Visage Imaging Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. (ASX: PME), announced today that they have released Visage Easesm version 1.3.0, available on the Apple App Store*. When used in tandem with the Visage® 7 Enterprise Imaging Platform, Visage Ease provides authorized healthcare providers simple mobile access to imaging results using iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch iOS devices.

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that St. Joseph's Imaging of Syracuse, NY has selected Merge's Outpatient Radiology Suite consisting of Merge's radiology information system, picture achieving communication solution, document management, referring physician engagement and medical image sharing solution.

Trinitas Regional Medical Center has selected Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive (UCA) solution to manage its rapidly growing archive of clinical images.

Agfa HealthCare announces today that it will highlight its comprehensive IMPAX Cardiovascular suite of products at the EuroPCR congress, the official congress of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), from May 21-24, in Paris, France.

Following an extensive and lengthy procurement process, Carestream has been awarded the contract to supply CARESTREAM Vue RIS and Vue PACS to Helse Sør-Øst (HSØ), www.helse-sorost.no, the largest of the four Regional Health Authorities in Norway.  The contract spans eight years and the first phase of installations will extend to five Trusts.

The non-standard approach to imaging reports no longer meets the needs of referring physicians, according to an editorial published in the May issue of General Surgery News. The editorialist called on professional societies and radiologists to follow in pathology’s footsteps and develop a synoptic approach to reporting. Read more at the link below.

As RIS reaches the half-century mark, many of its hallmark capabilities—order entry, patient registration and report repository—have migrated to the EHR. Consequently, questions about the viability of radiology’s conventional power horse have surfaced. Rather than spelling imminent demise, the situation may provide an opportunity for innovation, according to a medical informatics and physics review published in the May issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.

Joint Township District Memorial Hospital (St. Marys, Ohio) purchased and installed a fully featured CARESTREAM Cardiology PACS and integrated that platform with its CARESTREAM Vue PACS and CARESTREAM Vue RIS. The hospital is a member of Grand Lake Health System.