December 7, 2009 - A new integrated hybrid interventional table offers head-to-toe tilting and side-to-side cradling to meet the needs of both interventionalists and surgeons during hybrid intervention.

December 7, 2009 - Introduced this past year and highlighted last week at RSNA 2009 was Infinitt’s Cardiology PACS, a Web-based suite of clinical and reporting tools for cardiac, cardiovascular and vascular Imaging. The cardiology system integrates with Infinitt’s RIS-PACS.

December 7, 2009 – Showcasing its complete, end-to-end radiology workflow solution, BRIT Systems introduced new browser-based applications and viewers for its Roentgen Works enterprise RIS/PACS during the annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting last week in Chicago.

December 4, 2009 - Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) is a molecular breast imaging technique increasingly being used in the diagnostic workup of patients with indeterminate mammograms and has demonstrated the ability to detect cancers missed by mammography and ultrasound.

December 4, 2009 - A U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) pilot program based at the European Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, will require an image archive solution to support one million studies, consisting primarily of CT, CR and MR exams. The archive will provide image access to army medical installations across the DoD network.

December 4, 2009 – The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that cancer will become the world’s most frequent cause of death in 2010, replacing cardiovascular diseases as the most common cause of death. More than 10.6 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year.

December 4, 2009 – A new MR/CT and angiography fusion navigation system was introduced at RSNA 2009 this week to better guide percutaneous oncology and cardiology procedures.

December 3, 2009 – Vendor readiness, lack of staff and access to capital will make implementation of the HIT Standards Committee standards in time to meet currently established deadlines unlikely, say most Healthcare CIOs.

December 4, 2009 – In an effort to lower clinician radiation exposure in the cath lab, a new device displays the real-time dose each clinician receives and alerts them when they enter the radiation field. The DoseAware system was introduced by Philips Healthcare at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting this week in Chicago.

December 4, 2009 – Offering new features and functionality that raise the level of clinical productivity, Konica Minolta released its ImagePilot 1.3 computed radiography software version during RSNA 2009.

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