July 25, 2007 — Picis has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LYNX Medical Systems.

LYNX provides revenue cycle management solutions to hospital emergency departments and Picis provides the market-leading clinical information system for emergency care. The combined companies will now offer a reportedly powerful solution that provides the most comprehensive end-to-end system to manage, automate and optimize both the clinical information and financial functions of hospital emergency departments.

July 25, 2007 - Selecting the best set of gantry angles for delivering an IMRT treatment can be challenging, even for a skilled dosimetrist. Varian has enhanced its Eclipse treatment planning system with beam angle optimization, a treatment planning tool that automates the process of choosing the best set of beam angles. Beam angle optimization uses sophisticated algorithms to analyze anatomical images and calculate the optimal number and combination of angles for achieving a dose prescription.

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July 25, 2007 — Siemens has signed a merger agreement with US-based Dade Behring, Inc., a leading clinical laboratory diagnostics company. Siemens intends to acquire all outstanding shares of Dade Behring by submitting a cash offer to the Dade Behring shareholders of US$77 per common share. The planned acquisition has a total transaction volume of approximately US$7 billion. Closing is expected in the second quarter of fiscal year 2008. Completion of the merger is subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

July 25, 2007 –Now users of MIMvista Corp.’s MIMcontouring software can simultaneously fuse multiple modalities with the planning CT, allowing contours to be created on any fused image. Contours created on one image apply to all images. True 3D contouring allows users to create and edit contours in any plane on any image. Tools include 2D/3D paintbrush, automatic PET edge detection and PET SUV & threshold contouring. CT tools include Body Contour and Region Grow, for normal structure segmentation in seconds.

July 25, 2007 – Varian Medical Systems recently displayed its I-Response software created by Cedara, that shows how tumors are responding to treatment at the biological level, reportedly before changes in tumor shape or size become visible, at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting, July 22-26, in Minneapolis, MN.