Impac informed PACS 2007 attendees that it just completed its first installation of its new Mosaiq Oncology PACS, a system designed to manage increasingly large volumes of image data generated in radiotherapy, accommodating the complex workflow of radiation oncology (RT) and providing integration with the Mosaiq image-enabled EMR system.

The SimSuite System is driven by the standardized “Process of Care” model. The system’s haptics (tactile feedback), combined with simulated examples of actual patient scenarios and real images allow practitioners to formulate diagnoses, assess risk, perform procedures, address post-procedure issues and receive confidential feedback on over 800 metric data points.

March 21, 2007 - Administration associated with health care claims and billing accounts for nearly one out of every three dollars that patients spend, according to a nationwide survey of executives from hospitals and insurance companies.

March 21, 2007 - Hathaway Corp. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Diabetes Detection Inc., (DDI), will be included in this year's Blackberry Solutions Guide put out by Research In Motion (RIM) at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium event in May 2007.

The BlackBerry Solutions Guide launches to over 3,000 customers at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium. In addition, over 40,000 BlackBerry Solutions Guide CDs get put in the hands of Carrier Sales teams and end customers, and the web version has over 250,000 visits a year.

March 21, 2007 - MinXray Inc. recently announced the celebration of 40 years of sales and service of its extensive line of compact portable X-ray systems for veterinarians, podiatrists, human medical facilities, dentists and the U.S. Armed Services.

March 22, 2007 - Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. recently received two 2006 Best in KLAS awards, one for its 64-slice CT and one for its Vantage 1.5T MRI system, presented by KLAS Enterprises, LLC.

March 21, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems has recently been named number 14 in the BusinessWeek 50 listing for 2007, the magazine's ranking of the nation's best-performing large public corporations in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.

March 21, 2007 – GE Healthcare announced today that because of its Discovery PET/CT business, the company continues to maintain industry leadership during an era of slowed PET market growth, by increasing market share by over 5 percent to exceed 50 percent of the global market.

GE’s Discovery PET/CT system combines positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) in a single, mildly invasive exam to provide physicians with both metabolic and anatomic information to assist in the detection, diagnosis, treatment planning and monitoring of cancer.

March 20, 2007 The Society for Women;s Health Research President and CEO Phyllis Greenberger, M.S.W., recently issued a statement regarding the FDA's decision to fund the Office of Women's Health in 2007, at the level requested by the president and Congress.

"The Society for Women's Health Research is delighted to learn that the FDA will fund its Office of Women's Health (OWH) in 2007 at the full $4 million requested by the president and Congress," stated Greenberger.

March 20,2007 - Studies recently presented at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's 12th Annual Conference, reveal that men undergoing radical prostatectomy return home sooner and regain bladder control and sexual function weeks earlier when operated on with a joystick-operated robot, such as Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci device, approved in 2000 to perform advanced surgical techniques.

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