February 20, 2008 – Philips achieved a 33 percent increase in sales of Green Products in 2007, all three sectors: Healthcare, Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle, resulting in total Green Product sales of EUR 5.3 billion in 2007, compared with EUR 4 billion in 2006.

February 20, 2008 - Varian Medical Systems will host multiple symposia about RapidArc radiotherapy technology to educate clinicians about the technology that reportedly delivers image-guided,intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) two to eight times faster than conventional IMRT or helical tomotherapy.

The ACUSON X300 works to provide compact, portable color Doppler solutions for adult, pediatric, OR, EP and interventional cardiology applications.

The system features a compact design and a console that reportedly helps to reduce arm and hand movement, designed to provide small, lightweight transducers.

January 2008

Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS) will showcase the second generation of its software for locating patients, staff and equipment, the Amelior Tracker 2.0, an automatic locating system that provides enhanced capabilities for identifying and locating resources within a new user interface.

At HIMSS 2008, Carestream Health will show enhancements to its Kodak Carestream Information Management Solutions (IMS), including eHealth Managed Services.

Sage Software will feature Intergy Practice Portal that reportedly offers a fully integrated, secure messaging system that allows practices to communicate electronically with their patients. The portal’s integration with the Intergy practice management system and Intergy EHR means that practice staff won’t need to flip between programs to address patient communications.

At HIMSS 2008, Agfa HealthCare will highlight its solutions in imaging informatics and healthcare IT for clinics, imaging centers, hospitals and regional healthcare enterprises.

Acuo Technologies is showcasing the latest version of its DICOM Services GridT solution, a distributed framework for managing ever-increasing medical imaging volume. By freeing the archive function from PACS, the Acuo DICOM Services GridT allows healthcare institutions to own their own digital imaging data without future data migration headaches. Acuo is built on an open, services-oriented architecture that can aggregate/federate DICOM objects and query results, as well as virtualize and replicate storage assets.

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. will feature its Synapse version 3.2.1, a new software release and extension of version 3.2 that delivers a number of key user-requested enhancements to increase user efficiencies and provides greater functionality for the interpretation of digital studies.

Amicas will feature Vision Reach 2.0, which extends the solution’s functionality to include follow-up order entry.
With Vision Reach, a referring physician has the ability to order a follow-up exam, in addition to receiving instantaneous secure notification when a report is available. This tool provides proactive electronic delivery, notifying the referring physician when exam results are ready.

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