Industry Updates

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) today gave marketing clearance to a groundbreaking product from Carestream Health: The CARESTREAM DRX-1 System is the industry’s first wireless digital radiography (DR) detector—the size of a standard cassette—that fits existing x-ray...

InterSystems Corporation today announced that Charlotte Radiology has gone live with an enterprise-scale HL7 messaging hub built on the InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration and development platform. The new hub will integrate data feeds from hospitals and clinics throughout the...

FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA announced today that the company has received several rankings in the 2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Professional Services report. A provider of a totally integrated, Web-based software package for PACS, RIS,...

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust increases productivity with Nuance speech recognition solutions by more than 40 percent Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced that its speech recognition technology SpeechMagic™ has helped Great...

Covidien a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a 510(k)marketing clearance for the Nellcor™ OxiMax™ N-600x™ pulse oximeter with OxiMax SPD™ alert for adults. The OxiMax...

Healthcare Facilities Cite Voice Recognition Accuracy as Critical Driver for Choosing Nuance’s RadWhere Solution   Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, announced that its RadWhere speech recognition solution has significantly improved radiology workflow and productivity at three highly...

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation in collaboration with Medinol Ltd. announces the release of the X-Suit NIR, a biliary metallic stent featuring exceptional anatomic conformability. This device will launch in Europe and parts of Asia on March 27th 2009 followed...