November 19, 2012 — CoActiv debuts at RSNA 2012 exciting new service and pricing options for its cloud-based, vendor neutral archiving (VNA) system, with more than nine years of proven superior performance. One of the first DICOM storage companies in the cloud, CoActiv provides ultra-secure, HIPAA-compliant, scalable and fail proof archiving backed by a 100% SLA guarantee. Thanks to the system’s advanced, redundant architecture, CoActiv clients have not experienced a second of down time throughout the product’s history.

November 15, 2012 — Carestream extended its leadership in the wireless digital radiography market by demonstrating a smaller-format 25 cm x 30 cm CARESTREAM DRX 2530C Detector as a work in progress. The new cesium iodide detector is designed to offer high efficiency for dose-sensitive pediatric, orthopedic and general radiology exams. 

November 13, 2012 — BridgeHead Software said its file archiving data and storage management system for PACS image data protection has been successfully tested by Fujifilm at a leading U.S. hospital. Fujifilm conducted extensive testing with BridgeHead’s solution which, in addition to offering an archiving system, provides unique and critical protection of PACS images against image loss. The testing exercise was carried out to ensure that such protection does not disrupt the PACS cardiology system’s workflow. The BridgeHead solution is the only modern protection offering specifically designed for healthcare data management.

 

November 1, 2012 – The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) will recognize The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists’ (ARRT) general sonography certification earned by individuals after January 1, 2013, as an accepted credential for sonographers in practices accredited by AIUM in general abdominal, obstetrics and/or gynecologic ultrasound. Sonographers earning ARRT’s general sonography certification – R.T.(S)(ARRT) – after that date will satisfy AIUM practice accreditation standards.

 

Carestream showed its new DryView 5950 Laser Imaging System that produces 508 pixels-per-inch output for general radiology and mammography images.

Acuo Technologies said the Defense Logistics Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) selected the Acuo Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) as a new vendor neutral archive (VNA) solution for enterprise patient imaging logistics. UCP will consolidate imaging studies from 39 U.S. Army picture archiving and communication system (PACS) sites and 23 U.S. Navy PACS sites located at military healthcare facilities throughout the world.

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