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McKesson (Booth 7713) is releasing updated versions of its image management and information systems for both radiology and cardiology at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago later this month.
Digisonics has enhanced its DigiView customer roster with facilities in Florida and Texas.
Digisonics has secured contracts with two Midwest facilities for its cardiovascular information system (CVIS) and its clinical reporting system.
Agfa HealthCare (Booth 7810) is showcasing a host of its infrastructure, management and viewing technologies, such as Impax Data Center, Impax Mobility, Impax Scheduling, Impax RIS/PACS and Impax Cardiovascular.
Lumedx and Mennen Medical have signed a strategic partnership agreement to provide integrated cath lab data that streams hemodynamic cardiovascular patient data to their customers.
Cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) are not delivering quantifiable financial benefits, according to cardiac cath lab directors who participated in an independent national survey on behalf of Wolters Kluwer Health and ProVation Medical.
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Health IT firm Kardia Health Systems has launched ConnectedCare, an online, fee-per-study cardiovascular information system (CVIS).
Philips Healthcare has entered the cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) market in Australia with a contract at Gold Coast University Hospital in Brisbane, which is currently under construction and slated to be completed in 2012.
Digisonics (Booth 7851) is displaying its DigiView Image Management & Reporting System, which combines image analysis workstations with an integrated clinical database, an analysis package and multi-modality reporting.
A complete, truly integrated cardiovascular information system (CVIS) does not exist today, based on the opinion of most healthcare providers, according to a new report by healthcare market research firm KLAS.
Digisonics has secured two cardiovascular image and information system installs in Texas.
Digisonics has won new contracts in Indiana and Virginia for its cardiovascular and OB/GYN PACS applications.
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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.