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New Shields iPhone App

New Shields App offers mobile Shields Express Link capabilities. Shields Health Care Group, New England’s largest network of independent MRI facilities, announced today the release of Shields Express Link Mobile, a free iPhone and iPad application. The new app will allow physicians referring to Shields to view patients’ appointment status, reporting information and images. “We … Continued

Cape Cod Healthcare Shields open new cancer center in Falmouth

The Patriot Ledger Cancer patients in Falmouth and surrounding towns often had to travel for up to an hour to get radiation treatments at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis or Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. But now there’s another alternative to the long commute. Cape Cod Healthcare, the parent of Cape Cod Hospital and Falmouth Hospital, … Continued

10M gift paves way for new cancer center

Cape Cod Times When James and Ruth Clark were mulling over a donation to Cape Cod Healthcare four years ago, he remembered the stress of driving an hour or more to Boston for cancer treatments — his own and his wife’s. Cancer patients on the Upper Cape no longer need to make that long trip … Continued

Shields targets limited network health care plans

Boston Business Journal Shields Health Care Group, which runs 20 free-standing outpatient MRI facilities around the state, is getting a boost from large health care payers looking to trim costs. The company, with much lower overhead than large hospitals, is getting attention from insurers and other payers as they begin to roll out “tiered,” or … Continued

New Imaging Partnership

Shields partners with Cape Cod Hospital. Cape Cod Hospital today announced that it will expand its affiliation with Shields Health Care Group. The appropriate filings have been made with the DPH and the two providers will now partner to offer Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT). This collaboration – the third and fourth … Continued

Shields and NeuroCare Partnership

Shields joins forces with NeuroCare Center for Research. Shields Health Care Group and NeuroCare Center for Research announced today, a new collaboration that will offer Massachusetts physicians, patients and sponsors increased flexibility, faster processing and cost savings for clinical research trials. This collaboration combines the exceptional, high-quality services of two of the region’s most well-respected … Continued