June 19, 2009 – Medtronic Inc. today said it received CE (Conformité Européenne) mark for the company's second-generation pacemaker designed, tested, approved for use as labeled with MRI machines, the Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system. The Advisa MRI SureScan pacing system currently is not available for sale in the U.S.
June 19, 2009 – The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) is set to hold its fourth annual scientific meeting, July 16-19, 2009 in Orlando, Fla.
June 19, 2009 - Barco has won a substantial order for the supply of medical displays for a new PACS system to be installed at Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East in Japan.
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June 18, 2009 – MedCentral Health System just launched Siemens new knowledge-driven, healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures, enabled by the REMIND (Reliable Extraction and Meaningful Inference from Non-structured Data) Platform.
June 18, 2009 - Researchers at the Heart and Vascular Institute and the Imaging Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio said stress imaging remains the most acceptable noninvasive technique for diagnosis of in-stent restenosis (ISR) based on a meta-analysis using available studies to determine the diagnostic efficacy of 64-slice computed tomography (CT) in evaluation of ISR.
June 18, 2009 - Bionix Radiation Therapy announces the arrival of the SecureVac VersaCushion is designed to increase reproducibility, maximizes patient comfort, and is considered a complex billing device.
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June 18, 2009 - A leading Danish cancer hospital has treated its first patient using RapidArc radiotherapy after installing eight advanced radiotherapy treatment machines from Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, Calif. Herlev Hospital, to the northwest of Copenhagen, delivered the fast and efficient RapidArc treatment to a prostate cancer patient using a Clinac iX linear accelerator.
June 18, 2009 – CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, N.J., has purchased two new state-of-the-art Elekta radiation therapy treatment systems, both with Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT), making it the first site in the world to have both Elekta Axesse and Elekta Infinity
June 19, 2009 – Wooster Community Hospital of Wooster, Ohio, has signed a five-year agreement Sectra will supply PACS products and direct service and support to Wooster Community Hospital, a 150 bed full-service acute care hospital offering a complete range of inpatient and outpatient services across multiple facilities.
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June 18, 2009 – GE Healthcare this week launched its Stimulus Simplicity program, which offers healthcare providers interest-free loans with deferred payments to purchase electronic medical records (EMRs) and a certification warranty to ensure the EMRs will meet any guidelines set for meaningful use.
June 18, 2009 - Orthocrat released Version 2.2 of TraumaCad, a workflow solution from planning to surgery to follow-up for orthopedic surgeons. Version 2.2 improved features for streamlining the process of templating and surgery planning. Tighter integration with OrthoFlow and OrthoWeb aim to help move cases easily within the clinic and into the operating room.
June 18, 2009 - Shipments of the CARESTREAM DRX-1 System, the industry’s first wireless, cassette-size digital radiography (DR) detector are now underway.
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June 18, 2009 - Hologic Inc. has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its R2 DigitalNow HD software, an application designed to process digitized screen-film mammograms for comparison purposes. The product is now available worldwide.
June 17, 2009 - Sanford Children’s Hospital is the first children’s facility in the U.S. to offer new CT technology to patients that significantly reduces a child’s radiation exposure during a CT scan.
June 17, 2009 – Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Inc. presented clinical data on a radiolabeled, small-molecule molecular imaging pharmaceutical in development for diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) in Toronto.
June 16, 2009 - “Our profession faces one of the most significant crises in its history,” said Michael Graham, M.D., the new president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), as he addressed a room packed with national and international press, hungry for accountability and solutions to the shortage of nuclear medicine radioisotopes.
June 16, 2009 - While the healthcare community awaited the first "Meaningful Use" definition due today, healthcare stakeholders struggled to define one of the key medical terms for the ARRA.
June 16, 2009 – The study "Does Positron Emission Tomography Imaging in the Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Liver Metastases add any Value?" by Bastiaan Wiering, M.D., won Siemens Award for Excellence in Practice-Based Research at SNM’s 56th Annual Meeting in Toronto.
June 16, 2009 - In testimony before the Listening Panel of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (FCCC) on June 10, 2009, ECRI Institute President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey C.
June 16, 2009 – Dilon Technologies Inc. today announced the release of a new Dilon 6800 Software update, including enhancements for both breast and general nuclear medicine applications image processing.