The Carestream Health Inc. KODAK DIRECTVIEW DR 3500 is a compact digital radiography system that delivers a small footprint, functionality and convenience required by hospitals, outpatient imaging centers and clinics that serve orthopedic specialists and other physicians.

The DR 3500 system reportedly provides more productivity-enhancing features to the DR 3000 platform, which it replaces. The company said these productivity gains could translate to a more efficient workflow that can help facilities handle larger patient volumes without adding staff.

November 19, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions is helping hospitals and healthcare systems innovate their clinical and financial workflows through Soarian, its next-generation, workflow-engineered healthcare information system, which it will showcase at the 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Nov. 25 to 30 in Chicago.

November 19, 2007 – At the RSNA show Nov. 25-30 in Chicago, Nuance Communications Inc. will announce PowerScribe Workstation 5.0, a new version of company’s leading speech recognition reporting solution for radiology, including an array of customer driven system enhancements, designed to give radiologists more control of their reports with the goal of making the dictation process faster, more accurate and easier to maintain.

November 19, 2007 - E-Z-EM recently introduced its new point of care renal function EZ Chem Blood Analyzer and plans to showcase it at the RSNA show in Chicago Nov. 28-30.

November 19, 2007 - 20/20 HealthCare signed an agreement with Rcadia to distribute Rcadia’s COR-Analyzer computer-aided detection (CAD) software for automatic segmentation and classification of coronary CT angiogram procedures, using 20/20 HealthCare’s subsidiaries, Viztek and 20/20 HealthCare Global, as distribution channels.

November 19, 2007 - American Medical Sales Inc. will highlight at RSNA 2007 its alternative solution for full-diagnostic mammography workstations, MammoVue, hardware/software solution that allows users to view full-sized breast images and perform nondiagnostic tasks, reportedly at a fraction of the price of a full function mammography diagnostic workstation.

November 19, 2007 - Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. has installed its Aurora 1.5Tesla Dedicated Breast MRI System, reportedly the only FDA-cleared dedicated breast MRI system designed for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, in Ohio’s Toledo Hospital Breast Care Center as part of a joint venture with Toledo Radiological Associates .

November 19, 2007 – Covidien Imaging Solutions, a subsidiary of Covidien Ltd., signed a multi-year deal to supply X-ray contrast imaging agents to customers of MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, a St. Louis-based group purchasing organization, as part of Covidien's plan to broaden its distribution channels for its imaging agents.

November 19, 2007 - At RSNA 2007, Cleveland Clinic and Riverain Medical will announce the details of a newly established ongoing program to determine whether chest X-ray CAD (computer-aided detection) can improve practical early detection of lung cancer by identifying hard to detect lung cancers at an early stage when they are most treatable leading to improved patient survival rates.

November 19, 2007 - IMIX Americas Inc., a provider of digital radiography products, will feature the IMIX insight line of full-featured digital radiography products for a variety of imaging applications at RSNA 2007.

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