March 6, 2009 – To remain competitive during these uncertain economic times, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is forging ahead with plans to replace its legacy revenue management systems with McKesson’s comprehensive, end-to-end solution, Horizon Enterprise Revenue Management.
March 6, 2009 - Hologic has received a final order for 14 Selenia digital mammography systems with service contracts from Hologic's dealer in The Netherlands - a deal in which Hologic has sold a total of 65 mammography systems.
March 6, 2009 – At the ECR congress, Barco unveiled an upgraded version of the Nio Color 3MP diagnostic display system, featuring a high-bright LCD panel.
March 5, 2009 - The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX) will add Elekta's Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion, an advanced radiosurgery device specifically designed to treat one or more lesions in the head in a single session, to their radiation oncology department.
March 5, 2009 - The Aevresis Diagnostic Center in Nicosia, Cyprus, has chosen to digitize their mammography operations with the Sectra MicroDose Mammography from Sectra as it converts to digital and selects a mammography system with lower dose levels.
The system was sold by Proton S.A, Sectra’s new distribution partner for Greece and Cyprus.
March 5, 2009 – The U.S. FDA is notifying healthcare professionals and patients that certain transdermal patches (medicated patches applied to the skin), containing aluminum or other metals in the backing of the patches, can overheat during an MRI scan and cause skin burns in the immediate area of the patch.
March 5, 2009 - Rogan-Delft, reportedly the first PACS company in the world and the winner of several Frost & Sullivan Awards, said they have developed the Rogan View Pro-X viewing solution for the Totoku Independent Sub-pixel Drive (ISD) technology.
March 5, 2009 – Fifty patients who have undergone stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) at Temple University have doubled their chances of surviving early stage lung cancer - and without the conventional radiation regimen or surgery.
March 5, 2009 - TomTec is showcasing its brand-new CardioArena multimodality workstation for Cardio PACS during the upcoming ECR conference in Vienna, Austria.
The CardioArena platform is a commercially available solution for 2D, 3D, and 4D imaging data. It serves multimodality platform for all major medical imaging modalities such as ultrasound, MRI and cathlab.
