With expertise in managing the imaging workflow and working with DICOM, PACS vendors are serious contenders to provide enterprise archive management middleware to manage data objects and information around PACS. Enterprise PACS implementations generated over three quarters of the total radiology PACS market revenues in 2005, signaling the decisive expansion of the traditional boundaries of PACS.

January 30, 2007 - iCAD, Inc., a provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announced the availability of its latest innovation - TotalLook version 8.0, a solution for film-to-digital conversion as the market adoption of digital mammography rapidly increases.

January 30, 2007 - Cook Children's Medical Center will soon house the combined IMRIS Intraoperative MRI (iMRI) operating room/diagnostic room, enabling surgeons to view high-resolution patient scans during brain surgery leading to improved patient
outcomes.
"Cook Children's pediatric neuroscience department annually cares for
approximately 16,000 children, making the program one of the largest in the

The first researchers to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of a large group of babies soon after birth found a small amount of bleeding in and around the brains of one in four babies who were delivered vaginally. “It seems that a normal vaginal birth can cause these small bleeds,” said lead author John H. Gilmore, M.D., from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

Source: RSNA. "Intracranial Hemorrhage in Asymptomatic Neonates: Prevalence on MR Images and Relationship to Obstetric and Neonatal Risk Factors (Looney, et al.)"

January 30, 2007 - A novel type of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is reportedly highly accurate in identifying blockages in the arteries that carry blood to the brain, according to a study in the February issue of Radiology.

Jan. 29, 2007 - Empi, a global market leader in non-invasive, non-systemic pain management and physical rehabilitation for more than 30 years, today announced that the FDA has granted clearance to market the Empi Select TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) device.

Jan. 29, 2007 - Hundreds of people still without health insurance in areas hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina lined up before dawn for the start of a weeklong event offering free medical care.

Bundled up against the chilly wind, people began arriving at 2 a.m. Sunday outside the tents and doublewide trailers offering free care in eastern New Orleans. By the time the first 50 had been called into the registration tent, they numbered in the hundreds.

JANUARY 29, 2007 - A review published in SOARD, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, summarizes the results of four studies that compared the mortality death rates of people who underwent bariatric surgery to a controlled community population.

JANUARY 29, 2007 - Effective partnerships between state and federal efforts in the years ahead will be critical to the success of national efforts for transformation to a value-driven healthcare system, according to a report released today by the Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). The report is an extension on the 2006 study on development of state-level health information exchange (HIE) initiatives, under contract to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC).

January 29, 2007 - KLAS Enterprises, LLC, voted Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. the Best in KLAS award for 2006 in CT and one in MR for the Aquilion 64-slice CT and the Vantage 1.5T MRI systems, recognizing its leadership in working with customers to achieve high satisfaction and performance.

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