Articles from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc.

WAYNE, N.J., April 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. has launched the next-generation of the Exa® Platform with the most advanced version of Exa PACS|RIS released to date, featuring a new API platform designed to integrate with strategic partners. The new API platform is foundational to Konica Minolta Healthcare IT’s strategy of focusing on the Exa PACS|RIS core and integrating with best-in-class partner solutions to amplify the core, creating an integrated ecosystem to maximize customer success. As part of this new version of Exa PACS|RIS, Konica Minolta is also introducing Exa Advanced Imaging with improved Multi Planar Reconstruction (MPR) functionality and full 3D generated image reconstruction and segmentation. Native to Exa PACS, clinicians have access to advanced functionality without leaving the Exa viewer, streamlining workflow and saving them time and clicks to focus on patient care.

WAYNE, N.J. and CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. (“Konica Minolta”) and ImagineSoftware (“Imagine”) today announced an integration agreement joining Imagine's innovative, artificial intelligence-driven platform for automated radiology billing, ImagineOne®, with Konica Minolta’s Exa® PACS|RIS solution. The agreement marks an exciting milestone in the evolution of autonomous technology and a continued commitment to push the boundaries of what’s possible in radiology.

WAYNE, N.J., Feb. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., is pleased to announce the publication of a case study by clinicians in the pulmonary and radiology departments at ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco (Milan, Italy) demonstrating the use of Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) to help definitively diagnose diaphragm dysfunction. The study, published in the journal Diagnostics, highlights the clinical value of DDR through its unique ability to evaluate diaphragm movement in real time and integrate dynamic functional information with static anatomical data to provide a quantitative assessment of diaphragmatic movement, including excursion and speed.

For the fourth consecutive year, studies evaluating the expanding clinical utility of Dynamic Digital Radiography are part of the RSNA Scientific Sessions

The new imaging solution is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and integrates best-in-class, third-party solutions to provide an enterprise ecosystem and platform for the future

WAYNE, N.J., Oct. 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. and Quinsite announced today a partnership that will integrate Quinsite’s Comprehensive Healthcare Analytics Platform™ into the Exa® Platform. Through this partnership, Exa Platform users will have the capability to apply advanced analytics to clinical, financial and operational data, generating real-time insights into key metrics such as physician productivity, patient flow and billing accuracy.

WAYNE, N.J., Oct. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announces a partnership with Clearpath Technologies to integrate Clearpath’s automated platform for sharing medical records and images digitally, quickly and securely from the Exa® Platform. Clearpath’s solution makes medical imaging records instantly available to patients, providers, legal requestors and other authorized third-party requestors without the additional time and cost of staff burning and shipping discs. This new partnership builds on the vision that Konica Minolta has for the Exa Platform as a fully integrated enterprise imaging solution that connects patients and providers throughout the continuum of care.

TAMPA, Fla. and WAYNE, N.J., Sept. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NewVue, a leader in cloud-native radiology workflow solutions, and Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology, announce a strategic partner agreement. This partnership allows Konica Minolta to offer NewVue's innovative EmpowerSuite Radiology Workflow Orchestrator and Command Center to its extensive network of healthcare customers across the US, integrating seamlessly with Konica Minolta's Exa® Platform to enhance radiology workflows. EmpowerSuite is a key component of Konica Minolta's enterprise imaging portfolio.

WAYNE, N.J., June 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas announced today a strategic partnership with Apollo Enterprise Imaging Corp to offer a full enterprise-wide, multi-specialty clinical workflow solution augmenting the proven Exa® Platform, an integrated PACS, RIS and Billing solution with a single database across all modules. Exa Platform customers will now benefit from interoperability and connectivity enabling every clinical department throughout the enterprise to securely acquire, manage, and access all clinical content through arcc®, The Apollo Repository for Clinical Content. The partnership will unite all patient information across clinical specialties, including from non-DICOM devices, for a longitudinal, image-enabled electronic medical record (EMR).

WAYNE, N.J., June 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas announced today a strategic partnership with Comp-Ray, Inc., a Christie Innomed company, that will bolster Konica Minolta’s Healthcare IT sales and distribution in the US. Christie Innomed will be introducing their best-in-class Canadian Healthcare IT service offerings in the US through this partnership. This alliance is projected to be a driver of business growth for both organizations.

WAYNE, N.J., May 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a landmark study, the latest in technology innovation by Konica Minolta Healthcare was used to develop a machine-learning-based analysis of X-ray imaging that automatically quantifies lung function data. This AI-powered technique provides a reliable alternative to pulmonary function tests (PFTs), which have limited assessment capabilities and can be difficult for some patients with pulmonary disorders to complete. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ("Icahn Mount Sinai") used Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) data, an X-ray imaging technology developed by Konica Minolta, to create their AI-powered technique that analyzes lung function. The researchers found their AI-based software provides additional quantitative data that may be useful in differentiating pulmonary disorders and a possible marker for treatment escalation, according to findings published online in press in the journal CHEST Pulmonary.

WAYNE, N.J., March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas congratulates the winner and runners-up of the Best Student Paper Award given by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) at its 2024 Medical Imaging Symposium in San Diego. SPIE is a not-for-profit professional society that helps advance emerging light-based research and technologies across numerous industries. With a history of 150 years of innovation, Konica Minolta is committed to fostering the development of advanced technologies to visualize what is not visible. As a multinational company invested in research to deliver innovations in imaging technologies, Konica Minolta sponsored the award as part of its continued commitment to education and support of young scientists in medical imaging.

WAYNE, N.J., March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announced today the new integration of the Exa® Platform with AWS HealthImaging (AHI). The Exa Platform is an Enterprise Imaging, PACS, RIS and Billing solution offering advanced features like Server-Side Rendering, Diagnostic Zero Footprint Viewer and a single, integrated database across all modules. Utilizing AHI services allows Konica Minolta to focus on delivering production workflow software for imaging customers with AHI managing the infrastructure. Customers gain advantages from the expanded depth of a comprehensive solution.

Exa automates manual tasks to help enhance staff productivity, expedite patient care and maximize revenue

The company celebrates 150 years of imaging innovation and leading through change

WAYNE, N.J., Nov. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta is celebrating 150 years of endless innovation in imaging. Starting in 1873 as a camera and film manufacturer, Konica Minolta has developed its own technologies and continued to evolve techniques for visualizing what is not visible. Now in 2023, imaging remains at the core of the company’s DNA. Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas extends this history of innovation with a keen focus on contributing to life-changing advances through the transformation of primary imaging, including digital radiography (DR), ultrasound and imaging IT solutions.

WAYNE, N.J., July 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., announced today the introduction of PocketPro H2, a new wireless handheld ultrasound device for general imaging in point-of-care applications. Konica Minolta Healthcare, a trusted provider of primary imaging solutions, has partnered with Healcerion to distribute the PocketPro H2 in the US for human and veterinary applications, delivering a new level of flexibility and affordability in ultrasound.

WAYNE, N.J., July 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., announces significant expansion of X-Ray systems with Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) at multiple healthcare institutions across the US, including at Appleton Area Health (Appleton, MN), New Hampshire Neurospine Institute (Bedford, NH), Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology (NY), and Summit Medical Center (Edmond, OK). The clinical utility of DDR is being realized across different provider types, from hospitals to clinics and private practices, encompassing a multitude of applications, including ER/inpatient triage, outpatient imaging, specialty musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging, and pre-surgical evaluations.

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill., June 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 20/20 Imaging, a division of Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. and a leader in veterinary imaging solutions, announced today a distribution agreement with Medovate Ltd., a medical device development company based in Cambridge, UK, to bring the pioneering SAFIRA® system for regional anesthesia to the US veterinary market. Konica Minolta's ultrasound systems are an excellent complement to the SAFIRA system as ultrasound is optimally used to guide the exact placement of local/regional anesthetic as well as provide real-time assessment of the needle advancement. This agreement will further expand the use of regional anesthesia with ultrasound imaging in veterinary practices.

WAYNE, N.J., March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., congratulates the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital for achieving the significant milestone of imaging more than 1,000 patients with Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) technology since it was installed in June 2021. DDR has been utilized in the Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital for pulmonary imaging in pre and post lung transplant, post heart transplant, after COVID infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and lung cancer patients, as well as for evaluating diaphragm dysfunction. UAB Medicine is a leading lung transplant center and one of busiest in the US, with one-year patient and graft survival rates higher than national averages.

WAYNE, N.J., Jan. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leader in medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology, today announced that the company’s Wayne, NJ corporate headquarters, Garner, NC facility, and supporting infrastructure of the organization have earned Certified status as a business associate under HIPAA for information security by HITRUST.

Emory Associate Professor Michael Gottschalk, MD, will discuss how DDR can improve the diagnosis and assessment of the upper extremity at AAOS 2023

WAYNE, N.J., Dec. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leader in medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology, is pleased to announce that Yuko Yamasaki, MD, PhD, from the Department of Clinical Radiology at Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) has received the Cum Laude award for his education exhibit on the use of Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) for pulmonary vascular diseases at the 108th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). DDR is Konica Minolta’s innovative radiographic technology that enables clinicians to observe anatomy in motion and is currently available on four of the company’s X-ray systems. Dr. Yamasaki’s education exhibit, “Dynamic Chest Radiography for Pulmonary Vascular Diseases: Clinical Applications and Correlation with Other Imaging Modalities,” was one of 43 Cum Laude awards given to the 1,454 education exhibits presented at RSNA 2022, and one of only five X-ray-focused presentations to receive an award this year.

The company introduces the KDR Primary U-arm Digital Radiography and mKDR Xpress Mobile X-ray systems to the region

Published online November 8 in the journal, Radiology, the study enabled the visualization of pulmonary hemodynamics and perfusion with high sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy, and without the use of contrast media.

Exa SaaS helps healthcare organizations be more flexible, agile and scalable in deploying and managing software

WAYNE, N.J, Nov. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leader in medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology, introduces its next-generation, compact point-of-care ultrasound system (POCUS), SONIMAGE® MX1 Platinum, delivering incredible detail resolution for superior image quality. Clinicians can hand carry the SONIMAGE MX1 Platinum System wherever it is needed most – at the bedside, in an exam room or surgery suite. Konica Minolta will introduce the new system at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), November 27 – December 1, 2022.

WAYNE, N.J., Nov. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a leader in medical diagnostic imaging and healthcare information technology, announces the introduction of new digital radiography (DR) solutions that will continue to transform the clinical value of X-ray. In 2020, Konica Minolta Healthcare launched Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR), and now the company is extending this advancement to the new KDR® Flex Overhead X-ray System. Konica Minolta previously announced DDR on the Chiropractic Straight Arm and the mKDR Xpress™ Mobile X-ray System, which recently received US FDA 510(k) clearance for the DDR option. These new systems and the AeroDR® Glassless family of flat panel detectors will be launched at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), November 27 – December 1, 2022.

WAYNE, N.J., Oct. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., congratulates the Emory Healthcare researchers that won two awards at the 2022 Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) Eastern Region Resident Research Symposium for the presentation, “Artificial Intelligence Automated Analysis of Scapula Dynamics using Dynamic Digital Radiography: An Initial Reliability Study.” Zaamin B. Hussain, MD, an orthopedic surgery resident working with Eric Wagner, MD, MSc, Director of Upper Extremity Research and Assistant Professor at Emory Healthcare, received a Second Place Award and the Presenter’s Choice Award. Next, he will present his research at the National OREF Symposium later this year.

WAYNE, N.J., Sept. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announced today the implementation of Exa® PACS/RIS/Billing and the company’s Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solution, provided by All Covered, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.'s IT Services Division, at Legent Imaging, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging services based in Frisco, TX. Through the RCM solution, All Covered processes claims and billing for Legent, leading to fewer denied claims, prompt payments by third-party insurers and patients, and increased revenue. The implementation of the Exa Platform provides Legent Imaging with a cost-effective, customized and integrated PACS, RIS and Billing solution that increases staff efficiency.