January 23, 2008 - NEC Display Solutions of America released a 30-inch MultiSync LCD3090WQXi wide-screen display, which delivers display performance for users CAD/CAM industries and hosts a 4MP (2560-by-1600), wide-gamut, wide-screen.

An extension of the MultiSync 90-Series, the display features ColorCompT, which works to reduce LCD uniformity errors, also compensating for differences in color/grayscale and luminance and advanced backlight technology, which enables the display to produce 102 percent of the NTSC color scale for unsurpassed color gradation.

January 23, 2008 – ScImage gained FDA clearance for primary diagnostic review of mammographic images using its enterprisewide, Web-based PACS, PicomEnterprise Version 3.0, which includes default hanging protocols for standard screening exams, automated hanging protocols for prior comparison and linked window/level and pan/zoom functions.

January 23, 2008 - American healthcare can be greatly improved by embracing “openness” throughout the healthcare arena is the principle finding of a new report, Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care, released by the Digital Connections Council (DCC) of the Committee for Economic Development (CED).

January 23, 2008 – The president of Agfa HealthCare Americas, Bob Pryor, has retired and will be replaced by Barry Stone, COO of Agfa HealthCare Americas.

Pryor joined the Agfa team with the the Sterling Diagnostic Imaging acquisition in 1999, and celebrates a 34-year career in the healthcare field.

For more information: www.agfa.com

January 23, 2008 – The Invivo Corp. supplied two of its flagship Precess MRI patient monitors to monitor a pair of conjoined twins from Costa Rica simultaneously last August as they underwent studies for the feasibility of surgical separation at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, CA.

January 23, 2008 – Telanetix Inc. installed its Digital Presence products in four medical facilities affiliated with a major university, incorporating data-sharing from an array of sources, such as X-rays and ultrasounds, reportedly allowing the university to create an interactive environment that integrates audio, video and data from multiple locations into a single environment.

January 23, 2008 - NEC Electronics America Inc. yesterday introduced two new color, 21.3-inch diagonal amorphous-silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid-crystal display (LCD) modules for medical imaging applications.

NEC Display Solutions of America's 30-inch MultiSync LCD3090WQXi wide-screen display delivers display performance for users CAD/CAM industries and hosts a 4MP (2560-by-1600), wide-gamut, wide-screen.

An extension of the MultiSync 90-Series, the display features ColorCompT, which works to reduce LCD uniformity errors, also compensating for differences in color/grayscale and luminance and advanced backlight technology, which enables the display to produce 102 percent of the NTSC color scale for unsurpassed color gradation.

MEDStreaming LLC's Medical Office Suite of Products aimes to address the issue of coordination between clinical modality applications, PACS systems, information systems and reporting packages.

January 22, 2008 — Nineteen percent of U.S. office-based physicians refuse to see sales representatives from the drug and device industry at any time, according to the recent study by SK&A Information Services Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information solutions and research.

Based on the telephone survey of 180,000 doctors, another 22.7 percent of doctors require the reps to set an appointment.

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