Press Releases

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 7 — Carestream’s new Clinical Collaboration Platform, which will be demonstrated at the upcoming HIMSS Conference (booth #1602), allows providers to identify and share diverse patient clinical data to help clinicians make diagnostic and treatment decisions. This data can also be shared with patients during consultations. 

Franklin, Tennessee – April 7, 2015 – M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced a full suite of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) software and adoption services.

CHICAGO, April 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of innovative enterprise imaging, interoperability, and clinical systems that seek to advance healthcare, today announced the launch of a new business unit, iConnect Network Services, to deliver interoperability services to healthcare enterprises seeking to reduce the labor and overhead costs associated with prior-authorization processes, improve physician engagement among provider communities, and boost referral success.

Burlington, VT and Chicago, IL – April 13, 2015 – Broward Health, one of the largest IDNs in the U.S., selected Mach7 Technologies® and their award-winning Mach7 Enterprise Imaging Platform to deploy enterprise-wide in a collaborative partnership.

Chicago, IL – April 14, 2015: TeraRecon, a leader in advanced visualization and enterprise medical image viewing solutions, highlights customer implementations and innovations of its diverse viewing and interoperability capabilities at the HIMSS15 Annual Conference and Exhibition, held at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, April 13th-15th, 2015. Booth #4173.

Vital Images, Inc., is pleased to announce the release of VioSuite Image Management and Vitality Solutions Business Intelligence. Joining the company’s flagship products, VitreaAdvanced® and VitreaView®, these new product families give healthcare administrators a robust set of tools to improve system-wide image access and image data analytics. 

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. continues to expand its healthcare IT portfolio, and is taking Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) into new areas with Synapse® VNA by further enhancing the patient imaging record at the 2015 annual meeting of the Healthcare Informatics Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibit from April 13 -16 in Chicago, IL. 

Viztek, the leading provider of complete digital software and hardware diagnostic imaging solutions, will unveil its latest upgrades to its Exa PACS, including new innovations to leverage health system IT investments, this week during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS 2015) annual meeting in Chicago. 

McKesson announces Conserus™, a suite of flexible, vendor-neutral solutions for healthcare IT enterprise and diagnostic imaging. The Conserus suite includes flexible quality and communication Workflows, Enterprise Worklists driven by clinical and business logic, an Enterprise Image Repository and a Clinical Data Exchange. 

Members of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists have elected three officers to serve on the 2015-2016 ASRT Board of Directors.

DICOM Grid today announced the release of "medical selfie", a new feature available through its mobile optimized medical image management platform. Using the feature, patients and care providers can upload medical pictures taken on an iOs device and securely share them with physicians.

Imaging tests like mammograms or CT scans can detect tumors, but figuring out whether a growth is or isn’t cancer usually requires a biopsy to study cells directly. Now results of a Johns Hopkins study suggest that MRI could one day make biopsies more effective or even replace them altogether by noninvasively detecting telltale sugar molecules shed by the outer membranes of cancerous cells.

The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) today announced the kick-off of a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to promote best practices for co-clinical trials to speed the discovery of more and better treatments for cancer and other diseases. 

Royal Philips today announced the appointment of Mr. Robert Cascella to lead Philips’ multi-billion euro cluster of Imaging businesses. 

Zotec Partners, LLC (Zotec), a leading provider of revenue cycle and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, is pleased to announce that Steve Collins has taken a new position as vice president of business development for its radiology division.

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today announced that Megan Hayes has joined the organization as Regulatory and Standards Director.

The Coronis Uniti™ display system, designed by healthcare visualization expert Barco, has been named a 2015 Award Finalist by the internationally renowned Edison Awards™. The distinguished awards, inspired by Thomas Edison’s persistence and inventiveness, recognize innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the global economy.

Digisonics, a leading integrator/provider of Enterprise PACS and Structured Worksheets/Reporting Systems, will showcase its latest offerings to streamline reporting workflow and improve overall turnaround times at this year’s HIMSS Conference in Chicago, Ill.

By downloading the ACR 2015™ Annual Meeting App, radiology professionals can access up-to-the-minute ACR 2015 information – including CME session details, featured faculty and exclusive offers. The ACR 2015 App also alerts users when new information is released and provides exclusive access to cutting-edge educational content.

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes LLC will unveil the commercial model of its RadioGenix™ isotope separation system during three events on March 27 and March 28 at The Keating Hotel, 432 F Street in San Diego. The events will be the first public demonstrations of system enhancements directly inspired by recommendations made by nuclear pharmacists during similar events last year.

BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of cardiovascular medical devices, announced that clinical data demonstrating the safety and efficacy of its ProMRI® pacemakers has been presented.