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.

Eastman Kodak Company’s Health Group has been awarded a contract for KODAK CARESTREAM Radiology and Enterprise Information Management Solution platforms for East-Tallinn Central Hospital in Estonia, a key link in Baltic e-Health project. In the initial stages of the project, Kodak will deliver PACS, remote reporting and archiving solutions to the East-Tallinn Central Hospital to facilitate participation in two pilot projects in the fields of radiology and ultrasound that will cross country borders.

Clinicians at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ are offering image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) treatment for prostate cancer patients using advanced 2-D and 3-D imaging technology from Varian Medical Systems to target tumors more precisely.
Specifically, they are using the On-Board Imager device, an automated, robotic imager mounted on the treatment machine, to generate radiographic X-ray images at the beginning of each treatment session to line up the radiotherapy beam with the tumor.

Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced Clear Technology, a new platform that focuses on optimization of the radiation parameters prior to fluoroscopy and image processing during fluoroscopy to optimize image quality.

Radlink, a U.S.-based radiography company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Ado-Med, in which the medical services company based in Poland will be its exclusive distributor in the European Union, Russia and the Ukraine.
The partnership also requires Ado-Med to establish a European service center for Radlink's CR Pro machine, which utilizes sealed fiber-optic laser technology to deliver high-resolution, diagnostic-quality images, and which reportedly costs less than other computed radiography systems on the market.

The Consumer Healthcare Products Association issued the following statement in support of today’s U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (Senate HELP Committee) confirmation of acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Andrew von Eschenbach:

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt named Leslie Norwalk as acting administrator for the CMS effective Oct. 15. Norwalk has served as deputy administrator for the agency that oversees $740 billion in federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid. She replaces Mark McClellan, who resigned from the CMS on Sept. 5.

Consorta Inc. has announced a new purchasing agreement with Varian Medical Systems Inc. for advanced radiotherapy systems for treating cancer and neurological disorders. The agreement covers all of Varian’s equipment and software for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), as well as Varian’s brachytherapy equipment and software.

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