In today’s healthcare environment, most patients have multiple diagnostic tests with multiple clinicians. The medical challenge is to provide continuity to the information workflow while upholding protection of each provider’s information systems. Diagnostic imaging is an example of the challenge in this environment.

Eclipse radiotherapy treatment planning software includes a set of treatment plan templates that can streamline the process of creating an individual plan for each patient. Doctors can reportedly adjust their own previously established treatment protocols for certain types of cancer so they do not have to build a new plan from square one.
Eclipse also incorporates an automated segmentation tool that speeds up contouring, the process by which doctors separate diseased tissues from healthy organs on a set of 3-D diagnostic images.

Huestis has teamed up with Agfa for a radiotherapy CR. They will be showing the Flexi•holder, which aims to cut down on retakes from improper cassette positioning. Its wide base allows for accurate radiographs to be taken from virtually any angle. A change from film/screen to the Agfa CR can save radiotherapy departments on film usage, chemicals and image storage space, with all the benefits of digital imaging.
Huestis is also showing the Compu•cutter III, which is available as a complete package or as a single unit that can plug and play with an existing configuration.

Elekta now offers a 6-D robotic image-guided stereotactic system optimized for treatment of the spine. The AXESSE system uses exclusive stereotactic technology and true 3-D imaging to help ensure fast, efficient and accurate treatment.

InSiteOne has reached a new milestone with over 10 million digital medical image studies archived. This translates now to over 850 million individual image objects archived. The company is only 6 years old, and has achieved this growth by working with the majority of the industry’s PACS vendors and developed DICOM archiving and storage in their InDex suite of premier services.

IBM is working with researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey to launch a project that will unleash the power of supercomputer technology in the battle against cancer.

GE Healthcare has become a contracted vendor for the ACC-NCDR Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) registry. GE will develop software to allow institutions to send procedure data to the ACC-NCDR.

Philips Medical Systems and the medical and engineering schools of Dartmouth College have entered into a multiyear research agreement to develop innovative imaging capabilities that aim to better enable earlier detection and treatment of heart disease, cancer and neurological diseases.

Toshiba America Medical Systems has recently installed two Aquilion 32-slice CT systems in the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis (The MED), TN. The systems will be used to evaluate the center’s most severely injured patients.

MicroMaxx ultrasound system from Sonosite was a recipient of the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). The system was one of 106 award winners out of 1,494 applicants.
The IDEA awards are judged by a jury of 18 leading individuals in the design world. When reviewing, jurors focus on design innovation, benefit to the user and client/business, ecological responsibility, aesthetics and appeal.

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