May 16, 2008 – GE said at SIIM 2008, that the company will partner with M*Modal, incorporating M*Modal’s advanced speech technology, AnyModal Conversational Documentation Services (CDS), as part of GE’s Centricity RIS-IC Reporting module, aiming to transition the industry from speech recognition to speech understanding.

May 16, 2008 - Konica Minolta introduced at SIIM, the ImagePilot CR, a new concept that provides an integrated digital imaging acquisition, review and storage solution specifically for physician clinics, aiming to simplify image acquisition.

May 16, 2008 – The FDA cleared FUJI’s newest CR system, the FCR GO portable digital X-ray system, designed to provide remote users with all of the same functionality and image processing features available at the fixed technologist workstation and FCR digital X-ray cassette reader in the imaging department.

May 16, 2008 – GE and AMIRSYS entered into a partnership, introducing AMIRSYS’ STATdx diagnostic decision support to the GE Centricity RIS-IC, to allow healthcare organizations to grow their image-based procedural medicine businesses through improved patient and physician access, streamlined workflow and reporting to the referring physician community.

Pedigo’s full-function 540 Stretcher is both versatile and economical. It features a patient a weight capacity of 500 pounds, full perimeter bumper, hydraulic height adjustment, 8-inch casters, and four corner IV pole positions. The 540 is also latex-free.

Pedigo’s ergonomically-designed task chairs, the T-580 and the T-581, both feature pneumatic height adjustment, duel wheel casters, a five-star base, integrated lumbar support, and independent backrest/seat pan height tilt controls. The difference between the two models is one has armrests and the other does not.

May 2008

Pedigo’s iStand has an adjustable height range of 69 to 124 inches and features a stainless steel pole, hooks and bag drop prevention device. The iStand weighs 27 pounds and has a low-profile base. It is sturdy enough to safely support several infusion pumps and monitors, the company said.

InnerSpace launched its System 100, which uses embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and biometric security access to track and account for high-cost clinical supplies in real time.

Konica Minolta introduced the ImagePilot CR, a new concept that provides an integrated digital imaging acquisition, review and storage solution specifically for physician clinics, aiming to simplify image acquisition.

May 15, 2008 - New research conducted at Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego shows that the SAVI breast brachytherapy applicator, a new approach for delivering accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI), may provide better protection of healthy tissue than other partial breast irradiation methods.

The research team, led by Catheryn Yashar, M.D., assistant professor and chief of breast and gynecological services in the UC San Diego Department of Radiation Oncology, presented study results at the recent 2008 World Congress of Brachytherapy.

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