November 12, 2007 – At RSNA 2007, Advanced Research Technologies will showcase the SoftScan optical imaging device, designed for the detection, diagnosis and characterization of breast cancer.

The device provides functional or physiological information about a lesion, such as tissue perfusion and blood oxygen content, which the company says allows characterization of a lesion as benign or malignant.

November 12, 2007 - Smart Medical Technology Inc. today was awarded a five-year contract with Novation for its inflatable mat Liftaem safe-patient-handling system.

Novation is a leading healthcare contracting services company of VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), two national health care alliances. The agreement makes Liftaem available to more than 2,500 healthcare organizations, effective Jan. 1, 2008.

November 12, 2007 - Infor-Med Corp. said Nov. 9 the Praxis Electronic Medical Records Version 4, featuring the new Praxis EMR Knowledge Exchanger, allows physicians to tap into the knowledge of other clinicians enabling rapid start- ups for new users and enhanced charting capabilities for long-time Praxis users.

November 12, 2007 - Clinical software maker Allscripts said last week Lahey Clinic selected its electronic health record (EHR) for more than 500 community-based physicians

Lahey Clinic, a physician-led, nonprofit group practice, and is renowned for innovative technology and pioneering medical treatmentIts surgeons performed 19,000 surgeries and its two Emergency Departments received more than 54,000 patient visits.

November 12, 2007 - NeuroLogica Corp. announced that its CereTom portable CT scanner was successfully used during the separation surgery of Omani conjoined twins, Safa and Marwah, at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

GE will bring to RSNA its Innova 4100 flat panel digital detector that reportedly offers the industry’s largest field of view for vascular and interventional imaging, delivering 40 percent more area than conventional 15.5-inch round intensifiers.

The system will reportedly provide a larger view of anatomy in a single run with a single contrast injection to reduce contrast and radiation dose without sacrificing image clarity.

For more information: www.gehealthcare.com

November 12, 2007 - eRAD, Inc. is now offering eRAD Site Management Services (eRAD SiteMan), a real-time, remote monitoring service for eRAD PACS, utilizing efficient, nonintrusive software to continuously analyze the runtime, system status and administration details for each installed eRAD PACS server.

November 12, 2007 - NovaRad Corp. announced the continued growth of NovaPACS in hospitals across the country with the securing of five new NovaPACS contracts, offering enterprise-level PACS with image retrieval, full-feature viewer with intuitive interface, and seven-year on-site archive with off-site emergency back up.

November 12, 2007 – TeraMedica launched its new Evercore SOAR (Service Oriented Architecture Repository) platform that uses industry standard Web services protocols which allow Evercore Clinical Information Manager (CIM) to operate as a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

The functionalities provided by the SOA were previously only available internally within Evercore or via more complex protocols such as DICOM or HL7. The platform reportedly allows hospitals and health care systems to choose the best-of-breed when shopping for modalities and departmental systems.

November 12, 2007 - Fujifilm Medical Systems USA Inc. announced that its Technical Assistance Center (TAC), representing the entire product line covering digital X-ray, PACS and digital mammography, has achieved certification under the Service Capability & Performance (SCP) Standards program, demonstrating that that the company is meeting the requirements defined in the SCP Support Standard.

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