Data capacities are doubling every month at hospitals, radiology centers and radiation oncology clinics. Traditional business applications are not sufficient to support the explosion of digital data in a multimedia environment, and providers end up spending large portions of their budgets on maintaining data.


Speech recognition embedded in the radiology workstation has become a “must have” feature. According to industry experts, the most important recent advancement in the technology has been the ability to integrate speech recognition with other applications such as critical results, peer review, medical reference programs and data mining applications.


For many hospitals, the next stage of PACS implementation involves integrating the radiology PACS with the cardiovascular image management system (CVIS). The integration enables the hospital to store all medical images in a single repository for improved image data management. In theory, integrating these two imaging silos can be seamless.

The $19 billion earmarked by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for healthcare IT incentives over the next five years has generated a lot of chatter about who gets what.

In the war against breast cancer, brachytherapy is a powerful technique for eradicating the spread of the disease. However, certain limitations in the method of delivering radiation have excluded a large patient population that would benefit from the treatment.


Ever wonder where engineers get their ideas for designing a new product?

At Kern Radiology Medical Group in Kern County, CA, revolutionary imaging technology and quality patient care go hand in hand. Its brand new, all-Hologic women’s imaging center gives patients access to the latest in digital mammography and breast biopsy technologies in a comfortable, spa-like setting.

April 3, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. will demonstrate its latest advances in connectivity and workflow integration technology on its SonoSite Turbo ultrasound system platform, during the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) 2009 Conference April 4-8 in Chicago.


Did you ever notice how PACS is the vehicle that drives the other software applications to the end-users? Not surprisingly, the goal of so many medical applications is to become integrated into PACS – and then you’re golden.

April 3, 2009 – GE Healthcare IT and Microsoft Corp. today announced the companies have entered into an independent software vendor (ISV) alliance agreement to provide customers with enhanced healthcare IT administration capabilities that support GE’s Centricity Enterprise healthcare IT solution, currently in use by many hospitals worldwide.

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