Press Releases

The American College of Radiology applauds steps to reign in medical imaging and radiation oncology self-referral included in the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget.

Covidien plc (NYSE: COV) today announced that it has closed its acquisition of Given Imaging Ltd., providing the company additional scale and scope to serve a significant medical specialty, the multibillion dollar global gastrointestinal (GI) market.

CHICAGO – March 4, 2014 – NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today its fourth generation of video wall products, capable of delivering brilliant imagery to organizations deploying displays for 24 x 7 use in a variety of digital signage, corporate and broadcast video wall applications.

DEN HAAG, Netherlands, March 4, 2014 -- Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company, continues its expansion in the EMEA market with an increasing number of organizations migrating to Vital's VitreaAdvanced® enterprise solution, to help improve efficiency, communication and patient care.

March 3, 2014, Toronto — Claron Technology, the leader in universal medical imaging viewers, announces that it has been awarded the CE mark for its NilRead zero-footprint viewer for the diagnostic interpretation of medical images. Coinciding with this, Claron has opened European headquarters in Hasselt, Belgium, under the direction of Tom Tilmans, director of sales.  In addition to spearheading direct sales efforts, Tilmans will recruit and manage a team of European partners and distributors.  

Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company) (Nasdaq: HOLX), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostic products, medical imaging systems and surgical products, with an emphasis on serving the healthcare needs of women, will showcase its extensive portfolio of innovative products for breast cancer screening and diagnosis, breast biopsy, osteoporosis risk assessment, and extremity imaging at the annual meeting of the European Society of Radiology, in Vienna, Austria March 6th through 10th. 

vRad (Virtual Radiologic), the nation's largest telemedicine company and radiology practice with more than 450 physicians, today announced its newest set of indices, the "Day in the Life of Radiology," part of the RPC(SM) (Radiology Patient Care) Indices available for free and unrestricted use at www.vrad.com.

National Decision Support Company (NDSC) announced expansion of its growing customer base in Minnesota.

Ascendian Healthcare Consulting, a national healthcare IT consultancy, has partnered with Sentara Healthcare to drive increased optimization across the organization’s Enterprise Clinical Imaging operations. Underlying the initiative is the utilization of a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) solution along with efficiencies gained through transformation of processes, workflow and technological advancements.

Orlando, Florida – February 24th, 2014: TeraRecon, (www.terarecon.com), a leading provider of enterprise medical image management solutions, debuted it’s iNteract+™ solution at the 2014 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.  

Mach7 Technologies, a global provider of enterprise image management systems that allow healthcare enterprises to easily identify, connect, and share diagnostic imaging and patient care intelligence, announced today that San Diego Imaging (SDI) has chosen the Mach7 Enterprise Imaging Platform for its Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) and Advanced Communications Workflow Engine.

ScImage announces the availability of a new Master Patient Index (MPI) Translator that enables healthcare providers to deliver quality care to patients based on important diagnostic imaging data residing in disparate systems, often located at unrelated facilities.

Novarad’s NovaCardio™ ECG seamlessly integrates with CPACS / CVIS to enable digital ECG reading, annotation, manipulation, storage and easy reporting.

An EDGE™ point-of-care ultrasound system from FUJIFILM SonoSite is helping the Medical Services team at Harlequin FC rugby club to diagnose and monitor musculoskeletal injuries, providing valuable information to aid the treatment and rehabilitation of players.

Members of the Missouri Society of Radiologic Technologists met with lawmakers at the state capitol in Jefferson City on Feb. 12 to ask them to support House Bill 1060, a measure that will set licensing standards for personnel who perform certain radiologic procedures.

One of Dynamsoft’s image capture software development kits (SDK) has been used to develop and implement image capture capabilities in FUJIFILM Medical Systems’ most recent version of  Synapse® RIS radiology management software.

Adding important new functionality to its industry-leading family of Nil universal, zero-footprint viewers Claron Technology debuts at HIMSS 2014 enhancements for a streamlined image and video upload for both mobile devices and desktop PCs.

Through HEALTHeLINK’s health information exchange (HIE), participating providers have instant access to patient health information, including diagnostic tests that may have been conducted in a clinical setting. Along these lines, HEALTHeLINK recently conducted an analysis of the number of multiple computed tomography (CT) scans ordered for the same patient and on the same body part within six months utilizing clinical data available within its HIE.

Enhancing its flagship Evercore vendor neutral archive (VNA), TeraMedica introduces at HIMSS 2014 Univision EV, a universal image viewer with an advanced toolset that enables full-resolution visualization of a full range of DICOM and non-DICOM images anywhere, anytime on any device.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) strongly supports the bicameral, bipartisan legislation to replace the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula. The College particularly applauds inclusion of several ACR backed provisions that raise quality of care, make care more efficient and increase transparency in physician payment policy.