Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has selected an Aquilion 64 CFX from Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. to improve evaluation and treatment capabilities for its pediatric patients. The Aquilion 64 CFX was chosen based on several factors, including the system’s scanning speed, radiation dose profile, and expanded cardiac capabilities.

NEC announced it will display four new LCDs, ranging from multimodality monitors to dedicated mammography displays, at RSNA 2006, extending its lines of displays for professional, mammography and OR applications .
The new MultiSync LCD2690WUXi, a 2.3-megapixel, 25.5-inch wide-screen LCD offers a 6.5-millisecond response time (gray to gray), plus a Horizontal in Plane Switching (H-IPS) module for color representation. The panel reportedly reduces off-angle color shift.

Cedara Software today announced that it will unveil several new oncology solutions, including multimodality image fusion that supports deformable registration in PET/CT software, at the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Conference (ASTRO), held November 5-9 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

To help further improve image access and reading efficiency, NovaRad Corporation releases NovaPACS 6.5 with enhanced administration console tools and increased tool availability on the referring physician viewer.

New in NovaPACS 6.5, additional administration console tool features enable better sorting, reporting, and information gathering and viewing.

For the referring physician, the “Referring Physician Specialist Viewer” provides the complete set of tools that are available on the PACS workstations.

The TRUMPF iLED surgical and procedure light from TRUMPF Medical Systems won the “Best in Show” and the “Architect’s Choice” awards in the Annual Symposium Distinction Awards competition, which honors design teams and individuals who have made a profound contribution to the healthcare design industry. In addition, it recognizes products exhibited at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo.

Drinking red wine may help defend against a fatty diet and help obese people live a longer, healthier life. A new study shows obese, middle-aged mice fed a fatty diet supplemented with resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine, seemed to be spared most of the unhealthy effects of their extra weight and lived longer than those fed the same fat-laden diet without resveratrol.

Royal Philips announced Thursday that customers rated its Medical Systems division number one in overall service performance for Patient Monitoring Systems and Ultrasound All Systems, comprising Radiology/OB-Gyn and Cardiology instruments, in the annual IMV ServiceTrak surveys. The results of the 2006 IMV analysis also show Philips earning top ranking in overall manufacturer satisfaction for patient monitoring and another first-place ranking for probability of repurchase for both ultrasound and patient monitoring.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule for Medicare payment for hospital outpatient services in calendar year 2007 that will implement new steps to make payments more accurate and to promote higher quality and value in outpatient care. Included in the final outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rule are provisions expanding quality reporting requirement for hospital inpatient services as well as expanding the list of services for which Medicare will make payment to ambulatory surgical centers in 2007.

Mid-Atlantic Group Network of Shared Services (MAGNET), a U.S. healthcare group purchasing organization, signed a five-year contract with Eastman Kodak Company that makes Kodak’s digital imaging products available to MAGNET member facilities.
Under this contract, MAGNET participating healthcare facilities can now purchase Kodak computed radiography systems, Kodak digital radiography systems, Kodak laser imaging systems as well as a variety of x-ray films.

Siemens has been given the okay to acquire the diagnostics division of Bayer Healthcare without restrictions. The approval was granted yesterday by the European Commission, following the earlier approval by U.S. antitrust authorities at the beginning of October. For Siemens, this follows the acquisition of the Diagnostic Products Corp. (DPC) at the end of July. Upon completion of the Bayer acquisition, which is expected by early 2007, both companies will be merged and will operate as "Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics."

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