August 6, 2008 — The new Steril-Eze open wire surgical case carts from Eagle MHC feature Eagle’s patented QuadTruss design that reportedly makes the wire shelves up to 25 percent stronger and provides a retaining edge for increased storage stability.

August 6, 2008 – EMC Corp. unveiled the new EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series of midrange storage systems with a new architecture optimized for VMware and other virtual server environments.

The CLARiiON CX4 Series is the latest generation of the CLARiiON family of networked storage systems with new features built-in for virtual server environments – including VMware infrastructure – designed to use less energy, improve storage utilization, performance and management and protect the overall storage investment. These include:

August 6, 2008 - Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. delivered the first Aplio Artida ultrasound system to Iowa Heart Center in Des Moines.

August 6, 2008 - BioNanomatrix Inc., a developer of nanoscale whole genome imaging platforms for genetic diagnostics, personalized medicine and biomedical research, received a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a nanoscale platform for single-molecule haplotyping imaging.

August 6, 2008 - Nexsan, a provider of energy-efficient long-term storage, and GE Healthcare IT have formed a joint alliance to provide systems for capturing, processing, storing and archiving images in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

As part of the agreement, GE Healthcare IT has certified Nexsan’s green storage or energy efficient solutions with its Centricity PACS-IW imaging solution. The certified Nexsan products include the company’s SATA line of high-density storage solutions and Nexsan Assureon, a long-term archiving product.

August 4, 2008 - Intelerad Medical Systems signed a new partnership agreement with peerVue, in a deal in which PeerVue has integrated its qiVue solution with IntelePACS enabling PACS users to address regulatory, quality and communications issues.
The new solution is designed to address challenges involving critical results management, peer review, technologist QC, emergency department discrepancy management and teleradiology discrepancies.

August 4, 2008 - There is no statistically significant difference between iopamidol-370 (Isovue-370) and iodixanol-320 (Visipaque-320) in the rate of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in high-risk patients undergoing CT, according to findings from the PREDICT study.

August 5, 2008 - Through an exclusive marketing agreement with Innovative Orthopedic Technologies Inc., TRUMPF Medical Systems Inc. has announced the ARCH Table Extension will immediately be available through TRUMPF representatives across the U.S. and Canada.

August 5, 2008 - GE Healthcare today released a new pre-clinical computed tomography scanner specifically designed to accelerate research in the areas of cardiac disease and drug development.

By Nick Obradovich

August 5, 2008 - Philips Healthcare has developed a hand-carried cardiac ultrasound with reportedly advanced imaging quality.

The CX50 CompactXtreme hand-carried ultrasound system is set to commercially release in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Philips.

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