February 24, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology will host a connectathon at its headquarters in Fairfax, VA., this September as part of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) initiative to promote seamless connectivity and integration of radiotherapy equipment and patient health information systems.

February 24, 2009 – The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) today introduced its HIMSS Online Buyer’s Guide, a Web-based tool with companies listing relevant information on their healthcare IT products and services.

Feb. 24, 2009 – NovaRad’s NovaRIS receives the highest overall performance score in the RIS community hospital market segment of the 2009 KLAS “The Revival of RIS” report.

ScImage will demonstrate the newly added cardiology imaging capabilities for its cardiology PACS, including; structured reporting for echocardiography and vascular procedures, a clinical information database, voice recognition enhanced reporting, DICOM Modality Worklist Driven ECG Management and automatic pre-fetch of cardiac CT and thoracic CR/DR exams stored on its multi-departmental PACS.

Digirad's Cardius X-ACT, a dedicated cardiac SPECT system, offers the potential to set new clinical standards with X-ACT attenuation correction. The X-ACT system is based on the high-efficiency Cardius-3 XPO triple-head upright dedicated nuclear cardiac SPECT imaging system.

The INFINITT Cardiology PACS has a user friendly interface, optimized for the cardiology specialists’ workflow. It is a Web-based solution with smart clients, supporting Cine CT and providing reliable measurement tools for Cath, Echo, ECG and CT 3D images.

McKesson’s latest generation Horizon Cardiology (version 12) is designed to incorporate the latest technology and enables extensive new clinical functionality, thus further improving the cardiology department and user workflows.

February 24, 2009 - Researchers are testing the use of positron emission tomography (PET) for dose painting, but have found the technique is limited by PET’s spatial resolution, according to researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium (Radiother. Oncol. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.11.014).

February 24, 2009 - The Texas Facilities Commission has chosen Viztek as its digital radiology solution provider.

February 24, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. today said a paper published online in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reinforces the clinical use and impact of its echocardiography contrast agent DEFINITY Vial For (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension in hospitalized and critically ill cardiac patients.

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