Shared Medical nets VHA contract

AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Sep 30, 2008

Mobile imaging provider Shared Medical Services (SMS) has entered into a three-year deal to provide imaging services to healthcare alliance VHA of Irving, TX.

Shared Medical of Cottage Grove, WI, will provide VHA member organizations with stationary and mobile imaging services and interim rentals of diagnostic imaging equipment. The three-year agreement gives SMS the opportunity to work as a preferred vendor within the VHA network and its 1,400 member hospitals.

Related Reading

Shared Medical to launch mobile PET/CT service, May 25, 2004

Shared Medical Services adds Discovery ST Mobile, July 30, 2003

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