Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Google Alert - Radiology PACS

Improved Clinical and Workflow Benefits to Fuel Expanded ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... The advent of voice-recognition technology (VRT), which can be incorporated into PACS to create efficiencies in radiology reporting, dictation and ...
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Thursday, March 02, 2006

.Net, Medicine and Technology - Concerning the GE purchase of IDX

.Net, Medicine and Technology - Concerning the GE purchase of IDX

...The core of CareCast is written in COBOL....

Steve Severance discovered another potential problem with IDX applications - CareCast. I have already commented on their RIS product "IDXRad" in previous post "
Future of IDXRad". Now we discover that the core of CareCast application is written in COBOL!!

What was GE thinking when they bought IDX? By the way GE paid $1.2 billion for IDX.