BRIT Systems announced new capabilities for their digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) routers that can pre-fetch studies from multiple servers and/or facilities based on select criteria that do not need to include the patient ID. The router morphs the patient ID in a pre-fetched study into the original or trigger ID, storing the pre-fetched IDs into alternate ID fields in both the database and the DICOM header. The new morphing router facilitates the creation of a single patient record and enables clinicians to view all studies on a single timeline. With this capability, clinicians will have access to a complete, cross-facility patient record that can be used to reduce unnecessary or duplicate imaging studies. The new capabilities were highlighted at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting.

Bathing dangerous blood clots in special medication, breaking them up with jets of saline and vacuuming them out of the body is a fast, effective method of treating deep vein thrombosis (DVT), suggests data being presented at the 25th annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET).

Peri-natal systems real-time clinical decision support company PeriGen Inc. announced the results of an independent validation study on fetal ECG strip interpretation favorably comparing PeriGen PeriCALM Patterns software with the findings of three experts from the National Institute of Health (NIH). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared fetal strip interpretation technology is a component of the company's perinatal central surveillance offering.