March 11, 2008 - Södertälje Hospital is the first Swedish hospital to go live with Sectra’s IDS7/dx, a new diagnostic workstation for radiologists and part of the company’s PACS, optimized for distributed reading of radiology images and handling extremely large datasets.

March 11, 2008 – Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. unveiled plans to launch VistaTrak, a contrast media management system that provides a new management tool designed to help enhance patient care and safety, optimize inventory management and improve billing accuracy.

March 10, 2008 - IntraOp Medical Corp. said doctors at Nagoya University Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, are now using the Mobetron to deliver intraoperative electron-beam radiation therapy (IOERT) to breast cancer patients.

March 10, 2008 – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of NEMA, today praised the 88 Members of Congress who urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider its proposed national coverage decision (NCD) that will limit patient access to cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA).

March 11, 2008 - Slots are still available in the "Practical Breast MRI Study Interpretation Using CAD: Hands on Workshop," in the Chicago area on March 29, 2008.

Faculty from the workshop include breast imaging experts from the Lahey Clinic and UCLA, according to The Scienomics Group.

March 11, 2008 - Carestream Health debuted its Kodak Point-of-Care CR 360 System that provides radiology imaging capabilities in a centralized or distributed environment, and can be used on a tabletop or on a Z-cart that enables users to take the equipment to the patient.

Toshiba's Aplio Artida 4D ultrasound system is designed for physicians to quantify global and regional LV function, including LV ejection fraction. The system is also one of the first to track myocardial motion and display myocardial motion in 3D, allowing the user to obtain angle-independent, quantitative and regional information about myocardial contraction. With this imaging system, physicians have the ability to identify wall motion defects and improve Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) using pacemakers.

March 2008

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. offers VistaTrak, a contrast media management system that provides a new management tool designed to help enhance patient care and safety, optimize inventory management and improve billing accuracy.

Carestream Health's Kodak Point-of-Care CR 360 System provides radiology imaging capabilities in a centralized or distributed environment, and can be used on a tabletop or on a Z-cart that enables users to take the equipment to the patient.

The system allow for high-resolution images reportedly with a wide exposure range and low noise, contains new operating software and allows for integration with multiple RIS/PACS systems. Designed for low to mid-volume imaging at hospitals, clinics and physician practices, the system has a throughput of up to 60 35-by-43-cm plates per hour.

March 10, 2008 - Complete Care Medical Inc. released a new sterile catheter and insertion kit, which reportedly includes accessories that will allow patients the ability to perform clean, intermittent self-catheterization more easily.

The catheters are intended to be disposable since urinary track infections and other complications are significantly reduced by sterile single-use catheters compared to reused catheters, said the company.

For more information: www.ccmedicalinc.com

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