P3T PA (pulmonary angiography), from Medrad, is a personalized contrast-dosing software that increases the percentage of diagnostic-quality CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) studies to rule out pulmonary embolism (PE).

A private cloud strategy, by EMC, lets healthcare providers simply and efficiently utilize information to make more informed clinical, operational and financial decisions. The company offers ways for healthcare providers to optimize care, reduce cost, and increase productivity through the accelerated adoption of electronic health record (EHR). For example, its Document Imaging for Medical Records converts medical records to indexed electronic data records and delivers them directly to the health information management (HIM) or EHR system. This eliminates the need for manual data entry.

Carestream’s Mammography Workstation is a vendor-neutral, multi-modality breast imaging workstation and flexible digital capture and output system. It enables diagnostic review of all breast imaging exams (FFDM, ultrasound, MR, CR and others) as well as all general radiology exams. This eliminates the need for radiologists to read FFDM exams on each vendor’s proprietary workstation and then switch to additional workstations to review other types of exams.

The eHealth Portal service, by Carestream Health, equips healthcare providers that use the company’s remotely hosted archiving service to allow access by any authorized user with a simple Internet connection. As a result, this new service enables cost-effective data sharing and collaboration among healthcare providers, imaging centers, radiologists, referring physicians, and other clinicians or staff.

Bracco offers contrast imaging agents for computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), angiography and radiotracers for nuclear imaging.

For MRI, it makes contrast agents with high relaxivity, high stability and established safety profiles. In addition, the company offers imaging protocols and best practice tools to help achieve the highest quality imaging.

MediCal QAWeb, by Barco, is the first online service for high-grade quality assurance (QA). The all-inclusive secured system guarantees consistent image quality and uptime of all PACS display systems throughout the facility. The system is compatible with Barco and non-Barco diagnostic and clinical displays.

It provides remote, secured and HIPAA-compliant QA management. The service also permanently monitors your display systems to ensure continuous compliance with DIN 6868-57, AAPM TG18, JESRA, MQSA, IEC 62563-1 and other regional QA guidelines.

The ProScribe, by Barco, is an advanced mobile point-of-care display for physicians and nurses who need to stay connected when moving from patient to patient. With its touch screen interface, rugged durability, silent operation and wireless connectivity, ProScribe enables medical professionals to access patient data anywhere and anytime with minimum risk of downtime.

It features an on-screen keyboard with hot keys, 12-inch touch screen and a grab-and-go docking station. The device uses Windows XP as its embedded operating system.

The CliniScape mobile clinical assistant, by Barco, enables nurses and physicians to make more informed clinical decisions at the point of care. The ultra-ergonomic and medical-grade device integrates all the features needed to increase patient safety and reduce administrative workload.

The device is lightweight and features a 10-inch touch screen. It also has a back handgrip for maximum comfort and features a 2 MegaPixel digital camera to capture pictures of patients’ wounds.

For more information: www.barco.com

October 27, 2010 – A new mammography system upgrade includes advanced imaging processing software and new premium screens that employ structured needle phosphor technology. The upgrade is available on Carestream Health’s computed radiography (CR)-based mammography systems.

October 27, 2010 – A new distribution agreement has been signed allowing Varian Medical Systems to offer Vision RT’s motion management products to its customers. The two companies have been working in collaboration to facilitate the interoperability between their respective products.

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