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www.HealthcareITNews.com new products IMPAX Mobility, which Agfa HealthCare will introduce as RSNA 2008, is an add-on component to the IMPAX Data Center, which is pictured here. The Impax Data Center was introduced by Agfa at RSNA 2006 and provides large-scale multimedia storage of all types of medical images and diagnostic results. November 2008 ■ Healthcare IT News 45 Thinking Sytems will be showcasing enhancements to its ThinkingPACS and ThinkingRIS solutions at Booth 7121. produCTs Continued from page 44 plex challenges of cardiology informatics while catering to the imaging enterprise as a whole.” ThinkingPACS, the company’s PACS solution, and ThinkingRIS, the company’s Webbased RIS solution, featuring unified RIS/ PACS database, will be showcased at Booth 7121 in Hall A, North Building. InteleOne, allowing radiologists to sign-off reports in a single system while InteleOne delivers the reports via fax, email or HL7 communications. IntelOne will be located at Booth 2865, Hall A, South Building, Level 3. aspyra debuts all-In-one pacs/ rIs solutIons CALABASAS, CA - Aspyra, Inc. plans to debut the All-in-One PACS and RIS/PACS solutions at RSNA 2008. Aspyra’s All-in-One PACS and All-in-One RIS/PACS provide cost-effective solutions for the cost-conscious hospital, imaging center and orthopedic group practice. The package includes Aspyra’s complete PACS or RIS/PACS software application, server, Web server, primary online RAID 6 archive storage, secondary DVD archive dr systems exhIbIts release 8.2 storage (enabling HIPAA-compliant off-site software for unIty platform storage backup), system backup DVDs and SAN DiEgO – DR Systems will be exhibiting patient CD creator. release 8.2 of its software for its Unity RIS/ “With the current economic condition of PACS platform at RSNA 2008. Release 8.2 our nation, coupled with reimbursement and features expanded applications on clientother financial concerns, Aspyra can offer supplied hardware, critical results tracking the healthcare organizaand time-saving DICOM struction afforable solutions tured reports. that enable the caregiver DR systems will also be demto provide qualtiy care, onstrating a zero-download, improve business effiWeb browser-based clinical ciencies and productivty, review application and an operwithout breaking the ation of the Unity RIS/PACS bank,” said Bill Culton, Visage Imaging will showcase new in a virtualized server environA spyra’s Diagnostic clinical applications and tools for its ment. Release 8.2 will be availSolutions product man- thin client technology at Booth 7139 able to the general RIS/PACS ager. marketplace in the first quarter Aspyra will be located at Booth 6610, of 2009. DR Systems will be located at Booth 4209 South Building, Hall A. in the South Building, Hall A, where it will agfa Introduces Impax be showing future releases and demonstratmobIlIty solutIon ing advanced system and networking capabilities. ChiCAgO – At RSNA 2008 Agfa HealthCare will highlight three core themes at its booth: integrated workflow for radiology, enter- thInkIng systems showcases prise image storage and management and pacs and rIs enhancements enterprise clinical visualization. Agfa will ST. PETERSBURg, FL – The Thinking be introducing its IMPAX Mobility solution Systems Corporation will be showcasing its at the show. This new product is an ultra- ThinkingPACS and ThinkingRIS product thin, Web-deployable Enterprise Image and enhancements at RSNA 2008. Result Viewer designed for rapid and easy Thinking Systems recently received deployment operating across wide area net- the “2008 Frost & Sullivan Technology works. Leadership Award” in the North American IMPAX Mobility is an add-on component Cardiovascular Image Management market. to IMPAX Data Center, IMPAX or even Frost & Sullivan cited Thinking Systems for third-party PACS Systems that provides full its “integrated portfolio of powerful technolmobility to access image data, analysis tools ogy components addressing the most com- and reports. IMPAX Mobility is an enterprise clinical viewer targeted for use by clinicians, specialists, diagnosticians and referring physicians and provides a set of 2D and 3D image review and manipulation tools. Mobility may be launched from an EMR or Web portal and is easily deployed to existing Microsoft Windows PCs in or outside the institution. Clinicians will benefit from IMPAX Mobility as it allows them to manage consultation services with colleagues as well as providing bedside education to patients. Agfa will also introduce an integrated reporting solution with Philips’ SpeechMagic technology. This solution is embedded in IMPAX, streamlining a variety of reporting workflows such as Dictate-Edit-Sign, Correctionist, Resident-Attending and digital dictation, as well as allowing at-home reporting and remote sign-off. VIsage ImagIng reVeals adVances In thIn clIent tech. CARLSBAD, CA – Visage Imaging, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., will showcase a multitude of new clinical applications and advanced tools for 2D, 3D and 4D visualization and post processing at RSNA 2008. The new applications and tools are fully integrated within the Visage CS thin client/server platform, which satisfies all diagnostic imaging needs in a complex healthcare environment by offering anytime, anywhere access to images from multiple modalities to virtually any number of concurrent users. 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