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Friday, March 12 2010
FujiFilm Medical Systems USA introduced its flat panel DR cassette, the FDR D-EVO, at the 2010 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting.
Friday, March 12 2010
Carestream Health has globally released Carestream RIS, its latest RIS platform, to help enhance patient care through radiation dose tracking and user alerts, while ensuring confirmation of results delivery and appropriate follow-up by referring physicians via critical results notifications.
Wednesday, March 10 2010
Image analysis and interpretation company Definiens has released its LymphExpert Version 2.0 for sale in Europe after receiving the CE Mark approval.
Friday, March 05 2010
Biomedical equipment and software company Esaote introduced a new RIS/PACS, Estensa, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 in Vienna, March 4-8.
Friday, March 05 2010
Viztek has added a cloud-based, pay-per-use offering to its family of Opal PACS applications for radiology and orthopedic departments.
Thursday, March 04 2010
Toshiba America Medical Systems has released a new cardiac CT software package for its Aquilion One and Aquilion Premium CT systems.
Wednesday, March 03 2010
With a push from the HITECH Act for facilities to install EMR software solutions, GE Healthcare has created a technology suite under its Centricity EMR solution and revenue cycle management tools that will increase the speed of the installation process.
Wednesday, February 24 2010
Barco Medical has released a new graphics display controller for 3D imaging and digital mammography in radiology departments, the MXRT-7300.
Tuesday, February 23 2010
The TriZetto Group has released its payor-based personal health record (PHR) to consumers and physicians through health plans.
Wednesday, February 17 2010
Cardiology and radiology quantitative analysis software provider Pie Medical Imaging has released the new version of its CAAS product line, version 5.8, for the quantitative analysis of coronary and peripheral vessels, CAAS QVA 3D.
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Friday, March 12 2010
McKesson has announced that its Horizon Cardiology cardiovascular information system (CVIS) now offers hosted storage capabilities for data protection, archive and disaster recovery, in addition to virtualized server applications for reduced operating costs and increased patient information availability.
Wednesday, March 10 2010
Digital pathology provider BioImagine has released its iSlide input device, which is a microscope-like interface that allows pathologists to manipulate digital images of slides.
Wednesday, March 10 2010
X-ray product and manufacturing company S&S Technology has released the EW100-UVGI ergonomic workstation & keyboard sanitizer product.
Friday, March 05 2010
Barco has added two new point-of-care solutions to its product line, the ProScribe and CliniScape mobile point of care devices.
Friday, March 05 2010
Health IT company Merge Healthcare has released eFilm Mobile, an extension of eFilm Workstation to provide access to worklists and studies from an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Thursday, March 04 2010
LifeImage, an Internet service provider of e-sharing for diagnostic imaging information, has released its internet-based Trauma Image Management & Exchange platform for hospitals, radiology groups and physicians.
Wednesday, March 03 2010
Siemens Healthcare has introduced its Excel Edition 16- and 64-slice CT scanners, the Somatom Emotion and Somatom Definition AS CT, which are reportedly equipped with features to help reduce radiation dose.
Tuesday, February 23 2010
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.
Monday, February 22 2010
Imaging solutions company iCRco has introduced iClarity, its iPhone application for on-the-go image viewing.
Wednesday, February 17 2010
MEDecision has introduced a new health information exchange service, InFrame, that allows healthcare organizations to share clinical data—including diagnostic-quality medical images —among themselves and with patients.
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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.