May 27, 2008 - The largest hospital in Brazil, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, selected Barco’s PACS display systems to replace its existing film-based radiology workflow, as part of an overall project to improve image visualization and diagnosis.

May 27, 2008 - Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, University of Michigan Health System and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences selected the eHealthConnect service to streamline medical records management in the solid organ transplant departments within each facility.

May 27, 2008 - Varian Medical Systems and Still River Systems entered into a partnership to develop an interface between Varian's ARIA Oncology Information System and Still River's Monarch250 Proton Beam Radiotherapy (PBRT) System, to allow cancer centers to integrate proton therapy within their existing radiation therapy practices.

May 23, 2008 - At the annual “workstation” challenge held during the Stanford International Symposium on Multidetector Row CT, Claudio Smuclovisky, M.D., highlighted the flexible capabilities of the Philips Brilliance Everywhere Workstation and the thin-client Portal platforms.

A cardiac CT specialist, Dr. Smuclovisky, director, South Florida Medical Imaging Cardiovascular Institute, presented all four cases, reportedly affirming Philips ease of use across a variety of complex clinical applications.

May 23, 2008 - ECRI Institute has created a new online resource devoted to medical device reuse issues.

The free site, www.ecri.org/device_reuse/Pages/infection.aspx, provides access to a select number of guidance articles from ECRI Institute’s research library. The site includes recommended practices, as well as policy and procedure development tools on patient communication and device reuse issues.

May 23, 2008 - Sponsored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and its Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, the Fall TRENDS in Critical Care Nursing conference and exhibition is one of the largest programs of its kind in the U.S.

May 23, 2008 - Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new, single-exposure imaging tool that can be used to improve point-of-care medical and forensic imaging by empowering front line clinicians with no specialized training to detect and assess, in real time, the severity of bruises and erythema, regardless of patient skin pigmentation or available lighting.

May 23, 2008 - Agfa HealthCare and Amirsys recently said they would integrate Amirsys’ STATdx Radiologist Decision Support system with Agfa’s IMPAX PACS solution.

STATdx, one of the first point-of-care Diagnostic Decision Support systems for imaging, is designed to support the busy practicing radiologist by increasing speed and diagnostic confidence in complex cases.

May 23, 2008 – A new study is in search of establishing whether high-doses of the chemotherapy drug temozolomide after radiotherapy can provide better outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed malignant glioma, and if this is a possible consideration for Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and other patients with this type of brain tumor.

May 23, 2008 - Viztek has an exclusive agreement with advanced digital X-ray provider CMT Medical Technologies for the U. S. distribution of CMT’s SmartRAD family of direct radiography (DR) products.

SmartRAD DR features an integrated flat panel detector delivering superior image quality for both general radiology and orthopedic use. Together, the CMT DR system and Viztek’s proprietary web-based Opal-RAD PACS and Opal-RIS solutions provide a sophisticated digital solution for a wide range of applications.

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