The FDA has cleared GE Healthcare’s FlightPlan for Liver advanced imaging tool, which is designed to assist interventionalists plan liver embolization procedures by automatically identifying tumor vicinity vessels.

Barco is supplying more than 350 medical display systems to equip Continuum Health Partners’ two flagship hospitals with PACS image viewing technology.

Siemens Healthcare has signed an $11.7 million, multi-year contract with Intermountain Healthcare to deploy Siemens Image Sharing & Archiving vendor-neutral archive.

Claron Technology, a developer of software for advanced visualization and analysis of medical images, and Hectec of Landshut, Germany, a developer of digital orthopedic surgery planning systems, have launched a long-term partnership for joint development of orthopedic technologies.

CHICAGO—The consensus on Meaningful Use (MU) for radiology is that the program is an awkward fit for the specialty. Consequently, radiologists have been slow to accept MU. An expert panel challenged radiologists to accept the challenge of MU and work to make it meaningful for radiology at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

CHICAGO—RadLex, an informatics project sponsored by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), aims to provide a comprehensive lexicon of radiology terms, according to a presentation from the RadLex committee chairman at the RSNA annual meeting.

CHICAGO—The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) has received a contract from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) that provides support to expand the NIBIB-funded pilot project that created the RSNA Image Share network. The contract provides two years of support at $5.3 million and two additional option years at $5.5 million.

CHICAGO—The keys to successfully implementing critical test results (CTR) reporting software are staff and referring physician education and buy-in, according to a RSNA poster presentation from staff at Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio.