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.

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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.

Armstrong Medical will spotlight its Aluminum Auto-Locking Cart with Optional Proximity Reader at ASA 2007.

With this cart, individuals can reportedly wave a card in front of a reader to open the access its contents.

Arizant Healthcare Inc. has announced the addition of a first-of-its-kind product to its Bair Hugger brand, the Model 575 Spinal Underbody blanket.

The blanket, the sixth design in the Bair Hugger Underbody Blanket Series, will make its public debut at ASA 2007.

B.Braun will exhibit its Stimuplex Pen, which helps anesthesia providers and educators locate superficial nerves through the skin before starting a nerve block.

The pen can be used to find the optimal nerve block needle angle and entry point. This can help increase the potential of finding the nerve on the first needle pass as well as prevent repeated skin puncture.

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