October 19, 2007 - Medical Decisions Network (MDN) said yesterday it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its MDN-CGS IV Insulin Dosing Software for use by hospital nurses to quickly and accurately calculate the dosage of intravenous insulin administered to patients with elevated levels of blood glucose.

Each year, some 4,000 patients receive treatment at The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center (TOHCC). TOHCC operates two TomoTherapy Hi·Art treatment systems and eight conventional linear accelerators. In December 2006, the center began using StatRT, new software developed by TomoTherapy, when providing palliative care to patients with disease recurrence and/or metastatic cancers.

“St. Mary’s wanted to maximize productivity in the radiology suite – and beyond – while leveraging the investment we had already made in our MEDITECH HIS,” said Lyn Wilkinson, director of Radiology at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, GA. “We wanted to ensure that our PACS would have tight integration with MEDITECH to enable radiologists, referring physicians and technologists to use their time efficiently.”

Maybe it’s his personal resolve or dedication to a family business. But while the DRA (Deficit Reduction Act) has many imaging center owners scrambling for cover with its draconian reimbursement cuts, Anthony Limberakis, M.D., is looking the monster straight in the eye and issuing a challenge.

InDex Recovery is the solution for those clients who have on-site data storage, but want the protection from possible data loss for business continuance and disaster recovery.

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GE will feature its LightSpeed VCT XT configuration, SnapShot Pulse that works through a process called prospective triggered gating, turning CT X-ray on and off at desired times during a patient’s heart rate cycle. Since SnapShot Pulse software only keeps the X-rays active for key portions of a scan, it is reportedly able to reduce a patient’s exposure time by up to 70 percent over conventional helical scans.

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Siemens will demonstrate its 3D cross-sectional imaging application syngo DynaCT at RSNA, which allows soft-tissue imaging in the angiography suite and virtually eliminates the need to transfer patients to other modalities for follow-up procedures, the company said.

October 19, 2007 – Allscripts recently announced that Lakeside Systems Inc. (LSI) has selected Allscripts as their Electronic Health Record provider, initially for 100 physicians across Southern California.

ThinkingRIS is Thinking Systems’ Web-based RIS product that is merged with ThinkingPACS, sharing one single database, which reportedly offers the advantage of centralized storage for both images and patient information.

ThinkingRIS allows clinicians or staff members to perform key tasks such as patient registration, scheduling, exam tracking, staff and resource management, report generation, and distribution from any Windows computer on the network (Intranet or Internet), according to the company.

The Gammex Neonatal Chest Phantom is the first of a new class of phantoms and objective system performance tools for use in computed radiography and digital radiographic systems.

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