Memorial Health System has ordered Carestream Vue PACS and Vue Motion viewer. The hospital also purchased Carestream’s Vue Cloud Archive for disaster recovery.

Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County in New York has installed Sectra’s PACS at seven of its Hudson Valley locations.

Sentara Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system with sites in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, has selected Accelarad’s cloud-based medical imaging platform, SeeMyRadiology.com, to share and store images throughout the organization’s Hampton Roads, Va., hospitals and imaging centers.

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in California has selected Siemens’ Image Sharing & Archiving (ISA) system, supported by Dell, to use as its cloud-based, vendor-neutral image archive.

The adoption of EMRs brings a major performance opportunity for radiology, according to Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, vice chair of informatics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston and author of a column in the December issue of the Journal of American College of Radiology. However, the process of cobbling EMR data in to radiology workflow is riddled with obstacles.

Novarad unveiled enhancements to NovaPACS at RSNA and showed updates to NovaRIS and NovaDash at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Merge Healthcare has partnered with EMC to make its iConnect Enterprise Clinical platform available through EMC Select, a program which helps customers acquire components that comprise an information infrastructure.

CHICAGO—The ability to manipulate chest images in PACS worsened already poor consistency in reporting between radiologists and neonatologists, according to a poster presentation Nov. 27 at RSNA 2012. In an interview with Health Imaging, the lead researcher called for a larger multi-center study to quantify the extent of the problem and suggested operational and technical approaches to address the issue.