Carestream Shows Latest Innovative Medical Imaging and Healthcare IT Technologies at ECR 2013
At ECR2013 Carestream will showcase a raft of new solutions designed to help radiology professionals improve patient care. These include a new portal that allows patients to electronically access and manage their X-ray exams; new lesion management tools that can help enhance accuracy in assessing changes in cancerous lesions and as a works-in-progress, a smaller-format digital radiography detector that provides high-quality, dose-sensitive X-ray images for paediatric, orthopaedic and general radiology exams. 
Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, to upgrade the hospital's existing IMPAX Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and to implement both Agfa HealthCare's Radiology Information System (RIS) and Nuclear Information System (NIS), with speech recognition. 
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) released its "Meaningful Innovation Index", during its participation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Meaningful Innovation Index is a 5000-person, multi-country survey looking at people's needs, attitudes and expectations regarding innovation. Based on responses from five key markets(1), the survey shows that even with the recent advances in technology, there is huge appetite for innovations that will make a real difference in people's everyday lives. 
BridgeHead Software has announced that UPMC Beacon Hospital, the South Dublin based hospital providing world-care services, has implemented its integrated backup solution to provide complete protection for all of the data within its MEDITECH Health Care Information System (HCIS). 
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has announced its intention to implement CSC's Lorenzo EPR as part of a new agreement between the company and the Department of Health. Lorenzo will help the Trust to eliminate paper records, facilitate agile working, support collaborative working and share information more effectively between clinical staff.