May 9, 2008 – DR Systems will be demonstrating its approach to integrating digital mammography into its Unity RIS/PACS, at the American College of Radiology’s 33rd National Conference on Breast Cancer, held from May 8-10 in Orlando, FL.
Nearly 50 facilities nationwide have adopted, or are in the process of adopting, DR Systems’ integration of PACS and digital mammography, said the company.

May 9, 2008 - Siemens Medical Solutions was named winner of the 2008 VHA Service Excellence Award for Supplier of the Year.

VHA Inc. is a national healthcare provider alliance of more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 21,000 non-acute healthcare organizations.

Candidates for the award are recommended and selected based upon their sales interactions with VHA members, overall customer satisfaction and responsiveness to VHA staff and members, as well as contract administration compliance criteria.

May 9, 2008 - InnerSpace launched 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.

May 9, 2008 - STERIS Corp. this week launched its first Class 6 products, the Verify SixCess Steam Emulating Indicators and Test Packs, which are monitoring devices that provide faster final reads to allow the immediate release of all loads and all items within the load.

May 9, 2008 - This week at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Baxter Healthcare Corp. displayed its needleless V-Link Luer-activated device (LAD), an IV connector containing VitalShield, a silver-ion antimicrobial coating.

May 9, 2008 – Alegent Health this week won MEDSEEK’s second annual eHealth Award for outstanding performance in utilizing eHealth Web technologies to improve consumer-directed care.

The award was presented to Jackie Goss, operations director for e-health innovation and development at Alegent, during MEDSEEK’s eighth Annual eHealth Client Congress in Memphis, TN May 5.

May 9, 2008 - Amerinet Choice, the private label brand of Amerinet Inc., has added Fukuda Denshi to its comprehensive portfolio of contracts through a three-year agreement that will provide cost-savings opportunities to Amerinet members on the Fukuda Denshi co-labeled provider of bedside, telemetry transport and central station monitoring solutions.

Amerinet is one of the largest group purchasing organizations (GPO) in the U.S. with more than 26,000 facilities utilizing their members’ combined purchasing power to secure the best pricing on capital equipment and supplies.

May 12, 2008 - Fovia Medical Inc. has introduced its next- generation thin-client High Definition Volume Rendering technology, and will be demonstrating its enterprise 3D solution at SIIM 2008.

Fovia’s scalable, CPU-based HDVR architecture enables users to take full advantage of multicore processors and 64-bit architecture, thereby dramatically boosting performance and allowing interactive HDVR of the largest datasets generated by today’s medical imaging equipment.

May 9, 2008 – Philips launched the new Xcelera R2.2, the latest version of its Xcelera multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution, offering improved support for imaging studies and data from key cardiac subspecialties including cardiac catheterization and cardiovascular ultrasound, and additionally supports nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI and electrophysiology.

May 9, 2008 – The FDA approved Covidien’s contrast delivery system with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, integrating the technology to create a system that is designed to enhance patient safety by reducing the risk of medical errors in radiology departments.

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