November 15, 2012 – GE Healthcare Canada announced Health Canada clearance of its new cardiac imaging platform, the Discovery* CT750 HD FREEdom Edition. Addressing the main challenges of cardiac imaging – coronary motion, calcium blooming, plaque composition and accurate myocardial perfusion – the FREEdom Edition is designed to provide a new level of cardiac CT performance.

October 29, 2012 – Compressus will showcase the MEDxConnect System v4.1 interoperability and workflow platform at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Radiology Society of North America, Nov. 25-30, 2012. (RSNA Booth 9347, North Hall).  Designed to improve physician productivity, reduce Enterprise expansion costs and improve patient care and safety, MEDxConnect v4.1 offers a vendor-neutral way to address interoperability and workflow simultaneously, so physicians can access critical information and images from anywhere in the enterprise with efficiency and ease of use.

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November 16, 2012 - Compressus announced the integration of M*Modal's Speech Understanding technology with the MEDxConnect suite of healthcare interoperability and workflow solutions from Compressus. Specifically, the integration brings a next-generation speech platform to MEDxConnect users, providing flexible reporting capabilities and superior clinical documentation functions that increase productivity and produce cost savings for customers.

Cerner Corp. has partnered with TomTec, a world leader for medical imaging management software specifically for ultrasound, to provide clinicians with advanced 3-D capabilities. Built right into Cerner SkyVue, Cerner’s latest image viewing platform, clinicians have the ability to view different types of media in 2-D/3-D/4-D viewing capabilities along with integrated EHR information side by side. No matter role or venue, everyone has the same access to information as well as viewing capabilities. TomTec’s comprehensive 2D and 3D image review applications used as a gadget within Cerner SkyVue is integrated seamlessly with the EHR which optimizes clinician’s workflows and increases positive outcomes and efficiency.

 

Cerner RadNet Radiology Information System (RIS) provides the tools to work more efficiently while providing patients with a positive personal experience and delivering superior care.

November 12, 2012 — Cephasonics, Inc., a technology-innovation leader focused on delivering mixed-signal semiconductors, modules and subsystems to the imaging and ultrasound markets, today announced the release of the Cephasonics ultrasound application-programming interface (CS-API) software Version 3.0. Combined with Cephasonics’ Quest™ (CSK9130) front-end beamforming system, it enables OEMs to develop ultrasound-based products for medical and imaging applications quickly and easily. CS-API V3.0 incorporates new and enhanced functions, including parallel beamforming; Doppler modes such as color-flow mapping (CFM), power-Doppler imaging (PDI), and pulsed-wave Doppler (PWD); duplex/triplex modes; and PCI-Express host-interface support. Cephasonics will demonstrate its latest embedded-ultrasound technology at RSNA in Chicago in Hall B, booth 9525, November 25-30.

November 25 — Carestream showed the latest enhancements to its Vue RIS including the storage and tracking of radiation dose information at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) tradeshow.

A new statement to help physicians inform women on how breast density affects breast cancer screening and cancer risk has been issued by the American Society of Breast Disease.

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