Thinking Systems’ flagship products include ThinkingPACS and ThinkingRIS, an advanced Web-based RIS operating with a powerful, efficient, unified RIS/PACS database. ThinkingPACS addresses clinicians’ demands for an enterprise-wide, multidisciplinary Web-based imaging solution, with advanced functionality that reportedly extends beyond traditional radiology modalities such as CT, MRI, DR and CR.

ScImage’s PicomEnterprise now boasts a Web-based workflow management foundation that fuses DICOM, HL7 and Web services into a single codebase. This foundation can be layered over separate silos of information to create a unified workflow solution. PicomEnterprise joins core image and information communication protocols with intelligent business rules to create a workflow management foundation.

Radlink’s ThinPACS is a stand-alone PACS offering specifically built and scaled for the private practice market. It is a reportedly robust, completely standards-based medical imaging communications and storage system offered at a fraction of the cost of other PACS on the market.

Philips will feature its iSite Radiology, a complete radiology viewing solution designed to help users meet throughput goals. The iSite Radiology features real-time, enterprise-wide delivery of diagnostic quality images to support multiple locations and offsite users and a customizable, reportedly easy to use user interface and advanced workflow tools designed by radiologists to improve efficiency and increase throughput.

Tighter integration between the systems offer enhanced image access and scheduling/billing/process management for radiologists and administrative staff. Additional enhancements in these latest versions include an improved information NovaCentral support “command center” for real-time remote monitoring and referring physician features in NovaPACS to enhance image reading efficiency.

NightHawk Radiology’s Talon is a workflow technology solution that features intelligent image distribution which routes images to, and creates worklists for the appropriate doctor by using the speed and power of the Internet in a highly secure fashion. The Talon is a completely paperless system that is said to quickly and easily integrate into an existing practice, reportedly limiting administrative work and enabling radiologists to better track the number and timing of studies to maintain and evaluate proper staffing levels.

Neurostar Solutions will unveil its “PACS Insurance” program. By diverting a fraction of their PACS maintenance and upgrade costs, hospitals and imaging centers can now insure the safety of their patient data and access in emergency situations while eliminating future costly migrations of data.

Merge Healthcare will showcase a works-in-progress of its newest Fusion PACS MX solution that reportedly allows for specialty reading like mammography, orthopedics and PET/CT to proceed seamlessly within clinical workflow. Together with workflow and communication tools like multiple interrupt sessions and instant messaging, as well as the power of native 64-bit processing to load tens of thousands of images simultaneously.

Intelerad’s InteleViewer has a dual-mode viewing application included with IntelePACS, that reportedly offers rapid performance and intuitive interface for users.

New features for InteleViewer include freehand and volume ROI measurements, orthogonal measurement, Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), thumbnail tabs for reportedly easy access to comparison studies, ability to save a study using DICOM Presentation State and real-time cine support for cardiac applications.

Emageon Inc.’s RadSuite Express PACS is a simplified Web-enabled, single-server solution based on Dell technology, created for the fast growing small to mid-sized hospital and clinic market, reportedly giving specialists and referring physicians in smaller facilities access to the same high-end, multidisciplinary 3D imaging tools used by radiology, orthopedic and emergency specialists.

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