Bill Crounse, M.D., Director of Worldwide Health at Microsoft Corporation, speaks with Imaging Technology News (ITN) on how Radiology is moving the whole industry toward digitization.

ITN: How is Radiology playing an important role helping to integrate the enterprise the electronic health record?

In a live interview with California radio station KNCO, Rob McAllister asked Cristen Bolan, editor of Imaging Technology News magazine, how the publications chose the criteria for selecting the Five Women’s Centers to Watch in 2007, an article that recently appeared in a Special Report in Imaging Technology News (ITN) and Outpatient Care Technology News (OPCT).

Employing an enterprise-first approach, Philips Medical Systems� iSite PACS 4.0 and 3.5 enable access to diagnostic-quality images and relevant information throughout the enterprise. Both versions include a new core IHE-compliant database, HL7 workflow engine, back-end system architecture harmonized with Philips� user interface design standards and a localization framework that provides internationalization support.
In addition, several visualization viewing and processing applications are now interfaced with the iSite Radiology application.
Philips Medical Systems

February 12, 2007 - Sectra recently announced that it will launch the latest member of its next-generation Sectra PACS workstation family, plus its latest generation of RIS/PACS and orthopedic solution at ECR.

February 13, 2007 - Sectra will launch at ECR the next generation of its photon-counting full-field digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography, which features the latest developments within photon-counting technology, in response to a growing trend toward photon-counting in medical imaging.


Bill Crounse, M.D., Director of Worldwide Health at Microsoft Corporation, speaks with Imaging Technology News (ITN) on how Radiology is moving the whole industry toward digitization.

ITN: How is Radiology playing an important role helping to integrate the enterprise the electronic health record?

Feb. 22, 2007 - Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. has received FDA clearance to market TenoGlide Tendon Protector Sheet in the US. The product is indicated for the management and protection of tendon injuries in which there has been no substantial loss of tendon tissue. It is an advanced tendon protection device, composed of a porous matrix of cross-linked collagen and glycosaminoglycan (GAG). The collagen-GAG resorbable matrix provides a protective, biocompatible interface, which creates a favorable environment and gliding surface for tendon healing. Based on available

February 22, 2007 – GE Healthcare recently announced its partnership with Centennial Medical Center, Frisco, TX, creating the first national showcase site for GE's Service Model Optimization (SMO) strategy, designed to assist hospitals with a clinical asset management approach tailored to their specific needs and requirements.

The strategy will address capital planning, cost savings, compliance and staff satisfaction.

February 22, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare will release its IMPAX Clinical Module, a new software component for the IMPAX Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communications System (RIS/PACS) solution that shows various clinical data to the IMPAX Radiology desktop, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference (HIMSS) in New Orleans, February 26.

February 22, 2007 Health Level Seven (HL7) recently announced that its EHR-S FM passed the healthcare industry's ANSI-approved standard that specifies the functional requirements for an electronic health record system (HER-S).

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