October 22, 2009 - FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA is pleased to announce that the American College of Radiology (ACR), Reston, VA, has implemented the company’s Synapse™ PACS® at its multi-million dollar ACR Education Center.

October 22, 2009 - Sectra, a Swedish IT and medical-techology company, signed a distribution agreement with Attieh Medico, a leading medical technology company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to distribute Sectra’s medical systems in Saudi Arabia.

The agreement includes all of Sectra’s products within medical systems, including Sectra MicroDose Mammography and Sectra PACS.

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.

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