Agfa Presents Its Latest Innovation, IMPAX Kiosk.

Agfa HealthCare, a major company providing medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions, has recently presented its latest innovation, IMPAX Kiosk, which represents a workflow improvement solution. IMPAX Kiosk is an interactive platform that permits the registration and check-in of patients to medical services at hospitals with no need for going to administration desks. Sarah Muckler, Senior Marketing Manager for Agfa HealthCare US, explained "For the patients, traditional check-in means waiting in a line before being afforded the opportunity to be personally checked-in by a receptionist. This can take fifteen minutes or more. With IMPAX Kiosk, we can reduce the check-in process time to five minutes." The use of the new systems will surely improve patients' satisfaction and will offer more time for administrative staff to concentrate on their other responsibilities.

CT, CTA, And Biopsy For Detection Of Natural Death Cause, Study

According to a new study, researchers mentioned that using a combination of computed tomography (CT), postmortem CT angiography (CTA), along with biopsy can be useful as a minimally invasive procedure for detecting the natural causes of mortality, such as cardiac arrest. The study took place at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center for Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, at the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland. The findings of the study appear in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Africa Telehealth 2010 – Opening Sessions

Telehealth and telemedicine is currently one of the significantly growing fields in healthcare industry. This is due to the fact that both fields have various advantages that can truly improve the levels of healthcare and medical services. Africa Telehealth 2010 conference, currently taking place in Cairo, Egypt, is aiming to discuss the adoption of tele-health, the benefits and the challenges affecting that adoption. The event was organized by Texas Telehealth Tech (TTT) and sponsored by leading telemedicine solutions provider, Polycom & FVC, Gross Remote Conferencing, and emerging Telemedicine company in the Middle East, Telemed Providers. The event extends from 23th – 25th of October with Health Imaging Hub contributing as the official media sponsor. In this report, we highlight the events and sessions that took place during the first day of the conference.
The first day of Africa Telehealth 2010 included a number of highly interesting sessions. After welcoming the attendees, the event started with a presentation from Dr. Sahar Saleem, Radiology Professor, Faculty of Medicine (Kasr El Aini), Cairo University. She spoke about telemedicine in Egypt, mentioning that the first radiology practice in the country, also the first in Middle East, took place in 1922. Dr. Saleem briefly spoke about radiology statistics in Egypt, such as number of MRI units in the country (160), and their ratio in relation to population (2 MRI units per million capita). She also added that PACS systems are currently used in Egypt but on a very limited scale. Dr. Saleem confirmed during her presentation that telemedicine represents a suitable solution against a number of obstacles hindering the improvement of healthcare services, such as lack of specialists and equipment in rural areas, over population and over-crowded cities such as Cairo and Alexandria, where patients need a lot of time to reach radiology centers. Dr. Saleem added that telemedicine can improve the level of radiologists in Egypt as a result to continuous discussions and consultations with their colleagues in Western countries such as US and Canada, adding that such discussions can be useful if they take place between radiologists in Arab countries. She concluded that the expansion in telemedicine adoption in Egypt will be highly cost-effective, not only for patients, as they will no longer need to travel for long distances to radiology centers, but also for hospitals and healthcare facilities.