Amicas' emphasized its Radstream works-in-progress Objective Acuity Scoring and Prioritization feature, plus Vision Reach, both designed to optimize radiology workflow by reducing interruptions and speeding up report turnaround times.

The Objective Acuity Scoring and Prioritization feature, a WIP developed at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, uses an algorithm that calculates the 25 most likely causes for interrupting Radiologists, and weighs each task on the worklist on a scale from 1-10 to prioritize each case.

The show floor at PACS 2007 staged the debut of Pacsgear's new MediaImport, a solution that enables access to non-DICOM sources such as documents and multimedia, as PACS evolves into a multimedia repository, managing JPEGs, AVIs and MPEGs, digital cameras, USB memory sticks or flash memory, in addition to DICOM.

The system imports external DICOM-compliant CDs/DVDs from a reportedly wide range of PACS vendors, supports DICOM modality worklists, allow editing patient demographics, changing fields such as Patient ID/MRN and accession number, prior to import.

Impac informed PACS 2007 attendees that it just completed its first installation of its new Mosaiq Oncology PACS, a system designed to manage increasingly large volumes of image data generated in radiotherapy, accommodating the complex workflow of radiation oncology (RT) and providing integration with the Mosaiq image-enabled EMR system.

March 22, 2007 – MAQUET Critical Care recently announced that they have received FDA clearance for an upgrade of its SERVO-i Ventilator System for conditional use in the magnetic resonance (MR) environment.

The SERVO-i ventilator is intended for treatment and monitoring of all patients who require mechanical ventilation. The new MR option is capable of providing critically ill patients with advanced ventilatory care using the same machine wherever they are in the hospital, the ICU, the MR examination room and during transport to and from the MR room.

The DICOM box CA connects non-DICOM modalities to PACS by allowing users to review dynamic images and cine loops outside of modality workstation and providing real time video acquisition and DICOM conversion from monochrome and color video sources. The CA is designed to facilitate cine acquisition, lossless and lossy image compression and DICOM storage for ultrasound, fluoroscopic, cardiac and angiographic systems.

TIMS DICOM System by Foresight Imaging emphasized its ability to convert reportedly any non-DICOM medical modality to DICOM, as a solution for legacy modalities that are either too expensive to upgrade.

TIMS claims that it can convert any medical modality to DICOM, including ultrasound, fluoroscopy, endoscopy, motion X-ray. The solution captures both static images and streaming video at reportedly 30 frames per second, and even converts JPEG, BMP and AVI images to DICOM.

The next generation archive overview took center stage at the the PACS 2007 conference, called the AcuoMed Image Manager, the system reportedly offers secure, open-system software for transporting, storing, tracking and retrieving digital images across a DICOM network.

The platform uses Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 Server under Intel and AMD. The Acuo DICOM Services grid facilitates a DICOM infrastructure built on a SOA that aggregates DICOM objects and queries results, replicates storage assets and builds on a collaborative and extensible grid-computing model.

NovaRad highlighted additional features PACS to its NovaPACS solution, including MIPs, Cardio Viewer and its Ortho Template Library at the PACS 2007 conference. The multiplanar reconstruction (MIPs) was added to provide high-volume cardiovascular studies with saggital and coronal viewing capabilities. The new Cardio Viewer clinical workstation, which offers cardio tools for both cardiologist and cath lab operators, serves as a stand-alone workstation or can be added to a NovaPACS clinical workstation.

Cerner showcased its multimedia solution, Multimedia Foundation, which allows you to manage multimedia objects – video, audio and signal data and diagnostic images – and integrate them the EMR, as storing medical objects with patient data becomes essential to a comprehensive EMR.

This single-archive stores and manages DICOM and non-DICOM media such as ECG waveforms, dermatology, wound care, PACS, patient photos, images for cardiology, dermatology and pathology, gastroenterology and ophthalmology, in addition to scanned documents.

BRIT Systems showcased at the PACS 2007 conference the Roentgen Router, a DICOM routing module designed for use with any DICOM-compliant PACS or as the foundation for a facility’s teleradiology capabilities at the upcoming.

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