June 5, 2007 - Positron Corp. announced that it will launch in spring of 2008 a new dedicated-PET scanner for cardiac imaging.
The system is said to have faster attenuation than previous dedicated PET models, includes quantitative coronary disease software and will sell for under $600,000.
“There is a massive cardiology PET market that is under appreciated,” said Joe Oliverio, president of Positron. “Lower prices scanner with quantitative coronary software is perfect for the market.”

June 5, 2007 - Siemens introduced at SNM its HD PET, a technology which is designed to deliver superior detection of small lesions, dramatically greater staging capabilities and therapy accuracy.

June 5, 2007 - Henry Wagner, M.D., one of the founders of nuclear medicine, announced the 2007 Image of the Year Title was a PET image that demonstrates that trait aggression is associated with brain MAO A activity acquired by a team from the Brookhaven Center for Translational Neuroimaging, Psychological Medicine Department at King’s College, London, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH.
“The mind is what the brain does,” noted Dr. Wagner, “The quantitative relationship shows brain chemistry linked to behavior.”

June 5, 2007 - AnyDoc Software announced that its OCR, created for AnyDoc software now has an enhanced interface with OPEX Corp.'s scanners to provide customers with advanced capture and processing capabilities not previously available.

June 5, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems has linked its ARIA Oncology Information System with the PACE wireless Patient Care Monitor from Supportive Oncology Services (SOS), now letting the company offer a software feature that makes it possible for cancer patients to enter self-assessment data into their electronic medical record for enhanced communication with their oncologists.

CoActiv Medical will highlight its new CoActiv ExamNet, an image management solution that reportedly enables greater efficiency and fully integrated workflow among all radiology group members. Combined with the capabilities of CoActiv EXAM-PACS, the ExamNet claims to provide an ultra-fast, easy-to-use, anywhere, any time image management solution, including image distribution, reading and archiving.

A fully integrated virtual colonography workflow and reporting solution, the new Voxar 3D ColonMetrix supports primary 2-D, 3-D and dissective view reading paradigms.

Features include: automatic high-speed centerline finding, GPU-accelerated 3-D flythrough navigation with gravity, automatic one-click colon segmentation, quick and easy 3-D and 2-D measurement tools and on-the-fly DICOM reporting.

June 4, 2007 – SearchMedica.com, a specialty oriented professional medical search engine introduced SearchMedica Oncology, a new professional medical search engine that will prioritize search results by publication date, reportedly making the most timely and relevant clinical information easily accessible to oncologists and hematologists, at the forty-third annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), June 1-5 in Chicago, IL.

June 4, 2007 —Patients might be at greater risk for developing bloodstream infections due to a common device used in hospitals around the country.

According to a research team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska, the device is a needle-less intravascular catheter connector valve, commonly used for hospital patients with a vascular catheter in place.

June 4, 2007 — The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a Correct Site Surgery Tool Kit to assist healthcare providers in implementing the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Universal Protocol as part of National Time Out Day.

Wrong-site surgery and other preventable mistakes still occur frequently in U.S. operating rooms. That's why the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and The Joint Commission are both partnering with AORN on its annual National Time Out Day observance on June 20.

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