July 16, 2009 -  INFINITT North America, a web-based RIS, PACS and advanced visualization solutions provider, will partner with Great Valley Technologies (GVT) to offer its single-database RIS and PACS with fully-integrated billing capabilities.

July 15, 2009 - Tufts Medical Center of Boston, Mass., recently ordered a RIS/PACS solution from Carestream Health to streamline workflow at the teaching hospital. The medical center also contracted with Carestream Health’s eHealth Managed Services (eMS) for remote disaster recovery.

July 16, 2009 - Principal investigator, radiologist Dr. Alexander Poellinger, and his team of researchers at the Charité, Medical University in Berlin, Germany, will use fluorescent dye to demonstrate an enhancement of the sensitivity and the specificity of diffuse optical tomography in a new a breast cancer imaging study.

July 16, 2009 - Southern California Orthopedic Institute (SCOI) has selected the REGIUS Digital Imaging Suite (RDIS), reported Konica Minolta, as a key component of their conversion to a complete digital solution.

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).

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