November 19, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced SOMATOM Definition AS, an adaptive scanner created for strokes, cardiac conditions and cancer, designed to expand CT's role from just imaging to managing patient outcome.

American Medical Sales Inc.'s 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.

Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced SOMATOM Definition AS, reportedly the first adaptive scanner created for strokes, cardiac conditions and cancer, designed to expand CT's role from just imaging to managing patient outcomes.

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.

November 16, 2007 - Pancreatic cancer, the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. doesn't normally show signs or symptoms until it is advanced, and an estimated 37,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed in 2007.

Symptoms include jaundice, unexplained weight loss, and pain in the upper or middle abdomen and back, often these signs are confused with many other illnesses.

November 16, 2007 - Hendricks Regional Health in Danville, IN, this week said it successfully installed the Omnicell WorkflowRx 5.0 central pharmacy automation, which with new, user-friendly graphical user interface and intelligent workflow features automates the ordering, receiving, stocking, dispensing and unit-dose packaging of medications.

November 16, 2007 - Anesthesia information management system (AIMS) and medication management system provider DocuSys said this week solutions in the latest version of its software (Version 6.0) facilitate a healthcare provider’s ability to comply with national quality measures such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and pay-for-performance (P4P) programs.

November 16, 2007 - Clinical software provider Allscripts, on behalf of the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI), strongly supports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal for the adoption of additional standards to be used by participants in the Medicare prescription drug benefit program when they prescribe electronically.

Supporters say the proposed new standards would help eliminate medication errors and the inefficiencies of a process that relies on handwritten paper prescriptions.

November 16, 2007 - Imaging Technology News and Outpatient Care Technology want to recognize and highlight those women’s healthcare centers, specializing in breast imaging, that creatively and effectively use advanced imaging modalities and technologies to deliver high-quality patient care. But we need you, the Reader, to tell us who these influential market leaders are.

November 16, 2007 – Eizo Nanao Corp. and Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced that Merge Healthcare will support 10-bit solutions from EIZO and Matrox.

Merge Mammo 7.1 has been developed using Matrox 10-bit MED Series display controller boards with EIZO RadiForce 10-bit medical displays in order to display images with up to 1,024 simultaneous levels of gray, providing medical professionals with a more complete picture for more accurate diagnoses.

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