April 2, 2008 - Kimberly-Clark Health Care yesterday unveiled an expanded surgical products portfolio, including new surgical gowns, drapes and packs, at the 2008 AORN Congress March 30-April 3 in Anaheim, CA.

The company said the new portfolio was due to customers asking for reliable and cost-effective surgical gowns and drapes for use during shorter duration and lower fluid procedures. Kimberly-Clark has organized its gowns, drapes and packs into three performance classes for different types of procedures.

April 2, 2008 - Amicas Inc. partnered with Radiology Imaging Associates (RIA) to allow Amicas to apply its medical image and information management tools as part of RIA’s customer service and outpatient growth initiatives.

In turn, RIA will use the new modular, Web-based technology to customize an integrated scheduling, billing, marketing and tracking system. The partnership includes AMICAS Vision Series RIS, Vision Reach, Insight Dashboards and Vision Series Document Management solutions.

April 2, 2008 - Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital (SPMH) in Kerrville, TX, selected IDC’s X1590 and X2200 direct digital radiography systems for its new, expanded medical facility, to improve X-ray throughput .

According to the hospital, SPMH originally selected IDC to improve the productivity of capturing of X-rays because of the hospital’s growing number of patients. The new, comprehensive Peterson Regional Medical Center is due to open on April 12, 2008 on a 35-acre campus.

April 2, 2008 – RealVision revealed the new FVT series products at DHIMS 2008, designed for medical imaging applications and based on RealVision Fine View Technology.

FVT 200, used with IT/consumer monitors, works to provide a safe and reliable solution for review station and clinical imaging applications. It adds two additional bits to the native data, and provides 10-bit look-up-tables for each RGB component. This generates in a palette of 1,021 grayscale tones, from which 256 tones can be simultaneously displayed.

April 2, 2008 - The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) said that the recent multi-center study presented Tuesday by Cardiologist James K. Min, M.D., at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago demonstrates that coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) is cost-saving for patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). CCTA is a medical imaging tool that detects CAD without surgery or catheterization within seconds. Dr.