October 10, 2007 - Datascope Corp. recently announced the U.S. launch of the Panorama Web Viewer, a Web-based software product that enables remote access to patient data from virtually anywhere, using an Internet connected PC.

October 10, 2007 - Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, announced new agreements have been awarded for diagnostic imaging products and point of sale service agreements, which took effect on October 1, 2007.

The awards include the following:

Bone Densitometry - GE Healthcare of Wauwatosa, WI

Cardiovascular imaging - GE Healthcare; Philips Medical Systems of Bothell, Wash.; and Toshiba America Medical Systems of Tustin, CA.

CT - GE Healthcare, Philips Medical Systems, and Toshiba America Medical Systems.

October 10, 2007 - A new technique for capturing images of chest veins eases diagnosis of venous diseases, according to a study presented by University of Cincinnati (UC) radiologists at the North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging's 35th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in Washington, D.C.
Developed by Cristopher Meyer, M.D., and Achala Vagal, M.D., the new protocol allows radiologists to compensate for the extra time it takes contrast solution to reach the veins so useful images can be produced using the CT scanner.

Agfa HealthCare will launch its latest flexible, table-top imager, delivering mammography quality images. The DRYSTAR AXYS is a dual film size, direct digital imager with excellent image quality, offering a multiapplication hardcopy solution, mammo-quality images with 508 dpi image resolution, reportedly very short access time and convenient imaging with two film sizes on-line. The system is said to offer a great range of possibilities and can be used in centralized workflows and with dedicated applications.

For more information: www.agfa.com

October 10, 2007 — M*Modal recently announced the introduction of AnyModal CDS Live, which extends the company’s hosted conversational documentation service, AnyModal CDS, to provide speech understanding functionality in real time.
The technology captures and comprehends clinical information from dictation, transforming it directly into accessible, retrievable and shareable electronic files.

The Mobile Essential is the newest GEHC digital mammography product to receive FDA approval. The unit will reportedly feature the largest digital detector in the mammography market, advanced ergonomic design for the technologist, optimized patient comfort and seamless workflow connectivity. The foundation of the Senographe Essential imaging excellence is GE’s advanced digital detector, which reportedly delivers the industry's highest Detective Quantum Efficiency (DQE), the standard for quantifying digital X-ray image quality, at low doses.

Carestream Health’s KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR Mammography feature adds mammography applications to its CR platforms along with a CAD solution (both works-in-progress in the U.S.). Images from the CR platform are output onto high-resolution radiographic film with a new KODAK DRYVIEW 6800 laser imager.

The company will also demonstrate the use of its workstation with integrated CONFIRMA CADSTREAM software for breast MRI exams and CEDARA B-CAD software for breast ultrasound exams to facilitate the reading and interpretation of CAD results, along with viewing of original breast exams.

BRIT Systems will introduce a new workflow solution for outsourced radiology reading. An increased need for a reading environment for primary diagnosis among multiple facilities via teleradiology prompted BRIT to release this advanced set of tools and services that reportedly enable radiologists to read, report and return results to various healthcare facilities.

Agfa HealthCare will launch its latest flexible, table-top imager, delivering mammography quality images. The DRYSTAR AXYS is a dual film size, direct digital imager with excellent image quality, offering a multiapplication hardcopy solution, mammo-quality images with 508 dpi image resolution, reportedly very short access time and convenient imaging with two film sizes on-line. The system is said to offer a great range of possibilities and can be used in centralized workflows and with dedicated applications.

October 2007

The IMPAX Mammography Suite has been specifically designed to facilitate diagnostic breast imaging reading in digital environments, as well as digital screening workflows in local and multisite organizations. It supports the display of mammography CAD through the integration with iCAD's Second Look Digital and R2 ImageChecker CAD image markers and is highly configurable with regards to workflow and integrations needs.

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