Oregon Medical Group’s growth was both a blessing and a curse.
The Eugene/Springfield-based group practice is rapidly expanding and now includes more than 13 clinics and 118 physicians that collectively perform 58,000 imaging procedures a year. Director of Diagnostic Imaging Dawn Adell, BSRT (R) (CV), decided it was time to establish an integrated digital infrastructure.

Images come in all shapes and sizes at Bio-Imaging Technologies, which assists hundreds of companies worldwide in managing clinical trial data and bringing new drugs to market. As the world’s largest independent medical imaging core lab, Bio-Imaging receives multimodality medical images from dozens of client trial sites, analyzes data and submits it as part of the regulatory approval process to the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other international agencies.

When it comes to breast imaging, the professionals at West Coast Radiology Centers in Orange County, CA, believe that best-fit technology equals better care. Established in 1988, the multimodality outpatient imaging practice adopted digital technology across most modalities.

February 7, 2008 - At HIMSS 2008, BayScribe will unveil its latest advancement in dictation and transcription technology, BayScribe in a Box, designed to provide users with document reporting workflow solution that encompasses voice capture, ADT capture, routing, workflow management, transcription and document delivery, and a month-to-month license, allowing users to opt out anytime they want.

February 6, 2008 - Kyron Clinical Imaging Inc. is now Prism Clinical Imaging Inc., a name the company feels better reflects its core mission of providing physicians with treatment planning and management solutions for brain tumors, neurological disorders and other diseases through intuitive organization of imaging data in decks.

The company will appear as its new name at the Prism Workshop at Outpatient Outlook 2008: The Future of Healthcare, to discuss the value of fMRI in clinical application and as an investment to enhance profitability, Feb. 26, 2008 in Tucson, AZ.

February 6, 2008 - Infinitt North America reported $8 million in RIS and PACS contracts for the Q407, more than three times that in the fourth quarter of 2006, crediting contract renewals with existing customers and the edition of new contracts.

The five-year renewal contracts are on the all-inclusive EIMS (Electronic Image and Information Management Solution) program, which allows the hospital or imaging center to pay for the system and service on a per study basis also played a large part in the company’s success in 2007.

February 6, 2008 - eHealth Global Technologies signed contracts with Rush University Medical Center, University of California, San Diego Medical Center and University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview to provide its eHealthConnect service to departments within the facility or health system, digitizing records and images, making them accessible over the company’s secure, internet-based viewing system.

The new Signa Vibrant, a new dedicated 1.5T breast MR scanner using high-definition (HD) technology and applications specifically designed for breast MR, is the latest offering from GE Healthcare. Its features include VIBRANT acquisition, BREASE spectroscopy, integrated CADstream (manufactured by Confirma) and a specially designed breast MR patient table. To help improve public awareness and knowledge of breast cancer, GE will apply a portion of the proceeds from Signa Vibrant sales toward breast cancer education and awareness programs.

The new 256-slice Brilliance iCT scanner by Philips provides 8 centimeters of coverage to capture the entire heart in two scans with a rotation speed of 0.27 seconds with 120 kw of power.
The Brilliance iCT scanner is four times more powerful than a 64-slice CT and is designed to produce high-quality images with exceptional acquisition speed, complete coverage of the heart and brain, while reportedly reducing radiation doses by up to 80 percent.

Artis zeego is the new multi-axis C-arm by Siemens Medical Solutions, which employs robotic technology to extend imaging capabilities through various C-arm positions.

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