March 24, 2008 - Toshiba America Medical Systems installed its 500th Vantage 1.5T MR system at Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) in Pine Bluff, AR, looking to use the system for orthopedic, head and abdomen imaging.

March 24, 2008 – Siemens officially released the new Biograph 40 TruePoint PET-CT system and celebrated the first installation, offering high-definition PET technology designed to provide consistently sharper and clearly defined images across the entire field of view, according to the company.

March 24, 2008 - Midwestern State University awarded iCRco Inc. a multi-unit CR contract, and has already installed two of the new units in the new computed radiography rooms in the laboratory of the radiologic science program.

March 24, 2008 - E-Z-EM Inc. stockholders voted in favor of a merger agreement providing for the acquisition of the company by Bracco Diagnostics Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Bracco Imaging S.p.A and part of the Bracco Group.

March 21, 2008 - The Premier healthcare alliance said yesterday it is expanding its relationship with Alegent Health using the SafetySurveillor in five Nebraska and Iowa hospitals to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and optimize antibiotic use, protecting patients and reducing hospital costs.

Premier said more than 200 hospitals have selected the Web-based system to enhance patient care, making SafetySurveillor one of the most widely adopted infection control solution over the past 12 months.

March 21, 2008 - Drawing on its experience in disease management for Medicaid patients and consumer-based technologies, McKesson recently unveiled its Community Care Advantage, software aimed at improving outcomes while eliminating unnecessary costs to help meet the medical needs of indigent, chronically ill and newly discharged patients.

March 21, 2008 - Florida-based All Children's Hospital recently replaced its first round of mobile computing carts with new wireless mobile clinical workstations from Flo Healthcare.

March 21, 2008 - The FDA gave conditional approval to PLC Systems to begin enrollment in a U.S. pivotal trial to study the effectiveness of RenalGuard Therapy and RenalGuard System in the prevention of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy (CIN).

March 21, 2008 - Cordis Corp. has received 510(k) marketing clearance from the FDA for the S.M.A.R.T. Nitinol Stent Transhepatic Biliary System for lengths of 120 mm and 150 mm, the company reported at the 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting.

March 20, 2008 – The number of CT procedures performed continues to grow despite a slow down in CT system purchases from 2000 to 2008 in the U.S. as CT sites focus on the efficient utilization of their CT equipment, indicated a report by the IMV Medical Information Division.
An estimated 68.7 million CT procedures were performed in 7,640 hospital and non-hospital sites in 2007, said the report. This represents an average annual growth rate of approximately 8 percent since 2003, when an estimated 50.1 million procedures were performed.

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