Toshiba's strength in CT is an outgrowth of its development of sensor technologies in key modalities. Efforts in CT have produced a 64-slice detector, which will be showcased at the RSNA meeting as part of a continuum of engineering that already extends to a 256-slice detector prototype. The company will display the prototype as evidence of its technological prowess.

CHICAGO and REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) and Microsoft Corp. today announced a call for entries for the MS-HUG

Seventy-five percent of healthcare information technology (IT) professionals received raises in 2003 that averaged 4.8%, according to respondents of the 2004 Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Compensation Survey. The average

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, the pioneering joint effort between the RSNA and medical informatics association HIMSS to stimulate device interoperability, has moved into the realm of the electronic health record. Attendees at the 2005 Annual

Physicians move through an increasingly high-tech world, yet they deal with woefully backward healthcare IT settings. Two books released by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society attempt to address this worrisome disconnect.While

TUCSON, Ariz., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ScriptSave, America's premier prescription drug savings program, announced today that Paula Dunn has joined the company as its new Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- iMedica, the physicians' choice for electronic medical records (EMR), today announced the appointment of Michael Nissenbaum as CEO and Neil Simon as COO. This move comes at a key time for iMedica as the

ANDOVER, Mass., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentillion, Inc, the leading provider of identity and access management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced Cottage Health System of Santa Barbara, Calif. and Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services

SOMERSET, N.J., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Netilla(R) Networks, Inc., a leading provider of SSL VPN and secure application access management solutions, today announced the appointment of Bill Lynch as executive director, healthcare solutions. Lynch, who

Patient safety concerns remain a top priority and business issue for CEOs and other senior executives of information technology vendor organizations who responded to the 15th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, sponsored by Superior Consultant Company. This

The recent advances in speech technology and hardware, coupled with proven financial and patient care benefits, have executives at hospitals and healthcare facilities strongly considering incorporating speech recognition into their informatics

Events of last August -- when three widespread infestations of computer worms attacked Windows-based systems -- illustrated the vulnerabilities of many medical applications, including PACS.The pressing need for software patches was also revealed. Yet

While digital imaging management through PACS is an accepted technology in radiology, it remains a foreign concept in other areas of medicine, and vendors may have struggles ahead as they try to expand into new fields. Those struggles were outlined

The phone rings in the PACS support center -- an irate user wonders why the workstation is so slow this morning. The PACS administrator has already failed, a SCAR University Productivity and Workflow audience was told Saturday morning.It's a question

The general agreement that quality assurance is essential to the production of diagnostic-quality digital images lays a foundation for inclusion of QA specialists on employee rosters."It is time to establish and implement functioning QA specialists in

Good afternoon, KMart shoppers, don't miss our spring hospital PACS special in the electronics department. Buy two, get one free.It hasn't quite come to that, but anyone interested in purchasing PACS on a shoestring budget would have appreciated Paul

Estrangements between PACS customers and PACS vendors may be awkward, but a number of filmless hospitals are finding it necessary to initiate divorce proceedings against their original PACS suppliers."We're beginning to see PACS divorces in the

The advent of the electronic medical record is redefining the radiologist's place in the traditional healthcare care chain by transforming traditional morphological descriptions into radiological consultations, according to researchers at the University

Until recently, the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative was actually more of an integrating the radiology enterprise.Of the 18 existing integration profiles, 14 pertain to radiology, including the first 12, exposing the IHE's radiology

Digital mammography provides a springboard from which new imaging techniques are developed to address current limitations in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer."The presence of the increased quantitative quality of the data acquired in these