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Industry News
National Quality Forum opens comment period for outpatient imaging efficiency
The National Quality Forum is seeking public comment on measures for public accountability and quality improvement for diagnostic outpatient imaging, as detailed in its draft report, National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Outpatient Imaging Efficiency.
Canada Health selects GE for PACS, other imaging services
Canada Health Infoway has selected GE Healthcare Canada through a preferred solution agreement for the company's Centricity PACS and diagnostic imaging repository.
Dedicated breast MRI leads growing adjunct breast imaging market
The market for adjunct breast imaging systems—covering breast coils, dedicated breast MRI systems and breast-specific gamma imaging systems—will grow at a compound annual growth rate of almost 28 percent over the next five years, according to a report from the Millennium Research Group.
Clinical Studies
CCTA is cost-saving for low-risk women—not men
Coronary CT angiography (CCTA)-based triage for patients with low-risk chest pain is modestly more effective than the standard-of-care, and it is also associated with cost-saving in women and low cost-effectiveness ratios in men, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal Roentgenology.
New Products
TeraRecon releases new version of Aquarius iNtuition
TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and interpretation software, has released Aquarius iNtuition version 4.3.
Contracts & Installations
U.S. Army selects CR line from iCRco
Digital radiography developer iCRco reported that its Vertex CR product has been chosen for deployment by the U.S. Army's medical services..
Medrad, IBA to supply PET infusion system for UPMC
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Hillman Cancer Center has installed Intego PET infusion system from Medrad, which has partnered with IBA Molecular to provide the radiopharmaceutical supply.
Oklahoma health system installs Merge PACS with mammo capabilities
St. Francis Health System, a multi-site, multi-specialty hospital in Tulsa, Okla., has signed a contract to upgrade from its existing PACS to the Merge Fusion PACS MX 3.0, a recently released version with the capabilities of Merge Mammo 7.10.
New California hospital goes wireless with InnerWireless
El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., will deploy InnerWireless' Horizon in its new 300-bed hospital for wireless connectivity and coverage for mission- and life-critical applications.
Financial News
Vital loss widens in Q2
Vital Images, a provider of enterprise-wide visualization and analysis solutions, has reported a net loss of $1.6 million for the 2008 second quarter, which ended June 30, compared to a net loss of $379,000 for the second quarter of 2007.
Executive Announcements
Agfa hires former Siemens exec to head European regions
Agfa HealthCare has hired Andrew Hind as the head of its United Kingdom, Ireland and Nordics (Scandinavia and the Baltics) regions. He will officially join Agfa on Sept. 1.
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