June 5, 2007 - AnyDoc Software announced that its OCR, created for AnyDoc software now has an enhanced interface with OPEX Corp.'s scanners to provide customers with advanced capture and processing capabilities not previously available.

June 5, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems has linked its ARIA Oncology Information System with the PACE wireless Patient Care Monitor from Supportive Oncology Services (SOS), now letting the company offer a software feature that makes it possible for cancer patients to enter self-assessment data into their electronic medical record for enhanced communication with their oncologists.

CoActiv Medical will highlight its new CoActiv ExamNet, an image management solution that reportedly enables greater efficiency and fully integrated workflow among all radiology group members. Combined with the capabilities of CoActiv EXAM-PACS, the ExamNet claims to provide an ultra-fast, easy-to-use, anywhere, any time image management solution, including image distribution, reading and archiving.

A fully integrated virtual colonography workflow and reporting solution, the new Voxar 3D ColonMetrix supports primary 2-D, 3-D and dissective view reading paradigms.

Features include: automatic high-speed centerline finding, GPU-accelerated 3-D flythrough navigation with gravity, automatic one-click colon segmentation, quick and easy 3-D and 2-D measurement tools and on-the-fly DICOM reporting.

June 4, 2007 – SearchMedica.com, a specialty oriented professional medical search engine introduced SearchMedica Oncology, a new professional medical search engine that will prioritize search results by publication date, reportedly making the most timely and relevant clinical information easily accessible to oncologists and hematologists, at the forty-third annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), June 1-5 in Chicago, IL.

June 4, 2007 —Patients might be at greater risk for developing bloodstream infections due to a common device used in hospitals around the country.

According to a research team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska, the device is a needle-less intravascular catheter connector valve, commonly used for hospital patients with a vascular catheter in place.

June 4, 2007 — The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a Correct Site Surgery Tool Kit to assist healthcare providers in implementing the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Universal Protocol as part of National Time Out Day.

Wrong-site surgery and other preventable mistakes still occur frequently in U.S. operating rooms. That's why the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and The Joint Commission are both partnering with AORN on its annual National Time Out Day observance on June 20.

June 4, 2007 — Generic Medical Devices, Inc., the first company to design, develop, manufacture and supply quality surgical products marketed at generic prices, recently announced the establishment of a U.S. Field Sales Team as the company begins to actively sell its family of generic devices and acquire new customers.

June 4, 2007 — ECRI Institute (formerly ECRI), an independent nonprofit organization that researches best approaches to improving patient care, recently announced the availability of a new guide and CD-ROM to help healthcare professionals increase patient safety in the ICU environment.

Critical Care Safety: Essentials for ICU Patient Care and Technology provides a roadmap for implementing risk management and quality improvement plans in the ICU.

Even though PACS systems are designed to run in mission-critical environments without interruption, sometimes PACS systems will still fail. When a PACS does go down, a PACS administrator has to face an immediate hurricane of angry physicians from the ED and Surgery as well as watching the radiology department grind to a stop. It’s not a fun time for anyone involved and we all try to prevent these episodes as much as possible.

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