CALGARY, Sept. 19 /CNW/ - IDC (Imaging Dynamics Company, Ltd.) (TSX: IDL), announced that the company has recently completed its 50th shipment of its CCD based digital radiography (DR) technology to Latin American, with recent installations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.
Overview
Darryl Stein, President and CEO, IDC says, "We have made substantial investments of time and resources over the past 2 years into building strong partnerships throughout South America to serve their medical imaging needs. These represent the first and only digital X-ray products ever installed in many of these Countries. As a Canadian technology company we have been very well received."
IDC recently opened its new South American office in Santiago, Chile to serve the region. Opening ceremonies coincided with Canada celebrating its tenth anniversary of the Free Trade agreement with Chile and a visit to the Country from Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.
IDC recorded the first three product installations in Santiago, Chile, that includes the Hospital San Jose de Santiago Centre for research; Clinica La Portada, one of the most important private clinics in the north region of Antofagasta and most recently, an installation at one of the busiest medical centers in Santiago, the Centro de Referencia de Salud de Maipu.
In Argentina, two IDC systems are installed at Hospital Allende, the main hospital for the province of Cordova. This site is the first hospital in this Country to go digital and performs more than 12,000 X-ray studies per month.
In Colombia, IDC collaborated with a number of institutions and hospitals to complete over 10 DR installations. Among them was IDIME (Instituto de Diagnostico Medico), the largest imaging consortium in the Country and the Hospital de Policia, one of the most prestigious hospitals in Bogota.
Hospital de Santiago, recently installed the new IDC 1600 system with X3C technology. Located in the Dominican Republic, this 500 bed hospital serves as the newest technological hospital in the Country.
IDC has also completed an agreement with PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela), Venezuela's state oil company; and the main provider of health services to its employees in several locations. This agreement includes multiple DR installations at Clinica La Floresta, one of the most prestigious private clinics in Venezuela, and the Hospital Perez Carrreno of the IVSS (Venezuela Institute of Social Health), the largest public institution in Venezuela.
In Brazil, IDC has solidified its relationship with Philips Medical Systems, Latin America with Philips recent acquisition of VMI, an existing OEM customer of IDC. Installations of the new Compacto Plus DR system from VMI are now completed in Bello Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. This system launched at the Hospitalar show this past April.
"I am so pleased with the acceptance of IDC throughout the continent, and the benefits this technology is providing for my people," says Orlando Morante, IDC General Manager, Latin America. "As a native of Peru, and having lived in both Canada and South America, it is exciting to be an integral part of introducing Canadian technology and reaching this important milestone."
About IDC
Imaging Dynamics Company (IDC) is a medical technology company and an innovative force in the fast-growing field of digital radiography (DR) technology. IDC's X-Series of direct capture technology replaces conventional film-based X-rays and provides a cost-effective alternative to cassette based film or computed radiography (CR) systems. Each IDC DR solution provides the industry's highest resolution radiographic images in the digital format required for today's electronic medical record networks, all without the use of film, environmentally harmful chemicals, cassettes or expensive imaging plates. IDC is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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