VARIAN TO EQUIP INOVA WITH INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY FOR RADIOTHERAPY, RADIOSURGERY, AND INFORMATICS
Jun 18, 2015

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) today announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Inova to be its exclusive supplier of advanced technology for image-guided, high-precision radiotherapy and radiosurgery. Inova, a not-for-profit healthcare system operating five hospitals in Northern Virginia, will also install Varian software across its sites, as part of a long-term plan to create an integrated informatics system and to unify cancer care across its network.


Under the agreement, Inova will acquire multiple Varian TrueBeam® radiotherapy/ radiosurgery systems over nine years, with initial replacements at Inova's Alexandria and Loudoun Hospitals. TrueBeam technology offers clinicians tremendous versatility in choosing and administering different types of radiation treatment for each patient as appropriate, from intensity-modulated radiotherapy to stereotactic radiosurgery. These treatments can be delivered with greater time efficiency—and hence cost effectiveness—than is possible with many other radiotherapy systems.

Inova will also expand its deployment of Varian's ARIA® information management and Eclipse™ treatment planning software, currently in use at two of the five sites, across the Inova network, and add Varian's new InSightive™ software for data analytics.

"We have been managing radiation oncology departments at two of our sites using Varian software for some time," said says Gopal K. Bajaj, MD, Chairman and Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Inova. "We will replace competitive solutions at the other sites in order to unify cancer care across the system. We like the fact that ARIA is a comprehensive system that consolidates all treatment data in a single database. It dovetails with our plans to integrate all of our cancer treatment services in support of better care coordination and closer collaboration among clinical team members."

Inova will also deploy Varian's InSightive™ software for data analytics, which will enable clinicians and administrators to mine the enormous amount of data housed within the ARIA oncology information system database.

"ARIA is a robust practice management system and electronic medical record with a tremendous amount of information that Inova can mine and analyze to enhance the quality of care and the efficiency of its clinical operations," says Sukhveer Singh, vice president of Varian's Oncology Continuum Solutions. "ARIA includes many interfaces for importing data from other hospital information systems, resulting in a very rich resource. InSightive Analytics provides access to this data, making it visible and useful."

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