Merge Healthcare’s Cedara xPipe version 3.0 is a software toolkit that fully automates the image processing tasks performed by CR and DR X-ray consoles. These consoles reportedly ensure that X-ray images are of good quality before the patient leaves the room. Cedara xPipe eliminates many of the manual tasks typically performed to do this, so it helps improve patient throughput.

December 8, 2008 – At RSNA 2008, Merge Healthcare launched its eFilm Software Exchange, an online community designed to empower organizations to develop, distribute and sell applications related to eFilm Workstation.

December 5, 2008 - ProStor Systems, a developer of removable disk storage systems, unveiled its ProStor InfiniVault-DICOM storage system to the healthcare community at RSNA 2008.

December 5, 2008 - At RSNA 2008, IBM unveiled a new combination of advanced imaging and information archiving technologies designed to provide healthcare and research organizations with complete and timely access to critical imaging and diagnostic information at the point of care – regardless of the source, age or location of the information.

December 5, 2008 – Nuance Communications introduced Veriphy 3.0 at RSNA, its new critical test result management (CTRM) solution that enables compliance with The Joint Commission’s accreditation requirement for the way patients’ critical test results are communicated.

December 5, 2008 – MedCurrent Corp., a provider of healthcare practice management solutions, launched its Web-based insurance eligibility verification tool, MedCurrent Verify at RSNA 2008.

December 5, 2008 - Softek Solutions featured its lluminate, reportedly the first free-text search product to make data-mining within Philips iSite PACS.

December 5, 2008 – AFC Industries introduced at RSNA 2008 the space-saving i-Center, a wall-mounted workstation said to provide easy, on-demand computer access wherever needed without taking up floor space.