January 30, 2008 - Children’s Hospital Boston said this week it selected ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow from Perceptive Software to assist in reducing manual efforts in invoice processing while increasing the department’s level of accuracy.

January 30, 2008 - Palomar Medical Technologies Inc., a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for cosmetic treatments, announced that it will unveil two new fractional handpieces at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) in San Antonio, TX from February 2 to 4.

January 30, 2008 - The TerraPharma Project LLC, an educational advocacy organization promoting patient safety improvement, today announced agreements with four top healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to promote The unSUMMIT conference for Bedside Barcoding April 30 – May 2 in Austin, TX.

January 30, 2008 - TopSpin Medical Inc. installed the Cathamaran Intravascular MRI System at ZOL Hospital in Belgium, marking the first installation of the system and its entrance in a study on vulnerable plaque.

January 30, 2008 - NightHawk Radiology is the exclusive radiology provider for the High-Risk Plaque Initiative, called the HRP Initiative, a research effort aiming to interpret CT Chest scans to identify clinically significant cardiac and nonardiac findings where the participant might benefit from its detection and follow-up.

January 30, 2008 - Carestream Health introduced a new radiographic table for use with its Kodak Directview Digital Radiography systems that can also be used for computed radiography and film-based procedures, featuring an elevated table with a four-way floating tabletop and a new pedestal design.

January 30, 2008 - TopSpin Medical Inc. announced the first commercial installation of the Cathamaran Intravascular MRI System at ZOL Hospital, Genk, Belgium, with the first procedures performed on Jan. 16.

January 30, 2008 - Intelerad Medical Systems ranked number one in the KLAS year End Top 20 Report card for the Category of PACS for Other Physician Practices, following a first place ranking in the KLAS Ambulatory PACS report released in December 2007.

January 30, 2008 – Lesion margins on mammograms and sonograms, calcifications on mammograms, and clinical cancer stage at diagnosis were significantly associated with HER2 status, according to a study conducted to determine if estrogen receptor (ER)-negative human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2)-positive and ER-negative HER2-negative breast cancers have distinguishing clinical and imaging features with use of retrospectively identified patients and tissue samples.

January 28, 2008 - Medtronic, Inc. today announced the start of a U.S. clinical trial to confirm the safety and efficacy of the Medtronic EnRhythm MRI SureScan pacing system, the first-ever pacemaker system to be developed and tested specifically for safe use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines under specified scanning conditions.

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