October 9, 2007 — Royal Philips Electronics and 3M Health Information Systems recently announced that Philips’ speech recognition engine, SpeechMagic, will be integrated into 3M’s document creation suite of products, allowing Philips to further accelerate its growth in healthcare speech recognition.

October 9, 2007 — Researchers in GE’s Healthcare Decision Sciences Lab (HDSL) are working to develop a more seamless healthcare management system, driven inside and outside the hospital and doctor’s office with less bureaucracy and better outcomes.

Researchers are leveraging existing GE technology into healthcare and studying analytical decision supports that will strengthen clinical workflow between these entities to improve medical outcomes and more efficiently manage the costs and labor of care.

October 9, 2007 – NextPhase, which provides IT asset disposition services enabling secure disposal of outdated and obsolete IT assets, said today its technology will be offered to Allscripts’ customer base of more than 3,500 healthcare organizations.
NextPhase's leading products and services are designed to provide visibility into and accountability of a healthcare organization’s chain of custody and IT asset disposition.

October 9, 2007 - Medication management and healthcare technology solutions provider Artromick, will display its recently released NX10 Mobile Computing WorkStation at the 2007 ASA show.
Artromick’s new point-of-care computing cart delivers a flexible, light weight, and cost-effective solution for bedside data management that greatly benefits nurses, information technology staff and administrators.

October 10, 2007 - Ultrasound technology maker Biosound Esaote will feature the MyLab25 and MyLab30 ultrasound systems at the ASA show.
Targeted for the anesthesiology market, these systems offer the latest technology and innovative features to provide the highest quality images when performing regional nerve blocks and vascular access procedures. These portable ultrasound systems allow the user to adapt to any environment.

October 10, 2007 - Ekahau Inc., a provider of WiFi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), announced Oct. 9 it was selected as the RTLS vendor for Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the third largest public healthcare system in the United States.

October 9, 2007 - American Medical Sales Inc. recently reported that the company has received a number of new orders from its distributor network in the last half of Q307, consisting of products from both AMS' MIDAS line of mid-sized PACS solutions and its PACS-in-a-BOX products designed for private practices and imaging centers.

Orders were for products from both AMS' MIDAS line of mid-sized PACS solutions and its PACS-in-a-BOX products designed for private practices and imaging centers.

October 9, 2007 - Philips announced that its speech recognition engine, SpeechMagic will be integrated into 3M Health Information Systems’ document creation suite of products, reportedly providing 3M’s customers with leading-edge documentation solutions and allowing Philips to further accelerate its growth in healthcare speech recognition.

Eizo will showcase its new FlexScan MX300W that offers a 4MP alternative to dual 2MP displays on a workstation. With the bundled RadiCS LE quality control software installed, a self-diagnosis function using a built-in backlight sensor periodically checks the brightness of the new monitors. When a change in the brightness is detected, the self-calibration function performs a simplified calibration compliant with the DICOM Part 14 standard to correct grayscale tones, brightness and color coordinates of the monitor.

Barco will bring to RSNA its new NIO COLOR 3MP, a color display system that is said to enable confident readings in full color. As a result, NIO COLOR 3MP is reportedly an effective display solution for a multitude of applications, such as 3D PACS, 3D echo, ultrasound, orthopedic imaging, CAD, image fusion, nuclear medicine and PET.

The Integrated Backlight Output Stabilization (BLOS) technology was created to ensure fast power-up and continuously stabilizes the luminance output of the LCD’s backlight, which is said to improve the overall consistency of the display.

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