Empiric Systems recently reported that it is planning to release its Encompass.NET 5.0, the company’s latest Web-based, fully integrated, single database RIS/PACS/billing system, by summer 2007.

Upgrades include an entirely re-engineered GUI, profile-based advanced scheduling, embedded instant messaging, Web-based charting/graphing of management reports, a radiologist-designed Web viewer/workflow and RightFax integration.

Empiric Systems | www.empiricsystems.com

The Codonics Virtua Medical Disc Publisher is designed to set a new standard for speed, efficiency and ease of use in automatic disc recorders. This medical device is a DICOM-compliant network appliance that can concurrently record and label multiple medical studies onto CD and DVD media.

Merge Healthcare’s newly released Fusion RIS/PACS MX is an imaging informatics solution that is designed for imaging centers, hospitals, multifacility physician practices and specialty clinics.

Fusion RIS/PACS re-portedly blends together the advantages of a radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) into a single business and clinical application with a radiologist workspace environment.

IntelePACS now offers the DICOM Site License, allowing users to query additional PACS or any other external DICOM source using InteleViewer Enterprise, the native IntelePACS viewer that allows for spine labeling with 3-D coordinates, so labels can be seen in any other series at the corresponding position.

RIS Concepts Inc. will introduce its flagship RCI-RIS product, a multifacility, multimodality scheduling wizard that streamlines scheduling a patient for multiple exams by searching across sites to find the first available appropriate consecutive openings.

Canon Medical Systems will spotlight its award-winning digital radiography (DR) systems and solutions, including the Canon CXDI-50 portable DR system that features a 14-by-17-inch image area with LANMIT (Large Area New-MIS Sensor and TFT) detector technology. Canon’s CXDI control software enables operators to capture images based on a department's specific imaging preferences. Canon optimizes DR workflow utilizing its program-imaging mode, a solution that integrates the RIS with CXDI software and utilizes the procedure Code ID of the RIS to configure the exam.

May 8, 2007 - PageRouter, the next-generation paging management technology from Canamex Communications Corp., is allowing proactive hospitals to deliver and confirm transmission in as little as two seconds while integrating onsite-offsite paging. The system enables two-way communication and administrative grouping/regrouping of staff on-the-fly from any computer browser screen, even remotely.

May 8, 2007 - Analogic Corp. and CAS Medical Systems Inc. announced an agreement providing CAS Medical with the worldwide exclusive rights to market and sell Analogic's LIFEGARD family of noninvasive patient monitors. The monitors will be co-branded with both company names. In addition, the companies plan to develop together additional monitors for the LIFEGARD family and other specialty niche markets.

May 9, 2007 - GE Healthcare is exhibiting the Lunar Prodigy Primo, a performance bone mineral density (BMD) system designed to help doctors detect and diagnose osteoporosis, at the 55th Annual Clinical Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) May 7-9, in San Diego, CA.

May 9, 2007 - A report recently released by independent market analyst Datamonitor (London, UK), predicts the PACS market in Europe and North America will reach a value of $8.6 billion by 2011, compared to an estimated $4.9 billion today, providing increasing opportunities for technology vendors.

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