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Summary of Wireless Security Standards

A chart Summary of Wireless Security Standards.

June 8, 2003

eRad/Image Medical inks deal with NIR

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

PACS software developer eRad/Image Medical of Allentown, PA, has signed a deal with distributor National Imaging Resources.

June 8, 2003

PACS provides push for paperless

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

BOSTON - The cost justification of PACS focuses on both "hard" savings, like film costs, and "soft "savings, like workflow improvements. Eliminating the use of paper entirely can confer additional efficiencies on a radiology department’s workflow, according to a presentation at this week's Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology.

June 8, 2003

Consumer flat-panel displays show promise for CT diagnosis

By Erik L. Ridley

BOSTON - Consumer-grade color flat-panel monitors may perform just as well as medical-grade, high-luminance monochrome cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors in the primary diagnosis of abdominopelvic CT exams, according to preliminary research from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

June 7, 2003

Grouped procedures can cause informatics headache

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

BOSTON - Multislice CT and whole-body MR are the modalities of choice for imaging patients with multiple injuries in level-one trauma centers or tertiary-care hospitals. However, the task of associating relevant images in a PACS with each of the requested procedures from a RIS can be difficult and time-consuming, according to a presentation Saturday at the Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology.

June 7, 2003

Future to bring nanobots, expanded intelligence

By Erik L. Ridley

BOSTON - It's been said that change is constant, but in today's world, change is accelerating exponentially, according to Raymond Kurzweil. The founder and CEO of Kurzweil Technologies offered a bold vision for the future at Saturday's opening session of the 20th Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology.

June 6, 2003