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April 30, 2007 - Emergency Film Group has produced Hospital First Receiver, a training package that prepares healthcare workers to handle a rapid influx of contaminated patients from a terrorist attack or other mass casualty incident.

The series follows the guidelines of OSHA's Best Practices for Hospital-Based First Receivers and JCAHO's accreditation standards for decontamination and emergency planning.

April 30, 2007 – ECRI Institute will host an audio conference, "CT Radiation Dosing: Guarding Patients from Unnecessary Risk," on May 16, 2007, in which experts will address approaches to minimizing risks associated with CT radiation through proper equipment selections, policy considerations and staff training.

ECRI reportedly will also encourage healthcare facilities to perform CT exams only when clinically justified and to keep radiation doses as low as possible.

April 30, 2007 – Precision Imaging has opened a new, highly advanced imaging center in Jacksonville, FL, combining state-of-the-art clinical imaging equipment and software to create a preventive and diagnostic health care environment for early detection of disease.

April 30, 2007 – Standard Imaging recently released its IMSure QA, a 3-source model algorithm software reportedly featuring a single-screen for inputs, outputs and field-to-field comparisons offering quick review and easy editing of plans.

The patented 3-source model considers the dose from a primary photon source, the primary collimator scatter and the flattening filter scatter, resulting in extremely accurate dose calculations including those in high-gradient/low-dose regions common in IMRT.

April 30, 2007 - Early studies have shown that an experimental breast cancer scanning technology, called digital breast tomosynthesis, appears to be more accurate than a mammogram in detecting breast cancer tumors, and the scan ideally will involve less pressure on the breast, the Wall Street Journal reports (Kranhold, Wall Street Journal, 4/24).

April 26, 2007 – The WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety will hold a telephone and on-site news conference to unveil nine solutions to prevent healthcare errors throughout the world, May 2, in Washington, D.C.

Working together, the World Health Organization, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International are focusing their attention on patient safety solutions and best practices that can reduce risks to patients and are coordinating international efforts to broadly share these solutions.

April 27, 2007 - Parents-to-be might soon don 3-D glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," according to researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.

The same Duke team that first developed real-time, 3-D ultrasound imaging says it has now modified the commercial version of the scanner to produce an even more realistic perception of depth. Paired images seem to pop out of the screen when viewed with the special glasses.

April 27, 2007 - Guardian Technologies International, Inc., a security and healthcare imaging solutions company, announced that it has signed a collaboration and strategic alliance agreement with Confirma, Inc., a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) for magnetic resonance imaging, in which both parties will collaborate on the design, development and commercialization of radiology imaging solutions for new clinical applications.

April 26, 2007 - Frost & Sullivan selected GE Healthcare as the recipient of the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Best Customer Value in the North American patient monitoring markets.

Improved ROI, innovative design and gold-standard customer care are a few of the major advantages offered by GE Healthcare's patient monitoring solutions.

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