In spite of radiology’s rapid evolution to a digital world, many clinicians still rely heavily on film and most likely will continue doing so into the foreseeable future. To them, computer bytes do not yet serve as a substitute for hard copy.

Sourcing, evaluating, selecting and implementing software for any tasks can be one of the most frustrating and mind-boggling issues for clinicians and administrators alike – whether you’re an outpatient surgery center, imaging center or cancer center. Doctors and other clinicians want to focus their attention and time on serving patients at the expense of business decisions, which in today’s healthcare environment is more of a luxury than standard operating procedure.

August 14, 2007 – GlobalMedTek recently announced a revision of its Version 1.0 for its Medical Software Directory Database, providing free software in specialty, application and technology categories and giving access to over 500 vendors in an excess of 2,000 programs.

August 14, 2007 — Carestream Health Inc. announced the recent signing of contracts for its KODAK Mammography CAD System with breast imaging facilities across the nation who reportedly chose the system because of its ease of use, efficient workflow and diagnostic accuracy.
"I appreciate the KODAK Mammography CAD system's ease of use. When a technologist is not available, I can load films myself and continue reading," said David R. Anderson, M.D., Director, Breast Center of Lansing.

The IMPAX Digital Mammography Workstation by AGFA HealthCare provides an enhanced diagnostic process by improving the mammography workflow through multimodality breast imaging displays.
The IMPAX Digital Mammography Workstation, which is DICOM compliant, reportedly supports rapid and simultaneous display of multimodality images and incorporates a data management system that automatically routes relevant data based on a variety of user-definable criteria including modality, patient and referring physician.

The Medipattern Corp., developer of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) technologies for medical imaging recently announced the installation of its latest version of B-CAD.
B-CAD 1.2 for breast ultrasound imaging associates multiple views of the same breast lesion and can track multiple lesions for the same patient in one record. It performs CAD and electronically analyzes breast masses using the American College of Radiology (ACR) BI-RADS (Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System) feature categories and their descriptors to help increase accuracy and consistency.

August 13, 2007 — A recent opinion poll conducted by Sage Products Inc., found that infection control practitioners’ (ICPs) top priority is preventing hospital-associated infections (HAI).

August 13, 2007 — Only 48 percent of Americans age 18 and over who had gone to a doctor or medical clinic within a year of being surveyed rated their healthcare 9 or 10 on a scale in which 0 was the worst possible care and 10 the best, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Patients' perceptions of quality varied by race, ethnicity, and type of insurance.

August 13, 2007 — The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a UCLA research team a five-year, $9 million contract to fund a multicenter study investigating antibiotic treatments for MRSA, a staph infection seen increasingly in communities across the nation that is resistant to antibiotics most commonly used to treat skin infections.

August 13, 2007 - Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. announced the introduction of a mobile Aurora1.5 Tesla Dedicated Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) System to physicians and patients throughout Italy, designed for travel throughout the country for short-term use by some of Italy’s leading and most progressive breast cancer specialists.

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