October 2, 2008 - InSite One signed a multi-year agreement with VHA Inc., the national healthcare alliance, to provide medical digital archiving, storage and disaster recovery services to VHA member hospitals across the nation.

Through this agreement member hospitals will reportedly save money by using InSite One’s InDex managed suite of services to support archiving, storage and disaster recovery in their diagnostic imaging departments.

October 2, 2008 - In a study that used Hologic’s R2 computer-aided detection (CAD) system, researchers found that “Single reading with computer-aided detection could be an alternative to double reading and could improve the rate of detection of cancer from screening mammograms read by a single reader.”

October 1, 2008 – TomoTherapy Inc. maker of the Hi·Art treatment system for advanced radiation therapy, today announced plans to enhance the remote service and diagnostics capabilities of its customer support program.

October 1, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. has entered into a global licensing agreement with Royal Philips Electronics to provide the latter’s speech recognition platform with Microsoft Amalga Family of Health Enterprise Systems.

October 2, 2008 – The American College of Radiology is offering a radiology education program – the “Classroom of the Future” - on topics such as coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and CT colonography (CTC) using 11 different imaging systems.

ScImage provides a mammography workflow solution that features MQSA-compliant archiving, patient letter creation for various exam statuses and statistical reporting for various patient procedure statuses. It delivers the required tools to track all positive and incomplete mammography exams to completion.

Software version 3.1 of DeJarnette Research Systems Inc.'s xDL - Cross-enterprise Document Librarian sees application in regional archive settings requiring sophisticated document sharing capabilities. xDL also sees application in MTF “vendor neutral” archive solutions and offsite storage gateway applications.

A combined RIS/PACS solution for the North American market from Sectra is geared toward customers who have demands to deliver radiology services across several institutions and/or communicate between several healthcare providers.

Vitrea software is Vital Images’ advanced visualization solution that creates 2D, 3D and 4D images of human anatomy from CT and MR image data, allowing physicians to navigate within these images to better understand disease conditions. Vitrea addresses specialists’ needs through various software options for cardiac, colon, vessel probe and other applications.

Del Medical will sell and market New Medical Imaging of China’s Gemini family of full-field, portable DR flat panels in the Americas. The Gemini DR flat panels are designed to be a cost-effective upgrade option that allows healthcare providers to take the next step in digital radiography, while maintaining their current equipment. Gemini flat panels are easily integrated into Del’s tables, which allows existing customers to upgrade or field retrofit their digital imaging systems.

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