April 21, 2008 - iCRco Inc. installed its digital CR unit at JEM Educational Services in Corona, CA, to better familiarize its students with digital imaging and utilizing a recent law passed to allow X-ray technicians to use the equipment after proper education and authorization.

April 21, 2008 - CMS Inc., an Elekta Company, completed internal and external validation testing for its new Atlas-Based Autosegmentation solution and is applying to the FDA for 510(k) clearance to distribute CMS Atlas-Based Autosegmentation in the U.S. market.

The CAD PRO Advantage digitizer specifically designed for mammography, reportedly provides the ability to quickly digitize film-based prior studies and, when coupled with the appropriate software, uses the DICOM MG standard to identify the specific mammography view contained on each film.

Hologic’s R2 Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions reportedly give users the most sophisticated pattern recognition software to help find cancers with greater certainty at an earlier stage.

R2 technology was the first CAD system approved by the FDA for film-based mammography in 1998 and for digital mammography in 2001, according to the commpany. It is reportedly estimated that more than ten million women had their mammograms interpreted with the aid of R2's CAD technology in the last 12 months.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical will be showcased by Dictaphone, a division of Nauance, at SIIM 2008. The speech recognition system is designed specifically for healthcare organizations, converting speech into text at up to 160 words per minute, automating the input of patient information and eliminating the high cost and long turnaround time associated with the manual transcription of patient notes. The system reportedly delivers up to 99 percent overall accuracy and more than 25 percent improvement over the previous release, including “Roaming User” capability.

TeleFLOW, by Telerad Express, reportedly offers numerous benefits including the ability to specify turnaround times, the automated distribution of reports to referring physicians and the online viewing of reports and annotated images.

A client may order the response time necessary for an interpretation to help support the increasing demands of referring physicians. The predefined choices in turnaround times include: STAT, 2-hours, 6-hours and 1-day.

Telerad Express monitors each order throughout the process to assure on-time delivery, according to the company.

AMICAS will display a new version of Vision Series RIS, introducing advanced work queues to optimize the order entry and scheduling workflows. The new release also introduces advances in native HL7 integration capabilities and advances in scalability for complex practices.

Insight Dashboards is a Web-based business intelligence platform that works to provide access to customized, near real-time graphical data for key performance metrics and indicators, including both clinical and operational factors.

MedQuist Inc. will show a new, Web-based version of its mobile dictation application PhysAssist IQ, which gives physicians more flexibility over documenting at the point-of-care using mobile devices including flip phones, Smartphones, PDAs and tablet PCs.

Using Internet-enabled mobile devices to dictate allows caregivers to more freedom document patient encounters anytime, anywhere, according to the company. The voice file is automatically and securely uploaded to MedQuist’s Enterprise Platform to complete the document creation workflow.

April 2008

The Horizon Radiology Manager 5.6 is reportedly the core workflow component of an enterprise-focused RIS-PACS solution. With such functionality as order management, electronic signature, film management, claims preparation, system administration and management reporting tools, the new release of Horizon Radiology Manager offers 10 additional clinical features, including allergy indicator enhancements and simplifying the nonreportable workflow.

McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging PACS integrates images from multiple modalities with clinical patient data, streamlining radiology department workflow and reportedly improving radiologist efficiency. The system also provides referring physicians with patient images as part of a complete medical record, improving decision-making and helping to ensure patient safety, according to the company.

Its disaster recovery options reportedly covers every PACS component to fully recover complete system operation in the event of a data center failure.

April 2008

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