March 1, 2007 � Microsoft Corporation presented a guideline for e-health software solutions entitled �Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint,� which lays the foundation for an architectural approach to developing health information networks with common business and technical design definitions for public and private organizations.

March 1, 2007 - 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 you to add multi-displays, enabling radiologists to link multi-monitors for diagnostic viewing.

March 1, 2007 - Nuance Communication, 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.

March 1, 2007 - Kodak�s 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.

March 1, 2007 - Acuo Technologies recently announced its new software component, the PACS Aggregation Engine, that can be licensed and used with any third party DICOM-compliant application, such as DICOM workstations and traditional department PACS, enabling a number of advanced features that can help healthcare organizations leverage their IT resources and improve patient care.

March 1, 2007 – Amicas, Inc. laid out is portfolio of imaging IT solutions for hospitals and ambulatory imaging businesses at HIMSS 2007, demonstrating four new offerings, including RadStream, Vision Reach, Insight Dashboards and Insight Services.

RadStream is a next-generation software designed to optimize radiology workflow beyond PACS by reducing interruptions reportedly as much as 25 percent and improving report turnaround by an estimated 40 percent, according to manufacturer.

March 1, 2007 - IBM announced that Memorial Hospital, South Bend, IN, has implemented an IBM-tiered storage solution in conjunction with McKesson�s Horizon Medical Imaging picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to reportedly help clinicians access patients� medical information faster, easier and more securely.

March 1, 2007 - 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.

March 1, 2007 - WinScribe announced that its digital dictation solution has reportedly helped healthcare professionals and medical transcriptionists reduce the time it takes to produce medical reports by as much as 150 percent because of integrated speech recognition capabilities and the speed at which the dictation is transcribed. The system allegedly lets users choose how and when dictation is transcribed and how reports are routed.

March 1, 2007 - Philips has unveiled the IntelliVue Clinical Information Portfolio (ICIP), which enables the exchange of patient data or electronic health records (EHRs) across providers� networks, reportedly bringing a patient�s accumulated clinical data to clinicians while providing support for automated regulatory compliance through its ability to integrate into hospitals� IP enterprise architecture.

Philips also demonstrated the benefits of exchanging patient data by allowing show attendees to create and build an integrated electronic health record.

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