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Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc.
Konica Minolta Healthcare provides world-class imaging technologies that enable the delivery of high-quality patient care. From primary diagnostic imaging to healthcare IT and predictive support services, our solutions help clinicians deliver Better Decisions, Sooner. For more information regarding Konica Minolta products and services, please visit medical.konicaminolta.us.
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Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. will introduce a new worklist feature, Turn-Around-Time (TAT), for its Exa platform at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), May 31-June 2 in National Harbor, Md. The new feature is designed to provide customers with flexibility and simplicity through a customizable workflow engine and an intelligent worklist.
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. announced that two clinical studies utilizing the company’s Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) X-ray technology were presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2018 Annual Meeting, May 18-23 in San Diego. Dynamic Digital Radiography, currently under development, is a new modality that utilizes conventional X-ray images and Konica Minolta's proprietary software platform to create X-ray in Motion.
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Nine months after the implementation of Exa PACS (picture archiving and communication system) from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based teleradiology provider and one of the state’s largest radiology imaging suppliers, has significantly increased volume and productivity. According to Radiology Imaging Solutions, this has generated a significant return on its healthcare information technology (IT) investment. The company has doubled the number of imaging sites its radiologists are providing reading services for. By implementing Exa’s Voice Recognition in place of traditional transcriptionists, their productivity has also increased by 400 percent. Radiologists are reading 2.5 times the number of studies with no corresponding increase in working hours and decreasing report turnaround times (TATs) by over 50 percent.
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