The theme of SNM’s 54th Annual Meeting to be held on June 2–6 in Washington, D.C., this year is “SNM: Advances in Personalized Medicine.” As part of the conference’s goal of presenting recent improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening cancer, heart disease and brain disorders, it has initiated a new program, InfoSNM, to leverage IT for more effective use of data in the research, educational and clinical setting.

April 26, 2007 - Eastman Kodak Company today announced that its new digital dashboard, which provides system administrators with tools for monitoring equipment performance, storage utilization and user volumes for picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), is available worldwide.

April 26, 2007 — Northwest Center for Congenital Heart Disease has announced the establishment of an imaging network to improve cardiac services provided to patients throughout the Inland Northwest. The new network enables the transmission of an echocardiogram, a moving ultrasound image of the heart, through a secure Internet site from a hospital to an office/home computer.

April 24, 2007 – Teramedica and Aurora Health Care announced that TeraMedica’s Evercore - Clinical Information Manager will be implemented in order to integrate Aurora’s medical images and distribute them to health care providers in a lightweight format within the Cerner Power Chart Module of Aurora’s Electronic Health Record (EHR). This will allow the provider to see, in electronic format – both the medical image and the text report interpretation of the image – in the patient’s medical record.

April 26, 2007 - NeuroArm, a new image-guided surgical robotic system developed by neurosurgeon Garnette Sutherland, M.D., and his team at the University of Calgary/Calgary Health Region, aims to revolutionize neurosurgery with the world’s first MRI-compatible surgical robot.

April 26, 2007 - VISICU Inc., a healthcare information technology and clinical solutions company, has been named Innovator of the Year by the steering committee of the Innovation 2007 conference for chief executive officers.

April 25. 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions has expanded its molecular imaging research collaboration with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, with the establishment of a preclinical research center dedicated to the development of new, targeted biomarkers that may help detect cancers earlier, better visualize cancers at the molecular level and provide more effective, tailored therapies.

In a study conducted at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center researchers found that electromagnetic (EM) breast imaging increased in image contrast when comparing abnormal (benign and malignant) and normal breast tissue.

April 25, 2007 - Medtronic Inc. recently announced it will acquire the O-arm imaging system assets of Breakaway Imaging LLC, to expand the adoption of minimally invasive spine surgery and open the possibility for novel therapies.

April 25, 2007 - WellStar Kennestone Hospital and The Breast Center, Marietta, GA, announced today it has completed treatment on its first breast cancer patient using Xoft Inc.’s Axxent, an electronic brachytherapy system designed to help reduce recurrence of breast cancer.

The Axxent uses a miniaturized X-ray source that can reportedly deliver localized and targeted radiation treatment in virtually any clinical setting under the supervision of a radiation oncologist.

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