SIIM: Sorna highlights enhancements to Reviewer CD

MINNEAPOLIS--Sorna showcased new components to Reviewer CD software during the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting last week.

The Eagan, Minn.-based company said its Reviewer CD provides DICOM viewing of a DICOM CD. LifeImage provides cloud-based basic viewing functionality, and LISA simplifies data transmission with drop-and-drag tools for Word documents and pathology images. New EMR capabilities also deliver side-by-side viewing of images and EMR data.

Around the web

Positron, a New York-based nuclear imaging company, will now provide Upbeat Cardiology Solutions with advanced PET/CT systems and services. 

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.