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Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands launched the Gemini LXL, a new PET/CT scanner, and DoseAware, a new dose-reducing solution for interventional procedures at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 this week in Vienna.
Information management systems provider DR Systems has added to its list of medical facilities taking part in beta trials of its Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), a cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and radiology reports.
Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, has released an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
Vital Images, a provider of advanced visualization software, has appointed Oran Muduroglu as a member of its board of directors.
While Royal Philips Electronics recorded a net income of €260 million ($367.7 million U.S.) in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared with a net loss of €1.18 billion ($1.67 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2008, Philips Healthcare did not fare as well, especially in the U.S. market.
Digisonics has negotiated deals with facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida.
The European nuclear imaging equipment market should almost triple in value between 2008 and 2015, according to an analysis by global business intelligence firm GlobalData.
InnerWireless has added compatibility between InnerWireless’ Horizon Distributed Antenna System and Philips Healthcare’s family of IntelliVue telemetry system with smart-hopping technology.
St. Elizabeth Regional Health in Lafayette, Ind., part of a 13-hospital network in Indiana and Illinois, is the recipient of the installation of a EasyDiagnost Eleva digital radiography/fluoroscopy (DRF) room by Philips Healthcare.
Philips Healthcare showcased advancements and upgrades focused on managing radiation dose to expand clinical capabilities at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North American in Chicago earlier this month. The company also showed the iDose X-ray dose reduction solution and the DoseAware radiation dose tracking system.
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Royal Philips Electronics is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and clinical decision support offerings at the point of care.
Digital x-ray detectors are finally untethered and, in some cases, surprisingly easy to implement, according to a report issued today from healthcare market research firm KLAS.
For patient care in North American, South American and Latin American markets, Philips has opened the doors to its Healthcare Customer Care Solutions Center in Alpharetta, Ga., offering technology and local expertise to remotely support hospitals in keeping their equipment running.
A fully automatic 3D reconstruction software has compared favorably to 2D x-ray images in the cath lab, while also contributing new clinical information about patients' coronary anatomy, according to a feasibility study reported Jan. 26 online in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions.
In vivo optical molecular imaging is expected to move into clinical use as key tools in personalized medicine, complementing more established imaging tools, such as CT and MRI, and equipment sales are expected to reach $400 million in 2014 and nearly $1 billion by the end of the decade, according to a market report from Strategies Unlimited.
Philips Healthcare has donated nearly $1 million worth of medical equipment and supplies to be used by a team of 12 clinicians from Caritas Christi Health Care who traveled to Haiti this week to aid in the earthquake relief efforts.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent letters to 31 U.S. hospitals asking about their experiences in implementing health IT under the $19 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). He is seeking to ensure the “effective and efficient use of taxpayer money” in implementing health IT, such as computerized provider order entry systems and EHRs.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
 RIS/PACS solutions have alleviated the concerns of misplacing patient records and lags in turnaround times for radiology departments and imaging centers, allowing for the rapid retrieval of patient images and reports from remote locations.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has announced that nine radiation oncology equipment manufacturers passed at least one portion of interoperability at its third Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise–Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) Connectathon.
Philips Healthcare demonstrated multiple new interventional solutions designed to facilitate image-guided navigation at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago last week.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.