Call it common sense or label it logic, but when it comes to healthcare, for some reason the industry’s patients, players, policymakers and pundits seem to lack it. Here are nine examples.

One of the more promising technology developments contributing to healthcare efficiency, outpatient settings notwithstanding, is speech/voice-to-text programming. After all, it’s designed to eliminate keyboard typing and can make it easier to populate electronic health and medical record files.

August 15, 2008 -INFINITT North America has developed a Tele-RIS module that enables radiology reading services to provide advanced hosting capabilities to their referring customers.

August 15, 2008 - BSD Medical Corp. said it has provided to the FDA additional data requested pertaining to its 510(k) Premarket Notification submission for the MicroThermX-100 Microwave Ablation System.

Clearance from the FDA of the 510(k) Premarket Notification submission is required before a Class II product can be sold commercially in the U.S.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA Inc. introduced the Breast Imaging Diagnostic Workstation (BIDW), which is available for any U.S. facility that has implemented Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM).

INFINITT North America released its INFINITT Mammo PACS, a Web-based, multimodality PACS solution designed to streamline the way breast imaging studies are displayed, read, archived and distributed.

August 14, 2008 - The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging will host a pediatric computed tomography (CT) vendor summit to discuss product development to standardize radiation dose estimation settings and display language for pediatric CT scanners, Aug. 20 at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Summit participants will also explore how vendor-provided education for technologists can promote better understanding of the unique steps required to safely perform CT scans on children.

August 14, 2008 - TeraMedica Healthcare Technology’s Evercore Enterprise Suite has been fully tested and certified for use with IBM’s Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) storage management system, TeraMedica announced yesterday.

August 14, 2008 - Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, found the usage of injectable perflutren microsphere ultrasound (micro-bubble) contrast agents, which help to evaluate heart wall motion, declined in the second quarter of 2008 to 22 percent of the usage just two years earlier.

Bard's new Simetry Brachytherapy Program is a complete system for the treatment of prostate cancer based on individual anatomy.

The Simetry Brachytherapy Program uniformly loads the periphery of the prostate with connected SourceLink trains, then optimizes interior seed placement, creating a balanced halo of seeds around the prostate to consistently distribute the dose across the prostate. SourceLink Connectors hold the seeds in place once it has been determined where they should be positioned.

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