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Merge launches eFilm Workstation 1.9
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
New functionality in eFilm Workstation 1.9 includes advanced volume rendering and an enhanced multiplanar reformatting (MPR) tool.
March 17, 2004
Video Display to buy Data-Ray CRT assets
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Video Display has signed an agreement in principle to acquire Data-Ray’s CRT monitor manufacturing and service operations.
March 16, 2004
Evolved names new CEO, shuffles management
Radiology and cardiology IT services provider Evolved Digital Systems has hired John Southcott as president and CEO.
March 15, 2004
Vepro adds French PACS customer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
German PACS vendor Vepro has installed cardiac PACS networks at two French institutions.
March 15, 2004
SCAR hotline goes online
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) is bringing its SCAR Expert Hotline online. To be available on SCAR's Web site, the question-and-answer resource will be archived and updated online for access by both members and non-members, according to the Great Falls, VA-based society.
March 15, 2004
AMS adds CD burner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS technology provider American Medical Sales has added a self-contained CD burner to its Catella PACS product family.
March 15, 2004
ScImage, Stryker in orthopedic PACS deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS provider ScImage is teaming up with orthopedic medical device firm Stryker to offer an orthopedic-focused imaging and information management system based on ScImage’s PICOMEnterprise system.
March 15, 2004
Task automation drives workflow enhancement
By Erik L. Ridley
SAN ANTONIO - Dr. Steven Horii discussed the process of reengineering workflow and UPMC’s extensive experience with digital image management at PACS 2004: Working in an Integrated Digital Healthcare Enterprise, sponsored by the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry last week.
March 14, 2004
PACS success relies on QA/QC procedures
By Erik L. Ridley
SAN ANTONIO - Commercial PACS networks are not designed to support comprehensive quality assurance (QA) practices; it’s up to the customer to implement these procedures, and radiologists have a pivotal role to play, according to Charles Willis, Ph.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston.
March 11, 2004
Analysts offer advice on keeping HIPAA security compliance simple
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
In an electronic presentation at the 2004 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Kristen Sostrom, information security analyst with Integrated Management Services in Arlington, VA, and Jeff Collmann, Ph.D., from the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, shared their thoughts on keeping HIPAA security simple.
March 11, 2004
Currency effects crimp Agfa’s healthcare sales
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Currency impact from a strong euro put the brakes on revenue growth at film and PACS vendor Agfa HealthCare of Mortsel, Belgium, with the division posting 2003 sales of 1.408 billion euros ($1.73 billion), down 5.6% compared to the year before. At stable exchange rates, however, Agfa HealthCare’s annual revenues would have grown 3.8%.
March 10, 2004
QSR execs form new company
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Three executives from digital radiology services provider Quick Study Radiology of St. Louis have purchased the company’s medical billing and practice management division and have formed a new enterprise called Evolutions.
March 10, 2004
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