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October 14, 2009 - The largest annual study of patient outcomes at each of the nation’s 5,000 nonfederal hospitals found a wide gap in quality between the nation’s best hospitals and all others.

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October 13, 2009 – Bright Note Technology, which is said to instantly populate all critical data on a patient chart, is now available across the entire spectrum of McKesson’s ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) solutions for physician practices.

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October 13, 20009 - The Senate Finance Committee today approved the measure on a 14-9 vote in favor of a healthcare overhaul, gaining the support of an influential Republican.

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October 13, 2009 – The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced the recipients of several Annual Meeting awards. Recipients will receive their honors during ASTRO’s 51st Annual Meeting in Chicago, being held November 1-5, 2009.

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October 13, 2009 - Cost to deliver radiation varies widely from one delivery method to the next, according to a new analysis from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Costs can range from around $1,700 for a single treatment with conventional radiation techniques to more than $16,000 for four treatments when using a Cyberknife system for radiation delivery.

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October 13, 2009 - FENICS has validated the Matrox Xenia PRO display controller board with their DIAGNUM Workstation mammography computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions, which will be demonstrating this technology at Journee Française de Radiologie (JFR) 2009 from October 16-20, 2009, in Paris - Porte Maillot, France.

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SenoRx extends the EnCor breast biopsy product line into the MRI arena by offering grid and pillar/post compatibility in the same EnCor MRI product.

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The versatility found throughout the EnCor breast biopsy product line extends into the MRI arena by offering grid and pillar/post compatibility in the same EnCor MRI product.

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October 13, 2009 - SenoRx extends the EnCor breast biopsy product line into the MRI arena by offering grid and pillar/post compatibility in the same EnCor MRI product.

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October 13, 2009 - The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) Division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has announced it will hold a rally in the Rayburn House Office Building Gold Room, on October 14, 2009, at 9:30 a.m. "to preserve access to medical imaging."

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October 13, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare reported today at the annual meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in Barcelona, Spain, that leading hospitals in England, France, Germany and Monaco have shown strong interest and adoption of the Biograph mCT, the worlds first molecular CT, to fuel advanced diagnostic capabilities and to drive greater workflow efficiencies.

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October 13, 2009 - Ziehm Imaging has received the "2009 European Mobile C-arms Business Development Strategy Leadership Award" from market research company Frost & Sullivan, for its successful growth strategy of the technology leader in the area of mobile C-arms.

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October 13, 2009 - Sustained economic growth since 2003 in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) has enabled massive increases in healthcare expenditures with an astounding $500 billion spent in 2009 alone, reports Millennium Research Group (MRG), a medical technology market research company.

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October 12, 2009 - Aspyra Inc. will demonstrate the latest release of AccessRAD, its integrated RIS/PACS product at the upcoming RSNA 2009 Annual Meeting Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, Booth 3021, South Building Hall A, at McCormick Place in Chicago.

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October 13, 2009 - AMICAS, Inc. is showing its newly launched AMICAS RIS Version 5.5 at RBMA's 2009 Fall Educational Conference in Chandler, AZ, from October 11 to 13, booth 203.

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October 12, 2009 – ScImage, an enterprise imaging and informatics company, has created a robust toolset for delivering PACS content to electronic medical records systems (EMR).

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October 12, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) announced four new Category 1 CPT codes for cardiac computed tomography will become effective Jan. 1, 2010.

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October 11, 2009 – GE Healthcare announced the European launch of Discovery NM/CT 670, a hybrid imaging platform designed to improve workflow, dose management, and overall image quality, during the EANM'09 Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, held Oct. 10-14 in Barcelona, Spain.

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October 12, 2009 - The FDA notified healthcare professionals that it has become aware of radiation overexposures during perfusion CT imaging performed to aid in the diagnosis of stroke at a particular facility, the patients receiving radiation doses that were approximately eight times the expected level.

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October 12, 20009 - Joanna Fowler, Ph.D., a major contributor to brain research and a pioneer in molecular imaging, is being recognized by the White House with the National Medal of Science—the highest award for lifetime achievement in science. Eight other researchers will join Fowler to receive the award at a White House ceremony on October 7.

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