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.

GE Healthcare’s newest positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner 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.

July 23, 2008 – Siemens recently announces that its SOMATOM Emotion 16-slice CT has achieved its 6,000th installation at the newly opened Portsmouth Imaging Center of Newport Hospital in Rhode Island – making the SOMATOM Emotion the most popular CT system in the world based on system sales, according to the company.

July 23, 2008 - Dang Orthopedics uses computational modeling and mathematical simulation to study the biomechanics of surgery.

Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the New England Musculoskeletal Institute at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Dang Orthopedics is studying the biomechanics of the spine and shoulder through realistic mathematical representations of human anatomy.

July 23, 2008 – 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 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.

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