Pro Medicus managing director Dr Sam Hupert said, "MDI was one of the early adopters of our digital technology opening its first integrated digital practice in March 2004. We believed then there would be opportunities for us as these independent practices expanded and it is gratifying to see that we have been a part of this growth."

"Having experienced the benefits of the Pro Medicus integrated solution at our Manningham and Malvern practices we were keen to extend it across our expanded network including the 11 practices previously owned by Chelmer Imaging Group," said MDI Chelmer Managing Director, Mr Chris Ericksen.

"The product allows us to deliver a superior service to our referring doctors and their patients and gives us an immediate competitive edge in practice efficiency, speed and versatility. Our staff also benefit with the more technically advanced working environment. With Pro Medicus we have a reproducible and highly scalable platform that allows for future growth."

Pro Medicus first released its digital integration technology in 2002. Since then it has been implemented in a broad range of radiology practices in Australia, Canada and the US.

"It is becoming more widely accepted within radiology that Pro Medicus digital integration provides significant productivity improvements. These can be in excess of 30% and makes it inevitable that digital radiology is the way of the future," said Dr Sam Hupert. "This, combined with increasing margin pressure in the industry leads us to believe that the trend towards digital will accelerate rapidly from here. Given the strong position of Pro Medicus in the market and the proven capability of our offering, we are ideally placed to continue to benefit from that trend."

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