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September 20, 2011 – Varian Medical Systems and Calypso Medical Technologies announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Varian will acquire Calypso, a privately owned, Seattle-based developer and supplier of specialized products and software for real-time tumor tracking and motion management during radiosurgery and radiotherapy. The acquisition, which is anticipated to close in early October subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions, provides that Varian will pay approximately $10 million for Calypso plus potential earnouts based on unit sales of Calypso products achieved beyond thresholds over the next 30 months.

September 20, 2011 – A national survey found that women overwhelmingly want the option for additional screening tests to find cancer early, even when testing resulted in a false positive – a suspicious area found by biopsy to be non-cancerous. Nine out of 10 women who required a biopsy to determine a false positive indicated that they would still opt for the additional screening the following year.

September 20, 2011 – RaySearch Laboratories AB has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with the Italian distributor Tecnologie Avanzate T.A. S.r.l. based in Torino, Italy. The agreement means that Tecnologie Avanzate will be fully responsible for marketing, sales and service for RaySearch’s proprietary treatment planning system RayStation on the Italian market.

September 20, 2011 – Carestream’s innovative Vue Motion zero-footprint, Web-based enterprise viewer enables convenient on-demand access to imaging data and patient information by clinicians anytime, anywhere. This viewer’s support of mobile devices such as Apple iPads and tablet PCs is pending U.S Food and Drug administraion (FDA) clearance in the United States but is available in other countries worldwide.

September 20, 2011 – The Carestream Vue radiology information systems (RIS) meets the first phase of meaningful use requirements in the United States. This flexible platform allows data workflows to be quickly and easily adapted to meet changing business and regulatory needs worldwide.

Carestream recently enhanced its established portfolio of Vue for cloud-based services that includes picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), archiving and collaborative information sharing. A new portal service allows healthcare facilities to quickly and easily share images and information with any authorized physician. This facilitates obtaining secondary opinions from specialists and sharing diagnoses with referring physicians.

Healthcare providers can also use the portal to allow patients to securely access their own medical information. Carestream’s fully featured PACS and vendor-neutral archiving cloud services allow providers to achieve affordable and predictable costs while ensuring business continuity and security.

The archiving service delivers consolidated data storage and management solution for any data type, regardless of vendor. It converts proprietary image data into a vendor-neutral format that preserves data integrity and streamlines data sharing among authorized users and facilities.

For more information: www.carestream.com

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