June 18, 2009 - A leading Danish cancer hospital has treated its first patient using RapidArc radiotherapy after installing eight advanced radiotherapy treatment machines from Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, Calif. Herlev Hospital, to the northwest of Copenhagen, delivered the fast and efficient RapidArc treatment to a prostate cancer patient using a Clinac iX linear accelerator.

June 18, 2009 – CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, N.J., has purchased two new state-of-the-art Elekta radiation therapy treatment systems, both with Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT), making it the first site in the world to have both Elekta Axesse and Elekta Infinity

June 19, 2009 – Wooster Community Hospital of Wooster, Ohio, has signed a five-year agreement Sectra will supply PACS products and direct service and support to Wooster Community Hospital, a 150 bed full-service acute care hospital offering a complete range of inpatient and outpatient services across multiple facilities.

June 18, 2009 – GE Healthcare this week launched its Stimulus Simplicity program, which offers healthcare providers interest-free loans with deferred payments to purchase electronic medical records (EMRs) and a certification warranty to ensure the EMRs will meet any guidelines set for meaningful use.

June 18, 2009 - Orthocrat released Version 2.2 of TraumaCad, a workflow solution from planning to surgery to follow-up for orthopedic surgeons.

Version 2.2 improved features for streamlining the process of templating and surgery planning. Tighter integration with OrthoFlow and OrthoWeb aim to help move cases easily within the clinic and into the operating room.

June 18, 2009 - Shipments of the CARESTREAM DRX-1 System, the industry’s first wireless, cassette-size digital radiography (DR) detector are now underway.

June 18, 2009 - Hologic Inc. has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its R2 DigitalNow HD software, an application designed to process digitized screen-film mammograms for comparison purposes. The product is now available worldwide.

June 17, 2009 - Sanford Children’s Hospital is the first children’s facility in the U.S. to offer new CT technology to patients that significantly reduces a child’s radiation exposure during a CT scan.

June 17, 2009 – Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals Inc. presented clinical data on a radiolabeled, small-molecule molecular imaging pharmaceutical in development for diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) in Toronto.


June 16, 2009 - “Our profession faces one of the most significant crises in its history,” said Michael Graham, M.D., the new president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), as he addressed a room packed with national and international press, hungry for accountability and solutions to the shortage of nuclear medicine radioisotopes.
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