July 16, 2009 - GE Healthcare today introduced its Innova Dose Reports, a service for centers that operate the Innova interventional X-ray systems. The system’s InSite broadband connection to GE remotely collects critical information on procedure utilization, views, dose usage per procedure and dose utilization trends during a given month.

July 15, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc., a developer of imaging processing technology, decision support and 3D visualization solutions, appointed of Dr. TieCheng “TC” Zhao, Ph.D. as vice president of engineering to lead TeraRecon’s engineering team into the next great wave of innovation.

July 15, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology has published a consensus statement outlining patient selection criteria and best practices for the use of accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) outside the context of a clinical trial in the July 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO.

July 15, 2009 - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) released a statement saying it is pleased to see President Obama has nominated Regina Benjamin, M.D., MBA, to be the next Surgeon General of the United States.

July 15, 2009 - GE Healthcare partnered with Medicalis, a provider of clinical decision support for diagnostic imaging (CDS-DI), to help drive quality healthcare and reduce unnecessary imaging procedures and costs.

July 14, 2009 – The Electronic Health Records Association (EHR Association) made specific recommendations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on measurable criteria for achieving "meaningful use" of EHRs, as called for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

July 14, 2009 - ACRIN has developed a qualification procedure for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners at participating institutions designed to check the basic system calibrations and to verify that the clinical image quality is adequate for semiquantitative analysis of PET data, reported a paper published online in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 50, No. 7, on June 12, 2009. 

July 14, 2009 - Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian announced today that its Breast Care Center, one of the most advanced breast care centers in Southern California, has been recognized by the National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) as a Certified Quality Breast Center.

July 14, 2009 - Researchers detected amyloid beta plaques with a diameter of less than 30 µm in a mouse brain by doing CT diffraction-enhanced imaging, according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., and the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

July 14, 2009 – Standard Imaging Inc. recently released QA BeamChecker Plus Communication software version 2.2, a free upgrade to its current application, adding rotational QA functionality to assist users in maintaining consistent output of their treatment machines.

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