At SIIM 2008, Siemens will showcase its syngo Suite portfolio of image management solutions, a Web-enabled radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) with integrated image post-processing, computer-aided detection (CAD), embedded speech recognition or dictation and voice functions.

Anthro Corp. will showcase its Carl’s Table, model CT08, a reportedly an advanced radiology furniture solution designed for reading soft copy and for teleradiology.

Anthro Corp.'s eNook Pro for EMR is a the wall-mounted, lockable workstation for LCD’s and laptops.

The eNook Pro is designed to be a secure wall-mounted workspace, and may be used as a point of care, hallway station, a notebook desk or a walk-up computer workstation. The desk shelf reportedly may be flipped up to close and locked using a programmable numeric combination lock.

April 15, 2008- Baptist Health recently installed 25 TIMS DICOM Systems with their Philips iSite PACS. The modalities that TIMS is sending to PACS include nuclear medicine, fluoroscopy, angiography, C-arms, catheterization labs, endoscopy, nuclear medicine and other modalities. According to Foresight Imaging, Baptist Health chose the TIMS DICOM System because of TIMS’ ability to acquire from any medical modality and TIMS’ ability to acquire from both static and motion video modalities including long formats such as speech pathology.

April 2008

The TIMS DICOM System, a solution for converting any non-DICOM medical modality to DICOM, will be featured at SIIM 2008. The TIMS DICOM System is designed to convert any modality including fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine, CT, MR, motion X-ray, endoscopy, white light microscopy, angiography, ultrasound, speech pathology, and other modalities. The resulting studies can be sent to PACS, recorded to CD/DVD/USB, and printed to any Windows or DICOM printer.

April 14, 2008 - The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently announced 19 units from 15 hospitals in 14 states received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, an award that is increasingly linked to patient safety initiatives.

April 14, 2008 - Resurgent Health and Medical said today Weirton Medical Center in Brooke County, WV purchased 11 CleanTech IC hand-washing systems.

The community hospital has had a CleanTech unit since January and ordered an additional 10 systems to use throughout the entire facility. Locations include inpatient units and critical care, in addition to public areas including near the main lobby and outside the cafeteria for use by visitors, patients and staff.

April 14, 2008 – VirtuRad is now a reseller and integrator of Carestream Health’s digital medical imaging and healthcare IT systems in the U.S., looking to offer more benefits of Carestream Health's product portfolio to a wider variety of healthcare providers.

April 14, 2008 – TeraRecon’s Aquarius iNtuition advanced visualization solution received the Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation, recognizing the company’s ability to deliver workstation-class visualization tools via a thin-client architecture.

The company was also praised for the development of new patient-centric clinical workflows, which are designed to reduce interpretation times, decrease training time and increase standardization of care.

The syngo Colonography PEV (Polyp Enhanced Viewing) by Siemens Medical Solutions is an automated second reader tool for the visualization of lesions in the colon. The solution helps radiologists to detect polyp-shaped objects between 6 millimeters and 25 millimeters in size and can now be used both in clean-prepped and solid-liquid tagged protocols.

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