We don’t want to underestimate the impact that the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) has had on outpatient and imaging centers, but the bigger story is that the DRA is just one component in an ongoing campaign by Medicare and other payers to try to control the burgeoning growth of imaging services. What is most notable is how other players in the imaging value chain are profiting from these imposed constraints.

July 25, 2008 - InSite One said it added 40 new clients during the first half of 2008, including hospitals, general outpatient imaging centers, cardiology and women's imaging centers, as more facilities outsource archiving and storage management.

The company said this reflects the value of out-sourcing archiving and storage management addresses the challenge of cost control, technology obsolescence, and ensures high availability of clinical information while reducing risks associated with long-term data management.

July 25, 2008 – Intellirad’s Voyager PACS was recently installed at Greenslopes hospital in Brisbane, Australia replacing a large international brand PACS.

The Voyager PACS configuration included PACS Archive, Web server, diagnostic workstations (including Mammography reporting), administration stations, document scanning stations, CD/DVD burning stations, DICOM modality worklist, custom desktop RIS integration and Voyager data migration as a background task.

July 25, 2008 – Imaging Dynamics Company Ltd. (IDC) said The Orthopaedic Institute has purchased three IDC 1600 Plus X-Series DR systems for three of its facilities in Ocala, Lake City and Alachua, FL.

The Orthopaedic Institute is a private practice group of 22 specialty physicians providing the complete spectrum of musculoskeletal care including orthopedic surgery, primary care orthopedics, spine and neurosurgery, hand and upper extremity surgery as well as plastic and reconstructive surgery.

July 25, 2008 - TomoTherapy Inc. said it will introduce TQA at the 50th Annual American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Meeting in Houston, July 27-31, 2008.

July 24, 2008 – Siemens Healthcare will showcase its ARTISTE Solution, a linear accelerator engineered specifically for Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART), in addition to its portfolio of radiation therapy IT solutions at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Houston, July 27-31.

July 24, 2008 - EDDA Technology will launch its new release of IQQA-Liver V1.2, designed to assist physician's assessment of volumetry from liver MDCT, at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) in Denver, CO.

July 24, 2008 - Philips has a new addition to its HD ultrasound family of products, the Philips HD15 ultrasound system, which is designed to provide physicians with high-end imaging and workflow performance in a cost-effective system.

July 24, 2008 - The FDA has granted clearance for GE Healthcare’s newest positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner, which is part of GE’s Discovery family of scanners designed to enable earlier detection and monitoring of disease with advanced molecular imaging technology in both hardware and software.

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