Press Releases

Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 21, 2013—Michigan Health Connect, Michigan’s largest provider of health information exchange (HIE), now has the ability to deliver diagnostic-quality images to its member hospitals, physicians and other healthcare professionals, in a partnership with eHealth technologies.

Wayne, NJ, November 20, 2013 – Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced today that Pinion Orthopedics in Elko, Nevada, has installed the ImagePilot Aero all-in-one DR solution. The new solution combines the ease of use and simplified image acquisition, review and storage of the ImagePilot system with the workflow efficiencies, and high image quality of the lightweight, wireless AeroDR panel. Pinion Orthopedics replaced its CR solution with the ImagePilot Aero to improve the quality and dependability of its imaging services.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company and leading provider of advanced visualization and analysis solutions for healthcare providers, will participate in the Image Sharing demonstration (booth 8140, North Building -- Hall B) at the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, December 1-5. Vital's universal viewer, VitreaView(TM), was selected as the viewer for all demonstrations.

November 20, 2013, Toronto—Claron Technology announces that Vanderbilt University Medical Center has installed its NilRead zero footprint diagnostic viewer along with its NilFeed image sharing solution for use in trauma triage.  This image sharing extension of the Nil family of medical image viewers enables easy, flexible communications among unrelated sites.  With NilFeed, a medical site can collaborate easily and securely without a VPN with any external medical facility, whatever its imaging infrastructure.  The solution enables upload or download of a DICOM study from a Nil server using only secure HTTPS protocol.  The recently FDA cleared zero footprint NilRead diagnostic viewer is then used to view the study and assess the patient condition.

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M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation services and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced new customers for its M*Modal Fluency for Imaging™ product, expanding further the adoption of the company’s advanced technology platform.

Cypress, CA, November 18, 2013 – EIZO Inc. announced the release of the RadiForce RX650, a 30-inch color LCD monitor ideal for multi-modality applications.

Agfa HealthCare today announced the installation of two DX-D 300 digital radiography (DR) systems at Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology, a growing practice with 15 locations in Long Island, N.Y., which conducts an average of 550,000 procedures each year. The installation of a third DX-D 300 system will follow by the end of the year, with several additional installations to equip new imaging center sites that Zwanger-Pesiri is opening in 2014.

Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in medical imaging PACS, RIS and workflow solutions, today announced the release of Intelerad® Analytics™ and unveiled new features in IntelePACS® 4.8.1 which include an updated Image Fusion module, new workflows in Multi-Method Reporting™ and new Technologist tools.

RadSite, a national leader in the certification and accreditation of diagnostic imaging systems—and now an official accrediting body as designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)—is pleased to announce the first wave of successful applicants for its Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) Accreditation Program (MAP).

To help hospitals successfully submit syndromic surveillance, lab results and immunization registries to their state’s designated public health agency as required by Meaningful Use Stage 2, MEDHOST today announced the launch of its “YourCareLink” service. By utilizing YourCareLink, hospitals can free internal staff to focus on other core measures required for Meaningful Use Stage 2 attestation and leave the labor-intensive management and monitoring of the public health information reporting to MEDHOST.

The move into the electronic communication and medical documentation ERA has the USA in a frenzy. By frenzy we mean there were over 1300 EHR's initially on the market. Statistics now show there are less than 50 which will again be decreasing due to non compliant functionality. Also complicating the healthcare industry is the fact that the USA is one of the last modern day countries to adopt ICD-10 "International Classification of Diseases version 10". With this mandated legislation, the healthcare industry will experience one of the most dramatic changes in more than 30 years bringing the code set from 13,000 to more than 66,000 new and more meaningful combinations. Medorizon has been preparing to help with these changes and developed a number of targeted presentations to assist healthcare clients prepare for these new and upcoming changes taking effect October, 2014. Tim Tobin, CEO states "Medorizon's core function is medical billing so it was natural for our company to help our community with the changes. We have assisted a number of providers meet meaningful use and capitalize on the government incentive money. In the process of helping, we demonstrate how to train on efficiency with less time spent away from the practice and patients."

The newest version of Softek Illuminate® automatically delivers the patient’s clinical history as soon as a radiologist opens a study to read. PatientView™ in Illuminate® 4.0 now pulls in clinical notes from the EMR and displays them along with relevant radiology, pathology and lab reports at the point of interpretation.

Southeastern Overread Services, an established teleradiology group based in Greensboro, NC, has successfully implemented eRAD PACS with integrated Speech Recognition to support its nationwide interpretation services.

Gamma Medica, Inc. debuts a range of enhancements to its LumaGEM molecular breast imaging (MBI) system at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2013 conference, as the company expands sales and marketing efforts for its groundbreaking breast imaging technology.

Quest International today announced that it has been appointed as an Authorized Reseller for Sony Electronics’ Medical Systems Division. Under the agreement, Quest will resell the Sony diagnostic monitors to qualified channel partners and end-users in the United States.

At this year's annual RSNA Conference in Chicago, Ill., Digisonics (Booth #6511) will showcase its newest product, WebView 4.0.  WebView is an easy-to-use application for fast review of patient images and reports of all modalities from any HTML5 capable web browser (IE, Chrome, Safari, etc.) or operating system including Windows, Mac, iPad and tablets. 

Healthcare providers searching for a CT system that offers the best in usability, dose management and scalability now have a solution with Toshiba’s all-new AquilionTM PRIME. The system delivers on customers’ clinical and financial needs today, with the ability to adapt as those needs change in the future.

At the upcoming annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Etiam will release Nexus 4.2, an update to the core DICOM router of ETIAM-Connect, an image sharing medical solution.

Radcal Corporation announces today that they will launch at the 2013 RSNA their new models of diagnostic X-ray meters and sensors; Accu-Gold+ and Rapid-Gold+ with newly improved stacked sensor Multisensors including a Dual Rad/Fluoro and Mammo all in one Multisensor.

Claron Technology will announce extended modality support for its Nil universal zero-footprint medical viewers at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2013 conference in booth #8002.