The definition of core requirements for the different PACS system administrator (SA) jobs, ranging from associates to interface analyst, administrator and manager, and corresponding exams has definitely encouraged many professionals to start enhancing their skills and filling in the gaps, whether in the IT or clinical domain or both.

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More women are learning about an imaging technique that offers a noninvasive alternative to hysterectomy for women with uterine fibroids and they are finding this procedure to be very accessible in outpatient centers.

Since its clinical adoption in the early 1990s, anesthesia agent monitoring has evolved significantly from standalone units to modules that are used in multiparameter monitoring systems. According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), over 40 million anesthetics are delivered each year in the United States, irrespective of the care setting.

October 2, 2008 - InSite One signed a multi-year agreement with VHA Inc., the national healthcare alliance, to provide medical digital archiving, storage and disaster recovery services to VHA member hospitals across the nation.

Through this agreement member hospitals will reportedly save money by using InSite One’s InDex managed suite of services to support archiving, storage and disaster recovery in their diagnostic imaging departments.

October 2, 2008 - In a study that used Hologic’s R2 computer-aided detection (CAD) system, researchers found that “Single reading with computer-aided detection could be an alternative to double reading and could improve the rate of detection of cancer from screening mammograms read by a single reader.”

October 1, 2008 – TomoTherapy Inc. maker of the Hi·Art treatment system for advanced radiation therapy, today announced plans to enhance the remote service and diagnostics capabilities of its customer support program.

October 1, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. has entered into a global licensing agreement with Royal Philips Electronics to provide the latter’s speech recognition platform with Microsoft Amalga Family of Health Enterprise Systems.

October 2, 2008 – The American College of Radiology is offering a radiology education program – the “Classroom of the Future” - on topics such as coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and CT colonography (CTC) using 11 different imaging systems.

ScImage provides a mammography workflow solution that features MQSA-compliant archiving, patient letter creation for various exam statuses and statistical reporting for various patient procedure statuses. It delivers the required tools to track all positive and incomplete mammography exams to completion.

Software version 3.1 of DeJarnette Research Systems Inc.'s xDL - Cross-enterprise Document Librarian sees application in regional archive settings requiring sophisticated document sharing capabilities. xDL also sees application in MTF “vendor neutral” archive solutions and offsite storage gateway applications.

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