Life Healthcare Group in South Africa, one of the largest private hospitals groups in the world, has selected Agfa’s PACS and RIS for it’s newly opened Fourways Hospital in Fourways, South Africa. This is just the first step in the relationship between the two with Life Healthcare scheduled to later introduce the technology throughout other hospitals in the group.
Fourways Hospital will install Agfa’s PACS, IMPAX 6.0 and their latest RIS solution. The hospital is already equipped with other Agfa technologies including CR 85.o and NX software.

Acacia Patent Acquisition Corporation, a subsidiary of the Acacia Technologies group, a leader in technology licensing, announced its acquisition of the rights to a patent portfolio for imaging technology that stabilizes medical images for diagnostic procedures, as part of its efforts to build on the company’s licensing strategy.

Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., an alliance of hospitals that offers group purchasing and supply chain services, announced today that it renewed a five-year agreement with group affiliate Champs Management Services, which went into effect on July 1, 2006.

According to healthcare industry officials, cutbacks in the Medicare program to freestanding imaging centers could have ill effects on Medicare patients, and possibly force some smaller imaging centers out of business. The American College of Radiology (ACR) estimates that freestanding imaging centers will lose money on 87 percent of all scans they perform on Medicare patients if the cuts remain.

Swissray will present the most comprehensive and advanced package in pediatric radiography. Swissray has closely worked with a renowned children’s hospitals to develop its new Pediatric Imaging Package.

MRI is now being used by doctors at the University of Kansas Hospital for fighting breast cancer. After diagnosis, MRI can be used to further determine the size and scope of the breast cancer.
Dr. William Smith and Dr. Marc Inciardi are dedicated breast radiologists at the university hospital that have been working with new software for the MRI machine designed for breast cancer patients.

The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) will partner with the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) to develop and manage the SIIM Certified Imaging Informatics Professional (CIIP) program, the first exam for which is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2007.
The partnership leverages the content-specific expertise of SIIM and experience in policies and procedures of certification from ARRT. The SIIM CIIP certification program merges medical and corporate (IT) models into a single comprehensive exam to certify both R.T. and IT professionals.

A study in the July issue of Radiology reported researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School in Boston and Beneficencia Portuguesa Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil have discovered a new cardiac MRI technique that can noninvasively demonstrate blockage of the coronary arteries yielding an accuracy of 88 percent compared to the current diagnostic standard. The research was done to try and find a noninvasive way to determine if the invasive approach is necessary.

On August, 24, Commissure Inc. announced the installation of the company’s RadWhere Suite at the Cleveland Clinic. Commissure believes that the installation will bring a new level to speech reporting, workflow orchestration and data mining, while enabling healthcare facilities to fully utilize their medical imaging IT infrastructure.

Five American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) members were honored by GE Healthcare and AHRA for their exceptional innovation, leadership, administrative capabilities and sharing of expertise and experience. The GE Healthcare Award for Excellence is sponsored by AHRA and GE Healthcare, and recipients receive a crystal trophy, a blue blazer embroidered with the Award for Excellence logo and $2,000 donated in their name to the AHRA Education Foundation courtesy of GE.

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