November 15, 2007 - At RSNA 2007, The Broadwest Corp. will feature its Rollux D analog/digital motorized viewer, which provides an ergonomic system for interpreting digital images simultaneously with analog films.

November 15, 2007 - Matrox Graphics Inc. said this week its Matrox Equinox Series graphics extension unit and Onyx Series companion display controller board are compatible with QUBYX PerfectLUM calibration solutions, providing hospitals with more options to equip their digital operating rooms.

Matrox Equinox plus Onyx Series combined with QUBYX PerfectLUM helps ensure medical images are displayed accurately and consistently, whether they are viewed in the planning room, control room, or in the OR.

November 15, 2007 – Pinyons Medical Technology Inc. recently received FDA clearance to market the PowrSyringe Monitor for use in discography procedures where it can be used as a diagnostic tool to physiologically determine if a diseased, herniated, or abnormal vertebral disc in the spine is causing discogenic back pain prior to treatment.

November 15, 2007 – The California-based St. Joseph Health System selected Azyxxi, the Microsoft unified health enterprise platform, making it the largest community-based hospital network to adopt the platform to date.

The company says Azyxxi offers a new way to capture, store and present information, enabling healthcare systems to unlock data sitting in clinical, financial and administrative silos across organizations. As a result, caregivers can spend less time looking for information and more time providing quality care to patients.

November 15, 2007 - The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) yesterday said the proposed standards for electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) confirm that the time is now to require e-prescribing in Medicare.

November 15, 2007 – The Kensey Nash Corporation said this week its first commercial product kit shipment of its proprietary bone void filler OsseoFit Porous Tissue Matrix to Biomet Sports Medicine, Inc., the sports medicine subsidiary of Biomet Inc.

Due to its expense and limited availability, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is rarely considered a first-line diagnostic tool, taking a back seat to less costly and more mobile imaging modalities, such as ultrasound and computed tomography (CT). But thanks to advancements in speed and imaging — and the absence of ionizing radiation — MR has managed to gain ground where CT has previously dominated, and in the process, raise the bar on clinical diagnostics.

The digital environment and advanced technology has brought diagnostic imaging to the forefront of healthcare, making images as accessible to any physician as they are to radiologists. As a result, referring physicians and specialists are increasingly reading imaging exams before radiologists or even without a radiologists’ review. This threatens to make radiology obsolete for certain specialties, unless radiologists adapt by further changing workflow. This is a call to arms for radiologists, who must adapt before they are put on the endangered list.
Imaging’s accessibility

The more you know about a disease, the better you can characterize it and treat it, and the path toward personalized medicine is clearly mapped out in PET imaging.
Positron emission tomography (PET) has already proven effective in helping clinicians diagnose, stage, treat and monitor many types of tumors and lesions in the body, and yet its utility continues to expand across more cancers and diseases.


Many patients who were previously turned down as surgery candidates because their tumors were considered unreachable are getting a second chance.
Extremely accurate dose delivery though stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is enabling clinicians to reach formerly unreachable tumors. However, it has been limited to areas of the head and neck until quite recently. Through cone-beam CT, SBRT can now be used to target tumors throughout the body.

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