A woman walked into Compressus' booth the other day and described her department's trouble managing all the disparate PACS on site. Her staff faced challenges in looking up patient information timely and efficiently amongst the multiple systems in house.  "Can you help?" she implored. Compressus was happy to inform her about the next generation MEDxConnect Version 2.5, a thin-client solution that Product Manager Ed Schuler says offers complete interoperability. Just last week, the company finished installing the single enterprise-wide worklist solution at Seattle Radiologists, APC. The technology enables physicians to read from anywhere, automatically pre-fetch prior exams, and transmit messages and cases between sites.

The system can be integrated with GE Centricity PACS, Centricity IW, Philips iSite, Hologic SecurView, Visage Imaging, PowerScribe speech recognition software, and Merge e-FILM.

During these hard financial times, no one can resist a good sale. Knowing this, CoActiv is selling a $15,000 PACS for almost half price, at $7,995, as an RSNA special. The EXAM-Essentials plug and play PACS is ideal for facilities without big budgets, said Ed Heere, the company's president and CEO. It installs in just minutes and is compatible with a full spectrum of imaging modalities and associated DICOM data sets, including radiology, cardiology, orthopedics, radiation oncology and radiation therapy. Essentially, the turnkey system offers an economical upgrade path to accomodate a practice's expanding imaging needs.

Also announced, CoActiv's EXAM-PACS now supports a range of emerging modalities and new imaging-related workflow, including the following:

MIMVista radiology/nuclear medicine files for fusion imaging

MedImage nuclear medicine/radiology fusion

PeerVue applications

Dragon Naturally Speaking 

Dilon Technologies BSGI files

Digital mammography

Breast ultrasound

Breast MRI

Hurry over to Booth 7336 in the North Hall to enjoy the sale while it lasts!