August 28, 2007 - Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company and a medical imaging software and services company, announced that Varian Medical Systems has licensed the Cedara MergeCOM-3 DICOM Toolkit for use in their medical imaging applications, allowing Varian to accelerate the development of DICOM-compliant solutions cost effectively.

August 27, 2007 – Toshiba America Medical Systems announced the installation of two Infinix CF-i/BP vascular X-ray systems at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center, providing a five-axis bi-plane system that is designed for improved patient access.

The hospital selected the units for the five-axis bi-plane system, flat panel detector movement and C-arm flexibility, according to Robert Vincent, M.D., pediatric cardiologist and head of the Cardiac Catheterization Department, Children’s Sibley Heart Center.

August 27, 2007 — iCRco Inc. a manufacturer of computed radiography and X-Ray Digitizing equipment recently gathered all of its production, sales and marketing teams under one roof.

The company will now reside in a 75,000 sq ft, two story facility which will enable iCRco to have overall control on all its departments.

Patent holder to the True Flat Scan Path technology, iCRco machines reportedly eliminate the need to put CR plates through rollers, resulting in artifact free, uncompromised images, according to the manufacturer.

August 27, 2007 — Zimmer Holdings Inc. a leader in the orthopaedics industry, and ORTHOsoft Inc., a leader in computer navigation for orthopaedic surgery, announced that Zimmer has reached an agreement to make an offer to acquire all of ORTHOsoft's outstanding common shares in a cash transaction for CDN$1.10 per share.

August 27, 2007 — Cardinal Health recently recalled a device that could potentially lock up and fail to supply anesthesia to patients.

The Pyxis Anesthesia System 3500 may fail to automatically dispense "critical medicines" during surgery without rebooting, according to a recent statement posted on the company's Web site. No reports of injury have been received to date.

Cardinal Health, the second-largest U.S. drug distributor, said it plans to address problems in the Pyxis system's software and notify hospitals of the recall.

August 27, 2007 — Novare Surgical Systems announced the successful completion of what are believed to be the first ever laparoscopic nephrectomies that left no visible scar.
The procedures were performed by Dr. Jeffrey Cadeddu, associate professor of urology and radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.

August 27, 2007 — The California Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) at its 2007 Rough & Ready disaster medical field training and demonstration Aug. 25, unveiled one of California's three new 200-bed mobile hospitals, the largest civilian medical response facilities of their kind, along with other new medical assets to respond to major disasters.

August 27, 2007 — CBaySystems and Services Inc., a leading global provider of transcription, BPO services and technology, and eScription Inc., a leader in computer aided medical transcription, announced their recent business alliance which will expand both companies service offerings in the medical transcription field.
EScription's enterprise-wide software is designed to streamline medical transcription and reduce costs. CBaySystems is dedicated to offering full-serviced transcription to hospitals, healthcare networks, and medical clinics.

August 27, 2007 – Thinking Systems Corporation announced The Joint Department of Medical Imaging for University Health Network (UHN), Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) and Women's College Hospital (WCH) of Toronto purchased Thinking Systems' ThinkingPACS solutions to address the unique needs for nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, PET-CT and PET-CT fusion, and other specialty modalities.
Thinking Systems is known for its innovative PACS (picture archiving and communication system) and RIS (radiology information system) and its broad product portfolio.

August 27, 2007 - According to a study published in the August issue of Radiology, by using magnetic resonance (MR) images of the brain, researchers have identified a new abnormality related to disease progression and disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

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