July 23, 2008 – Logical Images Inc.’s VisualDx 6.0, a browser-only diagnostic decision support system, is now available.

VisualDx 6.0 aims to offer healthcare providers real-time point-of-care access to clinical information and more than 16,000 medical images presenting diseases in variation of severity, skin type, age and passage of time. The new browser architecture improves accessibility and gives clinicians fast, convenient access to visual diagnostic decision support.

Canon U.S.A. Inc. has expanded its line of digital radiography (DR) systems with the introduction of the Canon CXDI-60G Portable Flat Panel Detector, the company’s ninth-generation flat panel detector, which now includes room-to-room installations, mobile X-ray systems and more.

July 22, 2008 - A new mammography module for the KODAK CARESTREAM Radiology Information System (RIS) is reportedly improving mammography screening administration in three of Denmark’s five regions, as the Danish Government aims for full mammography screening to be available across the country by the end of 2008.

July 22, 2008 - Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will contract with McKesson Corp. for the use of InterQual Criteria to review clinical appropriateness decisions for Medicare recipients, marking the ninth year CMS has contracted McKesson for the solution.

The agreement means CMS-contracted Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) will continue to use InterQual products. Enhanced solutions and services will help to broaden the use of the criteria across the QIOs.

July 22, 2008 - Doctors at Melbourne Internal Medical Associates (MIMA) Cancer Center have become the first in Florida to treat cancer using RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems and to use this technology to deliver stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in the treatment of soft tissue carcinoma.

A 72-year-old man with Merkel cell carcinoma was treated for a soft tissue tumor in his thigh, which had developed close to where a similar tumor had been treated with conventional radiotherapy six months earlier.

July 22, 2008 – Lake Forest Hospital has renewed its agreement with Emageon Inc. until 2013 to provide its PACS, marking Emageon’s longest-standing PACS customer.

The hospital has used the ECM (Enterprise Content Management), viewing software (Advanced Visualization) and professional services to enhance delivery of patient care and improve physician productivity.

For additional information: www.lakeforesthospital.com and www.emageon.com.

July 22, 2008 - Barco won a notable order for its Coronis Fusion 6MP DL diagnostic display system under a PACS installation project in the Beatrix Hospital in Gorinchem, the Netherlands, as part of a larger PACS installation program carried out by Philips Healthcare.

July 22, 2008 — Carestream Health reported that its newest PACS platform that contains upgrades to its native and integrated advanced clinical applications is now available worldwide.
These optional advanced clinical applications provide substantive workflow advantages since on-site and remote users can access applications from a single unified virtual desktop. This eliminates the need for facilities to purchase and maintain multiple systems, while users gain added productivity since they don’t need to travel between several dedicated workstations.

July 22, 2008 – Wellness Lubbock, a facility dedicated to women’s imaging, installed the fifth Aurora 1.5Tesla Dedicated Breast MRI System in the state of Texas, marking the first dedicated breast MRI in Lubbock County and supporting the most recent American Cancer Society guideline, which recommends breast MRIs for women at high risk of breast cancer.

July 21, 2008 - Loftware Inc. officially debuted its new online community designed to advance the global understanding and speedier implementation in the healthcare industry of an emerging global standard for product identification and labeling.

The new site, called The Loftware Blog on GS1 and Healthcare, at www.loftwareblog.com, features information, news analysis, strategic insights and leading industry views from Loftware and third parties on the subject of GS1.

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