September 30, 2010 — A Vision 2015 plan outlines Philips’ strategy to strengthen its leadership in the domain of health and well-being in the next five years. It builds on Vision 2010 gains; focuses on fueling growth, increasing brand preference and leadership in key markets, including healthcare.

September 30, 2010 – After a year-long beta period of end-user testing and feedback, OmniPACS 1.0 has been released. The updated program is designed to permit faster and more efficient data sharing with selected members of the user’s online contact list.

September 30, 2010 – New angiography navigation tools for structural heart cases were shown by GE Healthcare during last week's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 symposium.

September 30, 2010 — October 1, a special opening bell ceremony at the NASDAQ Stock Exchange will take place to mark the start of breast cancer awareness month.

September 29, 2010 – Medisys Health Group Inc., one of Canada’s leading providers of healthcare services with 18 advanced imaging centers nationwide, is upgrading three of its facilities to a new digital radiography system. Key considerations included image quality, technical stability, compact design, affordability and service.

September 29, 2010 — A 51-year-old breast cancer patient from Switzerland has become the first person in the world to be treated using Gated RapidArc, which makes it possible to monitor patient breathing and compensate for tumor motion while quickly delivering radiotherapy during a continuous rotation around the patient.

September 29, 2010 — A new technology alliance is designed to enable healthcare professionals to securely and affordably access, share, transmit and store global diagnostic images and studies.

September 29, 2010 — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Salisbury, N.C., has installed a new dual-detector digital imaging system incorporating the Canon CXDI-40G and CXDI-50G digital receptors. The college is an open-door, comprehensive learning-centered institution of higher education serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus counties.

September 29, 2010 – Wheatland Memorial Healthcare, Harlowton, Mont., is the latest critical access hospital to turn its Diagnostic Imaging Department into a state-of-the-art digital facility with new Web-based picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) technology.

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