By Greg Freiherr, Editor, gfreiherr@cmp.comI'm reminded of how long I've been waiting for the digital revolution in x-ray to happen every time I go to my closet. There,

Most new customers choose fast scintillator A quick and unexpected shift to LSO detectors helped make a good quarter for CTI Molecular Imaging even better and promised continuing growth for the Knoxville, TN, company. The maker of

Execs seek partnerships and M&A opportunitiesSince its first commercial use in the late 1980s, 3D reconstruction has been a solution without a problem. Finally, advanced postprocessing algorithms are addressing real clinical needs,

At the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference Feb. 10, Fujifilm Medical Systems USA released a set of advanced Web administration tools for its Synapse PACS. The tools are designed to help users comply with HIPAA (Health

BOSTON, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- PatientKeeper, a leading provider of mobile computing solutions that improve patient care and curb rising costs, today announced an agreement with MedQuist , a leading provider of health information and document

A new approach to retaining the old habits of physicians who are averse to data entry was exhibited this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting.The approach tries to overcome physicians' resistance by letting them do

Wireless and mobile technologies are giving previously stationary medical applications legs, offering the industry new opportunities and new challenges."When it comes to mobile healthcare, one size does not fit all," said Kenneth Kleinberg, vice

A strategy to link clinical data with other types of medical information in data warehouses was proposed Wednesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting.Clinical Gateway combines electronic information stored in a

New research concludes that the high cost of digital radiography (DR) may not be justifiable unless a facility has a steady high patient volume. Then it can run the device at or near 100% productivity.Confusion persists as to whether to invest in

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute for Medical Knowledge Implementation (IMKI) will hold two training sessions for its rule-authoring tool at HIMSS 2003 (Feb. 9-13, http://www.himss.org/). The sessions will be held at the IMKI station in

The promise of better operational efficiency is a principal attraction of PACS. Image prefetching is one key to achieving this goal. "The linchpin for achieving the desired operational efficiency is the enabling of an automated, clinically relevant

HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition, Booth 749, SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brooktrout Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of products for voice, fax and call processing used in the development of applications and services for the

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical industry IT professionals will have an opportunity to see how rapidly images are retrieved from a picture archival and communication system (PACS) when Procom Technology demonstrates its popular

TETERBORO, N.J., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated , the nation's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, announced today that its MedPlus subsidiary was recognized for the second consecutive year

MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens demonstrates proven outcomes through workflow optimization at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition, February 9-13 at the San Diego

German company plans expansion into full PACSWeb-based distribution has long been viewed as a convenient, cost-effective means of widening access to digital images hospital-wide. As integration becomes the watchword in PACS, and

Scan parameters transfer from imagesSiemens Medical Solutions has released software that allows the easy and quick transfer of scan protocols from one MR scanner to another, regardless of gradient configuration. Dubbed Phoenix, the

The addition of more 30 new hospitals to the installed base of iSite PACS in the second half of 2002 brings the customer list of PACS developer Stentor to more than 150 North American healthcare institutions. New facilities utilizing the Web-based PACS

The AntoniusMesosGroup (AMG) has signed a letter of intent with Agfa HealthCare to digitize its radiology departments. By fall 2003, the hospital group, which includes three hospitals in the Netherlands, expects to be completely filmless, implementing

GE, Toshiba, Philips capitalize on flat detector geometryAlthough manufacturers have spent the last decade developing flat-panel detector technology for digital chest and, more recently, cardiac applications, it is only now making