February 29, 2008 – Radiation oncologists, radiation medical physicists and surgical oncologists at The James Cancer Hospital and the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center are teaching Chinese doctors how to use a portable electron-beam linear accelerator to deliver high-dose radiation to cancer patients during surgery, this month as part of a scholarly exchange with China.

February 29, 2008 - Agfa HealthCare, InterComponentWare (ICW) and Sun Microsystems joined the Open eHealth Foundation, a system working to improve the open standards-based exchange of medical information by providing software components under an Open Source license.

Philips' cardiovascular IT solution, the enhanced Xcelera solution is an integrated multimodality solution reportedly provides one access point for all relevant cardiology information, such as cardiovascular ultrasound, CT, MR, nuclear medicine, ECGs and electrophysiology recording signals, as well as long-term storage and enterprise distribution of multimedia studies.

Remote CardiacIT Administrator, available on syngo Dynamics Server or Acom.Net, is a server maintenance package designed to ensure servers stay up and running.

Philips' Essence technology is a combination of X-ray tube, detector system and reconstruction design elements designed to improve image quality of CT exams.

The new Brilliance 64 with Essence technology is designed for all routine radiological imaging including cardiac CT. Brilliance iCT offers 256 slices and high speed, X-ray tube power, coverage and efficient dose utility, said Philips.

February 28, 2008 - Veridex LLC said the FDA has granted an expanded clearance for the CellSearch System to be used as an aid in the monitoring of metastatic prostate cancer (MPC) patients.

The CellSearch System currently is cleared for monitoring metastatic breast and metastatic colorectal cancer patients.

February 28, 2008 - GE Healthcare IT will collaboration with Intel Corporation and Motion Computing on a mobile computing solution designed to eliminate the manual collection of patient vital sign data.

Slated for deployment at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, the goal is to provide nurses with a mobile workflow that incorporates the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant from Intel into vital sign collection using Centricity Enterprise in-patient electronic medical record (EMR) software and GE Healthcare's DINAMAP patient monitoring devices.

February 28, 2008 – Halifax Biomedical selected IDC’s X1590 as the DR component for an imaging product suite currently under development for conducting orthopaedic clinical trials for Roentgen Steriophotogrametric Analysis (RSA), hoping to create a system that will measure the stability of orthopaedic implants to a fraction of a millimeter.

The company, under a Canadian federal grant, will interface its calibration technology with IDC’s DR system and analytical software from Medis Specials of Holland, aiming to create the first standardized, fully digital RSA suite.

February 28, 2008 – Effective Feb. 25, 2008, Jim Zierick joined the Aspyra team as interim Chief Executive Officer, a 25-year veteran of the technology field, and most recently the Chief Executive Officer of LogicalApps, a provider of embedded controls software for enterprise applications based in Irvine, CA.

While performing his new duties as interim CEO, Zierick will also remain a director of Aspyra, and in turn James R. (Skip) Helms, who took on the Chief Operating Officer role in Nov. 2007, will return to his role as Chief Operations Officer.

February 28, 2008 - Matrox Graphics recently introduced new features to its Xenia PCI Express boards, each Xenia and Xenia Pro native PCIe x16 single-slot board now reportedly drive up to three high-resolution digital displays, working to cut down the time it takes to install, configure and deploy radiology and PACS workstations.

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