March 6, 2012 — FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A. Inc. announced that Synapse RIS Version 6.1 received modular electronic health record (EHR) certification for Meaningful Use for radiology.

Synapse RIS Version 6.1

March 6, 2012 — Philips is installing an Ingenia 3.0T MR at CarolinaEast Medical Center; a 350-bed, full service facility located in New Bern, N.C., which provides leading edge diagnostic and therapeutic services to more than 185,000 patients each year.

March 6, 2012 — Siemens Healthcare announced that the Multix Fusion analog radiography system is commercially available in the United States.

March 6, 2012 — Varian Medical Systems Inc. announced it has reached an agreement to acquire InfiMed Inc., a privately owned supplier of workstations including hardware and software for processing diagnostic X-ray images.

March 6, 2012 — Imaging amino acid transporters with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has been shown to significantly alter intended management plans for patients with brain tumors, according to research in the March issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

March 6, 2012 — U-Systems announced the showcase of somo•v Platinum, an update to the somo•v automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) system, at the 2012 National Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference of the National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC).

March 6, 2012 — The American College of Radiology (ACR) has amassed 202 bipartisan co-sponsors for H.R. 3269. The Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act H.R. 3269 would repeal the CMS mandated payment reduction to the professional component of Medicare reimbursement for multiple diagnostic imaging services administered by the same physician, to the same patient, at the same session.

March 6, 2012 — Wisconsin’s radiography licensure law went into effect March 1, 2012, regulating personnel who perform radiography procedures.

March 5, 2012 — PatientKeeper Inc. announced a partnership with ScImage under which PatientKeeper will use ScImage's PICOM web platform to make medical images available to physicians within the PatientKeeper physician workflow environment running on Apple iPads.

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