In Alaska, where the leading cause of death is cancer, access to the latest medical care and technology can mean the difference between life and death.
“The key to saving lives is early detection,” said Denise Farleigh, M.D., medical director of Providence Imaging Center, an independent diagnostic imaging facility in Anchorage, AK. “The greatest challenge in Alaska is access.”

March 12, 2007 - Brit Systems recently announced that the company has received an order valued at more than $7.3 million from the Veterans Administration (VA), to implement a Virtual PACS across all of its VISN 23 sites.

March 12, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare will introduce its tabletop imager Drystar Axys, a centralized hardcopy solution designed to fit a full range of applications including mammography, CT, MRI, and computed radiography (CR), at ECR 2007, March 9 through March 13 in Vienna, Austria.

March 12, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare will demonstrate for the first time its IMPAX Registration and Fusion, a work in progress product created to enable single modality registration for follow up studies (CT/CT, MR/MR), multi-modality fusion for anatomical studies (CT/MR) or a combination of anatomical and physiological studies (tracers in PET images), at ECR 2007, March 9 through March 13, in Vienna, Austria.

March 12, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare will showcase improved clinical usability, productivity and efficiency enhancements made to its web-enabled, persona-based IMPAX 6 PACS (picture archiving and communication system), developed for specialized areas such as virtual colonoscopy, nuclear medicine, registration, fusion and orthopaedics, at ECR 2007, March 9 through March 13, in Vienna, Austria.

Providing impressive image quality in all modalities and applications, the MyLab70 XVision system integrates the most updated technologies engineered for better diagnosis and to provide enhanced image quality in all modalities and in a wide range of applications, including abdominal, vascular, small parts, musculoskeletal, thyroid, breast and cardiology.

Integrating new “smart software” protocol-based ultrasound, the SonoAce X8 leap-frogs conventional Windows-based systems. It allows users to modify system controls with simple, intuitive steps using new software protocols built into the system. It reportedly allows users to modify system controls with protocols already input in the system. According to manufacturer, it is designed as a true multimodality ultrasound system, performing abdominal, OB/GYN, small parts, vascular and/or cardiac examinations.

The new ACUSON Sequoia ultrasound system gets an upgrade with the new Advanced SieClear Spatial Compounding technology with Dynamic TCE capabilities. Two new transducers will be available for the Sequoia, including the 17L5 HD transducer, a high-density ergonomic probe that delivers detailed imaging of small parts, breast and subtle pathologies.

Horizon Medical Imaging is a PACS that offers flexible image and information management infrastructure that supports business critical systems and workflow rules, features an embedded remote monitoring and support system with reportedly secure remote viewing and reporting capabilities.

IntegradWeb PACS is a Web-based PACS for acute care and ambulatory institutions. The solution offers a single user interface across all viewers, single database, single OS, unlimited licensing for scale and COTS hardware for turnkey or software-only implementations. This portable imaging desktop is capable of handling large multi-thousand slice 64-slice CT studies with scanned documents, and integrated 3-D (MIP/MPR) on reportedly all viewers, even on CDs.

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