March 14, 2011 – Siemens Healthcare and the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) have entered into a group purchasing organization (GPO) agreement. As a result of the agreement, CHCA owners will have greater access to Siemens pediatric-specific medical imaging technologies for their hospitals and pediatric healthcare delivery systems.

March 14, 2011 – Two of the most advanced tools for precise radiotherapy-based treatment are now under one roof in Seattle. Swedish Medical Center this month became the first facility in the Pacific Northwest – and one of only a handful in North America – to open a unit that incorporates both CyberKnife and Gamma Knife technologies.

March 14, 2011 – The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) in Madison, Wis., will soon become one of the first oncology research centers to acquire a radiotherapy system from ViewRay. The research radiation therapy system features a combination of radiotherapy delivery and simultaneous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

March 14, 2011 – A vascular graft for hemodialysis access has received the CE mark. The Gore Propaten vascular graft, from W.L. Gore and Associates, utilizes a covalent bonding technology to adhere heparin to the graft surface.

March 11, 2011 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting referring physicians of poor quality reads on mammography exams at Huntington Radiology in Huntington Park, Calif.

March 11, 2011 - The prospect of increasing radiation therapy treatment speed using dynamic, arc-based radiation therapy is capturing the imagination of Indian clinicians, if Vivek Mehta’s recent experience is any indication.


Medical device companies spend around $1 million at the front end of every device development project to get to a product concept that they want to take to market. Some vendors spend it better than others, according to Sagentia, a company that works with device vendors to develop new technologies, products and services.

March 11, 2011 – Recently, refining and recycling companies have questioned whether or not X-ray shredding was required under the HITECH bill. Some companies were mistakenly reporting that shredding was necessary in order to fully destroy the materials. As a result, hospital and healthcare organizations were spending extra money on this service, when it turned out to be unnecessary.

March 11, 2011 – Infinitt has signed a three-year contract extension to provide picture archiving and communications system (PACS) solutions for The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NUTH). The organization is one of the largest National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in the United Kingdom.

March 11, 2011 – U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. today reached agreement on a phase 3 clinical trial design to assess myocardial perfusion using flurpiridaz F18 positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD).

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