Fujifilm Medical Systems USA
Fuji’s latest iteration of its Web-based PACS offering, Synapse version 2.1, will be on display in McCormick Place. The system features new enhancements to its scalable architecture such as user-definable reading protocols, customizable worklists, multiframe acquisition, and cine display, according to the Stamford, CT-based vendor.
GE Medical Systems
Centricity, an integrated RIS/PACS offering, will take center stage in PACS for GE this year. The Waukesha, WI-based firm integrated its PathSpeed PACS software with the ProgRIS information system that GE acquired from Per-Se Technologies earlier this year. Centricity, first discussed by the vendor at a media event in September, features complete integration of the PathSpeed and ProgRIS user interfaces, according to the firm.
Howtek
This year the Hudson, NH-based manufacturer best known for its charge-coupled device (CCD) film digitizers will be showcasing its entry into the portable DICOM market. The product, currently known as ImageFunnel, takes images, films, and RIS reports, and writes them to a CD.
The CD, called MyLivingRecord, is written as a DICOM Part 10 file, which is fully interchangeable in any DICOM viewer. For PCs that do not have a DICOM viewer, the CD auto-loads a mini-DICOM viewer.
The system incorporates an additional two components: the FilmFunnel, which converts film to the CD, and the DICOMFunnel, which converts network-based DICOM images to a CD. In addition, the system can query and retrieve images and files, or images can be sent to it directly from a modality.
IDX Systems
Healthcare IT firm IDX Systems will be reinforcing its new role as a player in the PACS market, rolling out an enterprise image and information management offering. The integrated system combines access to diagnostic-quality images, associated patient and exam information, and online storage, according to the Burlington, VT-based firm.
The system has three components: enterprise Web distribution, a radiologist reading workstation, and an online archive. IDX's image distribution strategy allows enterprise access to full-fidelity images and patient information.
The diagnostic reading station gives radiologists a comprehensive diagnostic context of current studies, prior exams, and associated information, according to IDX. The firm provides a separate monitor for navigation to free up space on high-resolution workstation monitors. In addition, radiologists receive a "timeline" of prior exam information and related images that are instantly available for comparison, according to the vendor.
The online archive, which allows access to all images across the enterprise, employs iSyntax image transfer technology contributed by partner Stentor. As a result, image prefetching or autorouting is not necessary, IDX said.
The system's backbone consists of IDX's Imaging Suite software, acting as an extension of the firm's IDXrad radiology information system. Imaging Suite, introduced in 1997, integrates patient and clinical information with modality and archiving functions, according to the vendor.
Image Systems
The monitor manufacturer will showcase new 21-inch portrait digital gray-scale CRT monitors that offer autocalibration. In addition, the Minnetonka, MN-based vendor will introduce a 17-inch 650-nit high-brightness AMLCD display, with integrated touch-screen capability and a 15-inch 800-nit high-brightness AMLCD display.
The vendor will also unveil a dual-head 20.8-inch high-brightness portrait 3-megapixel AMLCD display for diagnostic viewing. A 24-inch AMLCD display (that pivots to portrait or landscape mode) will also be introduced. The 24-inch display allows multiple inputs and applications, according to Image Systems.
Image Technology Laboratories
ITL will be highlighting its Total Radiology Business Integration software package, the heart of which is the Kingston, NY-based firm's WorkFlowExecutive module. WorkFlowExecutive monitors all resources on the network, and keeps track of available radiologists, stenographers, and quality control personnel. Work from the individual modality is distributed to the radiologist who wields the credentials most closely associated with the exam type, according to ITL.
Another module, WorkFlowRouter, ensures that the work is correctly routed to the radiologist or stenographer, according to the company. After a WAV file is generated by a radiologist using the firm's touch-screen workstation, a stenographer transcribes the report, which is then routed back to the radiologist for a digital signature. In its booth, ITL will have a mock-up of an imaging center with scheduling, radiology workstations, stenography, quality assurance, and report distribution stations.
IMCO Technologies
IMCO will roll out Pocket PC, a wireless color pocket computer that can receive images for viewing on its 240 x 320-resolution TFT color display, according to the Pewaukee, WI-based company. Browser is a new image distribution product for Web-based retrieval of digital images, featuring password and other security protections, as well as viewing functions including window/level, zoom, and cine.
Designed for distributing patient images to referring physicians, Referral CD Writer stores images on CD-R discs in both DICOM and PC multimedia file formats. Thanks to a partnership with Digital Persona, IMCO will also introduce Secure Fingerprint Security System, which offers one-touch workstation log-on. IMCO will also present its regional archiving service.
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InSiteOne through Mitra
Philips through Siemens
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