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Top Stories
IBM to acquire online storage provider
Dec. 7 — IBM will acquire Arsenal Digital Solutions, an online data storage services and data protection services company.
New era of brain imaging on the horizon with 9.4T MRI
Dec. 7 — The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has completed safety trials of the 9.4 Tesla (T), which may soon offer physicians a real-time view of biological processes in the human brain. The study, supported by UIC and the State of Illinois Capital Fund, was published in the November issue of Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, focused on MRI safety.
GE licenses fetal heart image acquisition method
Dec. 7 — GE Healthcare has licensed a technique patented by an Eastern Virginia Medical School obstetrician that can automate the acquisition of ultrasound images used by physicians to diagnose fetal heart defects.
RSNA News
Healthcare cost crisis nearing zero hour
Dec. 7 — Healthcare costs in the United States, according to Allen Lichter, MD, are quickly approaching unsustainable levels. Lichter, who delivered the annual oration in radiation oncology at the 2007 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) scientific assembly last week, said that the healthcare cost crisis is a major issue that requires immediate action.
Merge displays series products, works in progress focused on reducing costs
Dec. 7 — Merge Healthcare highlighted an array of solutions designed to deliver a positive return on investment and help imaging centers cope with emerging economic and budgetary issues at the 93rd scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago last week.
Medrad highlights future of CT contrast injectors
Dec. 7 — Medrad displayed its "CT Contrast Injections of the Future" exhibit at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) exhibition in Chicago last week.
Meta Fusion enhances practice management service
Dec. 7 — Meta Fusion displayed enhancements to its Helium radiology practice management solution at the 93rd scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago last week.
Neurostar debuts 3D imaging fuctionality
Dec. 7 — Neurostar Solutions debuted 3D imaging processing functionality at the 93rd scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago last week.
NEC offers new 5MP grayscale display
Dec. 7 — NEC Display Solutions of America, a provider of commercial and residential LCD, plasma and projector displays, launched the MultiSync MD21GS 5 megapixel flat-panel monitor for medical imaging applications, including mammography and PACS, during the 93rd scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) at McCormick Place in Chicago.
NovaRad updates NovaPACS and NovaRIS
Dec. 7 — NovaRad launched NovaPACS 7.0 and NovaRIS 7.0 at the 93rd scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago last week.
Orthocrat launches new version of TraumaCad
Dec. 7 — Orthocrat launched TraumaCad 2.0 at the 2007 meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago last week.
New Products
Dalsa releases family of sensors
Dec. 7 — Dalsa has released its High Quanta family of sensors that use fabrication techniques to realize smaller CCD transistor structures to achieve improvements in noise performance and quantum efficiency.
gloStream forms national certified partner network
Dec. 7 — gloStream, an EMR software and practice management solutions provider, has formed the gloStream Certified Partner Network, to provide physician-practice clients customized local service and support 24/7.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Optimal Readings acquires Texas radiology group
Dec. 7 — Optimal Readings Services Group, a provider of optimization services for radiology, has acquired Pin Point Radiology of Fort Worth, Texas.
Partnerships & Alliances
Toshiba, TomTec to deliver new tools for cardiac 4D ultrasound
Dec. 7 — Toshiba Medical Systems and TomTec Imaging Systems GmbH have entered an agreement to deliver new tools for assessing cardiac 4D data and a collaboration to make them more widely available. The partnership was announced at EuroEcho this week in Lisbon, Portugal.
TomoTherapy inks agreements with six international distributors
Dec. 7 — TomoTherapy has signed contracts with distributors in Israel, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Russia and the United Arab Emirates to market, sell and service the TomoTherapy Hi-Art treatment system.
Streamline Health, Emergis partner for integrated EMR system
Dec. 7 — Streamline Health Solutions, a provider of integrated document management and workflow solutions, has reached an agreement with Emergis to integrate Streamline Health's accessANYware document management repository and document workflow applications into Emergis' Oacis EMR system.
Contracts & Installations
Louisiana university gains molecular imaging through GM-I
Dec. 7 — Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, La., will install the FLEX Triumph system, a fully digital multi-modality molecular imaging system from Gamma Medica-Ideas (GM-I), a Northridge, Calif.-based digital medical imaging devices developer.
ART nets two Optix orders
Dec. 7 — Advanced Research Technologies (ART), a medical device and optical molecular imaging products company, has received two orders for its preclinical optical molecular imager, Optix MX2.
Medipattern installs B-CAD in Mexico
Dec. 7 — Medipattern, a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) medical imaging software, has installed its latest version of B-CAD 2.2, at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia in Mexico City.
Brooklyn Hospital chooses Eclipsys
Dec. 7 — The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City will implement Eclipsys' Sunrise Clinical Manager, including the modules Sunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise Critical Care, Sunrise Emergency Care, Sunrise Pharmacy and Sunrise Knowledge-Based Medication Administration.
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