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February 21, 2012 — On Feb. 22, the first day of the 2012 National Football League Combine, more than 300 top college football players will undergo X-ray imaging exams using an innovative wireless, digital radiography detector from Carestream Health Inc.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 22, 2012 — Cardiologists are expecting to use fewer imaging modalities per patient case in the future, according to a new report released by market research firm IMV Medical Information Division.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 21, 2012 — Clarity soft tissue visualization system now provides an autoscan option for automated ultrasound scanning from outside of the treatment room, employing a motorized probe positioned at the patient's perineum.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 21, 2012 — Circadence, a provider of WAN and network optimization solutions for healthcare, announced a set of solutions for optimizing electronic content delivery to iOS, Android and Windows clients.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 21, 2012 — Dicom Systems is demonstrating the new version of its ArcStore diagnostic imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) vendor-neutral archive (VNA) at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting in Las Vegas, Nev.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 21, 2012 — Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. showcased the version 6.1, the latest addition to the company's Synapse radiology information system (RIS) and Synapse TeleRIS applications at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2012 meeting.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 21, 2012 — Theragenics Corp., a medical device company serving the surgical products and prostate cancer treatment markets, announced that it has purchased Core Oncology’s prostate brachytherapy customer base.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 21, 2012 — The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) released the results of its first-ever survey measuring demographics and teaching practices of faculty members in radiologic science programs.

Time February 22, 2012
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February 21, 2012 — ScImage Inc. announced the development of a unified dashboard to access enterprise-level image-centric health information. For the diverse health enterprise, the new dashboard offers study- and order-centric worklists blended into a single framework, employing exacting new programming and web technologies.

Time February 21, 2012
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A comparison of HIMSS Analytics data from September 2011 to December 2011 suggests that a number of hospital segments showed increased capability to achieve Stage 1 of meaningful use.

Time February 21, 2012
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February 21, 2012 ? Nucletron, an Elekta company, announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) granted Shonin approval to market the microSelectron Digital (HDR-V3) afterloader in Japan.

Time February 21, 2012
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February 20, 2012 — U.S. Senate and House legislators have reached a “doc fix” agreement this week to prevent slashing payments to physicians treating Medicare patients. A law was to take effect at the beginning of March would have reduced reimbursements by 27 percent.

Time February 20, 2012
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February 20, 2012 — The Fraxion head frame helps ensure accuracy and precision in stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) of cancer targets in the brain and cranium. Elekta's Fraxion is the first to introduce an innovative system that integrates all proven cranial immobilization options in a single solution.

Time February 20, 2012
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February 20, 2012 — As part of president Obama’s pledge to reduce regulatory burden, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced HHS will postpone the date at which certain health care entities have to comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition (ICD-10) diagnosis and procedure codes.

Time February 20, 2012
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Varian Medical Systems’ OncoView image management and storage solution provides oncology professionals with a reliable, scalable way of archiving and accessing the images and data that impact decisions about a patient's course of treatment. It is designed to archive information covering the entire cancer treatment process from diagnosis to survivorship and followup. OncoView interfaces seamlessly with any standards-based clinical information management system, including Varian's ARIA oncology information system.

Time February 17, 2012
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At HIMSS, TeraMedica will present solutions to maximize electronic medical record (EMR) investments and help attain Level 7 certification. The Evercore vendor neutral architecture solution connects images, documents, video, sound and any other information (DICOM/non-DICOM) to any EMR/electronic health record (EHR). Evercore simplifies workflow by providing access to all data and images within one patient record. Through one-click access, Evercore can connect the EMR to the image viewer of the physician's choice. TeraMedica also offers comprehensive cloud solutions, which address disaster recovery, business continuance, legal retention policies, latency issues and more.?

Time February 17, 2012
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At HIMSS 2012, Philips will highlight the new IntelliSpace PACS 4.4. IntelliSpace PACS 4.4 leverages the latest advances in IT technology and allows for smarter collaboration with the goal of better patient outcomes. Built on Philips’ successful iSite PACS, IntelliSpace PACS 4.4 elevates the user experience through open access to images and information, enhanced enterprise workflow, new clinical applications and advanced tools for proactive service and support.

Time February 17, 2012
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Pacsgear will feature its PACS 2.0 enterprise imaging connectivity solutions at HIMSS 2012. PACS 2.0 is an expanded strategy that combines images from all departments with electronic health records (EHRs). Pacsgear is introducing two new enterprise imaging products: MDR Video 7.0, a digital video capture product, and the Pacsgear Media Server, an integrated platform for capturing, viewing and sharing medical images and results across the enterprise and connecting them to picture archiving and communication system (PACS)/EHR.

Time February 17, 2012
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Merge will showcase a full slate of its IT products at HIMSS 2012, including several for interoperability, radiology and cardiology.

Time February 17, 2012
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GNAX DOES VNA provides a flexible picture archiving and communication system (PACS) Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) that combines the cost benefits of a low-cost cloud storage solution with the security of a permanent PACS archive. The VNA normalizes all medical images, regardless of PACS system, and makes them accessible from any viewer, through the electronic health record ( EHR) or via the Web.

Time February 17, 2012
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