German Schwetzingen Hospital has deployed Matrox EXTIO Remote GraphicsUnit with its operating rooms (ORs) which are equipped with special ORPCs connected to the hospital’s network via wireless LAN.

Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are ahead of the U.S. insetting privacy policies that allow more patient control and the rightto restrict the flow of their health information, according to a new study.

It isn’t often that a magazine changes its tagline — and probably evenless often that a reader even notices. But now is the time. This monthwe’ve added nine letters — knowledge — that add up to big change forimaging and IT.

Agfa HealthCare announced that the Managing Board of the UniversityClinic of Schleswig-Holstein awarded it a contract for cross-campusimplementation of its ORBIS Hospital Information System, with anintegrated RIS and IMPAX PACS.

Eclipsys Corporation announced that SUNY Downstate Medical Center'sUniversity Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB) will implement Sunrise ClinicalManager and its fully-integrated modules, including Sunrise Acute Care,Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise Pharmacy, and Knowledge-BasedMedication Administration(TM) as part of an organizational initiativeto improve care delivery through a clinical information system.

Imaging Dynamics Company signed an agreement with the King Fahad General Hospital of Jizan, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

AMICAS signed 18 new contracts in Q4 2006 with continued marketpenetration into hospitals and ambulatory imaging businesses with itsVision Series suite of products.

Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Ind. has implemented an IBM tiered storage solution in conjunction with McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging PACS to help clinicians access patients' medical information faster, easier and more securely.