, and more cost-effective RIS/PACS solution.

 DR Systems’ single-vendor RIS/PACS platform includes: reporting – dictation -voice recognition - Web scheduling - results distribution - document imaging - advanced image processing - management reporting – faxing – printing - patient flow tracking - film tracking - output to billing systems - and marketing solutions for radiology, cardiology, and mammography. This single system approach for all medical imaging I.T. results in substantial long term cost savings of 75% or more compared to alternative solutions requiring interfaces between multiple disparate technologies.   

The conference will be held February 12-16 in San Diego. The company’s exhibit will be at Booth 2001 in Hall F of the San Diego Convention Center.

DR Systems is an industry leader in enterprise integration of its RIS/PACS. The company has announced single sign-on capability with third-party EMRs such as McKesson’s HorizonWP® Physician Portal, adding to the many interfaces the company has already created to third-party HIS and RIS vendors, using HL7, DICOM, and CCOW industry standards.

DR is an official implementer of -- and participant in -- the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Interoperability Showcase, which will be exhibited at Booth 7319 at the Sails Pavilion. The showcase enables conference attendees to experience an information environment in which health information is seamlessly passed among care providers at the enterprise, community, regional, and national health information exchange levels. Showcase attendees will be exposed to various clinical scenarios that demonstrate the standards-based IHE interoperability framework. 

New features of the DR Systems RIS/PACS to be highlighted at HIMSS include:

• New WebLaunch, for easy single sign-on integration capability with other HIS’s or EMR’s. Caregivers can log on to their HIS to access a patient’s record and launch images with appropriate documents or notes, and also hear an audio summary.
• Extended scalability with the capacity for at least one million immediate online records, as well as millions more records available within seconds.
• Enhanced patient management tools for the RIS, including Web-based scheduling for referring doctors, patient tracking, output to billing systems, film tracking, and new management reports.
• Connectivity features for participation in Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs).
• Expanded Web-based capabilities through DR's Web Dominator™ for complete remote reading, montage creation, and transcription.
• Full integration of mammography PACS capabilities with new diagnostic reading tools.
• Improved integration of Barco’s VOXAR®, Vital Images Vitrea® 2, Orthocrat’s TraumaCad™, MRS® QAPlus™, and other third-party products. 

DR Systems technology is designed for easy deployment, maintenance, and monitoring throughout a large healthcare enterprise, and can also be scaled to a single-modality imaging center.

“Our mission is to enhance the clinical and financial success of our customers, while offering the lowest overall cost of ownership in the industry,” said Murray Reicher, M.D., chairman and cofounder of DR Systems. “We are taking new steps to integrate medical imaging with the EMR and establishing even greater scalability, easier access, and even better security for our customers.”

“In terms of the low cost of ownership, many long-term sites report that their total expense per exam for all service, support, equipment, upgrades, and expansions -- minus the depreciated value of the existing hardware – ranges from $1.20 to $3.50 per exam. Those figures are as little as 10 percent of what most non-DR System sites are spending, through multiple vendors.”

The company was rated the #1 PACS vendor by MD Buyline in its January 2006 Intelligence Report; ranked #2 by KLAS in the Community Hospital 2005 PACS Report, and ranked #3 in the KLAS Acute Care 2005 PACS Report.

About DR Systems, Inc.
DR Systems, Inc. is the leading independent provider of scalable, film-free medical systems and paperless information systems for diagnostic imaging centers and hospitals. Since 1993, the company has helped more than 250 hospitals and imaging centers improve the management of patient information, eliminate film costs, and increase workflow speed, all while providing better clinical quality and patient care. DR Systems’ unified RIS/PACS integrates numerous tools to improve financial performance and productivity, including: client-server distribution and Web-based distribution; patented, automated hanging protocols for radiologists; and the report format preferences of individual referring physicians. For more information, call 800-794-5955 or visit www.dominator.com.