An update to the Centricity PACS, version 3.2, by GE Healthcare, offers many features that were either requested by customers or establish new market trends.

It offers integration with Centricity Enterprise Archive 4.0 and Centricity Precision Reporting. Additionally, the update includes support of optional enhancements to the Web-based diagnostic viewer, Centricity PACS Web Diagnostic (Web DX 2.0), and offers embedded MIP/MPR, AW Server, 3-D advanced clinical applications for areas such as cardiology and oncology, and server virtualization using VMware.

October 26, 2010 – Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, one of the top academic medical centers in the United States, has awarded a five-year, $25 million contract for medical equipment and health IT consulting services to Siemens Medical Solutions USA.

October 26, 2010 - The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has collaborated with the American College of Cardiology Foundation and other societies on the update to the cardiac CT appropriate use criteria.

October 26, 2010 – New ultrasound systems on display at RSNA will demonstrate enhanced patient care, increased clinical confidence and will bring more diagnostic information to the reading room. The iU22 xMatrix premium ultrasound system, by Philips, features an ergonomically designed X6-1 PureWave xMatrix array transducer.

October 26, 2010 – Cordless phones, which transmit a similar pulsed signal as Wi-Fi networks at 2.4 gigahertz, have been shown to impact heart rate according to new research published in the European Journal of Oncology.

October 26, 2010 – New magnetic resonance (MR) imaging advancements from GE Healthcare to be displayed at RSNA 2010 will focus on patient comfort, enhanced clinical utility and workflow improvements to boost radiologist and technologist productivity.

320-Slice CT Helps Diagnose Acute Chest Pain system is designed to image a large region of the chest in only two to three volume X-ray rotations, providing critical diagnostic information while minimizing radiation exposure.

Computed tomography (CT) technologies designed to reduce the radiation dose will be showcased by Siemens at RSNA 2010. The company has developed several significant products and protocols that follow the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principle to reduce radiation dose to the lowest possible level.

Aquasonic 100 is a widely used gel for diagnostic and therapeutic medical ultrasound. It is suitable for all procedures where a viscous gel is required. It is acoustically correct for a broad range of frequencies, is completely aqueous and will not stain clothing or damage transducers.

October 25, 2010 – The Hague, Netherlands ruled in favor of Occlutech, a transcatheter structural heart occluder device maker, in the ongoing patent litigation with AGA Medical. The lawsuit stems from AGA alleging Occlutech’s technology infringes on its Amplatzer transcatheter occluder device patents.

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