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 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 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 - 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
June 16, 2009 - Michael Reitermann will become the new CEO of Siemens Healthcare, U.S. organization, responsible for sales, marketing, service and logistics across the Siemens Healthcare portfolio, including medical imaigng equipment, healthcare information technology and medical therapy effective July 1, 2009.
June 12, 2009 – Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, has completed its first global Phase II study analyzing the sensitivity and specificity of BAY 94-9172 (AV1/ZK) using positron emission tomography (PET) in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy volunteers.
June 16, 2009 – MILabs introduced at the Annual SNM meeting its novel U-SPECT/CT system, a Micro-SPECT system that is fully integrated with the MILabs high-throughput, low dose U-CT. The company also announced it has already contracted to install two U-SPECT/CT systems.
June 16, 2009 - MDS Nordion, a leading global provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals used in molecular medicine, and the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry in Moscow, Russia, have agreed to study the feasibility of the Karpov Institute providing the company with a flexible, reliable and responsive medical-isotope supplier of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) for the global nuclear medicine
June 16, 2009 - Numa, a nuclear medicine connectivity and system integration company, debuted at the SNM 2009 annual conference NumaManage, a new patient scheduling and workflow manager for a Nuclear Medicine or PET/CT department designed to streamline the workflow and schedule management of a molecular imaging department.
June 16, 2009 - President Barack Obama asked for physicians to help in his plans for healthcare reform during the American Medical Association's 158th annual meeting Monday in Chicago.
June 16, 2009 - In response to the molybdenum 99 (Mo-99) supply shortage, Covidien sent out a letter to its customers informing them of the anticipated Covidien generator and unit dose (UD) Tc 99m supply to the overall U.S., Canadian and Latin American markets through August 2009.
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