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

Sweden’s Uppsala County has chosen Kodak Carestream Radiology Solutions to serve its regional health system as part of their plan to deploy a common EPR across the region.
The Kodak Carestream Radiology Solution comprises PACS, RIS and Kodak’s Carestream Information Management Solution. It will connect more than 200 modalities from Uppsala University Hospital, the Enkoping Hospital, two smaller satellites and 30 primary health centers.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. recently unveiled a new look and sound to MR imaging with the Visage MR, a receiver board with MRI-specific noise-reduction designed to improve signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) in MR images.

Medrad introduced at ASA in Chicago on Sunday, October 15, the Certo MR Wireless Network, a wireless network for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging designed to provide the flexibility to move freely both in the MRI suite and in the control room, using wireless-enabled equipment.
The Certo Network facilitates portability by enabling Medrad’s Veris MR Patient Monitor to be transported with the patient from the prep room, the scanner room and the recovery area, while displaying images on the monitor.

The IMPAX MA3000 Diagnostic Station reportedly improves mammography workflow through multimodality breast imaging displays. The station is DICOM compliant and supports rapid and simultaneous display of multimodality images.

Siemens has launched a new innovation in lithotripsy systems for urology called MODULARIS VarioStar, which is based on the MODULARIS platform.
The VarioStar head can be moved into undertable and overtable positions, and provides a high degree of angulation freedom for conventional and case-specific stone treatment. A rotating therapy head allows ureter stones to be disintegrated as the patient lies in a comfortable supine position. All network functions are designed on the system, including LithoReport for patient data management.

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