Industry News

Congress may tackle problem of decreasing number of doctors
Congress is seeking to remedy a national doctor shortage that could worsen after July 1, when physicians who treat Medicare patients get a 10 percent pay cut.

Ambulatory surgery centers struggle to adopt EHRs
Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) face challenges in adopting EHRs, which may account for the reason that 82 percent do not use an EHR, 85 percent use paper perioperative notes and 74 percent use dictation and transcription for physician procedure notes, according to an independent U.S. survey of ASC administrators.

Clinical Studies

CT colonoscopy found to be an efficacious, cost-effective screening alternative
CT colonography is a more clinically effective and more cost-effective screening strategy over colonoscopy with or without ultrasonography, according to a computerized model simulation published in the April 14 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Pretargeting method may improve radioimmunotherapy of cancer
Pretargeting radioimmunotherapy with a trivalent bispecific monoclonal antibody, when compared to a directly radiolabeled antibody, improved anti-tumor responses with less toxicity in a human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma model, according to results presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in San Diego this week.

New Products

Microsoft releases Amalga in Europe
Microsoft has released its Microsoft Amalga, which allows hospital enterprises to unlock their data from isolated clinical, financial and administrative services, for European availability.

Regulatory News

FDA grants Candelis 510(k) approval
Candelis has received 510(k) marketing clearance from the FDA for its ImageGrid mammography web viewer and ImageGrid radiology web viewer, which are now part of the ImageGrid RIS/PACS appliance technology suite.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Two Spanish imaging firms to merge
Sedecal and Suinsa Medical Systems have signed an agreement to merge both companies into a single entity.

Contracts & Installations

London center installs Siemens' cardiac imaging systems
The Clinical Imaging and Research Centre based at The Wellington Hospital in North London, a private hospital for cardiac care, has installed a Somatom Definition Dual Source CT, Symbia T6 SPECT/CT and ultrasound scanners from Siemens Healthcare.

Medipattern nabs multi-site install for B-CAD
Suffolk Medical Imaging and Mid Island Medical Imaging, private radiology practices serving the Long Island community in the greater metropolitan New York area have installed the B-CAD from Medipattern, a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) medical imaging for cancer.

Colorado health center selects eClinicalWorks for EMR, PM
Salud Family Health Centers, a federally qualified community health center in Colorado outside of Denver, has purchased licenses of eClinicalWorks unified EMR and practice management (PM) solution.

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