Installations
Installations
• Daou Systems (San Diego) has signed a nearly $1 million contract with the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Philadelphia) to assess Y2K compliance of network equipment, desktop systems, and servers for all hospital facilities. The contract includes inventory of the network infrastructure and installation of LANDESK software.
• DePuy (Warsaw, IN) has selected Unigraphics Solutions (St. Louis) as its standard CAD/CAM/CAE system for worldwide spine and major joint product development. Separate contracts were negotiated within the United States and Europe. The total contract value exceeds $2 million.
• Digital Medical Systems (Burlington, MA) has selected the DirX MetaHub directory from the Siemens Information and Communication Networks (Boca Raton, FL) for its information networks to connect medical providers with healthcare organizations, patients, and payers. The system allows management and storage of digital certificates used to identify authorized users within a public key infrastructure.
• Web publishing software from Inmagic (Woburn, MA) has been used for intranet systems installed by the American Heart Association (Dallas) and Mallinckrodt (Hazelwood, MO). The software is DB/Test WebPublisher, a Windows NT-based system that manages Web/intranet information within the framework of a text base instead of HTML documents.
• Philips Medical Systems North America, a division of Royal Philips Electronics (The Netherlands), has installed the Philips Inturis for Cardiology’s digital image network architecture at adult cardiac catheterization labs at the Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC). The technology allows the center’s six cardiac labs to receive, store, and retrieve patient images digitally, without the need for conventional "cine" film. The images are automatically downloaded onto the university’s network that houses patient demographic information, allowing integration of the images and the electronic patient record.
• 3Com (Santa Clara, CA) has installed its CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switch to speed advanced medical research at the Computational Biophysics Section of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (Bethesda, MD). The switch, which supports Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, will be used to help the institute design drugs, antibiotics, and treatments.
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