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Nuance unveils study, certification program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Speech recognition firm Nuance Communications has released the results of a new study that shows the company's Dragon Medical software can accelerate the transition to and utilization of electronic health records.
April 5, 2009
SonoSite shows early Q1 results
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Compact-ultrasound developer SonoSite posted modest gains in revenue in the first quarter of 2009.
April 5, 2009
Infinitt debuts disaster recovery services
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RIS/PACS vendor Infinitt North America is now offering offsite disaster recovery services to all of its customers.
April 5, 2009
Ultrasound probe cleaning education may be lacking
By Erik L. Ridley
NEW YORK CITY - Many residents and fellows are not being educated on the proper cleaning guidelines for ultrasound probes, a shortcoming that may increase the risk of patient infection, according to research from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.
April 5, 2009
World Health Imaging launches global mission
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new nonprofit group called the World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) has launched, with the goal of bringing digital medical imaging technology to the developing world.
April 5, 2009
NHS awards new contract to BT Health
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare telecommunications provider BT Health is to take over responsibility for supporting hospitals in the south of England as part of the U.K.'s Connecting for Health information technology project.
April 5, 2009
GE signs Qatar IT deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with an IT services provider in Qatar covering the systems integration of GE Centricity healthcare IT software, including its Centricity Enterprise package.
April 5, 2009
MedCurrent tackles front end of insurance verification
By Brian Casey
A new start-up company is bringing to market software that tackles the thorny issue of patient insurance verification. MedCurrent is taking a different approach to the process, offering a service that vets patients' insurance status prior to imaging studies being performed, rather than after the fact.
April 5, 2009
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MDCT holds promise for advanced osteoporosis scan
By Eric Barnes
CT could become an important player in the emerging field of structural bone assessment, according to researchers from Berlin and San Francisco. They believe the modality is capable of evaluating trabecular structures from the extremities to the vertebrae, outperforming even high-resolution peripheral quantitative CT (HR-pQCT) in some conditions.
April 5, 2009
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Future of ultrasound will require technology, educational gains
By Erik L. Ridley
NEW YORK CITY - Continued advances in technology, quality, and education will be necessary for ultrasound to secure its role in the future, according to Dr. Alfred Kurtz, professor of radiology and obstetrics/gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College in Philadelphia.
April 3, 2009
British rads blast U.K. IT initiative
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.K.'s rollout of a nationwide healthcare IT network has resulted in isolated local PACS networks that are unable to efficiently share and transfer electronic diagnostic imaging files and related reports.
April 2, 2009
GE teams with Microsoft on IT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare and Microsoft have entered into a software vendor alliance to provide customers with enhanced healthcare IT administration capabilities that support GE's Centricity Enterprise healthcare IT technology.
April 2, 2009
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