June 11, 2007 - 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, reportedly giving specialists and referring physicians in smaller facilities access to the same high-end, multi-disciplinary 3-D imaging tools used by radiology, orthopedic and emergency specialists.

Compressus launched its stand-alone version of the Systems Management Dashboard (SMD) that can run on virtually any system, at SIIM 2007 in Providence, RI.

The SMD enables the proactive management of an efficient Healthcare Enterprise through innovative software that provides enterprise wide monitoring, analysis, summarized graphic and tabular viewing, detailed data and alarm notices for Medical Imaging activities. The system reportedly shows administrators fast, easy to assimilate problem solving data for management of the enterprise.

Amicas showcased its Vision Reach, a PACS solution that uses the latest Web-based technologies to integrate the radiology report with key images to create a single “multi-media” report for referring physicians, at SIIM 2007 in Providence, RI.

Nuance Communications Inc. announced the availability of PowerScribe Workstation 4.8, a speech recognition reporting solution for radiology, designed to deliver enhanced functionality, including new features based on two previously announced partnerships, Vocada Veriphy and Amirsys STATdx.

Double Black Imaging announced the release of its new software and LCDs, including DBI developed X-Cal DICOM Calibration and QA software as well as DICOMetrix PACS Performance Monitoring software at SIIM 2007 in Providence, RI.

Barco has received FDA 510(k) pre-market clearance for its latest version of its VOXAR 3D advanced visualization suite that reportedly further enhances the digital imaging workflow with its seamless integration into PACS, which allows radiologists to increase their efficiency and report studies faster.

The new VOXAR 3D suite comes with a full set of integrated clinical applications, including VOXAR 3D COLONMETRIX for CT colonography and VOXAR 3D PET-CT FUSION for the interpretation of whole body FDG oncology studies.

The EmpowerMR injector system employs several features designed to cope with the problem of electrical interference in the magnetic field of the MR scanner.

Commissure released at SIIM 2007 the new version of its PACS, RadWhere Suite v2.0, which includes an updated speech engine, Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.1, to meet the demand for efficient reporting.

Carestream Health’s new digital dashboard feature provides a way to monitor equipment performance, storage utilization and user volumes for PACS.

Siemens Display Technologies showcased at SIIM 2007 a new 3MP color display, SCD 21310, at SIIM 2007, a display that complements the company’s range of diagnostic LCDs for PACS and has dual-link DVI support.
Siemens Display also rolled out a new cost-efficient 1MP color display, the SCD 19110, which offers high luminance up to 300 cd/m2 and a contrast ratio of 1000:1.

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