EIZO Corporation (TSE: 6737) and Stryker Corporation have announced their partnership to offer customers integrated large monitor management systems suitable for use in standard and hybrid operating rooms.

Harbin Clinic (Rome, Georgia), the largest privately owned multi-specialty physician group in Georgia, purchased and installed two wireless CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution DR Rooms at its orthopaedic clinic and main clinic. These are the two busiest locations for routine radiology procedures in the group’s 23-site system.“The DRX-Evolution at our orthopaedic clinic has greatly improved our workflow and enhances service for both orthopaedic surgeons and patients,” explains Fred Hastings, Harbin Clinic’s Director of Operations. “We replaced an existing DR system because the DRX-Evolution offered us the benefits of next-generation DR technology—greater flexibility, ease of use, automated hardware features and advanced software functionality.”

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will bring together the Indiana and North Central imaging informatics and enterprise IT community at the SIIM Regional Meeting in Indianapolis on Nov. 2.

ResolutionMD was formally evaluated by clinicians during a structured research study at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and determined to be significantly faster than the two PACS and desktop image-viewing systems currently in use at the facility. The purpose of the study was to compare three image-viewing products in terms of: diagnostic quality, access time to images, technical reliability, and, clinician satisfaction.

Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a technology-enabled national radiology practice and the world's largest telemedicine company, announced today that Shannon M. Werb has joined as its Chief Information Officer. As CIO, Werb will oversee all of vRad's IT operations, and will additionally work with vRad's hospital and radiology group clients to develop innovative ways to leverage data and technology to improve patient care and operational efficiency in an era of outcomes-driven healthcare.

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After an intensive evaluation of seven PACS suppliers, Joseph Brant Hospital (Burlington, Ontario) ordered a CARESTREAM Vue PACS and zero-footprint Vue Motion mobile image viewer to provide fully featured on-site and off-site reading and viewing of images and reports by radiologists, clinicians and referring physicians.

INFINITT North America, a leading provider of image and information management technologies for healthcare, announced today that they have signed a ten-year agreement with the National Football League (NFL) to provide on-demand access to players’ medical images.