February 19, 2008 – Elekta signed a purchase agreement to acquire CMS Inc., a deal valuing $75 million that is expected to close in March.

St Louis, Missouri-based CMS is owned primarily by a private equity fund, and is managed by the U.S. investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman. The company has 300 employees worldwide. In fiscal year 2007), the company grew its order intake by 21 percent to $61 million.

February 19, 2008 - Technology invented by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev can make 3D imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate, the researchers said.

This new technology, dubbed FINCH, for Fresnel incoherent correlation holography, could have implications in medical applications such as endoscopy, ophthalmology, CT scanning, X-ray imaging and ultrasounds, co-inventor Gary Brooker said. It may also be applicable to homeland security screening, 3D photography and 3D video, he said.

February 19, 2008 – CoActiv will showcase its Exam-Vault data storage system that includes Quad-Redundant Archiving, which stores each study in four separate locations in order to protect from possible disaster, and also provides immediate business continuity, designed to restore data access in emergency situationsin seconds, at HIMSS 2008.

February 18, 2008 – Cardinal Health said today more than 250 hospitals across the country are now using the MedMined Data Mining Surveillance Service to help prevent, detect, monitor and treat hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).

HAIs are estimated to affects one in every 20 patients across the U.S. and costs the healthcare industry an estimated $20 billion each year.

February 18, 2008 – Last week Natus Medical said the FDA cleared its supplement to the premarket approval application for the Olympic Cool-Cap, a head-cooling device to prevent or reduce the severity of neurologic injury associated with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in term newborns.

February 18, 2008 - More than 100 ASC advocates from across the country made visits to nearly 90 Congressional offices last week as part of the ASC Association's 2008 Legislative & Compliance Seminar in Washington, D.C.

February 18, 2008 - REACH Call Inc. said today it is offering its turnkey telemedicine service to the international healthcare industry to facilitate faster treatment for stroke patients in rural areas by enabling neurologists to remotely diagnose, evaluate and recommend treatment from anywhere in the world using a Web browser.

February 18, 2008 - RamSoft Inc. will debut a new version of its Web-based PACS, PowerServer Lite, an entry-level system designed for facilities affected by reimbursement cuts, allowing for upgrades to its PowerServer PACS or PowerServer RIS/PACS when needed.

The system is licensed based on annual study volume and comes with unlimited workstation and user licenses.

February 18, 2008 –ProCure Treatment Centers Inc. and the University of Pennsylvania’s Roberts Proton Therapy Center have an agreement to provide advanced training programs and accredit medical professionals in proton therapy, an alternative to conventional radiation therapy that avoids many of the side effects inherent in treatment.

The agreement focuses on expanding research on the technology to be used for the delivery of proton therapy and developing new protocols using protons to treat a wider range of cancer tumors.

Siemens Healthcare will highlight the Magnetom Essenza which features 30 mT/m gradients, reportedly delivering excellent image quality for all clinical applications, and the MAGNETOM Verio, which combines image quality at 3T field strength and a 70-centimeter open bore that aims to offer improved patient comfort in one solution.

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