October 2, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare announced that the company presented its standards-based solution for demonstrating healthcare information exchange using its IMPAX Data Center, at PHIN (Public Health Information Network) 2007, held Aug. 27 to Aug. 29, in Atlanta, GA.

October 2, 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 1, 2007 - GE Healthcare demonstrated at its Global Research Center what it says is the first 3D X-ray plus ultrasound image fusion system (DBT-US fusion) developed for clinical applications such as breast imaging.

October 1, 2007 - Researchers at GE Healthcare’s Global Research Center announced that they are working to better enable monitoring of the temperature changes and tissue damage with MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) to enable the noninvasive treatment of cancer and ensure that tumors can be safely destroyed without damaging healthy tissue around the tumor itself.

October 1, 2007 – GE revealed its works-in-progress hand-held ultrasound prototype at GE Media Day held October 1 at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY, which researchers hope will be used as prevalently as a stethoscope and, may one day replace it.

GE announced that is on the verge of introducing an ultrasound system that doctors will be able to hold in the palm of their hand. The migration to smaller applications has been made possible by increased computation, higher power efficiency and electronic miniaturization.

October 1, 2007 – GE Global Research, the General Electric Company’s centralized research and development organization, and GE Healthcare today announced a three-year collaborative research agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to discover and develop advanced in vitro diagnostic assays that may predict cancer treatment response to targeted therapies.

October 2, 2007 - Swissray International Inc. announced that the company has been awarded a three-year contract with Premier, allowing Swissray to sell their direct digital radiography (DR) systems to any of the U.S. hospital members and other healthcare providers that belong to Premier.

For more information: www.swissray.com and www.premierinc.com

October 1, 2007— North American Scientific Inc. announced that its ClearPath-HDR device has been used in a patient for the first time.
For use in Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) treatment plans, ClearPath-HDR reportedly combines the benefits of balloon brachytherapy products with the customized dose planning benefits of the multi-catheter brachytherapy procedure into one device.

October 1, 2007 — The proportion of physicians in solo and two-physician practices decreased significantly from 40.7 percent in 1996-97 to 32.5 percent in 2004-05, according to a national study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).

October 1, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions and Kameda Healthinformatics Institute Inc. established a joint venture company named Siemens Kameda Healthcare IT Systems K.K., to strengthen Siemens' position in the rapidly growing Japanese healthcare market.
Siemens Medical Solutions will hold two-thirds ownership and Kameda Healthinformatics Institute will hold one-third ownership of the newly formed company.
According to YANO Research, Japan is currently the second largest healthcare information systems market.

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