March 5, 2008 – GE brought to NCBC its Signa Vibrant dedicated 1.5T breast MR scanner using HD technology and applications specifically designed for breast MR, including: VIBRANT acquisition, BREASE spectroscopy, integrated CADstream (manufactured by Confirma) and a specially designed breast MR patient table that aims to provide better imaging and improved access for intervention.

March 5, 2008 - Broadwest is showcasing all three models of Mammomask, including the MM4, MM8 and MM12, redesigned to yield uniform viewing surfaces and a high luminance, at NCBC 2008.

The units reportedly measure within a 5 to 10 percent variation (DIN6856 standard) to provide homogeneous viewing conditions for each film whether it is read in the center or at the periphery.

March 5, 2008 - Visage Imaging will debut the latest additions to its Visage thin client solutions portfolio, as well as showcase levels of performance for 2D, 3D and 4D advanced visualization, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria, March 7-10.

March 4, 2008 – MEDRAD sales revenues grew to $525 million in 2007, an increase of 10 percent over the previous year, which is expected to grow further should the merger with Possis be completed.

March 4, 2008 - Hill-Rom introduced an enhanced NaviCare Nurse Call at the 2008 HIMSS conference, the most recent addition to the NaviCare Clinical Operations Platform designed to dramatically enhance caregiver and patient outcomes by supporting improved patient safety, quality of care and operational efficiency.

The company says NaviCare Clinical Operations Platform is designed to allow caregivers the opportunity to return to their patients by improving care delivery processes and minimizing nondirect care tasks through automation and ease of information access and use.

March 3, 2008 - Nova Biomedical said today its StatStrip point-of-care blood glucose monitoring system has received FDA CLIA-waived status so it can be used in point-of-care settings to perform testing under a CLIA certificate of waiver.

March 3, 2008 - Ascent Healthcare Solutions today said ProvSource renewed an exclusive contract enabling its members to save about $6.5 million in supply costs and divert approximately 87 tons of waste from landfills by using Ascent’s single-use medical device (SUD) reprocessing services over the next two years.

From 2001 to 2007, reprocessing saved ProvSource members $11.7 million and eliminated 136 tons of medical waste and $76,400 in disposal costs.

March 4, 2008 – Artromick said last week it entered an exclusive referral agreement with McKesson Automation Inc. making Artromick McKesson’s vendor of choice for hospitals that need point-of-care mobile computing solutions to deliver its CarePoint Connect software.

March 4, 2008 - The Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy System is designed with a miniaturized X-ray source to apply radiation directly to a tumor bed within the body.

Featured at NCBC by Xoft, the Axxent Controller does not require radioactive isotopes or heavy shielding, according to the company. The system reportedly reduces treatment time from seven weeks to five days when compared to whole-breast external-beam radiation. Clinicians can be in the room during the procedure, said Xoft.

For more information: www.xoftinc.com

March 4, 2008 - DR Systems exhibited at NCBC the most recent mammography capabilities for the Unity RIS/PACS platform, including breast imaging, reporting and tracking functions, aiming to provide a complete solution for digital mammography.

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