March 12, 2008 - Carestream Health Inc. signed contracts for its digital mammography solutions with mammography providers worldwide, a set of solutions that includes special functionality for its RIS/PACS platforms, multimodality breast imaging workstations, CR-based mammography systems, CAD for CR and film-based mammography and laser imagers, said the company.

The following healthcare providers are among those that have placed new orders:

March 12, 2008 – Philips has developed a repair and tracking system for mobile diagnostic imaging systems, the Philips Remote Services (PRS) for mobiles, using global positioning system (GPS) location technology, Internet data connectivity and standard voice service to diagnose and potentially repair imaging equipment remotely.

ScImage’s Web server based Enterprise PACS, PicomEnterprise, employs a single database to organize, categorize, store and distribute exam specific information from multiple departments. This data can be in the form of DICOM and non-DICOM images, clinical reporting, physician dictation, ECG waveforms and even jpeg photos or mpeg videos.

Many of the newer model beds and stretchers use frames and drive mechanisms within a few inches of the floor, which means traditional mobile patient lifts can be difficult to use because their legs are too high to extend under these beds, so Liko introduced the new Golvo 7007 LowBase model lift.

The company says it circumvents the problem with lower beds and stretchers using a lower total leg height, including wheels, of only 2 1/3 inches.

March 11, 2008 - Citizens Memorial Healthcare in Bolivar, MO and St. Agnes Healthcare in Baltimore recently received the prestigious Stage 6 Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption recognition from HIMSS Analytics.

March 11, 2008 − MediNotes Corp. said on March 4 the company was honored with the Technology Association of Iowa’s (TAI) Prometheus Award for the state’s 2008 Top Software Company in the medium-sized firm category, and MediNotes’ CEO and President Donald G. Schoen was given the CEO of the Year award.

As Iowa’s premier technology industry group, TAI uses the Prometheus Awards event, the largest technology event of its kind in Iowa, to recognize the best and brightest of Iowa-based organizations that use IT.

March 11, 2008 - Many of the newer model beds and stretchers use frames and drive mechanisms within a few inches of the floor, which means traditional mobile patient lifts can be difficult to use because their legs are too high to extend under these beds, so Liko this week introduced the new Golvo 7007 LowBase model lift.

The company says it circumvents the problem with lower beds and stretchers using a lower total leg height, including wheels, of only 2 1/3 inches.

March 11, 2008 – According to more than 600 healthcare executives who were polled at HIMSS in Orlando, FL, Hillary Clinton would be the best presidential candidate to most positively impact the healthcare industry, but when also asked which candidate they would vote for on election day, Clinton ranked third among the four remaining candidates.

The recent revelation that MRSA is killing more Americans than AIDs compels us to look for better answers, and fast. A simple one which could have a huge impact involves how we communicate the location of isolated MRSA patients to house keepers, transport personnel and other staff.

March 11, 2008 - Södertälje Hospital is the first Swedish hospital to go live with Sectra’s IDS7/dx, a new diagnostic workstation for radiologists and part of the company’s PACS, optimized for distributed reading of radiology images and handling extremely large datasets.

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