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Health Imaging News Highlights | Nov. 21, 2008

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In this edition:
  • Toshiba is buying Barco advanced visualization business
  • Vast majority of U.S. hospitals do not use EHRs
  • Study: PHRs could save $21B annually in the United States
  • Hospital employees in Iowa punished for patient data breach
  • Daschle accepts Obama’s invitation to become HHS Secretary
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Toshiba is buying Barco advanced visualization business

Fri, Nov 21 2008
 
Barco announced this morning it is selling its advanced visualization business to Toshiba Medical Systems of Tokyo, Japan, via its newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary, Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe (TMVS), located in Edinburgh, Scotland. For Toshiba, the acquisition will build in-house critical core competencies—the development of 3D volume rendering and advanced visualization capabilities for all Toshiba modalities.

Daschle accepts Obama’s invite to become HHS Secretary

Thu, Nov 20 2008
 
Former Senator Tom Daschle, D-S.D., has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s request to become the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Canadian scientists devise alternative for medical isotope production

Thu, Nov 20 2008
 
Scientists in Canada have discovered that intense beams of light could generate isotopes for nuclear medicine and eliminate the security risks associated with making the medicines with weapons-grade uranium at the aging nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont.

Hospital employees in Iowa punished for patient data breach

Wed, Nov 19 2008
 
The University of Iowa (UI) Hospitals and Clinics has disciplined eight employees for inappropriately accessing patient health records.

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NightHawk replaces CEO

Industry News | Thu, Nov 20 2008
The board of directors at NightHawk Radiology Holdings, a provider of radiology solutions to radiology groups and hospitals, has approved a plan to reshuffle members of senior management.

New PET technique tracks cancer-killing cells over prolonged period

Clinical Studies | Thu, Nov 20 2008
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California have devised a way to obtain repeated snapshots of the location and survival of infected or diseased cells in a living human patient months and possibly years later, according to a case study published online Nov. 18 in Nature Clinical Practice Oncology.

CardioComm, GE sign four-year software agreement

Partnerships & Alliances | Thu, Nov 20 2008
CardioComm Solutions has executed a renewable four-year North American software licensing agreement with GE Healthcare focusing on cardiac arrhythmia management.

Bracco Imaging, Marillion partner for new cancer treatment

Partnerships & Alliances | Thu, Nov 20 2008
Marillion Pharmaceuticals and Bracco Imaging, part of the Bracco Group, have entered into a license agreement granting Marillion exclusive worldwide rights to complete clinical development and to commercialize Bracco’s 177Lu-AMBA for the treatment of hormone-resistant prostate and metastatic breast cancers.

Carestream, NDMA collaborate for e-health, analytics services

Partnerships & Alliances | Thu, Nov 20 2008
Carestream Health and National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) are collaborating on product integration initiatives, designed to support the expansion of NDMA’s U.S. imaging network and improve customer access to its analytics and data management services.

Matrox Graphics, NEC Display merge display solutions

Partnerships & Alliances | Thu, Nov 20 2008
NEC Display Solutions Europe will now ship Xenia Series display controller boards from Matrox Graphics for use with a variety of color and grayscale medical LCD monitors.

IECO to supply Paramed for Open MRI system

Partnerships & Alliances | Thu, Nov 20 2008
Paramed Medical Systems and International Electric Co. (IECO) in Helsinki, Finland, have signed a purchase agreement where IECO supplies Paramed with its gradient power amplifiers and related equipment for Paramed’s new MROpen system. 

EMC debuts new enterprise capture technologies

New Products | Thu, Nov 20 2008
EMC has released its EMC Captiva InputAccel 6 and EMC Captiva Dispatcher 6 to advance enterprise capture performance and scalability, while simplifying development and deployment in both centralized and distributed capture environments.

Merge Healthcare releases updated DICOM toolkit

New Products | Thu, Nov 20 2008
Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging solutions provider, has released its MergeCOM-3 Version 3.9, which adds DICOM standard supplements to its DICOM toolkit.

Aperio nets second FDA clearance for digital breast cancer slides

Regulatory News | Thu, Nov 20 2008
Aperio Technologies has received its second FDA clearance for reading digital progesterone receptor (PR) slides from a computer monitor using its ScanScope digital slide scanning system.

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