December 13, 2007 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will hold the third year of its scholarship program for trainees who are interested in imaging informatics, open to radiology residents, fellows and medical students from North America.

Perks include travel expenses and meeting registration for the SIIM 2008 Annual Meeting, as well as a one-year SIIM membership. The SIIM Annual Meeting will take place in Seattle, WA, May 15-18, 2008.

December 13, 2007 - GE Healthcare IT announced that its Centricity Enterprise support organization has achieved certification under the Service Capability & Performance (SCP) Standards program, auditing the effectiveness of customer service and support based upon a stringent set of performance standards.

This recognition occurred after an extensive audit of the GE service center in Seattle, Washington against the SCP Support Standard.

December 13, 2007 - TomoTherapy Inc. announced that the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) has begun treating patients with the TomoTherapy Hi-Art treatment system, the first to be installed in Switzerland.

The system is an advanced radiation therapy system for the treatment of a wide variety of cancers, combining integrated CT imaging with conformal radiation therapy to deliver radiation treatments with speed and precision while reducing radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue. The company completed its initial public offering in May 2007.

December 13, 2007 – A Canadian nuclear reactor that makes and distributes globally more than two-thirds of the world’s supply of radioisotopes for cancer tests, may reopen by Dec. 20, after being shut down since November.

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (ACEL), a government-owned nuclear technology company that operates the reactor, shut it down after technical problems. Pending a push through emergency legislation allowing AECL to use a backup method, the reactor should be back to full production within seven days.

December 12, 2007 - Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), the first hospital-based proton treatment center in the U.S., has recently launched Protons.com, a Web site designed to help patients understand and explore this treatment option -promoting not only the hospital's advanced offerings, but bringing greater attention to proton therapy itself.

December 12, 2007 - Zimmer Holdings Inc. announced that its Premarket Approval application for the Zimmer NexGen LPS-Flex Mobile Knee has been granted by the FDA.

Zimmer says that a key strength of its mobile bearing system is its ability to be used in a minimally invasive procedure. The LPS-Flex Mobile Knee is compatible with the company's Minimally Invasive Solutions (MIS) Systems and Technologies knee replacement instrumentation.

December 11, 2007 - In order to bridge the training gap between healthcare providers who regularly provide advanced pediatric life support and those who infrequently care for critically ill or injured children, the American Heart Association has created a new intermediate course - Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition, and Stabilization (PEARS).

December 12, 2007 - Omnicell Inc. today said it completed the acquisition of mobile cart technologies company Rioux Vision Inc. under terms of a definitive agreement announced Nov. 30.

Rioux Vision Inc. designs and manufactures mobile cart technology that brings healthcare to the bedside through a point-of-care medication management process.

December 12, 2007 – Electronic medical record provider MediNotes Corp. said today it surpassed 21,000 users of its EMR system, MediNotes e.

The company says the milestone signifies a growing trend and strong demand for EMR systems that complement medical offices' existing technology infrastructure, unlike other EMR systems that force medical offices to abandon their current scheduling or billing systems.

December 12, 2007 – A real-time location system (RTLS) that can read thousands of small, active RFID tags per second through multiple walls with a precision of 12-36 inches, was launched Dec. 5 by Time Domain Corp. – the Precision Location Ultra Wideband System (PLUS).

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