February 21, 2007 - RedRick Technologies Inc. will showcase its ComfortView line, featuring the ComfortView Triple Monitor Mounting Solution, the ComfortView Workstation and the ComfortView keyboard, all featuring adjustable components to allow for improved ergonomic positioning, at the PACS 2007 conference.

February 21, 2007 – Kodak Carestream Enterprise Information Management (EIM) recently introduced its Watch Clinician Patient Repository Access, allowing healthcare providers more access to patients’ medical imaging exams while facilitating integration of images with electronic medical record (EMR) systems.

February 21, 2007 - single-slice magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a fast, non-invasive way to measure intra-abdominal fat, which when excessive, may put children and teenagers at risk for developing heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses, reports a new study featured in the March issue of Radiology.

Unlike the fat that lies just beneath the abdominal wall, forming skin folds or “love handles,” internal fat located in and around the abdominal organs may actually be more damaging, predisposing children to adult diseases.

A dictation and speech recognition application that allows the use of back-end and front-end speech recognition on one single license, Crescendo Systems Corp.'s MD Center-XL, allows physicians to switch between the two modes without having to exit the dictation application and log on again.

Feb. 20, 3007 - U.S. researchers are launching a major population-based study to examine the genetic and environmental factors that may cause many diseases, including asthma, Alzheimer's, cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease and reproductive problems, among others.

This is the first such study in the U.S. since the Framingham Heart Study began in 1948 with some 5,000 men and women. Data from that project has helped determine the risk factors and best treatments for heart disease ever since.

Feb. 20, 2007 - TraumaCad by Orthocrat, a digital orthopedic surgical planning solution, offers enhanced surgical planning options for orthopedic procedures. It expands upon the features and Web-based functionality of the original version by offering surgeons additional resources that enable more thorough and accurate planning of foot, spine, hip and trauma surgeries. The new version also provides more reporting options.

Specialized templates simplify planning for the most common types of orthopedic surgery. Highlights of TraumaCad 2.0 include the following:

February 20, 2007 – Kodak’s Health Group will demonstrate its new Carestream Digital Dashboard software that will provide system administrators with a way to more accurately monitor equipment performance, storage utilization and volume changes at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition.

February 20, 2007 – Directive Analytics for Siemens Medical Solutions recently conducted a survey to assess consumer attitudes toward scientific capabilities to predict diseases and found that 72 percent of consumers would take a test to identify a disease they will develop, 20 years before symptoms may occur.

February 20, 2007 – Still River Systems, based in Littleton, MA, recently announced plans to sell pared-down proton sources with the ability to fit in a treatment room, reducing the size, cost and complexity of an accelerator.

Though Still Rivers Systems has not yet received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance, the company has a contract with Washington University, St. Louis, MO, to create a one-room proton-therapy facility.

February 19, 2007 – A study conducted in December 2006, by Kodak’s health group Zoomerang, found 49.6 percent of women aged 40 and older do not receive annual mammorams as recommended by the American Cancer Society.

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