April 8, 2009 - Apollo, a provider of clinical multimedia solutions, today released its Apollo Enterprise Patient Media Manager (Apollo EPMM), an enterprise solution that transforms distributed patient media into one unified record.
As the volume of cardiovascular imaging procedures continues to grow, cardiology imaging IT is representing the fastest growth area for revenue among both the providers and vendors. Advanced imaging is also picking up in oncology, as the capabilities of imaging modalities advance.
April 8, 2009 – GE Healthcare is presenting at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) its new Centricity Enterprise Archive as a platform for application-neutral image management, a standards-based archive that helps manage patient and image data over time and image-enable electronic medical records (EMR).
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
April 8, 2009 – Medsphere Systems Corp., provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, released at HIMSS 2009 an enhanced OpenVista Radiology Application, the second in a series of OpenVista 2.0 releases that aim to upgrade the electronic health record (EHR) solution.
April 8, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan selected Aurora Imaging Technology for the 2009 Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award in the North American Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanners Market in recognition of the company’s strong growth within the Breast MRI market due to its robust offering of imaging, IT and financial assistance solutions.
April 7, 2009 - The FDA today gave marketing clearance to a new product from Carestream Health: The CARESTREAM DRX-1 System, a wireless digital radiography (DR) detector—the size of a standard cassette—that fits existing X-ray rooms without having to replace or modify existing equipment.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
April 8, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, Compressus said it had entered into a strategic partnerships with Avnet HealthPath reseller partners Software Information Systems (SIS) and Micro Solutions, designed to accelerate access to comprehensive interoperability solutions and to potential federal healthcare IT stimulus funds.
April 8, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, Agfa HealthCare released an advanced healthcare enterprise visualization strategy that combines the company's IMPAX Data Center and IMPAX Mobility solutions to deliver managed imaging record access and distribution across healthcare enterprises and regional networks. IMPAX Mobility is manufactured by Medical Insight A/S as EasyViz.
April 7, 2009 - The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) said at HIMSS 2009 that it has cemented key partnerships that will enable it to significantly ramp up its efforts to bring digital imaging technology to sites in need around the world.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
April 8, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc. is showcasing the newly released Aquarius iNtuition ("AQi") software version 4.4 with advanced decision support and visualization at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition this week in Chicago.
April 8, 2009 - The Helena Cardiology Clinic of Helena, MT has installed two Toshiba Aplio Artida ultrasound systems with 3D Wall Motion Tracking capabilities, allowing sonographers and physicians to more quickly and accurately identify wall motion defects and the timing of cardiac events.
April 5, 2009 - InSite One Inc. announced at HIMSS 2009 it will re-sign a three-year contact with InSight Health Corp. for its imaging centers’ enterprise storage with a cohesive service level agreement as the exclusive archive provider, providing InSite One’s InDex DICOM standards-based storage and content management services.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
April 7, 2009 - Ziosoft Inc. today announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market cardiac function analysis and calcium scoring applications for use with the Ziostation thin-client advanced visualization system.
April 7, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. has acquired the U.S., Canadian and Australian rights to MS-325 (formerly marketed as VASOVIST, gadofosveset trisodium, by Bayer Schering Pharma) from EPIX Pharmaceuticals.
April 6, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, GE Healthcare said today announced it will work with Providence Health & Services (Portland, OR) to develop a new connectivity platform to integrate electronic records from hospitals with GE Healthcare’s Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR), a widely used EMR designed for the ambulatory setting.
April 6, 2009 - SenoRx said that two peer-reviewed journal articles summarizing clinical findings related to its Contura Multi-Lumen Balloon (MLB) Catheter are pending publication. These and other studies support the company’s belief that a patient treated with Contura MLB receives a more targeted dose of radiation, while minimizing radiation to healthy tissue such as
April 6, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has recently updated its patient brochure “Plain Talk for Radiation Therapy Patients: Stereotactic Radiation” to include information about stereotactic radiation.
April 6, 2009 - Harris Corp. said at HIMSS 2009 that it is re-engineering and redesigning the Web site CTisUS (www.ctisus.com) to deliver intuitive navigation to state-of-the-practice medical imaging content for radiologic technologists and other allied healthcare professionals who access the site every day from more than 100 countries.
April 6, 2009 — Viztek released a Web-based interface with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for its family of PACS offerings.
April 6, 2009 - INFINITT North America is now offering an off-site disaster recovery (DR) service to all INFINITT North America customers. With off-site copies of patients' images and a fully replicated database, medical facilities can take advantage of the very fastest method of restoring data in case of a total catastrophic disaster, according to the company.
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