Tuesday 14 September 2010

Agfa Implements Its Orbis In A major Hospital In Belgium.

Agfa Healthcare, a major provider of medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions, announced that it has signed a new contract with Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg AgfaHospital in Belgium to install its Orbis care solution in the three sites of the hospital. Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg represents one of the Eastern Limburg hospital group. It is going to use Agfa’s Orbis, the nursing management system, to organize nursing documentation and plan nursing activities.

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Agfa’s Orbis is going to be used instead of the current paper-based system; the new solution will be integrated with Agfa’s electronic medical record which includes details about medications, medical imaging results and laboratory tests....

CSC To Provide Its Master Patient Index System In Austria.

CSC, a major company offering healthcare IT solutions, announced that it has signed a new contract to provide its master patient index system throughout Austria. CSC’s CSCsystem is going to permit healthcare professionals to conduct researches about electronic patient records across the country. The master patient index system will help them as it is going to allow the access to such records without consideration for their storage location....

ALLPRO Imaging launches ScanX Quantum For Body And Dental Digital Images.

ALLPRO Imaging, a leader in digital imaging systems, has launched the ScanX Quantum, a highly compact and ScanX_Quantumversatile system for community health centers that look forward to shift to digitalization. It has a unique ability to capture body images up to 14" wide by any practical length and dental images in sizes 0-4. The ScanX Quantum is designed to be compact and lightweight (only 43 lbs.) and can be also wall-mounted to save space. The system can be used for all human dental and medical radiography applications.
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FDA Approves Viking’s Next Generation 3DHD Visualization System.

Viking Systems, Inc., a company providing advanced visualization solutions, announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its new NextViking Generation 3DHD visualization system. The new solution is planned to be presented to the market at the American College of Surgeons' Annual Clinical Congress which will take place next October in Washington D.C.
Viking President & CEO, Jed Kennedy, said, "We are very pleased to have received timely FDA 510(k) clearance of our Next Gen system for a broad base of minimally invasive procedures including general surgery, urology, gynecology, spinal, bariatric, ENT and thoracic. With the 510(k) in place, we will now focus on completing the documentation required to apply the CE mark to the 3DHD system." The CE mark means that Viking’s Next Generation 3DHD is following the requirements of the Medical Device Directive of the European community. Kennedy added, "Because Viking is ISO13485-certified; we will be able to self-certify the 3DHD for the European community. This keeps us on track to be in the U.S. and European markets in the fourth quarter of 2010 as planned."......