Intuitive Imaging Informatics will display digitizers at SIIM 2008, including its Array 2905 Laser Film Digitizer. Designed for primary diagnostic applications demanding high accuracy digital image reproduction, this small footprint laser film digitizer scans medical X-ray film images into computer systems with laser accuracy for diagnostic PACS and teleradiology applications. It offers high-contrast sensitivity over a wide optical density range, reportedly providing accurate capture of subtle image detail even in dark or overexposed film images.

Intuitive Imaging Informatics will feature its Primera’s CD Mastering Systems. These all-in-one, compact, desktop units deliver automated, robotic CD/DVD duplication, along with full-color printing, reportedly ideal for producing clinical CDs containing multiple exams, key image summaries and clinical reports. Primera standard CD Mastering Systems are available in capacities of 25, 50, 100 or 400.

April 2008

The new Digital Record Center is a disaster recovery and long-term archiving service powered by the HP Medical Archive solution (MAS).

As a managed service, the Digital Record Center for Medical Images works to provide secure, offsite, back-up protection reportedly without requiring hospitals and imaging centers to set aside storage systems, data center space, staff and capital investments. This aims to help medical institutions to reduce their storage costs and allows them to redirect resources to clinical operations.

PACSGEAR Inc. has added a high-volume robotic CD/DVD burner for its PACSGEAR MediaWriter.

To be launched at the SIIM 2008, MediaWriter D200 uses the Epson Discproducer to quickly write and print DICOM CDs/DVDs with one click. Discproducer has two CD/DVD drives and a capacity of 100 discs, giving hospitals, healthcare networks and imaging centers a DICOM distribution solution that is easy to configure, deploy and maintain, according to the company.

April 21, 2008 - One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by Arizona State University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport security checkpoints and revolutionize health screenings for diseases like anthrax, cancer and Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

The technology being developed is based on the world's tiniest rotary motor - a biological engine measured on the order of molecules.

April 21, 2008- BoundaryMedical Inc.’s new Outcome Enterprise Study Manager for measuring outcomes relating to orthopedic treatments is a software-as-a-service (SaaS), designed to allow users to collect and manage clinical data over the Internet efficiently and affordably.

April 21, 2008 - The Beacon Collaborative, a voluntary affiliation of 39 hospitals in five San Francisco Bay area counties, said today that reductions in the occurrence of two major types of hospital infections between April 1, 2006 and Dec. 31, 2007 saved approximately 194 lives.

The estimate of lives saved is based on a statistical analysis of mortality for ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CL-BSI), two infections that frequently occur in hospital intensive care units.

April 21, 2008 - Ultrasonix Medical Corp. experienced a growth in revenue for Q108, undergoing a 20 percent increase over the same period in 2007, acknowledging its strong growth to new advances on the Sonix OP and Sonix SP systems as well as substantial market growth in the emergency medicine market.

Increased sales for the Sonix OP and Sonix SP platforms can be attributed to a new technology, EPI Extended Pulse Imaging. EPI uses a special signal technology that reportedly improves penetration and maintains image quality in technically difficult patients.

April 21, 2008 - Vitrea software is Vital Images’ advanced visualization solution that creates 2D, 3D and 4D images of human anatomy from CT and MR image data. With this productivity-enhancing tool, physicians can easily navigate within these images to better understand disease conditions. The Vitrea software addresses specialists’ needs through various software options for cardiac, colon, vessel probe and other applications. In addition, Vitrea software utilizes an intuitive clinical workflow and automatic settings to improve speed and simplicity.

April 21, 2008 - InSite One will announce new services that will include tools for rapid recovery of large data sets and solutions to provide business continuance with constant data access to stored exams during an abnormal period of operation whether it is a declared event or natural disaster.

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