April 23, 2009 - To help medical informatics professionals stay competitive, the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will provide tools and two intensive "bootcamp" courses at the SIIM 2009 Annual Meeting, June 4-7, Charlotte, NC.

April 23, 2009 -- INFINITT North America, a technology developer in Web-based RIS, PACS, Cardiology PACS and advanced visualization solutions, has won a multi-year contract to implement an enterprisewide PACS solution at St. Joseph's Healthcare System (SJHS) based in Paterson, NJ.

April 23, 2009 — Carestream Health reported that the KODAK CARESTREAM Mammography Workstation has more than 100 healthcare providers worldwide, providing a solution to streamline reading of digital breast exams.
The workstation is designed to enable diagnostic review of all breast imaging exams (FFDM, ultrasound, MR, CR and others), as well as general radiology exams.

April 23, 2009 - Philips Healthcare has placed the first Achieva 3.0T TX magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, featuring Philips’ MultiTransmit technology that automatically adjusts the RF signal to a specific patient’s anatomy, at Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan, Bonn University in Bonn, Germany and Fletcher Allen in Burlington, Vermont.

April 23, 2009 – OMG, Health Level Seven (HL7), Open Health Tools and the SOA Consortium today announced that The Honorable James B. Peake, M.D., Lieutenant General, USA (Ret), will be the keynote speaker at the Second Annual “SOA in Healthcare: Value in a Time of Change,” conference, held June 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, IL.

April 22, 2009 – There has been a lot of debate as to what the meaning of “meaningful use” is in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the definition will be discussed at the April 28-29 meeting of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Executive Sub-Committee.

April 22, 2009 - Federal agents converged on a medical supply company in Malvern, Chester County late this morning.

The raid began shortly after employees reported for work Wednesday morning. Agents with the Defense Criminal Investigations Service rolled in with a rented box truck. They swarmed into the building with a search warrant and went to work.

April 22, 2009 - Philips introduced SmartArc, an independent technology for volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning solution that can be used with the leading linear accelerators on the market.

April 21, 2009 — 20/20 Imaging said it installed its 100th P-DR 715 digital radiography (DR) system at Arizona Orthopedic Surgical Hospital in Chandler, AZ.

Bruce W. Krell, DPM, FACFAS, practice owner and a solo practitioner, sees up to 125 patients per week and does up to 30 X-rays a day.

April 21, 2009 – In a study in which researchers from the MD Anderson Cancer Centre Orlando, FL, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, conducted an analysis of prostate motion during helical tomotherapy, they concluded that the impact on target dose is actually quite small (Int. J. Rad. Oncol. Biol. Phys. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.09.035).

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