June 14, 2007 - GE’s Advantage Workstation (AW) introduces its latest advanced image visualization and analysis tool, AW VolumeShare 2, a platform that delivers 64 bit technology, designed to enable the Advantage Workstation to process large data sets for more accurate diagnosis using thin slice CT data.

The new hardware features two dual core processors to provide an increase in performance. Also, image storage capacity has been doubled.

June 14, 2007 – Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. introduced a new advanced software package, SURESubtraction, for Toshiba’s Aquilion CT line designed to reduce CT examination time for patients exhibiting symptoms of neurological disorders by automating and streamlining bone subtraction.

June 14, 2007 — HD Medical Group Ltd. recently announced the ViScope 100 series, an audio-visual auscultation tool for effective cardiac triage.

The experimental device, which may be available in the U.S. next year, is able to detect heart noises that can signal an impending heart attack.

June 14, 2007 - GE Healthcare recently demonstrated technology advances in Helical Shuttle imaging, using the company’s LightSpeed VCT by generating CT Scans with an expanded image coverage of 210 millimeters on a 40-millimeter detector for both cardiac and liver exams.

Helical shuttle scanning continues to hold promise by providing wider image coverage for both dynamic angiography and perfusion studies. 210millimeters of coverage enables whole organ anatomical and physiological assessment on existing Computed Tomography (CT) technology.

June 13, 2007 — The Web-based (EIMS), offered by Kardia Health Systems, Inc., is an echocardiography reporting and workflow solution that guides medical professionals through the complete echo process.

The echocardiography reporting and workflow software, originally developed and used by echocardiography professionals at the Mayo Clinic, is now being offered to echo professionals world-wide.

June 13, 2007 - Ostial Solutions LLC announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market the Ostial Pro Stent Positioning System, a device that allows physicians to more accurately place a stent in selected coronary and renal procedures.

Ostial Pro has tiny gold-plated feet, which can be braced against an opening near a narrowed or closed artery. The system is designed to assist in implanting the stent at the correct location for maximum benefit with an accuracy of plus or minus 1 millimeter.

June 13, 2007 - Cordis Endovascular announced at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery the worldwide launch of the Cordis AVIATOR Plus Balloon Dilatation Catheter for use in angioplasty procedures for patients with carotid and or renal artery blockages.

June 13, 2007 - Researchers released a study at SNM's 54th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in which the combination of SPECT and CT images fused together assists physicians in more accurately diagnosing coronary artery disease.

June 13 – A report in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that it is safe for patients to receive a coronary angiography on the same day that they are undergoing elective valvular heart surgery.


It may sound like a good thing, but most people know that when an item claims to be “one size fits all,” it usually means “one size fits all… kind of.” Apparently, as in the clothing industry, this is equally true in the world of enterprise PACS.
“You can’t make everybody happy,” said Tim Masters, PACS manager for Continental Division HCA of Denver.
Four years ago, Masters was in charge of implementing GE’s Centricity PACS at Sky Ridge Medical Center, a then brand-new 136-bed hospital on the outskirts of Denver in Lone Tree, CO.

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