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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.
Lumedx, a provider of integrated cardiovascular imaging and information systems, has introduced the latest version of its CardioGate interface management solution.
InterSystems has unveiled its InterSystems Ensemble integration platform in North, Midlands and East of England trusts under the NHS National Program for IT.
Written by A Staff Report
IT innovation and integration are alive and very well in 2008. This year’s Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities bring impressive resumes, tales of major cost savings and return on investment and excellence in patient care and patient and staff satisfaction.
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Advanced visualization developer Fovia demonstrated its native support for integration of embedded polygon objects within volumetric datasets without requiring developers to write OpenGL or DirectX code at this year’s RSNA.
A little over a year ago, GE Healthcare acquired RIS/PACS developer Dynamic Imaging, declaring its intention to offer a suite of imaging informatics products for the outpatient diagnostic imaging center and community hospital market.
Written by Lisa Fratt
This month, we’re looking at how a pair of cutting-edge practices has assembled the various IT components to create an integrated infrastructure that support workflow and high-quality patient care.
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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.