August 14, 2009 – Philips is currently introducing its Xcelera R3.1 cardiology informatics system, which has new telecardiology capabilities to support clinical workflow and help provide faster sharing capabilities for cardiac patient information.

Clarity is a family of products designed to enable medical imaging providers to easily and cost-effectively manage digital patient records. The Clarity family of products includes a scalable picture archiving and communication system (PACS), a radiology information system (RIS), integration with electronic medical records (EMR) and tools to access clinical data via mobile devices.

Digital technology has been rapidly adopted in medical imaging, but the information systems used to manage and display imaging data are expensive and complex.

August 14, 2009 — According to Carestream Health Inc., the company is receiving strong worldwide demand for its CARESTREAM DRX-1 System, a wireless, cassette-size digital radiography (DR) detector. The DRX-1 system was demonstrated for attendees at the annual meeting of the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) organization.

August 14, 2009 – Unity Health System-Park Ridge in Rochester, N.Y., upgraded its OB-Windows systems with two OBLinks, providing instant, electronic transmission of patient data from ultrasound systems to Digisonics OB-View/OB-Windows systems eliminating human input error and increasing efficiency.

August 14, 2009 — Carestream Health Inc., debuted a CR cassette with an embedded anti-scatter grid and introduced the latest version of its CR and DR operating software at the annual meeting of the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) organization.

August 13, 2009 - Carestream Health Inc. launched the CARESTREAM PACS, MX-Clinic View, a solution for small practices to review, store and output medical images that provides users with affordable and efficient digital image management.

August 13, 2009 - Biotronics3D Ltd., a leading provider of software technology and services for the diagnostic imaging industry has partnered with Merge Healthcare to introduce three applications from Biotronics3D on download.

August 13, 2009 - The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed disappointment with reports from the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) that the aging nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, which produces most of the medical isotopes for Canada and the United States, will not be back up and running until the spring of 2010.

August 13, 2009 - Sony is focusing on its FilmStation Mammography Film Imager, model UP-DF750 at AHRA 2009 in booth 334/336.

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