Siemens Medical Solutions will be showcasing their latest in integrated solutions in interventional cardiology at the 18th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Scientific Sessions, Oct. 22-27 in Washington, D.C.

Hayes Inc., an independent health technology assessment company, has completed a comprehensive comparison of five gadolinium-based contrast media for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. The report provides an evidence-based assessment of the diagnostic performance and comparative safety profiles of MultiHance vs. Magnevist, Omniscan, OptiMARK and ProHance.

Misys Healthcare Systems introduced new Pay-for-Performance (P4P) reporting tools for home health agencies P4P reimbursements, at the 25th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice in Baltimore, Maryland, as the company extends its Misys Homecare’s Executive Dashboard suite.

Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc. announced today the introduction of SpiralRODEO, a new technology for breast MR Imaging, designed to speed up scan time without sacrificing image quality.
SpiralRODEO’s innovative technology reportedly offers signal improvement comparable with that of a 4.5T system to provides images with higher clarity and contrast than before, and it is maintains all of the contrast advantages of Aurora’s RODEO breast MRI—a fat and ductal tissue suppression technique.

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology has announced that they will enter into a joint marketing agreement with eCARE Solutions Inc., a personal health record (PHR) provider. This partnership will provide a comprehensive image-enabled PHR.
TeraMedica's Evercore solution, integrated with the eCare Personal Health Desktop (PHD), allows physicians and patients to instantly access medical images such as X-rays, MRI scans or cardiology exams, as well as other types of clinical digital content such as electronic reports, from a patient's existing PHR desktop.

Viztek Inc., a developer of healthcare IT applications and reseller of medical imaging hardware, has announced the sale of its 850th Orex computed radiography (CR) scanner to Atlantic Radiology of Brooklyn, NY. Viztek markets line of Orex devices, which come equipped with Vista’s Onyx-RAD mini-PACS, across a full range of medical specialties including radiology, orthopedics and chiropractics.

Capintec and Numa, Inc. announced today that they have signed an agreement where Numa will develop an application for the digital reporting and communication of Captus 3000 Thyroid Update Systems exams, as part of a network that integrates patient exam data with RIS and PACS.

KLAS Enterprises LLC., a research and analyzing firm that monitors the performance of health information technology, announced that Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.’s Vantage 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system ranked first in a multichannel MRI performance, scoring 92 out of 100 against major vendors.

To borrow a jingle from a popular late 1980s television commercial that sought to spark the hip quotient of a respectable but fading car brand, today’s pulse oximetry devices are not your father’s pulse oximetry devices. Certainly, tomorrow’s aren’t either.

Dynamic Imaging will feature IntegradWeb PACS for digital mammography with new 3-D, PET/CT, Ortho and RIS/PACS functionality at RSNA 2006, as the solution extends its toolset to offer complete interpretation flexibility for radiologists.
IntegradWeb PACS provides customizable reading layouts and sequences for reportedly any third-party full-field digital mammography system as it complies with the new IHE mammography profile.
The system also supports computer aided detection
(CAD) and comes integrated with Barco Voxar 3D VesselMetrix, an advanced

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