GE Healthcare’s Centricity radiology information systems (RIS) and picture archive and communications system (PACS) solutions help customers succeed as a business on all levels. From helping patients live healthier lives, to contributing to more efficient and effective customer care, to bringing together disparate patient and image data areas through improved IT integration, GE Healthcare’s innovative, integrated solutions are helping to solve the world’s toughest healthcare challenges for our customers.

 

October 20, 2011 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Hologic’s Trident specimen radiography system. It uses direct digital detector technology to produce high quality images for rapid verification of tissue specimens such as breast biopsy samples. Trident is a state-of-the-art, mobile system designed to reduce procedure steps, streamline workflow and give physicians increased confidence in the accuracy of their procedures.

October 20, 2011 – GE Healthcare’s CT and Advantage Workstation team at RSNA 2011 will showcase innovative new products and technologies that may enable physicians to diagnose more confidently while improving image clarity, reducing patient dose and enhancing workflow.

During RSNA 2011, Cerner will demonstrate its ProVision Workstation 4.0. Cerner’s latest picture archiving and communications system (PACS) release, is a modular architecture that allows the workstation to be completely customized to fit any workflow.  Using a single platform, ProVision Workstation 4.0 is able to be viewed anywhere, on any device, such as a laptop or iPad, with the same functionality that a radiologist will see at a workstation in the hospital. 

Minimizing X-ray dose has driven the global imaging community to develop technologies that today can cut patient dose from computed tomography (CT) to a fraction of its previous levels.  So it may soon be in mammography.

October 20, 2011 — Mindray Medical International Limited announced it will showcase its newly enhanced hand-held M series ultrasound platforms at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) conference held Oct. 14-18.

Oct. 20, 2011 — The Radiosurgery Society (RSS), a nonprofit organization of medical professionals dedicated to advancing the science and clinical practice of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and radiosurgery (SRS), will hold its scientific meeting Feb. 23-25 at the La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, Calif.

October 19, 2011 – Boston Scientific has completed enrollment in a clinical trial to evaluate its WallFlex Biliary RX fully covered stent for the treatment of benign bile duct strictures (narrowing or blockages).  This multi-center, prospective study enrolled 187 patients at 13 centers in 11 countries worldwide.  Lead investigators in the study are Professor Jacques Deviere, M.D., Ph.D., of Hospital Erasme in Brussels, and Professor Guido Costamagna, M.D., of Policlinico A. Gemelli in Rome.

October 19, 2011 – Intelerad Medical Systems announces the launch of InteleSuite, a complete and customizable set of radiology information system/picture archiving and communications system (RIS/PACS) solutions designed to streamline workflow and augment productivity.  InteleSuite creates a new alternative that combines the KLAS Ambulatory category leader IntelePACS, with Intelerad’s new InteleRIS offering.

October 19, 2011 — GE Healthcare announced the United States launch of the GEM Suite (Geometry Embracing Method) of surface coils, designed for use with the Optima MR450w 1.5T wide bore magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. Syracuse Orthopedic Solutions is the first United States site to install the technology.

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