February 12, 2008 - Wellsoft Corp. said today it entered into a national agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners to provide the Wellsoft Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to emergency departments in Premier’s alliance of more than 1,550 member hospitals.

The maker says Wellsoft EDIS is designed by and for emergency department clinicians. Features include patient tracking, nursing and physician documentation, electronic orders and results, charge capture, and coding.


Foremost on the minds of many radiologists today is how to reduce radiation dose when using computed tomography (CT) without compromising image quality.

February 12, 2008 - Elekta Neuromag, noninvasive measurement technology for brain activity using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology, has been ordered by The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

The Nebraska Medical Center will receive its new Elekta Neuromag MEG system in the spring/summer of 2008. With the MEG system from Elekta installed, neurosurgeons, neurologists and other clinicians will be able to noninvasively record human brain activity in real time.

February 12, 2008 - Positron emission tomography (PET) was far more reliable than computed tomography (CT) in detecting whether or not a nodule was malignant, according to findings in a large, multi-institutional study comparing PET and CT in their accuracy in the characterization of lung nodules.

February 12, 2008 - A recent study found a significant increase in diagnostic accuracy when using Medipattern's B-CAD v2 on lesions less than 1 centimeter in size, based upon 100 confirmed biopsied cases, comparing the diagnostic accuracy of three reading scenarios: a single physician, double reading with two physicians and a single physician reading with B-CAD.

February 12, 2008 - The Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division of Nuance is now offering the Revolabs xTag Wireless Microphone alongside its Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical speech recognition software solution.

February 12, 2008 – QUBYX adapted its PerfectLUM display calibration solutions with the Matrox Digital Luminance Correction technology (DLC), offering users a complete display calibration package, aiming to ensure that DICOM measurements and the DLC adjustments reflect DICOM accuracy across the entire display viewing area.

The new PicomCIM clinical information management module provides the ability to capture data from multiple points of care into a single repository and enables users to mine exam reports and procedural data for reporting purposes.

The latest release of NovaRad�s NovaCardio PACS is specifically designed and priced for small and medium facilities. The system includes disaster recovery, 24/7 remote support, software and hardware refresh to protect against obsolescence, onsite training and continuous Web training, with no additional fees.

NovaRad’s NovaPACS Cardio Viewer offers sign-on access to images or over a website. Features included in this module include: image calibration based on catheter size, percent stenosis, choose series, cine tools, digital subtraction (displays contrast-filled vessels without any interfering background), ejection fraction and image-sharpening algorithms.
Images from the system are stored an Online RAID 5 Archive designed with the capacity to display multiple cardiac images simultaneously and access to patient’s entire radiological or cardiological history.

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