GE Healthcare has introduced the Signa HDxt as the next-generation High Definition MR scanner, available in both 1.5T and 3.0T field strengths. Highlighting the new system are two new marquee applications called Cube and IDEAL.

GE Healthcare IT unveiled at RSNA Centricity OneView, a web-based clinical information and workflow management system designed to connect multiple discrete RIS and PACS solutions.

Centricity OneView is a Web-based solution and a single point of access for radiologists and technologists. It reportedly connects organizations to images, reports and status information regardless of the system from which they originated. Patient imaging records are comprehensive and consolidated, and accessible.

November 27, 2007 - OrthoView announced that NYU Medical Center has successfully integrated OrthoView’s Version 5.0 orthopaedic planning software into NYU’s PACS.

The orthopaedic digital planning solution, used in hospitals and clinics around the world, reportedly provides orthopaedic surgeons with an unrivalled library of digital templates for joint replacement, trauma procedures, limb deformity correction and pediatric assessment. OrthoView can be integrated into many of the most well-known PACS including Siemens, McKesson, GE Healthcare, FUJIFILM Medical Systems and others.

November 27, 2007 - GE Healthcare has launched the company's new mobile system for bone mineral density (BMD) and body composition testing, to help expand the reach of healthcare to more patients while making diagnostic tools more accessible to physicians and clinicians. This is GE's first offering of its "fan-beam" X-ray bone densitometer technology in a mobile van using Dual-Energy X-ray Absorbtiometry, or DEXA scanning, to measure and calculate bone, fat and muscle mass.

The new Mobile Prodigy and other Lunar technologies are on display at RSNA.

November 27, 2007 - Vital Images Inc. announced at RSNA 2007 a worldwide distribution and licensing agreement with Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. providing advanced visualization and analysis solutions for Toshiba’s newly launched AquilionONE dynamic volume CT scanner.

November 27, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare it has been awarded a new, three-year, multi-source contract by Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., the group purchasing unit of Premier Inc., to provide Enterprise Image Management Solutions (EIMS) and services to the alliance's more than 1,500 member hospitals and 49,000 other healthcare sites.

Agfa HealthCare launched two new product-related e-learning courses covering the company’s latest PACS solution IMPAX 6 and an introduction to IPlan, its leading hospital scheduling system, both providing interactive e-learning packages that allow training for users of Agfa HealthCare solutions a chosen pace.

November 27, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare launched two new product-related e-learning courses covering the company’s latest PACS solution IMPAX 6 and an introduction to IPlan, its leading hospital scheduling system, both providing interactive e-learning packages that allow training for users of Agfa HealthCare solutions a chosen pace.

NVIDIA Corp. and Planar Systems have developed a 10-Bit mammography display that encompasses a method of “pixel packing,” allowing 10-bit or 12-bit grayscale data to be transmitted from an NVIDIA Quadro graphics board to a Planar Dome display using a standard DVI cable.

Im3D – Medical Imaging introduced a new DICOM visualizer, VISOR that reportedly enhances the functionality of im3D’s diagnostic workstation by grouping and displaying any number of radiological exams for quick, single-source visualization.

VISOR enables the radiologist to confront and compare exams, as well as relay exams to specialized CAD applications thereby optimizing the overall workflow. The system interfaces with im3D’s CAD-COLON diagnostic system, a commercially available interactive workstation with field-proven results, as well as with upstream PACS systems.

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