October 11, 2007 — According to the results of a survey, "Cancer and the Public," 62 percent of the 32 percent of cancer patients who suspected they had cancer, were not diagnosed for three months or more.
In addition, nearly half of the respondents did not feel that their insurance coverage would provide adequate care if diagnosed with a life threatening illness. The total number of respondents to the survey was 4,402, (1,779 males and 2,623 females) representing every state in the U.S.

October 11, 2007 - GE Healthcare said today it completed the acquisition of Web-based image and information management provider Dynamic Imaging LLC.
The acquisition of Dynamic Imaging and its IntegradWeb suite of products, will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offerings of information technology (IT) products and services across all segments of healthcare throughout hospital integrated delivery networks (IDNs), community hospitals, outpatient imaging centers, radiology group practices, and physician offices. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

October 11, 2007 - Omnicell Inc., a provider of system solutions to acute healthcare for improving patient safety and efficiency, said today introduced its WorkflowRx 5.0 central pharmacy automation solution.

The syngo Lung CAD software was created for automated detection of solid lung nodules in thoracic CT studies and reportedly has improved detection performance for solid nodules (the next generation version is works-in-progress and not yet available for clinical use). syngo Lung CAD is based on proprietary image processing and pattern recognition algorithms that have reportedly been extensively trained on a large database of thoracic CT studies.

October 11, 2007 - Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, a provider of microscopy solutions for a variety of research, clinical and industrial applications, introduced ZEN 2007, a new software for laser scanning microscopes, reportedly creating an optimal fusion between state-of-the-art technology and intuitive user-guidance.