Primo is a highly portable noninvasive BP monitor. The device clips to the patient's wrist, yielding digital diastolic and systolic blood pressure readings, which are nearly as accurate as invasive arterial catheters, in just seconds.
Primo is ideal for bariatric, elderly and special-needs patients, who often present a challenge to doctors using the standard, cuff-based monitoring systems. It is also far less expensive than standard sphygmomanometers and its quick and easy readouts increase the efficiency of routine exams.

The NICO2 Respiratory Profile Monitor, part of the AluRT Advanced Lung Recruitment Tool, is designed to monitor the patient rather than the machine side of the breathing circuit, going beyond conventional capnography to measure breath-by-breath volumetric CO2 — taking the guesswork out of ventilation management.

Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company, today announced the release of a new version of its DICOM toolkit, MergeCOM-3, which has been redesigned for the Microsoft .NET development environment. Cedara's MergeCOM-3 toolkit is a Software Developers Kit (SDK) that supports flexible DICOM connectivity for software applications.

Breast cancer death rates in the U.S. are decreasing according to the American Cancer Society, and the decline is attributed to the benefits of annual mammograms for early detection and new treatment programs that help patients better manage their cancer.
Earlier detection of breast cancer is being made possible partly by powerful digital imaging technologies, and widespread implementation could be coming soon.

Swissray International announced today that they have installed their direct digital radiography (ddR) system into the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
Ueli Laupper, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing states “We are very proud to have been selected to provide our DR system to one of the finest hospitals in the world. Having a hospital of this caliber select our market leading ddR technology validates our claim of being the “best of breed” in the DR industry”.

A new California law is aimed at protecting uninsured and underinsured patients from aggressive hospital billing and collection practices.

Fujifilm and The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) launched today a national public education campaign called Images of Health: Mammograms for a Million Moms, a program to raise awareness and help save lives by encouraging over one million women in America to pledge to get a mammogram by logging onto www.imagesofhealth.com.

GE Healthcare announced at the Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine in Athens, Greece, the release of FASTlab for PET radiopharmaceutical production, a part of GE’s strategy to develop new lines of radiopharmaceuticals, including diagnostic imaging agents.

Agfa Healthcare recently announced that is has entered into a multi-million dollar dual-source deal with Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA), in which Agfa will provide its Impax 6.0 PACS to HMA's network of non-urban healthcare facilities.

HMA, a major operator of acute care hospitals in medically underdeveloped, non-urban areas of the United States, anticipates that 75 percent of hospitals in its network will have fully implemented PACS systems in place within the next two years.

Philips Medical Systems has introduced the 64-slice Precedence SPECT/CT system, which advances the capability of the platform by performing uncompromised cardiac imaging on patients who can benefit from the imaging procedure.
The Precedence 64-slice SPECT/CT can produce CT-based attenuation correction and perform advanced cardiac CT procedures such as calcium scoring and CTA in one episode of care, on one system. It can also produce SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in half the time of conventional scanners.

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