June 21, 2007 - Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. recently announced it will sponsor a continuing medical education course in Virtual Colonoscopy in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education.

June 21, 2007 - Nucletron B.V. and Questra Corp. have announced the general availability of Nucletron's onConnect Remote Service built on the Questra IDM Application Suite, reportedly allowing hospitals and radiation oncology clinics to benefit from optimized systems performance and uptime on their Nucletron radiotherapy solutions.

August 15, 2007 – MedSolutions, a radiology management services provider, introduced at AHIP 2007 Outcomes-Focused Cardiac Imaging, its cardiac imaging management product designed for managing diagnostic cardiac imaging, promoting the delivery of appropriate tests through qualified providers and reducing costs.

June 21, 2007 - Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) education and training firm OTech of Dallas, Texas, announced the launch of http://www.OTPedia.com, a site that is geared toward professionals involved with medical imaging and informatics and provides free online healthcare technology information and educational resources and can be used to prepare for various professional certifications in the healthcare technology field.

June 20, 2007 - The nation's employers can expect a return to single-digit increases in health benefit expenses in the year ahead, reports PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which recently released the first reported projections of healthcare cost trends for 2008.

June 20, 2007 — Medical Mutual of Ohio will collaborate with its 23,000 physician network to promote the use of iHealth, an online personal health record (PHR) to its 1.6 million members.

Many health plans have rolled out online PHR services without involving physicians but patient uptake has been low; typically below one percent. Some health plans have even started paying their members to fill out an online PHR. Medical Mutual chose to collaborate with their network physicians using the trusted doctor-patient relationship to encourage the use of PHRs.

June 20, 2007 - IntraOp Medical Corp., a provider of technology solutions for the treatment and eradication of cancer, recently announced it has delivered the Mobetron system, a mobile electron-beam instrument designed for Intraoperative Electron Radiation Therapy (IOERT), to the Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), Beijing, China.

The Mobetron will form an integral component in the Chinese Government's new initiative to combat lung cancer as well as be used to provide IOERT treatment for a variety of other cancers.

June 20, 2007 - In a survey conducted in mid-May, Kaivac Inc., developers of the No-Touch CleaningT system, queried 1,600 facility managers, jansan distributors and building service providers on effective cleaning and the potential health risks that germs and bacteria on surface areas pose.

June 20, 2007 — SACS Medical has been granted 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for sales of its systems in the US.

"FDA clearance is a stamp of quality that will facilitate us in our current search for industrial partners for SACS Medical," says Stan Mikulowski, CEO, SACS Medical.

June 20, 2007 - The Patient Resource Cancer Guide is a comprehensive list of the more than 1,400 cancer treatment facilities in the U.S. The guide lists the facilities’ locations, phone numbers and Web sites, serving as a time-saving resource for cancer patients and their families.
The guide’s content includes:
The importance of choosing the correct initial treatment
How to find the best treatment facilities in the U.S.
How to locate the top specialists for individual types of cancer
The importance of getting a second and even a third opinion

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