February 5, 2008 – Barco inked an agreement with Baptist Memorial Health Care to provide diagnostic display systems to all of its 15 affiliate hospitals in the mid-South of the U.S., providing direct access to its technical support team and establishing a dedicated, in-house Baptist Memorial training and support team.

February 5, 2008 - The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of NEMA, said today that the budget President Bush presented to Congress is an important step toward restoring seniors access to life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic medical imaging services.

February 5, 2008 - Matrox Graphics Inc. launched its Digital Luminance Correction (DLC), available on upcoming Matrox display controller boards designed for medical imaging, designed to enable calibration packages from display manufacturers and software developers to uniformly calibrate display luminance within industry standards.

February 4, 2008 - Nucletron BV and clinicians at The Cancer Centre, Northern Ireland, proudly report the first IMRT clinical treatment within the Conventional or Hypofractionated High-Dose Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer (CHHiP) clinical trial utilizing Nucletron's Oncentra MasterPlan.

CHHiP, part of the NCRN/NCRI portfolio of cancer trials and sponsored by the Institute of Cancer Research, is a Phase III national, multi-centre, randomized trial for the treatment of prostate cancer using external beam radiotherapy.

February 1, 2008 - A new and increasingly popular type of minimally invasive sinus surgery exposes patients to only "very low" doses of radiation during the procedure, a level considered to be safe, according to a new study published in the February 2008 issue of the journal Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

February 4, 2008 - Healthcare Providers Direct Inc., a company focused on the development and distribution of rapid diagnostic tests directly to physicians’ offices, announced the release of ImmunoDip, the first rapid screening test to detect microalbuminuria, an early indicator of chronic kidney disease in diabetic patients.

February 4, 2008 - At the annual HIMSS meeting Feb. 23-28, Sprint will focus on its Nextel Direct Connect, its push-to-talk communications device for use in acute care hospitals.

February 4, 2008 - Motorola's Enterprise Mobility business will unveil the results of a recent study on mobility in the healthcare industry and display its complete end-to-end mobility with mobile computing, bar code scanning, RFID and wireless technology during the 2008 HIMSS meeting.

January 29, 2008 - A new ISO standard will help ensure that spinal disc prostheses meet requirements for wear resistance, particularly important as once implanted these will need to absorb the impact from the body’s daily activities for years to come.

"ISO 18192-1:2008, Implants for surgery – wear of total intervertebral spinal disc prostheses, Part 1: Loading and displacement parameters for wear testing and corresponding environmental conditions for test" provides requirements for comparing the wear performance of different spinal disc prostheses.

February 4, 2008 - LodgeNet Interactive Corp. will showcase its Interactive Patient Television System for addressing quality of care and costs at HIMSS Feb. 25-28 in Orlando.

The company says deploying LodgeNetRX will benefit hospitals with improved patient satisfaction, enhanced quality of care, and increased profitability using interactive TVs to access on-demand patient education and interactive hospital information.

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