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DR Systems Lands Four New PACS Contracts Worth Nearly $5 Million

Fifth straight quarter in which the company has received #1 ranking

Dec 21, 2005

SAN DIEGO - December 21, 2005 - DR Systems today announced four new PACS contracts totaling nearly $5 million, with each contract worth more than $1 million. The facilities awarding the contracts are:

• Olympic Medical Center (Port Angeles, Wash.)
• Gottlieb Memorial Hospital (Melrose Park, Ill.) 
• Adirondack Medical Center (Saranac Lake, N.Y.)
• United Community Hospital (Grove City, Pa.)

“These new contracts -- plus our #1 ranking by MD Buyline -- are the latest indications of DR System’s leadership in providing a cost effective, unified solution that adds efficiency to the entire diagnostic imaging patient exam workflow,” said Rick Porritt, the company's president and CEO.

All of the hospitals except United Community Hospital have MEDITECH hospital information systems. DR Systems has interfaced its technology with MEDITECH at more than 35 other hospitals, including Howard County General Hospital (Columbia, Md.), Beaufort Memorial Hospital (Beaufort, S.C.), Merle West Medical Center (Klamath Falls, Ore.), and Williamson Medical Center (Franklin, Tenn.)

The PACS system being acquired by the four hospitals features:

• Common user-friendly interface at all the PACS workstations
• Referring doctors’ ability to clinically review images and reports at their home or office
• Instant access to “in progress” study images by ER doctors
• Patented automated hanging protocols for reading physicians
• Report format preferences for individual referring physicians
• Fully integrated digital dictation, voice recognition, and transcription options.

DR Systems was rated the #1 PACS vendor by MD Buyline in its October 2005 Intelligence Report; ranked #2 by KLAS in the 2005 Community Hospital 2005 PACS Report; and ranked #3 in the 2005 KLAS Acute Care Report.

About Olympic Medical Center
Olympic Medical Center includes 126-bed Olympic Memorial Hospital. The center also owns and operates medical imaging centers, an oncology center, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, home health services, and a rehabilitation center. For more information, access http://www.olympicmedical.org/.

About Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
A non-profit, non-sectarian community hospital, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is a 36-acre medical center campus that includes 247 hospital beds; a Level II trauma center; a heart center with open heart surgery outcomes that are among the best in the nation; a  cancer care center; and the nationally renowned Gottlieb Health & Fitness Center. For more information, access http://www.gottliebhospital.org/.

About Adirondack Medical Center
Adirondack Medical Center serves New York State’s Tri-Lakes region with two hospital sites, three rehabilitation clinics, and four primary health clinics. The AMC/Saranac Lake facility has 97 beds. AMC/Lake Placid offers a full range of outpatient services and a 24-hour emergency department. For more information, access http://www.amccares.org/.

About United Community Hospital
Located about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, United Community Hospital operates 95 acute care beds and 20 skilled nursing beds. The hospital has also opened four outpatient centers in Butler and Mercer Counties since 2001. For more information, access http://uchpa.org/.

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.