The medical industry has historically used technology to focus primarily on advances on the clinical and disease management sides of physician practices. Additionally, the healthcare industry has traditionally lagged behind in technology investment and initiatives on the financial side in comparison to other industries.
Data capacities are doubling every month at hospitals, radiology centers and radiation oncology clinics. Traditional business applications are not sufficient to support the explosion of digital data in a multimedia environment, and providers end up spending large portions of their budgets on maintaining data.
Speech recognition embedded in the radiology workstation has become a “must have” feature. According to industry experts, the most important recent advancement in the technology has been the ability to integrate speech recognition with other applications such as critical results, peer review, medical reference programs and data mining applications.
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For many hospitals, the next stage of PACS implementation involves integrating the radiology PACS with the cardiovascular image management system (CVIS). The integration enables the hospital to store all medical images in a single repository for improved image data management. In theory, integrating these two imaging silos can be seamless.
The $19 billion earmarked by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for healthcare IT incentives over the next five years has generated a lot of chatter about who gets what.

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In the war against breast cancer, brachytherapy is a powerful technique for eradicating the spread of the disease. However, certain limitations in the method of delivering radiation have excluded a large patient population that would benefit from the treatment.
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At Kern Radiology Medical Group in Kern County, CA, revolutionary imaging technology and quality patient care go hand in hand. Its brand new, all-Hologic women’s imaging center gives patients access to the latest in digital mammography and breast biopsy technologies in a comfortable, spa-like setting.
April 3, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. will demonstrate its latest advances in connectivity and workflow integration technology on its SonoSite Turbo ultrasound system platform, during the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) 2009 Conference April 4-8 in Chicago.
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Did you ever notice how PACS is the vehicle that drives the other software applications to the end-users? Not surprisingly, the goal of so many medical applications is to become integrated into PACS – and then you’re golden.
April 3, 2009 – GE Healthcare IT and Microsoft Corp. today announced the companies have entered into an independent software vendor (ISV) alliance agreement to provide customers with enhanced healthcare IT administration capabilities that support GE’s Centricity Enterprise healthcare IT solution, currently in use by many hospitals worldwide.
Siemens expands is imaging portfolio with the addition of the Biograph TruePoint 16-slice PET/CT imager, a works-in-progress (WIP) pending 510k approval, in order to offer affordable access to high-quality imaging. The Biograph TruePoint PET/CT imaging family includes High-Definition PET/CT and now expands its offering with 16-slice CT capabilities.
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Mindray’s DC-3 color ultrasound imaging system is equipped with extensive applications in abdominal, OB/GYN, endovaginal, cardiac, small parts and pediatric markets. This system combines 2D imaging and color Doppler performance and is suited for hospitals and doctors’ offices in hopes of replacing black and white ultrasound imaging systems.
The technology of Biosound Esaote’s MyLab30CV product has been extended with the introduction of the MyLab30Gold cardiovascular ultrasound system. This new platform reportedly reflects the evolution of ultrasound users’ needs: high performance and reliability, coupled with compactness and portability.
GE Healthcare recently launched a new ultrasound system for radiology and vascular applications, the LOGIQ E9, which fuses ultrasound images with images from other imaging modalities like CT and MR.
ZONARE Medical Systems’ z.one ultra sp ultrasound system is for point-of-care markets such as emergency medicine, interventional radiology, venous ablation, anesthesiology and OB/GYN.
April 3, 3009 - Data Ltd. will launch at HIMSS ’09 the new M9000 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) a rugged, medical-grade device that packs embedded wireless capabilities, barcode scanning and RFID, a 2MP color camera, and more into a fully disinfectable, lightweight tablet computer.
April 3, 2009 - AMICAS Inc. will announce the general availability of AMICAS PACS Version 6.0 and will display the full portfolio of imaging IT solutions for hospitals and ambulatory imaging businesses at the HIMSS ‘09 Annual Conference.
April 3, 2009 — Laitek is debuting at HIMSS 2009 a new range of new capabilities for its Migratek v. 2 Advanced Migration Services that reportedly makes the migration process more transparent and efficient than ever before.
April 2, 2009 – FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA ranked third overall ranking on the Overall Software Vendor Rankings list, following Epic and 3M in the 2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report.