April 21, 2008 - The Beacon Collaborative, a voluntary affiliation of 39 hospitals in five San Francisco Bay area counties, said today that reductions in the occurrence of two major types of hospital infections between April 1, 2006 and Dec. 31, 2007 saved approximately 194 lives.

The estimate of lives saved is based on a statistical analysis of mortality for ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CL-BSI), two infections that frequently occur in hospital intensive care units.

April 21, 2008 - Ultrasonix Medical Corp. experienced a growth in revenue for Q108, undergoing a 20 percent increase over the same period in 2007, acknowledging its strong growth to new advances on the Sonix OP and Sonix SP systems as well as substantial market growth in the emergency medicine market.

Increased sales for the Sonix OP and Sonix SP platforms can be attributed to a new technology, EPI Extended Pulse Imaging. EPI uses a special signal technology that reportedly improves penetration and maintains image quality in technically difficult patients.

April 21, 2008 - Vitrea software is Vital Images’ advanced visualization solution that creates 2D, 3D and 4D images of human anatomy from CT and MR image data. With this productivity-enhancing tool, physicians can easily navigate within these images to better understand disease conditions. The Vitrea software addresses specialists’ needs through various software options for cardiac, colon, vessel probe and other applications. In addition, Vitrea software utilizes an intuitive clinical workflow and automatic settings to improve speed and simplicity.

April 21, 2008 - InSite One will announce new services that will include tools for rapid recovery of large data sets and solutions to provide business continuance with constant data access to stored exams during an abnormal period of operation whether it is a declared event or natural disaster.

April 21, 2008 - Using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies available at the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC), researchers have been able to identify brain regions linked to Parkinson's disease based on images showing the status of both white and grey matter, according to two studies from the University at Buffalo presented at the 2008 American Academy of Neurology mee

April 21, 2008 - iCRco Inc. installed its digital CR unit at JEM Educational Services in Corona, CA, to better familiarize its students with digital imaging and utilizing a recent law passed to allow X-ray technicians to use the equipment after proper education and authorization.

April 21, 2008 - CMS Inc., an Elekta Company, completed internal and external validation testing for its new Atlas-Based Autosegmentation solution and is applying to the FDA for 510(k) clearance to distribute CMS Atlas-Based Autosegmentation in the U.S. market.

The CAD PRO Advantage digitizer specifically designed for mammography, reportedly provides the ability to quickly digitize film-based prior studies and, when coupled with the appropriate software, uses the DICOM MG standard to identify the specific mammography view contained on each film.

Hologic’s R2 Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions reportedly give users the most sophisticated pattern recognition software to help find cancers with greater certainty at an earlier stage.

R2 technology was the first CAD system approved by the FDA for film-based mammography in 1998 and for digital mammography in 2001, according to the commpany. It is reportedly estimated that more than ten million women had their mammograms interpreted with the aid of R2's CAD technology in the last 12 months.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical will be showcased by Dictaphone, a division of Nauance, at SIIM 2008. The speech recognition system is designed specifically for healthcare organizations, converting speech into text at up to 160 words per minute, automating the input of patient information and eliminating the high cost and long turnaround time associated with the manual transcription of patient notes. The system reportedly delivers up to 99 percent overall accuracy and more than 25 percent improvement over the previous release, including “Roaming User” capability.

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