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Agfa expands IT offerings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare is discussing its new IT portfolio strategy at this week's European Congress of Radiology meeting in Vienna.
March 3, 2005
European studies show SR has multilingual muscle
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
VIENNA - Using speech recognition (SR) software within a radiology department's RIS or PACS successfully reduces report turnaround time, according to a pair of studies presented at the European Congress of Radiology on Friday.
March 3, 2005
Kodak adds Brazilian PACS site
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Eastman Kodak Health Group has sold a PACS/RIS network to Hospital Israelite Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
March 3, 2005
CodeRyte expands client base
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Internet-based medical coding technology and service provider CodeRyte said it has added four new clients within the past four months.
February 22, 2005
Evolved closes financing round
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian RIS/PACS developer Evolved Digital Systems reported the successful closing of a debt and equity package totaling $8.2 million Canadian ($6.7 million U.S).
February 21, 2005
EMR implementation benefits from prior workflow analysis
DALLAS - As the healthcare industry moves toward enterprise-wide data integration, implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR) comprises a large portion of the effort. Tools, processes, and methodologies for EMR implementation are as important, if not more important, than the technology itself.
February 17, 2005
Amicas lands new installations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology image and information systems company Amicas of Boston, MA, has landed several new contracts for its RIS and PACS technology.
February 17, 2005
GE lands Intermountain deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has landed a deal to install its Centricity information technology software at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City.
February 17, 2005
Evolving information threats make HIPAA Security Rule necessary
DALLAS - Healthcare organizations continue wrestling with HIPAA compliance issues, yet still face impending security regulation deadlines. Told they must implement specific provisions, many still question the rationale behind the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) security requirements.
February 17, 2005
Brailer outlines national health IT goals, challenges at HIMSS
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
DALLAS - Healthcare information technology isn't about software and computers. IT exists to help physicians make better treatment decisions, nurses and pharmacists deliver safer care, and consumers make better choices among treatment options, according to Dr. David Brailer, U.S. Health and Human Services National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
February 17, 2005
New tool automates unstructured report analysis
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Although many practices and institutions have adopted structured radiology reporting, most reports are still unstructured. A team from Boston has developed a new computer algorithm for categorizing unstructured reports, and tested it against a pair of radiologists to analyze and classify reports. The results were comparable, but the algorithm processed the data dramatically faster.
February 17, 2005
Kodak expands into healthcare IT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
DALLAS - Eastman Kodak Health Group's entry into the broader healthcare IT market highlights the vendor's product introductions at this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting.
February 16, 2005
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