With the growing trend in healthcare toward higher operational costs, reduced reimbursement and heightened competition among imaging service providers, healthcare facilities must carefully plan capital equipment acquisitions and budgets.

The good news is that hybrid imaging, one of the fastest-growing markets in medical imaging, is an effective tool for noninvasive disease detection, monitoring and therapy. The trouble is that many physicians cannot optimize the use of all the high-volume data generated because their workstations lack advanced visualization applications for rendering 3-D and 4-D images.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center at Dartmouth College, one of the leading teaching hospitals in the country, offers cutting edge mammogram technology to their patients thanks in part to the Hologic Selenia digital mammography system. Working with Hologic, the Center is also actively involved in researching what is believed to be the next wave in mammography technology: tomosynthesis.
It’s All About Image Quality


Communication is a scary thing. It divulges information that could be used against you. On the other hand, without it, we would be information silos – a term we often hear when discussing disparate PACS and EHR interoperability.
We all know by now that integrating disparate medical imaging systems is a challenge because there are information silos, and breaking down silos frequently causes an uproar of some sort.

OrthoWorks ProPlanner is a soon-to-be-released workstation or customizable plug-in clinical application available to OEM companies and healthcare professionals for orthopedic support on existing PACS and RIS/PACS systems. Designed for rapid implementation, it provides a means for OEM companies to upgrade current customer bases and expand into new revenue opportunities.
Extending beyond basic orthopedic planning, the workstation provides support for deformity corrections, trauma and customized planning methodologies that mimic orthopedic workflow.

Two new versions of the EMC Celerra platform are engineered to offer more flexibility and manageability. The mid-tier EMC Celerra NS350 and EMC Celerra NS704 integrated systems are the storage foundation of an IP-based information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy.

Vision Series Financials 7.0 is designed with the entire Vision Series suite of products and services in mind. Specifically, the release is expected to provide greater interoperability with Vision Series RIS and Document Management offerings. Additionally, 7.0 provides a large number of feature requests and enhancements designed to provide a greater degree of usability, flexibility and integration.

PicomRIS is a fully Web-based, IHE-compliant RIS that will complement the company’s flagship Web-based PicomEnterprise. The solution will be available as either a standalone RIS or fully integrated RIS/PACS and is for small acute care facilities and outpatient imaging centers.
PicomRIS by itself provides the user with tools for exam ordering, scheduling, film tracking, reporting and billing. The standards-based system leverages DICOM and HL7 to satisfy IHE requirements for interoperability with any number of clinical information systems.

A new series of system control features are now available on the Innova cardiovascular and interventional imaging systems. They include a new touchscreen and tableside controls designed to enhance productivity and ease of use for cardiologists. An integrated UPS continues fluoroscopy in the event of power interruption.
The system also features a robotic detector positioning technique, called Innova Sense, which uses non-contact proximity sensors to optimally position the detector and reduce patient exposure.

This syngo CardioFusion is for visualization of cardiac images from hybrid imaging technologies and optimizes the cardiac clinical workflow to enable enhanced diagnostic capabilities.

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