June 7, 2007 — Instead of standing in line, sometimes for hours, just to explain their symptoms at one of the nation's busiest emergency rooms, Parkland patients now type their woes into a computer at one of three automated check-in kiosks.

While similar machines are popping up nationally to check in patients at medical clinics, Parkland officials said they believe they are among the first to have a system in a hospital emergency room. A donation through UT Southwestern Medical School paid for the $50,000 project.

June 7, 2007 — Cook Medical announced today the availability of the Cook Turbo-Flo 8 French Double Lumen Central Venous Catheter, designed to produce increased flow rates.

This catheter also employs Cook's patented antibiotic-impregnation process, infusing minocycline and rifampin on both the internal and external surfaces of the catheter to provide increased protection against catheter-related bloodstream infections.

June 7, 2007 - Immersion Medical has introduced the LaparoscopyVR Surgical Simulation System, the first laparoscopy surgical simulator designed as a complete system with tightly integrated TouchSense-enabled haptic hardware and software.

June 7, 2007- Viking Systems Inc. announced that for the first time worldwide, their 3Di Vision System had been used to perform videothoracoscopic surgery. The three procedures, performed with the 3-D visualization technology at the Regional Oncologic Hospital (C.R.O.B) in Rionero in Vulture, PZ, Italy by Dr. Cosimo Lequaglie, were a parietal pleurectomy, a sublobar resection, and a chemical pleurodesis. Each surgery was successfully performed and met with positive reactions from the surgeon and the hospital staff.

June 7, 2007 - Carestream Health Inc. announced that it is now taking orders for its newest version of Kodak Carestream PACS that includes native 3-D and cardiac features and integrated applications including orthopaedic digital imaging for surgical planning and image fusion software for use by oncologists.

June 7, 2007 - Dynamic Imaging will debut its IntegradWeb RIS/PACS, an all inclusive, unified solution for ambulatory imaging centers and radiology group practices, at SIIM 2007 in Providence, RI.

Integrating end-to-end Web-based workflow leveraging, the IntegradWeb RIS/PACS architectural platform allows Dynamic Imaging to offer ambulatory facilities a powerful, unified radiology desktop. Best–practice workflow includes scheduling through billing, fueled by the industry's number one ranked ambulatory PACS by KLAS.

June 7, 2007 - Anthro Corp. announced a new member to the Elevate Electric Lift Table family, the Elevate Corner, a workstation ideal for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), utilizing corner spaces, as well as acting as an L-shaped configuration.

June 7, 2007 - Merge Healthcare’s newly released Fusion RIS/PACS MX is an imaging informatics solution that is designed for imaging centers, hospitals, multifacility physician practices and specialty clinics.

Fusion RIS/PACS re-portedly blends together the advantages of a radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) into a single business and clinical application with a radiologist workspace environment.

June 7 - NovaRad Corp. will release NovaPACS 6.6 with embedded MIP (maximum intensity projection) and MPR (multiplanar reconstruction) tools to build and view 3-D images directly from the PACS workstation at SIIM 2007.

The MIP and MPR tools embedded in NovaPACS reportedly eliminate the need for radiologists to do post-processing reconstructions from the modalities and for technologists to redo reconstructions specified by the radiologists. Radiologists can now quickly reconstruct any study they want in any format they want right from NovaPACS.

June 7, 2007 – Philips and VMI-Sistemas Medicos (VMI) recently announced that Philips will acquire VMI, a Brazilian imaging diagnostic company based in Minas Gerais, in a transaction that is expected to close in the second quarter of 2007, no financial details on the transaction were disclosed.

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