July 24, 2009 - Beekley Corporation and the Beekley Family Foundation donated a one million dollar combined gift to Bristol Hospital to help fund its new comprehensive breast care center.

In recognition of this generous gift to the community, the center will be named The Beekley Center for Breast Health and Wellness at Bristol Hospital.

July 23, 2009 – Konica Minolta Medical Imaging introduced today the FlexDR, an upright, flat panel digital radiography system designed for high-throughput environments.

July 23, 2009 - Elekta will demonstrate how the its comprehensive VMAT solution can help healthcare providers deliver cancer care with precision and ease at the 2009 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting, July 26-30 in Anaheim, Calif.

July 23, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare (booth #711) brings the treatment plan to the patient with the IM-RealART Solution, debuting at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Anaheim, Calif., July 26-30.

July 23, 2009 – Dual-energy CT used as a single examination might be promising for the integrative analysis of the coronary artery morphology and the myocardial blood supply and is in good agreement with angiography and SPECT, according to a study published in this month’s issue of The American Journal of Cardiology (volume 104, issue 3, pages 318-326, August 2009).

July 23, 2009 – The FDA recently cleared Ziehm Imaging’s latest mobile C-arm, the Ziehm Vision RFD, which is designed for use in endovascular surgery, interventional cardiology and interventional radiology.


All of the questions surrounding the stimulus funding and what “meaningful use” really means is enough to give anyone a HITECH headache. On June 16, the Meaningful Use Workgroup released the definition of “meaningful use” in the “Meaningful Use Matrix.”* I thought they wanted to reduce redundancy. The definition included medical imaging in a couple of places.

July 23, 2009 - The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) is changing its name to World Health Imaging, Telemedicine and Informatics Alliance (WHITIA) and expanding its mission to include bringing access to highly-trained medical professionals and the use of health informatics to help improve healthcare delivery in the developing world. Additionally, WHITIA announced that Newton N.

July 23, 2009 – Advanced visualization and analysis software company Ziosoft Inc. released the latest version of its 3D thin-client software, adding MR cardiac and CT cardiac function applications.

The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and its impact on radiology is foremost on the minds of everyone in healthcare.
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