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Podcast: PACS Implementation at Broward General
Broward General Hospital, part of Broward Health in South Florida, recently completed the implementation of a new system, the iSite PACS from Philips. For this podcast, Diagnostic Imaging spoke with Dr. David Ring, medical director of radiology services for Broward Health and president of North Broward Radiologists, PA, about that transition.

 

PACS Market Swings Toward Upgrades and Replacements 
New buyers of PAC systems represent only a small minority of customers, according to IMV Medical Information Division. The need to upgrade or replace systems is the primary driver in the PACS marketplace, with the lion’s share of purchases going for current-system upgrades.

 

Content-driven PACS May Guide Future Diagnoses 
Efforts to interconnect information systems raise the possibility that different experiences from multiple sites might be pooled and the practice of medicine made better through a kind of collective wisdom. At the ISCT symposium, Sandy Napel, PhD, a Stanford professor of radiology and codirector of the Radiology 3D Laboratory, examined how diagnoses made on some patients might help clarify whether the same diagnoses apply to others.

 

2D PACS Has Had Its Day in the Sun, Now 3D PACS Is Moving In 
For the past 15 years, most PACS have performed the basic tasks of taking in images, archiving them, sending them to workstations for display, and hopefully not losing them. Over time, as CT scanners were able to slice thinner and thinner sections of the body, isometric data sets became available and the voxel (volume element) entered the vocabulary of medical imaging. It soon became apparent that new possibilities in manipulating the data to produce multiplanar reformations and maximum intensity projections, as well as volume and surface renderings, could be realized.

 

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Xbox Kinect-based radiology & medical image exploration
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In this video, an open-source system (MITO) for a controller-free, highly interactive exploration of medical images is presented. By using a Microsoft Xbox Kinect as the only input device, the system's user interface allows users to interact at a distance through hand and arm gestures. Since the user interface is touch-free and does not require complex calibration steps, it is suitable for use in operating rooms, where non-sterilizable devices cannot be used.
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The Doctor Dalai Show Revisits iPad for Radiology

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Amicas, as played by Doctor Dalai, talks with GE about a little comment left on Dalai's website.

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McKesson Integrates Mammography in Existing PACS Workstation
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McKesson features at RSNA 2009 its PACS radiology workstation, Horizon Rad Station, which offers a flexible solution to leverage investments already made in radiology PACS to serve the full-field digital mammography (FFDM) domain, alleviating the need to purchase a dedicated mammography workstation. The workstation has received FDA 510(k) clearance to offer full support for primary interpretation of digital mammography images using a traditional radiology PACS workstation.

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Fujifilms Adds Business Intelligence to Teleradiology
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At RSNA 2009, Fujifilm Medical Systems features its Synapse Radiology platform, which combines the intelligence of a business system, imaging science, technology and customer service to meet the needs of radiology departments. All areas are covered from RIS to PACS to Communications (Peer Review and Critical Results) to teleradiology.

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