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April 6, 2009 — A new research survey released today at HIMSS 2009 by SK&A Information Services Inc. reveals 67 percent of medical offices with four or more physicians do not currently use EMR software. The survey results point to substantial sales and marketing opportunities for healthcare information technology vendors and service providers.

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Microsoft Corp. is showcasing new solutions designed specifically for healthcare providers, caregivers and patients, as well as solutions-applied healthcare scenarios.

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April 6, 2009 - More than 70 clinical information systems from 72 different technology companies and organizations are demonstrating how their products communicate and interact with each other in the Interoperability Showcase at the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition, April 4 – 8 in Chicago.

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April 6, 2009 - During HIMSS 2009, Merge Healthcare (OEM division) is showcasing two software development toolkits (SDK) including version 3.9 of the MergeCOM-3 DICOM toolkit, while also unveiling its new works-in-progress MergeCOM-3 HL7 toolkit.

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April 6, 2009 – Nuance Communications Inc. is previewing version 8 of its Enterprise Workstation at HIMSS 2009.

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April 6, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare released TalkStation 4.0, an integrated speech recognition workflow solution for radiology reporting today. The new software platform includes features that improve physician efficiency, enhance speech recognition, and provide tighter integration with the company's IMPAX radiology Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS).

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April 5, 2009 - GE Healthcare will collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Public Health Informatics in a project demonstrating the capability of a public health agency to utilize electronic medical record (EMR) systems to provide clinicians with timely, patient-specific information at the point of care.

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April 6, 2009 - SNM applauds today’s decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand coverage of positron emission tomography (PET) scans in the initial treatment strategy of patients with cancer.

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April 6, 2009 — Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is using optical molecular imaging technology from Carestream Molecular Imaging to advance the study of diseases and therapies involving cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious agents, inflammatory disease and other conditions.

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Feature | T. Scott Law, president and CEO of Zotec

The medical industry has historically used technology to focus primarily on advances on the clinical and disease management sides of physician practices. Additionally, the healthcare industry has traditionally lagged behind in technology investment and initiatives on the financial side in comparison to other industries.

Time April 03, 2009
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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Data capacities are doubling every month at hospitals, radiology centers and radiation oncology clinics. Traditional business applications are not sufficient to support the explosion of digital data in a multimedia environment, and providers end up spending large portions of their budgets on maintaining data.

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Feature | Kathleen Lang

Speech recognition embedded in the radiology workstation has become a “must have” feature. According to industry experts, the most important recent advancement in the technology has been the ability to integrate speech recognition with other applications such as critical results, peer review, medical reference programs and data mining applications.

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

For many hospitals, the next stage of PACS implementation involves integrating the radiology PACS with the cardiovascular image management system (CVIS). The integration enables the hospital to store all medical images in a single repository for improved image data management. In theory, integrating these two imaging silos can be seamless.

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

The $19 billion earmarked by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for healthcare IT incentives over the next five years has generated a lot of chatter about who gets what.

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Feature | By Amy Ballard, MEd, director of researc

In the war against breast cancer, brachytherapy is a powerful technique for eradicating the spread of the disease. However, certain limitations in the method of delivering radiation have excluded a large patient population that would benefit from the treatment.

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Feature | Ken Compton, Medical QC Images

Ever wonder where engineers get their ideas for designing a new product?

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At Kern Radiology Medical Group in Kern County, CA, revolutionary imaging technology and quality patient care go hand in hand. Its brand new, all-Hologic women’s imaging center gives patients access to the latest in digital mammography and breast biopsy technologies in a comfortable, spa-like setting.

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April 3, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. will demonstrate its latest advances in connectivity and workflow integration technology on its SonoSite Turbo ultrasound system platform, during the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) 2009 Conference April 4-8 in Chicago.

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Did you ever notice how PACS is the vehicle that drives the other software applications to the end-users? Not surprisingly, the goal of so many medical applications is to become integrated into PACS – and then you’re golden.

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April 3, 2009 – GE Healthcare IT and Microsoft Corp. today announced the companies have entered into an independent software vendor (ISV) alliance agreement to provide customers with enhanced healthcare IT administration capabilities that support GE’s Centricity Enterprise healthcare IT solution, currently in use by many hospitals worldwide.

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