September 5, 2007 - The Emergency Medical Foundation (EMF) and GE Healthcare have entered into a one-year educational partnership to promote scientific knowledge and medical advancement of emergency medicine ultrasound.
The goal of the one-year educational partnership is to support ultrasound use in emergency medicine. The partnership will include two ultrasound training days for emergency medicine residents.

September 5, 2007 – Allscripts, a provider of clinical software, connectivity and information, announced today that Columbia University Medical Center (Columbia) has selected Allscripts as its Electronic Health Record (EHR) provider for Columbia’s outpatient physician group and planned community-based Independent Practice Association, reportedly largest agreement in the company’s history.

September 5, 2007 - Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc. has installed a CT Laser Mammography (CTLM) system at the Tianjin Medical University's Cancer Institute and Hospital, the largest breast disease center in China.

September 5, 2007 - NightHawk Radiology Services, a provider of business services and clinical workflow technology to radiology groups, recently reported survey results that found 84 percent of survey respondents "strongly agree" or "agree" that engaging NightHawk Radiology Services has helped their organizations deliver excellent patient care.

The survey also found that 94 percent of respondents "strongly agree" or "agree" that using NightHawk helps improve work-life balance for radiologists in their organization.

September 5, 2007 - Viatronix Inc., a developer of 3D imaging software and Vertec Scientific Ltd., its U.K. based distributor, jointly announced the publication of the results of a study utilizing Viatronix V3D Colon, performed at the Departments of Gastroenterology and Radiology, Hampstead Campus, Royal Free and University College Medical School in London, UK.

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

Merge Healthcare recently introduced Merge Ortho, a digital workstation solution that reportedly helps orthopaedic specialists save time and improve clinical effectiveness in orthopaedic planning and diagnosis.

GE Healthcare released the latest version of Centricity Enterprise, an integrated software suite of clinical and financial applications that is designed to improve patient care and increase collaboration between clinicians, reportedly providing a better overall healthcare environment.

UniWeb PACS, a multimodality Web-based solution from EBM Technologies, has received FDA clearance. EBM UniWeb can reportedly store, communicate, process and display images within the system and/or across a computer network at distributed locations.
EBM Technologies reports that the system can display multivendor and multimodality images including FFDM and can be used for interpretation in a primary diagnostic setting.

NovaPACS 6.6 by NovaRad offers embedded MIP (maximum intensity projection) and MPR (multiplanar reconstruction) tools to build and view 3D images directly from the PACS workstation.
The MIP and MPR tools included in NovaPACS reportedly eliminate the need for radiologists to perform post-processing reconstructions from the modalities and for technologists to redo reconstructions specified by the radiologists. Radiologists can reportedly reconstruct any study they want in any format they want right from NovaPACS.

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