October 5, 2007 — IntraOp Medical Corp. a provider of technology solutions for the treatment and eradication of cancer, recently announced the introduction of the Optimal Boost approach to breast cancer treatment administered by its flagship product, Mobetron.

October 5, 2007 - Texas Children's Hospital in Houston recently chose Hyland Software's OnBase to complete its conversion to electronic medical record document management.
Texas Children's Hospital is comprised of more than 40 pediatric primary care centers throughout the Houston area, in addition to the main campus in the Texas Medical Center. All patient care centers and the hospital are included in the implementation.

October 5, 2007 — AmSurg Corp. recently announced that Christopher A. Holden will serve as the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
Holden’s appointment completes an extensive and thorough search for a successor to Ken P. McDonald, the company's former President and CEO. McDonald will continue to be a member of AmSurg's Board of Directors and as the Company's immediate past President and CEO, will remain with the company to assist Holden in accomplishing a smooth and rapid transition.

October 5, 2007 - Medical display maker Barco introduced its new 24-inch MDSC-2124 wide-screen surgical display solution with full high-definition resolution this week at the ACS Clinical Congress in New Orleans.

October 5, 2007 — The American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC) and the Foundation for Ambulatory Surgery in America (FASA), the nation's largest ASC associations, have agreed to merge in order to create an association that will reportedly provide ASCs with the leadership, cohesive voice and comprehensive services they need and deserve.
As of January 1, 2008, AAASC and FASA will become one organization to be known as the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA).

October 5, 2007 - InSite One Inc. recently announced the signing of a co-marketing agreement with Technology Imaging Services (TIS), aiming to provide TIS and their clients with a comprehensive tool kit in archiving, storage and data recovery solutions for these specific data sets.

According to the company, InSite One’s InDex Archive currently contains over 1.3 billion individual medical images and records, nearly 20 million studies, for over 500 facilities nationally. On a monthly basis, the InDex Archive reportedly averages 500,000 plus new studies.

October 5, 2007 - Accuray Inc. recently announced that the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), has purchased its seventh CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System for HCA's The Harley Street Clinic in London, England, marking HCA's first non-U.S. CyberKnife System purchase.

AFP Imaging Corp. recently announced that it has received 510K clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the company's NewTom VG Cone Beam Computed Tomography Scanner that reportedly provides the clinician with detailed 3D, radiographic images of the teeth and jaws along with flexible seating options.

October 4, 2007 - 3DR Laboratories LLC and Visage Imaging Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems Inc., signed an agreement to integrate Visage Imaging’s Visage CS Thin Client/Server and Visage PACS Server into the company’s product portfolio to provide internal and remote advanced 2D and 3D capabilities and services to healthcare enterprise customers.

October 4, 2007 — Canon U.S.A. Inc., recently announced the installation of its 2,000th digital radiography (DR) system, also marking more than 5,000 DR system installations worldwide by the Canon family of companies.

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