February 22, 2007- IBM today announced that Duke Medicine has teamed with IBM to develop and launch a single, unified health portal site where patients can securely and easily access data and services, including personal health profiles; clinical content; account billing and insurance information, with the eventual aim of closing the communication between patients and physicians.

Making the leap from enterprise PACS to a complete multi-department workflow system, Version 3.0 of ScImage Inc.’s PicomEnterprise enables exams from multiple departments to be scheduled, tracked, reported, archived and distributed via a single Web-based logon.
PicomEnterprise boasts one database and a shared infrastructure that simplifies workflow for multiple departments. The solution features several time-saving and innovative clinical applications for radiology, cardiology, nuclear medicine and orthopedics.
ScImage Inc.

Emageon Inc.’s new upgrade to its Enterprise Visual Medical System, known as Release 5.30, includes several features intended to streamline PACS management.
Technologist QC is a native quality control tool that runs in the system’s Advanced Visualization environment, enabling users to correct errors from any secure workstation inside or outside the enterprise, before interpretation occurs. Users may edit demographics, merge patients or studies, split studies, renumber images, match on Modality Worklist and correct images.

Designed to streamline workflow and financial efficiency, Medical Software Systems Inc.’s RIS solution with enhanced practice management functionality is multi-site and fully Web-based, providing comprehensive electronic management of a facility’s radiology workflow.

GE Healthcare’s Imaging PACS version 3.0 features IHE profiles that automate exam acquisition, reporting and communication for referring physicians. It offers updated Linux architecture and is compatible with Centricity infrastructure.
Additional features include the Business Intelligence Portal, which helps administrators maximize valuable resources, and enhanced security features protect patient information with new voice-driven commands.

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

Agfa HealthCare and Vocada Inc. have announced an agreement to integrate their systems to improve methodology for clinical result distribution and notification.
Vocada’s Veriphy CTRM solution, a hosted system that requires no additional investment in hardware or software, is a technology-based strategy to improve patient safety and staff productivity by verifying the communication of critical test results from a reporting clinician to the responsible ordering clinician.
Vocada Inc.
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Helping organizations to synchronize workflow across the entire enterprise, Siemens Medical Solutions’ Soarian workflow management platform drives and directs workflow processes to reduce handoffs and promote standardization for more measurable and predictable outcomes, the company said.
Soarian’s user interface responds to the needs and unique work processes of individual users with the goal of achieving a process-oriented, patient-centric approach to healthcare, across departments and care settings.

Agfa HealthCare plans to demonstrate its Impax Data Center, which reportedly provides large-scale multimedia storage of medical images and diagnostic results for hospital groups, regional healthcare organizations and national medical archives. Impax is designed to integrate PACS into image-intensive clinical departments, including cardiology and orthopaedics.

Feb. 21, 2007 - U.S. spending on prescription drugs, hospital care and other health services is expected to double to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in 2006, a government report released on Wednesday found.

Despite relative stability in recent years, nearly 20 cents of every dollar spent in 10 years will go toward health care, National Health Statistics Group economists said in their projections looking at 2006 to 2016.

Last year's health spending should make up about 16 cents for every dollar spent, they wrote in the journal Health Affairs.

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