October 12, 2016 — Agfa Healthcare recently announced that its offerings at the 2016 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) will center on the them of “Care You Can See.” The theme encompasses products across Agfa’s full portfolio, from dynamic imaging powered by Musica image processing to its converged Enterprise Imaging platform and its specialized departmental workflow and image management services.

As of Oct. 1, Virtual Imaging Inc., a Canon company, has been awarded a digital radiography (DR) supplier agreement with Vizient Inc. Vizient is the largest member-owned healthcare company in the country, representing approximately $100 billion in annual healthcare purchasing, according to the company.

We know where imaging has been.

We think it’s going to a better place. But exactly when it will get there and what it will look like when it arrives are tough to say. We think the new imaging is going to make radiologists very relevant. It’s going to make medicine more efficient. And it’s going to make patient care better.  

October 11, 2016 — ContextVision’s GOPView XR2Plus image enhancement solution for digital radiography enables excellent image quality results, great durability and robustness in daily use. The software enables a fast and precise workflow by making images easier to read. This is achieved by adaptive enhancement of structures in the image and simultaneous suppression of noise.

Clarius Mobile Health demonstrated its ultra-portable ultrasound scanners at the Emergency Medical Services World Expo, Oct. 3-7 in New Orleans. Clarius Mobile Health's user-friendly wireless scanners pair with iOS and Android devices for point-of-care assessments to help diagnose critically ill patients before they reach the hospital.

Konica Minolta Healthcare announced that it was awarded the No. 1 overall DR (digital radiography) User Satisfaction rating in the third quarter of 2016 by MD Buyline.

The Novalis Circle hosted a symposium at this year’s American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting to present and discuss topics related to stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment benefits in patients with spine metastasis.

vRad (Virtual Radiologic) announced that it has implemented its first breast imaging Live Video Diagnostics solution site at the Center for Women’s Imaging at Medical Center Hospital (MCH) using Cisco technology.

To help readers find the specific technology they are looking for out of the 700 vendors on the vast expo floor at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting Nov. 27 - Dec. 2, ITN has created the RSNA FastPass microsite (www.rsnafastpass.com). Every day leading up to RSNA, during the event and in the weeks following RSNA, ITN staff will be adding new products vendors are featuring. Visitors to the FastPass site can conduct searches by modality or technology type, and each section lists vendors in alphabetical order.

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