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Infinitt North America showcased its new OEM product, Infinitt Accent, at HIMSS10 in Atlanta.
Viztek has added a cloud-based, pay-per-use offering to its family of Opal PACS applications for radiology and orthopedic departments.
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA--“Information technologies (IT) shouldn’t be the focal point of what’s making [image consolidation solution] decisions. Instead, it should be the users of the system driving the decisions, and the system should be operational 24/7, 365 days a year,” said Jill Wojcik of the nonprofit Continued Health Partners in New York City during a presentation today at HIMSS10.
Advanced Radiology Services of Grand Rapids, Mich., has inked an installation contract with medical imaging and workflow solutions group Intelerad Medical Systems for its software and networking technology, InteleOne.
Carestream Health (Booth #6751) will showcase its new Carestream Clinical Data Archive with a consolidated data storage and management solution for various data types, regardless of vendor, at HIMSS10 in Atlanta during the first week of March.
Image and information management solutions provider Infinitt North America and workflow and communications technology provider peerVue have entered into an integration agreement that will allow Infinnit PACS customers to launch peerVue’s qi-Vue from their existing PACS workstations.
The European PACS market will grow by about 5.9 percent annually through 2015, according to a report published by GlobalData, a market research firm.
Imaging and information management system provider DR Systems has inked four new contracts--including two data migration projects--at Jameson Health System in New Castle, Pa., Elizabethtown Diagnostic Imaging in Elizabethtown, Ky., Windber Medical Center in Windber, Pa., and Sacred Heart Hospital in Port St. Joe, Fla.
RIS/PACS provider NovaRad has extended its client base in California, with the addition of two healthcare facilities, Preferred Diagnostic Imaging in Bellflower and CareMore Medical Enterprises in Cerritos.
Intelerad Medical Systems has landed a contract with Harvey, Ill.-based Radiology Imaging Consultants to deploy its InteleOne PACS.
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Intelerad Medical Systems' InteleOne solution has been selected by the multi-site Carolina Regional Radiology in North Carolina to interconnect its facilities.
Written by Gina Narcisi
Whether CD and DVD burners serve a small, single-center provider, or a large, multi-site healthcare system, the technology helps manage patient images and ease the process of image transfer. The best systems work fast and smart—integrating well with PACS and enabling remote burning and disk labeling.
Medical image management solutions provider eRads’ web-based PACS has been selected by Spinal Surgery Associates of Charlottesville, Va. to be deployed in its facility, said the Greenville, S.C.-based company.
Imaging solutions company iCRco has introduced iClarity, its iPhone application for on-the-go image viewing.
Vital Images, a provider of advanced visualization software, has appointed Oran Muduroglu as a member of its board of directors.
PACS manufacturer Rogan-Delft has received an order for its Zillion PACS to be implemented at the Perambur, India-based Railway Hospital.
Medical IT company Sectra has this week been selected as the PACS provider for a Cleveland-based health system, University Hospitals.
Los Angeles-based Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center has selected Infinitt North America's Infinitt PACS to replace its image and information management system.
The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study performed at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore will utilize Digisonics’ DigiView Image Management and Reporting System to record study data.
GE Healthcare has formed technology agreements with peerVue and Meridian Technique that expand third party application integration for its Centricity PACS through Open Desktop, an enterprise-wide single access point for application and specialty tools integration.
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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.