Siemens Medical Solutions has a new Web-enabled addition to the syngo Suite, allowing radiologists to use digital dictation, 3D viewing tools and lab results from anywhere across the healthcare enterprise. It is also useful for radiologists and referring physicians located outside of the hospital.

The OpalRad integrated RIS/PACS solution is a comprehensive image management and reporting system that brings the advantages of state-of-the-art digital imaging to small hospitals and clinics.
Unique at its price-point, OpalRad relies on a single integrated database that stores information from both
RIS and PACS for data integrity and
fast operation.
Viztek | www.viztek.net

Kodak Health Group showcased its new Carestream digital dashboard that reportedly provides system administrators with a way to monitor equipment performance, storage utilization and volume changes, designed to manage Kodak Carestream RIS, Carestream PACS and Carestream information management solutions.

Sun Microsystems introduced two OEM offerings, iPACS and uPACS, integrated and utility picture archiving and communication systems, which are available in different sizes and designed as an integrated platform to enable OEMs and system integrators to rapidly build and implement PACS across disparate systems, using standard IHE protocols.
Sun Microsystems | www.sun.com

Nuance Communications Inc. introduced its DragonConnect in conjunction with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, a dictation solution created to allow healthcare providers to directly dictate into third party clinical information and electronic medical record (EMR) applications, apparently reducing the cost of transaction, improving report turnaround time and increasing overall adoption rates of clinical information systems.
Nuance Communications Inc. | www.nuance.com

GE Healthcare has launched the first site using Centricity Web, allowing radiologists to access both an EMR and PACS online.
Radiologists using the beta site www.urologyofcolorado.com have reportedly been successful in sending EMR orders into the PACS, using a DICOM modality worklist and sending links to results and images back into the EMR system. Centricity Web is now commercially available.
GE Healthcare | www.gehealthcare.com

Agfa HealthCare demonstrated its IMPAX data center, a real-time database of all structured and unstructured data from different clinical sources that presents a unified view of a single patient and leverages a central bank of transactional and data services, which can permit an enterprise level of data and clinical content management.
IMPAX Data Center provides a set of demographic data along with a number that uniquely identifies each patient throughout the continuum of care, meaning the IMPAX data center can manage multiple patient ID domains.

GE Healthcare introduced its new LOGIQ i compact ultrasound system, a 10-pound system with volume imaging, designed to provide portability and high-performance ultrasound imaging and wireless capability for radiology, vascular, neonatal, breast and musculoskeletal imaging for areas with constricted space, such as the ICU or NICU.
GE Healthcare | www.gehealthcare.com

Matrox Graphics Inc. unveiled its new product line, which includes DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go, compact devices that use new Graphics eXpansion Modules (GXM), a technology that allows the addition of multi-displays, enabling radiologists to link multimonitors for diagnostic viewing.
Matrox Graphics Inc. | www.matrox.com

The new Innova 3131IQ, a digital flat panel Biplane Imaging System introduced by GE Healthcare, covers the full size of the patient's lateral and frontal anatomy simultaneously for a variety of diagnostic and interventional procedures. These procedures can reportedly be done with fewer X-ray images and contrast injections, both significant benefits for the patient. The system is indicated for use in cardiovascular imaging, diagnostic and interventional procedures.

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