October 22, 2009 - The Senate vote yesterday to permanently repeal Medicare's “flawed” Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, in a Motion to Proceed to S. 1776, failed to garner enough support in the Senate yesterday.

October 21, 2009 - GE Healthcare has entered into an agreement to purchase certain assets of ONI Medical Systems, Inc., expanding GE Healthcare's Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) capabilities, offering healthcare professionals a broader range of MRI products to enable more cost-effective imaging procedures in a variety of patient care settings. Financial terms were not disclosed.

October 21, 2009 – ScImage, a leading enterprise imaging and informatics company, received a Class II Medical Devices Licence from Health Canada, which clears ScImage’s Enterprise Imaging Solution, PicomEnterprise, for distribution in Canada.

October 21, 2009 - Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg, a provider of diagnostic and interventional radiology services, recently elected RamSoft’s PowerServer PACS with three Gateway QC Viewers for four of its referring clinics.  

October 21, 2009 - SenoRx today announced that it ranked among the fastest growing companies in Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences and clean technology companies in North America.

October 21, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected Gunnery Sgt. Edward Schrank as its 2009 Survivor Circle Award winner.

Schrank will be presented with his award and $1,000 during the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, during ASTRO's 51st Annual Meeting taking place Nov. 1-5 at McCormick Place West in Chicago.

October 21, 2009 – King Pharmaceuticals Inc. said today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a complete response letter regarding the new drug application (NDA) for its cardiac pharmacologic stress agent CorVue (binodenoson), and the company is working on a response.

October 21, 2009 - Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, unveiled what he called the “stethoscope of the 21st century” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Calif., yesterday.

Immelt held up a smart phone-sized ultrasound system called Vscan. The white gadget with a flip-out screen and a control mechanism looks similar to the old iPod navigation wheel.

October 21, 2009 – Carestream Health Inc. yesterday announced the availability of its new Web-based cardiology PACS that provides an efficient enterprise-wide image and information management solution for cardiology data. The CARESTREAM Cardiology PACS is now available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Italy.

October 21, 2009 - Velocity Medical Solutions, a provider of tools for clinical outcomes, radiation treatment planning and software development for oncology, has introduced a new subscription service designed to quickly provide adaptive radiation therapy to hospitals and radiation oncology centers with minimal up-front capital investment.

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