May 11, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare and InterComponentWare AG (ICW) announced that they are intensifying their co-operation efforts. The nonexclusive agreement covers the development of seamless integration and interoperability between Agfa HealthCare's Hospital Information System (HIS) ORBIS and ICW's eHealth Framework.

May 11, 2007 - Sonitor Technologies, a developer of indoor positioning systems, and Patient Care Technology Systems, a provider of workflow automation solutions, announced an alliance to jointly market their workflow technologies for hospitals and medical facilities.

May 11, 2007 - Biosign Technologies Inc., a medical technology company, announced the results of a study showing that blood glucose measurements from its noninvasive monitoring system are not significantly different from laboratory blood analysis.

May 11, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare will be demonstrating the latest works in progress of IMPAX 6.3, its Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), part of Agfa’s integrated RIS/PACS/Reporting solution, at SIIM, June 7-10 in Providence, RI.

May 11, 2007 – Concern about DRA-mandated Medicare reimbursement cuts have prompted cuts in 2007 capital equipment budgets for almost half of the outpatient imaging centers that participated in a newly released study by IMV Limited.

WinScribe 3.7 is a digital dictation and workflow solution upgrade, featuring enhanced voice recognition and integration with RIS and PACS. The ability to remotely generate reports is improved by support for a multitude of input devices and with new client-side voice recognition capabilities.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, designed specifically for healthcare organizations, converts speech into text at up to 160 words per minute, automating the input of patient information and eliminating the high cost and long turnaround time associated with the manual transcription of patient notes. The system reportedly delivers up to 99 percent overall accuracy and more than 25 percent improvement over the previous release, including “Roaming User” capability.

Dictation benefits of the PocketMemo 9450 VC with voice command are now enhanced by the ability to assign patient IDs or work types to a dictation by simply speaking them. This feature allows convenient marking of dictation files for better identification, transcription and archiving. The industry-standard .dss file format produces clear recordings while maintaining small file sizes.

Envox 7 is the next generation of Envox Worldwide’s open, standards-based communications development platform. The system reduces the time, cost and complexity of developing and deploying voice and IP communications solutions..

Agfa's TalkStation reporting solution provides hospitals and private radiology practices with application workflows that match departmental dynamics. The system couples specialized vocabularies and language models with a true radiology department workflow solution.

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