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U.S. military to adopt voice recognition technology worldwide
By Wayne Forrest
Following the Bush administration's directive for creating a national electronic medical record (EMR) network, the U.S. Department of Defense has initiated a similar effort to have an EMR system in place by 2011 in its Military Health System. The new military EMR will involve the wide-scale deployment of voice recognition software across all military treatment facilities.
July 14, 2008
Carestream debuts RIS mammo module in Denmark
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health has installed a new RIS mammography module in Denmark, the company announced.
July 14, 2008
Agfa to add OrthoView to Impax
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare and orthopedic software developer OrthoView have signed an agreement to integrate the OrthoView digital planning software into Agfa's Impax for Orthopedics PACS offering.
July 13, 2008
New algorithm sharpens coronary artery images
By Eric Barnes
Researchers at the recent Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting in Barcelona, Spain, presented new work that aims to simplify the difficult task of evaluating coronary artery images.
July 13, 2008
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Capsule endoscopy image quality not improved with oral bowel prep
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 9 - In patients with obscure GI bleeding undergoing exploration of the small bowel by capsule endoscopy, image quality is not improved by bowel preparation with oral sodium phosphate (NaP) rather than fasting, study results indicate.
July 8, 2008
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European PACS market on the rise
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Significant opportunities are present in the European PACS market for vendors who can provide customized products and services that support enhanced workflow, according to a Frost & Sullivan report.
July 7, 2008
Sectra gets Spanish PACS order
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish PACS vendor and digital mammography developer Sectra of Linköping has won a contract to install a PACS network in northwestern Spain.
July 6, 2008
Report: Agfa talks possible sale with two companies
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa-Gevaert of Mortsel, Belgium, reportedly has spoken with Erlangen, Germany-based Siemens about the possibility of selling Agfa HealthCare as part of its strategic review process.
June 30, 2008
Poor go through with colon screening less often
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Despite the best intentions, many people don't follow through with screening exams even though they understand their value. The phenomenon can be more pronounced among those who are poor or in poor health, according to U.K. researchers.
June 29, 2008
CARS report: Fuzzy theory yields sharper CTA images
By Eric Barnes
BARCELONA - Coronary CT angiography isn't as easy to perform as it could be, according to Chunliang Wang, who discussed the problem of hidden coronary arteries and introduced a novel segmentation method that might make them easier to examine at the 2008 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting.
June 26, 2008
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CARS report: CAD prompts range of behaviors in readers
By Eric Barnes
BARCELONA - How computer-aided detection (CAD) software works in theory is one thing, and how it functions in practice is another, as radiologists who use CAD have come to appreciate. But the ways in which readers react to CAD prompts, a subject that has received scant attention, has important implications for both CAD design and reader training.
June 25, 2008
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RFID devices in hospitals could pose risks: study
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jun 25 - Radiofrequency identification chips used to track and trace products could cause critical care medical devices such as pacemakers and ventilators to fail, according to Dutch researchers.
June 24, 2008
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