Advocate Health Care, the largest health system in Illinois, has selected Chicago-based Merge Healthcare to provide a suite of cardiology image and data sharing systems.
Using Sectra XDS framework, Sectra PACS has been extended to each hospital in Northern Ireland.
Radiologic Associates of Northwest Indiana (RANI), a radiology group based in Valparaiso, Ind., has installed the uniRAD Global Worklist system from eRAD, a division of RadNet.
Transitioning from a film-based imaging department to a filmless practice is a huge undertaking, with success coming to departments using established standards, appropriate change management practices and coordinated by a team of representative stakeholders, according to an article published in the April issue of the
American Journal of Roentgenology.
Acuo Technologies, a medical image management service developer, has integrated its Universal Clinical Platform (UCP3) software with enterprise cloud storage services provider Nirvanix’s public, hybrid and private cloud storage services.
Gunter Dombrowe, managing director of Siemens Healthcare sector in the U.K. and healthcare sector lead for the northwest Europe cluster, will retire at the end of March.
Siemens Healthcare has released the syngo DynaCT 360 application for the Artis zeego robotic interventional imaging system.
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has installed two Toshiba America Medical Systems’ Radrex-i DR x-ray systems, one in the emergency department and one in the radiology department, at its recently expanded hospital.
TeraRecon released version 4.4.7 of its iNtuition enterprise image management system with enhanced support for interoperability and quantitative imaging at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting, held in Vienna, March 2-5.
PACS has shown potential to positively impact practices in the intensive care unit (ICU), particularly with regard to efficiency, though actual evidence is limited and much about how PACS affects the intensive care setting remains to be investigated, according to a review of literature published online Feb. 9 in the
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Health Canada has issued a medical device license for the Carestream DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray system, approving its use by healthcare facilities in Canada.
There are two prominent strands of thought in healthcare discussions today. One emphasizes standardization as a means to improve efficiency; the other is individualized, patient-centered medicine based on the unique qualities of the patient. For radiologists, the pursuit of standards and guidelines can be compatible with patient-centered imaging, according to an article published in the March issue of the
Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Siemens Healthcare has developed a new mobile table designed to transport patients from the intervention room to the MRI scanner.
Philips Healthcare has installed its Ingenuity TF whole-body PET/MR imaging system at Turku University Hospital in Turku, Finland.
Novarad has secured four international contracts—three in the Philippines and another in Turkey—for its NovaPACS.
Importing images from one institution to the PACS at another reduces the number of repeat imaging exams when transferring care of a patient between two facilities, according to a study published in the March issue of the
American Journal of Roentgenology.
U-Systems’ somo•v automated breast ultrasound system has been scheduled for review by the Radiological Devices Panel of the FDA on April 11.
AFC Industries has released the i-Center laptop rack and workstation.
The introduction of a whole-body panscan CT protocol for blunt trauma in the emergency department (ED) raised the proportion of patients exposed to more than 20 mSv of radiation by 8 percent, according to a study published in the February issue of
Emergency Medicine Australasia.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding Stage 2 meaningful use (MU) on the Office of the Federal Register’s public inspection desk on Feb. 23. Although the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has not released its NPRM on Stage 2 standards, specifications and certification criteria, key players have indicated that the agencies have taken into account many of the requests made by the American College of Radiology (ACR) and other imaging stakeholders.
