If the tragedies of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina taught us anything, it was that the key to survival rests largely on preparedness. This is especially true for healthcare; but a nagging question still remains: Are hospitals today better prepared to handle disasters or even day-to-day medical emergencies?

Consistently ranked as one of the “Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals in the U.S.” by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine, Rockford Memorial Hospital is a 490-bed community hospital in Rockford, Il that performs approximately 10,000 surgical procedures annually.

Acuo Technologies LLC and NU Design Medical Technologies Inc. have announced the incorporation of Acuo’s DICOM Services Grid technology into NU Design’s Mammography Manager.

The cooperative effort will reportedly allow Mammography Manager to automatically route, based on content, to a reading physician without manual intervention. The resulting system will enable content-aware DICOM routing, storage virtualization, JPEG, encryption and storage virtualization, the companies said.

Misys Healthcare Systems and Silver Cross Hospital announced a partnership to extend the hospital’s Health e-Way clinical information system into the region’s electronic health record using Misys solutions as part of the hospital’s plan to provide real-time data sharing to physicians.

Silver Cross will implement Misys EMR and Misys Tiger for practice management, as well as Misys Connect, which will connect Silver Cross physicians, hospital clinicians and caregivers to provide full access to patient information.

Recent downplay of the media’s attention to DES-related thrombosis during both the TCT and AHA conferences this fall may have been premature in light of a new study coming out of the Cleveland Clinic.

A meta-analysis published in the December issue of the American Journal of Medicine indicates that patients with drug-eluting stents have a four to five-fold increased relative risk for developing late thrombosis compared to those with bare-metal stents. It is the first published analysis of its kind, PRNewswire reports.

The VeinViewer by Luminetx is a technology to locate subcutaneous vasculature and project real-time images of their location onto the surface of the skin, allowing the physician to clearly see accessible vasculature (or lack thereof). An adjustable head can be positioned over almost any part of the patient's anatomy, leaving the hands of the clinician free for clinical intervention.

B-CAD 2.0 is an expanded version of Medipattern’s B-CAD software for breast ultrasound. It is designed to assist radiologists in the analysis and reporting of lesions in breast ultrasound, and will be available for sale in most parts of the world outside the U.S as an integrated part of Cedara Software's I-ReadMammo Breast Imaging Suite, a system that enables access to and retrieval of stored medical images for breast centers and clinics.

The iCR7200 Dual Bay CR from iCRco is designed to scan phosphor screens (CR plates) using patented technology, and is the company’s latest addition to its product line. The modules simultaneously process two cassettes for rapid throughput of 180 per hour, using high-resolution CR technology. The iCR7200 Dual Bay CR offers a 16-bit/pixel source-file (65,000 shades of gray) performance.

BioLucent Inc. has received clearance from the U. S. FDA for its SAVI applicator. The SAVI device offers a multicatheter, single-entry approach to breast brachytherapy, a procedure that helps treat cancer through radiation sources placed inside the breast.
SAVI combines the tissue-sparing dosimetry of interstitial brachytherapy with the single-entry ease of intracavitary ("balloon") brachytherapy. This new hybrid approach is designed to give more flexibility in treatment planning to the radiation oncologist and physicist.

Using an appliance-based foundation and industry-standard DICOM architecture, the PaxBox server appliance is designed to accelerate image access, simplify operation and management and protect patient images in a HIPAA-compliant storage and archival system. With PaxBox, imaging centers and clinics can focus on operations instead of system management.

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