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DR Systems Lands Multi-Facility, Enterprise-Wide PACS Contract with Samaritan Health Services

Mar 07, 2005

SAN DIEGO - March 7, 2005 Samaritan Health Services of Corvallis, Or., has awarded a multi-facility contract to DR Systems for its Dominator™ PACS. The turnkey systems will be installed at five Samaritan healthcare facilities, in the mid-Willamette Valley and Central Oregon Coast regions.

Samaritan’s enterprise PACS solutions includes DR Systems’ Instant Reporter™, which delivers diagnostic results to the physician’s personal computer automatically. Based on the physician's individual preferences, the images are properly windowed and leveled, cropped and zoomed, in the proper series, and are annotated with montage, voice clip and full report.   DR Systems’ image Central Server and Communicator™ Web Server will be integrated into Samaritan’s new IBM® eServer® infrastructure and will be interfaced to the MEDITECH® MAGIC® HCIS.

Samaritan facilities installing the DR Systems Dominator PACS are: Samaritan Albany General Hospital, in Albany; Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, in Lebanon; Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, in Newport, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, in Corvallis; and Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, in Lincoln City.

DR Systems has been recently rated the #1 PACS vendor by MD Buyline in their January 2005 Intelligence Report; ranked #2 by KLAS in their 2004 Top 20 Year End Best in KLAS Community Clinical and Ancillary Solutions Report, and ranked #3 in their 2004 Top 20 Year End Best in KLAS Acute Care 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. For 12 years, 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.