Philips Medical Systems and Texas Healthcare Network Inc. (THN) have entered into a joint agreement that provides rural community hospitals and clinics with the Philips iSite PACS. THN will jointly train, install and support their healthcare customers on PACS and work with Philips to maintain the most current level of system functionality and operations. Philips will provide all the latest enhancements and support to THN and their members.

A new study by IMV Medical Information Division reports that approximately one-third of the hospitals have at least one digital radiography (DR) system in their x-ray department, however, over half have adopted computed radiography (CR) technology.
The survey involved 4,860 hospital sites and recorded that 16,510 units in these hospitals comprised both conventional x-ray and digital radiography (DR) units. However, 50 percent of the hospitals reported having a CR system installed.

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.

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