Philips extends PACS deal with N.C. ortho practice

Philips Healthcare has signed an eight-year iSite PACS expansion deal with OrthoCarolina, an orthopedic practice comprised of 16 locations in the Charlotte, N.C. region. The agreement extends the current relationship between the two entities.

OrthoCarolina chose the scalable Philips iSite PACS fee-per-study model in 2006, as it began to convert each location from analog to digital radiography (DR). OrthoCarolina currently is entering the final phase of its conversion to DR. 

"Our physicians regularly travel among our 16 offices and need access to images taken at any of our locations," said Steve Hendrick, chief information officer of OrthoCarolina.  "With iSite PACS' ability to distribute across the enterprise, our physicians are able to pull up images at our satellite offices from our server downtown."

Once the conversion to DR has been completed by early 2010, OrthoCarolina expects to store about 290,000 new images per year on its iSite PACS. Images will come from a variety of modalities, to include MRI and ultrasound.

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