ACT: What are the factors in the critical care setting that make ease of use such a vital part of monitoring?

Stanford Hospital and Clinics announced yesterday that it put in an order for a portable, self-shielding electron-beam radiation unit by IntraOp Medical Corporation, a technology solutions provider, in a move to create greater flexibility in electron radiation therapy and shorten treatment cycles.

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, a healthcare modality developer, installed the Philips Brilliance 64-slice computed tomography (CT) system and Philips Achieva 3.0T at Laughlin Memorial Hospital in Tennessee to perform neurological, pulmonary, cardiovascular, trauma and whole-body studies.
The installation at Laughlin Memorial Imaging Center included a 64-slice CT scanner, the Brilliance 64-channel system, which is designed for advanced exams, including neuro, body, pulmonary, cardiovascular, pediatric, interventional and trauma.

The Dominion from Imaging3 may dramatically improve cardiac patient care in several areas with its ability to produce 3-D images in real time.
Angiography is one area that could reap the benefits of the Dominions offerings. With the Dominion's 3D capability, the direction from which the artery is viewed can be changed, which allows the doctor to see it the progression through the artery has been blocked by plaque build-up, or if the artery has simply turned in a direction that limited, lower resolution, 2D imaging does not allow him to see.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are excited to be one of the few radiology departments the U.S. that will be receiving an ultra high-field 7 Tesla MRI system. Seven Tesla MRI is not cleared by the FDA for clinical use, but it can be a valuable tool for research, according to Ravinder Reddy, Ph.D., professor of radiology and science director or the Metabolic Magnetic Resonance Research and Computing Center (MMRRCC) at Penn.

Symbion Imaging, a provider of digital imaging across Australia, is the first site to globally adopt the IMPAX Enterprise Productivity Suite (EPS) tool for managing image transfers from Agfa HealthCare. IMPAX EPS is a teleradiology solution developed by Agfa Australia.
The solution monitors study transmissions between sites across an entire health network, and provides global view of study location and status, which allows the radiologist to focus on reporting.

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), the eighth largest U.S. health system based in San Francisco, will implement Thomson Micromedex’s comprehensive medication information solution suite throughout its 40-hospital system. The Web-based product deployment will promote more informed and safer treatment decisions at the point of care. Micromedex is a part of The Thomson Corp., a leader in enterprise-wide clinical knowledge solutions for scientific and healthcare professionals.

A line of sterile labels for the OR has been introduced by Medline. The Medline Sterile Labels meet the new Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization’s (JCAHO) National Patient Safety Goals calling for sterile labeling in the OR.

Bon Secours Richmond in Virginia is the leading Catholic not-for-profit healthcare system, with four award-winning hospitals, a school of nursing and a medical imaging school. The system also runs numerous community outreach health programs and services. Bon Secours Richmond is one of the city’s largest employers with more than 5,000 employees.

Sectra, one of the the leading diagnostic imaging system providers, has been announced the winner in the “ISV/Packaged Software Solutions” category at Microsoft’s fifth Microsoft.NET Awards. The competition awards companies that have developed innovative IT solutions based on the .NET platform.

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