When it comes to reading rooms, perfection exists in the convergence ofscience and personal preference. Many factors, such as the distancefrom your eye to the monitors, aren’t in dispute; for others, such asthe type of chair, ideal room temperature and reading position arepersonal to individual radiologists. An environment that mergesessential ergonomics with individual needs creates the perfect readingroom with more comfortable, less stressed, more productive radiologists.

As remote reading gains in popularity and adoption increases, whatbegan as a way to provide nighttime coverage to busy hospitals andfacilities, extra help while radiologists vacationed or as a temporarystaffing solution, has now evolved to include weekend coverage, daytimeinterpretations, preliminary and final as well as subspecialtyinterpretations for small and large healthcare organizations.

First do no harm. Although often believed to be the words ofHippocrates and a phrase in the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians invarious forms, they are not. Hippocrates phraseology reads like this:“Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practicethese acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or atleast to do no harm.”

Agfa HealthCare, a provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow anddiagnostic imaging solutions, has been selected as the vendor of choiceby the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, to deliver a DiagnosticImaging Repository.

TomoTherapy plans to install its Hi-Art advanced radiation therapy system at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine

St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif., is remarketing its breast centeras a Women's Imaging Center, which will feature an iU22 ultrasoundsystem made by Royal Philips Electronics.

Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, will roll out Philips Speech Recognition Systems SpeechMagic to more than 1,000 physicians across all medical specialties within the hospital.

The Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, in Bogota, Colombia, hasordered a Mobetron from IntraOp Medical, which marks the firstinstallation of the mobile intraoperative electron-beam radiationtherapy device in Latin America, as well as the first OR-readyradiation device in South America.