January 9, 2008 - Frost & Sullivan has recognized Philips Medical Systems with the 2007 North American Medical Imaging Company of the Year Award for its success across the entire medical imaging industry and double-digit growth.

Philips Medical Systems is a well regarded company, prized for its strength of leadership in healthcare technology and its innovative approach to product development, reflected in Philips’ “Sense and Simplicity” brand promise.

January 9, 2008 – UK-based Glan Clwyd Hospital integrated Barco’s Voxar 3D Enterprise into its Fujifilm Synapse PACS, aiming to provide the hospital with ultra-fast access to large volumetric studies throughout the hospital enterprise.

Glan Clwyd Hospital had used Voxar 3D Workstation for three years before deciding to upgrade to Voxar 3D Enterprise. The system allows radiologists to consult volumetric studies on the workstation in their offices, rather than having to walk to the reading room, adding convenience and extra speed to the processing of volumetric studies.

January 9, 2008 - Mayo Clinic and IBM collaborated to create The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center (MI3C) aimed at advancing medical imaging technologies to improve the quality of patient care, an extension of a Mayo-IBM research collaboration announced in 2007, the results of which have given physicians the ability to register medical images up to 50-times faster and provide critical diagnosis, such as the growth or shrinkage of tumors, in seconds instead of hours.

January 9, 2008 - Avista Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging, a business unit of Bristol-Myers Squibb that supplies medical imaging products for nuclear and ultrasound cardiovascular diagnostic imaging procedures.

ision-Sciences Inc.'s advanced digital, video-based flexible Cystoscope is used in conjunction with an integrated "built-in" light source, eliminating the need for a separate camera head, light guide cable and optical coupler.

January 8, 2008 - MEDHOST, a provider of emergency department information systems (EDIS), said yesterday it successfully integrated with the FreeNET Voice Over Wireless Fidelity (VoWiFi) system from Ascom, allowing messages and alerts generated in MEDHOST to be distributed to multiple types of wireless devices.

January 8, 2008 - InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. announced its new brand name, INSIGHT IMAGING, to better reflect its day-to-day operations and enable patients, payors and physicians to easily identify and choose from among the many INSIGHT IMAGING facilities that comprise its national network.

Effective today, 22 fixed-site centers in California, 10 fixed-site centers in Arizona and two fixed-site centers in Nevada have transitioned to the new INSIGHT IMAGING brand. The rebranding initiative is expected to be complete by mid-2008.

January 8, 2008 - Vision-Sciences Inc. received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its new advanced digital, video-based flexible Cystoscope, used in conjunction with an integrated "built-in" light source, eliminating the need for a separate camera head, light guide cable and optical coupler.

January 8, 2008 – After just eight months since its publication launch, the Patient Resource Cancer Guide has printed over 500,000 issues and mailed to more than 6,000 oncology offices.
The cancer guide made its debut in April 2007 as the first ever publication of its kind: a direct to patient educational tool, allowing cancer patients and their families access to vital information in making informed medical decisions about treatment. This 128 page, full color publication is made available free of charge to cancer patients and their families.

January 8, 2008 – The cardiac imaging community has until Jan. 12 to contribute to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public comments forum regarding CMS’ proposed National Coverage Decision (NCD) that would limit reimbursement for coronary CTA to just two clinical indications.

In the decision, CMS states that “[t]he evidence is inadequate to conclude that cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is reasonable and necessary under section 1862(a)(1)(A) for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD).”

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