October 22, 2010 - Codonics Infinity MAX Multimedia Medical Server (WIP) is a standalone network appliance that adds video viewing and management capabilities to existing PACS systems. Working within healthcare IT environments, the system combines videos with patient and physician information for long-term DICOM storage.

October 22, 2010 - The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Carestream Health a maximum $10 million contract for PACS systems and related sub-systems and components. Under terms of this agreement, the equipment can be purchased by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.

Built on good clinical practice and scientific evidence in cardiovascular imaging and reporting, Agfa HealthCare's Impax Cardiovascular (CV) solution supports clinicians with a single, integrated cardiovascular information system targeted at cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, cardiac CT/CTA review which is Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT)-compliant,

October 22, 2010 - Proton beam therapy is safe, effective and may be superior to other conventional treatments for stage I inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, according to a study in the October issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

At RSNA 2010, Brit Systems will display several new mobile applications that will allow physicians to access studies, images and other documents on smartphones, iPads and Web browsers. Both WebWorks and UrgentWorks streamlines work by making critical data available on mobile platforms.

RoentgenWorks now supports the Health Information Exchange (HIE) NHIN Gateway for patient and document discovery; document retrieval; and document submission. RoentgenWorks can store DICOM and HL-7 data from many different enterprises and it includes an MPI for acquiring a patient’s data whether it is stored locally or within a HIE. It also produces and acquires CCRs. From either a browser or an iPad, users across the enterprise have a single source for viewing all imaging studies, documents and patients’ CCRs.

For more information: www.brit.com

Brit Vision Mammography viewer marries image viewing with reporting for an integrated multi-modality/reporting solution designed to improve clinical efficiency. Information, such as measurements, is shared bi-directionally between the viewer and reporting system. Users can also dictate commands to control the workstation. A new autohang comparison feature enables automatically hanging the comparison image on an adjacent monitor.

For more information: www.brit.com

Roentgen RIS 4.02 introduces the entry of patient pictures as an identifier, insurance authorization information and workers’ compensation information and configurable worklist color coding. It includes double-sided scanning of insurance cards, warning icons on the schedule for allergies and other patient and insurance alerts and documentation of patient reminder calling. It fully integrates with UrgentWorks for critical results reporting and ER discordance and supports an MPI for cross enterprise support. SmartSynch supports instant replication to backup server.

UrgentWorks is a phone-, iPad- and browser-supported application for the entry, acknowledgment and management of critical test results. UrgentWorks parses critical findings out of radiologists’ reports, or they can be entered via workstation APIs or directly into the application. The application contacts patient locations and/or physicians via phone, iPad, etc. based on a set of rules. It continues until results have been acknowledged. Its unique FireDrill calls all numbers in the directory to verify them during scheduled drills.

November 30, 2010 – A new application allows radiologists to share images, reports critical results and other information on the iPad. With the WebWorks iPad Viewer application, from Brit Systems, radiologists can connect to the company’s Roentgen Works PACS server to share images.

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