February 24, 2011 – A percutaneous microwave tissue ablation (pMTA) system will be unveiled at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria, March 4-7. The Accu2i pMTA system, from Microsulis Medical is cleared for use in Europe, the United States and Canada. Alongside the Accu2i, Microsulis will feature case studies from key centers using the system.

February 23, 2011 – A new vendor-neutral archive (VNA) adds significant enterprise capabilities, including cloud-enablement, workflow services, and improved performance and scalability. DICOM Services Grid 5.3, from Acuo Technologies, also has enhanced storage virtualization capabilities.

During ASTRO 2010, Nucletron highlighted improvements in its new Oncentra 4.0 treatment planning software and Flexitron afterloader. The latest version of Oncentra improves external beam therapy planning and has GPU planning to speed dose calculations.

RoentgenWorks now supports the Health Information Exchange (HIE) NHIN Gateway for patient and document discovery; document retrieval; and document submission. RoentgenWorks can store DICOM and HL-7 data from many different enterprises and it includes an MPI for acquiring a patient’s data whether it is stored locally or within an HIE. It also produces and acquires CCRs.

February 21, 2011 – An integrated software suite that facilitates the sharing of diagnostic content will be showcased at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and IHE Interoperability Showcase.

February 21, 2011 – A cardiac computed tomography (CT) report engine was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to save physicians' time, to present instant feedback on their interpretation and to vastly reduce time to diagnosis. The C saves physicians time, presents instant feedback on their interpretation and vastly reduces time to diagnosis.