March 12, 2008 - Doctors at Nagoya University Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, are using the Mobetron, self-shielding linear accelerator to deliver intraoperative electron-beam radiation therapy (IOERT) to breast cancer patients, reportedly offering improved physiological and psychological benefits.

March 12, 2008 - Acceleware Corp. launched its AxRecon image reconstruction solution created to reduce the time it takes for image reconstruction of CT scanners, reportedly from hours to minutes, this week at ECR 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

March 12, 2008 - Merge Healthcare released an imaging informatics solution, eFilm RIS/PACS, created for small imaging centers and specialty practices to acquire basic RIS/PACS functionality, featuring eFilm Workstation desktop imaging software.

March 12, 2008 - Siemens will showcase its latest ultrasound technologies, focusing on its ACUSON S2000, ACUSON X300 and the laptop-based ACUSON P50 echocardiography system, at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), March 12-15, in San Diego, CA.

March 12, 2008 - i3Archive Inc., National Digital Medical Archive Inc. and InSite One Inc. have agreed to dismiss all claims and counterclaims regarding invalid patents of InSite One Inc.

The litigation, sparking in Oct. 2006, read that i3Archive Inc. and National Digital Medical Archive Inc., filed action against InSite One seeking a Declaratory Judgment that clams of the company’s U.S. Patent No. 6,574,742 are invalid and not infringed. InSite One later filed its response including an Answer, Affirmative Defenses and Counterclaim.

March 12, 2008 - Carestream Health Inc. signed contracts for its digital mammography solutions with mammography providers worldwide, a set of solutions that includes special functionality for its RIS/PACS platforms, multimodality breast imaging workstations, CR-based mammography systems, CAD for CR and film-based mammography and laser imagers, said the company.

The following healthcare providers are among those that have placed new orders:

March 12, 2008 – Philips has developed a repair and tracking system for mobile diagnostic imaging systems, the Philips Remote Services (PRS) for mobiles, using global positioning system (GPS) location technology, Internet data connectivity and standard voice service to diagnose and potentially repair imaging equipment remotely.

ScImage’s Web server based Enterprise PACS, PicomEnterprise, employs a single database to organize, categorize, store and distribute exam specific information from multiple departments. This data can be in the form of DICOM and non-DICOM images, clinical reporting, physician dictation, ECG waveforms and even jpeg photos or mpeg videos.

Many of the newer model beds and stretchers use frames and drive mechanisms within a few inches of the floor, which means traditional mobile patient lifts can be difficult to use because their legs are too high to extend under these beds, so Liko introduced the new Golvo 7007 LowBase model lift.

The company says it circumvents the problem with lower beds and stretchers using a lower total leg height, including wheels, of only 2 1/3 inches.

March 11, 2008 - Citizens Memorial Healthcare in Bolivar, MO and St. Agnes Healthcare in Baltimore recently received the prestigious Stage 6 Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption recognition from HIMSS Analytics.

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