Konica debuts one-touch CR

Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA is framing its ImagePilot CR, introduced at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine meeting in Seattle, as a new concept in digital radiography. The system is designed as an integrated digital imaging acquisition, review, and storage solution specifically for physicians' clinics. ImagePilot CR simplifies image acquisition to a single button push using an algorithm that sets bone as the benchmark against which all other tissue densities are calculated. An AutoPilot feature eliminates the need to select and define algorithms for each body part. ImagePilot CR consists of an imaging station and a single-bay Nano CR Reader. The imaging station can support additional client stations for viewing images in different parts of a physician's office. The system has local archival capabilities and can send a DICOM-compliant image to radiologists for diagnostic interpretation or to offsite storage.

Foresight enhances DICOM converter

Foresight Imaging previewed at the SIIM conference version 2.2 of its TIMS DICOM software, which helps facilities still using non-DICOM medical modalities to convert. The work-in-progress supports audio recording and annotation (especially for speech pathology), audio playback, audio recording to CD/DVD, file attachment, editing of saved studies, GIF and TIF file import, DICOM send lists, study editing improvements, and other general workflow enhancements. When attached to legacy systems, TIMS DICOM turns analog into digital studies that can be sent to PACS, recorded to CD/DVD/USB, and printed to film or paper.

Agfa PACS integrates decision support

Agfa HealthCare and Amirsys are partnering to integrate PACS and data support products. Agfa Impax will run the Amirsys STATdx Radiologist Decision Support system, a point-of-care diagnostic support product designed specifically for imaging.

Agfa claims the integrated system will reduce the time needed to research and complete difficult analyses. The first such integrated system has been installed at Loma Linda University in Southern California, an experienced user of STATdx.

Calgary debuts thin-client server at SIIM

Calgary Scientific Medical Group unveiled at SIIM 2008 a web-based thin-client system for advanced visualization software. The new Resolution MD was shown as part of the ImageQube web-based PACS developed by Intuitive Imaging Informatics, a partner of Calgary's.