Internet-based medical coding technology firm CodeRyte Inc. demonstrated its new vascular interventional radiology coding application. CodeRyte's new platform uses language-based statistical Web technologies and natural language processing to automatically code free-form physician dictations.

Computerized practice management developer A-Life Medical debuted its Fusion3 natural language processing application, which integrates documentation management, language coding and billing functions.

Fusion3 codes radiology reports and submits charge data on the same date of service. The denial management module automatically tracks denials, sends appeal letters and generates secondary filings without user involvement. The platform also allows users to automatically perform random, statistical audits on coding, charge data and payor information.

The ultrasound division of Siemens Medical Solutions featured its new Acuson X300 and Acuson X500 ultrasound scanners, as well as upgrades to its ultrasound workstation software and new cardiac imaging techniques.

Siemens touts the X300 as offering exceptional imaging performance in a compact, portable package. It is compatible with the ErgoDynamic imaging system.

Korean ultrasound vendor Medison unveiled its new SonoAce X8 ultrasound system, targeting the FDA-cleared device for hospitals, imaging centers and private physician offices.

In an effort to make digital imaging available to a wider variety of facilities, Siemens Medical Solutions launched the first mobile X-ray unit with an integrated computed radiography reader. The MobileTT XP CR provides display for first-image review and image archiving right at the patient’s bedside.

Along with its other benefits, an aspirin a day may help keep head and neck cancers away, a new long-term study suggests. It wasn't so much the amount of aspirin that was taken but the length of time that people were on the drug that mattered, said study co-author Mary E. Reid, an assistant professor of oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, in Buffalo, N.Y.

Dynamic Imaging announced today that its IntegradWebR PACS was ranked the No. 1 PACS by ambulatory care providers, according to the annual Ambulatory/Imaging Center PACS 2006 Report. It is the second straight year IntegradWeb PACS has achieved the honor.

Hospital practices are more to blame than how sick a person is for infections acquired by hospital patients, researchers reported on Monday, urging medical centers to do more to curb these infections.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month estimated that infections caught in U.S. hospitals kill 90,000 people annually and urged hospitals to do more to track and prevent the infections.

The dynamics of evolution are fully in play within the environment of a tumor, according to a report in the December issue of the journal Nature Reviews Cancer. The report, from researchers at The Wistar Institute, could have profound implications for understanding why current cancer therapies often fail and how radically new therapies might be devised.

Picis Inc. announced Tuesday it has completed an agreement with BT to deliver Picis' operating room management system to six hospital trusts in London. The implementation of the Picis system is scheduled to begin in December 2006.

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