The tide may finally be turning in the fight against cancer as the decline in cancer deaths nearly doubled from 2002 to 2004, the American Cancer Society reported in October 2007.1 Early diagnosis enabled by digital mammography and breast MRI are currently building the momentum, but new developments in tomosynthesis, cone-beam CT and biomarkers may be the tipping point.

February 7, 2008 - ECRI Institute will serve as an unbiased expert, offering equipment-purchasing clients updated information on the medical equipment, as well as present a technology session and assist on-hand as an expert resource during the upcoming Computed Tomography (CT) Live Group BuyCT, slated for March 26 to March 28 in Dallas, TX.

February 7, 2008 – The Harris Corp., a $4.2 billion technology provider to the government, military and intelligence communities, will officially enter the healthcare IT market at the 2008 HIMSS Conference in Orlando, FL later this month.

February 7, 2008 – BayScribe will launch a new turnkey medical dictation and transcription document reporting workflow solution during the 2008 HIMSS conference in Orlando, FL later this month.

From the makers of Digital Voice, comes BayScribe in a Box, which the company says is a complete fault-tolerant, document reporting system with voice capture, ADT capture, routing, workflow management, transcription, and document delivery as required. The makers say it provides a seamless user experience from dictation to document distribution.

February 7, 2008 – TomoTherapy Inc. completed production of its 200th TomoTherapy Hi·Art treatment system, shipping to the hospital which became Italy’s first to use intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in 2001.

Santa Maria Nuova (SMN) hospital in Reggio Emilia, Italy, reportedly cited higher quality patient treatments and expanded clinical capabilities as reasons for its Hi·Art purchase decision.

February 7, 2008 - The first image-guided intensity modulated arc therapy patient treatment using commercially released product solutions was completed using Elekta Synergy image guided system fitted with the new Elekta linear accelerator control system.

The Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton UK used an Elekta Synergy image guided system fitted with the new Elekta linear accelerator control system in order to deliver volumetric intensity modulated arc therapy (VMAT) to a patient undergoing a course of radiation therapy treatment for lung cancer.

February 7, 2008 - $1.5 million was donated to the Research and Education Foundation of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) to endow the Derek Harwood-Nash Scholar Grant, representing the largest individual gift and first individual grant endowment in the 24-year history of the RSNA Research and Education Foundation.

Oregon Medical Group’s growth was both a blessing and a curse.
The Eugene/Springfield-based group practice is rapidly expanding and now includes more than 13 clinics and 118 physicians that collectively perform 58,000 imaging procedures a year. Director of Diagnostic Imaging Dawn Adell, BSRT (R) (CV), decided it was time to establish an integrated digital infrastructure.

Images come in all shapes and sizes at Bio-Imaging Technologies, which assists hundreds of companies worldwide in managing clinical trial data and bringing new drugs to market. As the world’s largest independent medical imaging core lab, Bio-Imaging receives multimodality medical images from dozens of client trial sites, analyzes data and submits it as part of the regulatory approval process to the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other international agencies.

When it comes to breast imaging, the professionals at West Coast Radiology Centers in Orange County, CA, believe that best-fit technology equals better care. Established in 1988, the multimodality outpatient imaging practice adopted digital technology across most modalities.

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