April 15, 2008 – Swedish-based NOLabs AB today said it has achieved an important milestone in the development of a new preventive therapy against urinary tract infection (UTI) using nitric oxide-containing medical devices.

April 15, 2008 - Royal Philips Electronics recently said it reached an agreement with the shareholders of Shenzhen Goldway Industrial Inc. to acquire the Chinese patient monitor manufacturer.

The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2008, upon which Goldway will become part of the patient monitoring business within Philips’ Healthcare.

April 15, 2008 – Candelis received 510(k) marketing clearance for its ImageGrid Mammography Web Viewer and ImageGrid Radiology Web Viewer, both now part of the ImageGrid RIS/PACS appliance technology suite, providing diagnostic tools aiming to provide access to medical imaging studies from anywhere and at any time to improve patient care.

April 15, 2008 - Siemens said it has expanded its clinical education offerings with the opening of the Siemens Healthcare Training Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Through an educational partnership with the University of Utah’s Department of Radiology, under the direction of Steve Stevens, M.D., Siemens can now offer its customers more opportunities to expand their clinical experience and develop their technical skills with Siemens latest imaging technologies.

April 15, 2008 - Merge Healthcare released its new stand-alone scanning solution, eFilm Scan 2.0, created to scan conventional medical films using third-party digitizers, and able to work without the eFilm Workstation desktop DICOM viewer.

April 15, 2008 - The new 3MP (CCL354i2), 2MP (CCL254i2) color LCDs built for mammography have a maximum luminance of 800cd/m (3MP) and 950cd/m respectively and reportedly reproduce accurately monochrome images with the same quality as monochrome LCDs.

The new LCDs are designed to stand up to the increasing usage of concurrent monochrome and color medical images, working to provide greater benefits to users by enhancing user convenience while reducing costs. The CCL352i2 has a luminance compensation feature designed to provide edge-to-edge consistency.

Intelerad will demonstrate the latest release of IntelePACS at SIIM 2008. The latest performance boosters to the system bring new benefits including speed enhancements and improved streaming capabilities for handling the increasing size of imaging studies, an optimized RIS gateway to handle multiple HL7 feeds to and from different systems or facilities and the IntelePACS Report Generation and Distribution module with optional integration to InteleDictation or your preferred voice recognition package.

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.

InSite One will debut 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.

Candelis Inc. will showcase its recently FDA cleared ImageGrid Mammography Web Viewer and ImageGrid Radiology Web Viewer, which are now part of the ImageGrid RIS/PACS Appliance technology suite, at SIIM 2008.

The ImageGrid RIS/PACS Appliance is designed to be a cost-effective, comprehensive medical image management and workflow solution, offering a fully integrated solution on a single hardware platform.

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