April 8, 2009 - Apollo, a provider of clinical multimedia solutions, today released its Apollo Enterprise Patient Media Manager (Apollo EPMM), an enterprise solution that transforms distributed patient media into one unified record.


As the volume of cardiovascular imaging procedures continues to grow, cardiology imaging IT is representing the fastest growth area for revenue among both the providers and vendors. Advanced imaging is also picking up in oncology, as the capabilities of imaging modalities advance.


April 8, 2009 – GE Healthcare is presenting at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) its new Centricity Enterprise Archive as a platform for application-neutral image management, a standards-based archive that helps manage patient and image data over time and image-enable electronic medical records (EMR).

April 8, 2009 – Medsphere Systems Corp., provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, released at HIMSS 2009 an enhanced OpenVista Radiology Application, the second in a series of OpenVista 2.0 releases that aim to upgrade the electronic health record (EHR) solution.

April 8, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan selected Aurora Imaging Technology for the 2009 Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award in the North American Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanners Market in recognition of the company’s strong growth within the Breast MRI market due to its robust offering of imaging, IT and financial assistance solutions.

April 7, 2009 - The FDA today gave marketing clearance to a new product from Carestream Health: The CARESTREAM DRX-1 System, a wireless digital radiography (DR) detector—the size of a standard cassette—that fits existing X-ray rooms without having to replace or modify existing equipment.

April 8, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, Compressus said it had entered into a strategic partnerships with Avnet HealthPath reseller partners Software Information Systems (SIS) and Micro Solutions, designed to accelerate access to comprehensive interoperability solutions and to potential federal healthcare IT stimulus funds.

April 8, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, Agfa HealthCare released an advanced healthcare enterprise visualization strategy that combines the company's IMPAX Data Center and IMPAX Mobility solutions to deliver managed imaging record access and distribution across healthcare enterprises and regional networks.

IMPAX Mobility is manufactured by Medical Insight A/S as EasyViz.

April 7, 2009 - The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) said at HIMSS 2009 that it has cemented key partnerships that will enable it to significantly ramp up its efforts to bring digital imaging technology to sites in need around the world.

April 8, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc. is showcasing the newly released Aquarius iNtuition ("AQi") software version 4.4 with advanced decision support and visualization at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition this week in Chicago.

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