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Infinitt North America showcased its new OEM product, Infinitt Accent, at HIMSS10 in Atlanta.
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.
Compressus has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for its patent application, which represents the foundational medical message routing technologies that allow the Compressus MEDxConnect system to provide a virtualized workflow environment to healthcare providers.
Virtual Radiologic (Booth 7513) is showcasing an enhanced teleradiology offering at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago this month.
The manual entry of clinical information into a RIS can result in a high rate of discrepancies, many of which are clinically significant, according to a study published in this month's Journal of the American College of Radiology.
NovaRad said its NovaPACS and NovaRIS products were selected for implementation at the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization imaging center in Danvers, Mass., and Partners Community Healthcare in Framingham, Mass.
Researchers have found that implementing a disciplined collection of background clinical information all along the clinical service chain through use of a RIS, in combination with a PACS, allows for quicker interpretation times and improved service to patients, according to an article published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Ziosoft, a provider of advanced visualization and analysis software, has signed an agreement with Montreuil, France-based RIS/PACS provider Global Imaging Online to distribute 3D thin-client software solutions in France.
By the end of the 2008 fiscal year, 50 percent of Wisconsin hospitals were considered to be “high” users of health IT—a 25 percent increase over 2007, according to the Wisconsin Health Association’s Annual Survey of Hospitals.
Medical imaging in the United States faces some tough economic challenges in the near term. Procedure reimbursement, already slashed as a result of the Deficit Reduction Action Act of 2005, appears certain to take another downturn in 2010. Combine this less than rosy forecast with a tightening of credit facilities to practices large and small and the outlook appears grim.
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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.
IBM is extending its lending arm, IBM Global Financing, to four EHR providers--Siemens Healthcare, Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Healthcare Management Systems and SCC Soft Computer--through new financing agreements.
Powered by Merge Healthcare's technology, the Remi–d by the World Health Imaging, Telemedicine and Informatics Alliance can offer a new model in gaining access to basic x-ray imaging for developing countries.
RIS developer Swearingen Software has released its new RISynergy Web products suite.
Medical imaging informatics developer eRad has installed its Web-based RIS, PACS and teleradiology software at the Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Ill.
NovaRad has installed its NovaRIS and NovaPACS technologies at two Kentucky imaging facilities.
Amicas will launch a new iteration of its RIS, Version 5.5, next week at Radiology Business Management Association's (RBMA) 2009 Fall Educational Conference in Chandler, Ariz.
NovaRad has signed three new PACS contracts with community hospitals and clinics in Nebraska.
The integration of quality control (QC) procedures for image and data integrity in a digital environment not only improves patient care, it reduces both professional and administrative costs to a medical imaging practice.
Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center is hoping to safeguard its clinical research patients from radiation exposure by requiring CT and PET/CT equipment purchased by the NIH Clinical Center to be routinely record exposure dose in a patient's hospital-based EMR.
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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.