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Acuo Technologies granted patent covering technology implemented in DSG software suite

Acuo Technologies, the market leading Vendor Neutral Archive supplier, was granted US patent number 7,640,171 by the USPTO which covers technology implemented in its DICOM Services Grid™ software suite.

3 Mar 2010

PINC trial to test anti-malarial drug in women with DCIS

Can a drug that has been used to treat malaria for years possibly be used to treat breast cancer before it becomes invasive? That's what researchers at George Mason University's Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) and Inova Breast Care Institute (IBCI) are trying to prove.

3 Mar 2010

Robotic surgery does not compromise clinical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery

Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the sensation of touch, even as they operate from a remote console. A new study describes the phenomenon, called intersensory integration, and reports that surgical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery using minimally invasive robotic technology compare favorably with traditional invasive surgery.

3 Mar 2010

Harvard Professor urges medical community to use ultrasound for diagnosing acute female pelvic conditions

In a bold, eye-opening editorial in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Harvard Professor, Beryl Benacerraf, MD, urges the medical community to use ultrasound instead of Computed Tomography (CT) as the first-line imaging test for better diagnosis capability in the evaluation of acute female pelvic and lower abdominal conditions.

3 Mar 2010

TomTec Imaging Systems to present radiology and software solutions at the upcoming ECR

Customers and business partners are invited to visit TomTec’s booth at the upcoming ECR in Vienna.

3 Mar 2010

BGU study: Healthy, long-term weight loss diets can significantly reverse carotid atherosclerosis

A two-year study led by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) found that healthy, long-term weight loss diets can significantly reverse carotid (main brain artery) atherosclerosis, a direct risk factor for strokes and heart attacks. The study is one of the first to prove the potential of moderate weight loss as a strategy to reverse atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in overweight and mildly obese people.

3 Mar 2010

TechniScan launches clinical study to assess clinical utility of Warm Bath Ultrasound

TechniScan, Inc., a medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of an automated 3-D breast ultrasound imaging system, today announced that in collaboration with University Medical Center Freiburg in Germany, it has launched a clinical study to assess clinical utility of TechniScan's Warm Bath Ultrasound.

3 Mar 2010

Merge Healthcare introduces new mobile device application for eFilm Workstation v3.3

Merge Healthcare, a leading health IT solutions provider, today announced the release of eFilm Mobile, an exciting new extension of the eFilm Workstation franchise.

2 Mar 2010

Imaging technique combining ultrasound and microscopic bubbles help visualize tumor activity at molecular level

An imaging technique combining ultrasound and specially modified contrast agents may allow researchers to noninvasively detect cancer and show its progression, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM). The technique enables researchers to visualize tumor activity at the molecular level.

2 Mar 2010

Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, Netherlands Vaccine Institute launch AmpVacs project to develop influenza A vaccine

Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and the Netherlands Vaccine Institute announce today the launch of their joint AmpVacs project aiming at the development of a broadly protective synthetic influenza A vaccine component that in combination with classical antibody-stimulating vaccines will induce protection against future influenza A threats.

2 Mar 2010

UC Davis Medical Center to implement LUMEDX Apollo interoperability solutions for cardiovascular information management

LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of vendor-neutral, integrated medical imaging and information systems, today announced that UC Davis Medical Center purchased LUMEDX Apollo structured reporting, analytic and interoperability solutions for their Heart and Vascular Centers. Prior to these purchases, UC Davis Medical Center used the Apollo clinical data repository solely to support cardiac registry participation.

2 Mar 2010

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Primordial, a leading vendor of communication, workflow, quality management and analytics applications for the medical imaging market, announced today that it will deploy and further develop Primordial’s applications at NYU Langone Medical Center. As part of the agreement, Primordial will install its platform and applications at NYU Langone Medical Center, an integrated academic medical center, to unify communications and manage complex workflow for a highly sub-specialized and distributed work environment.

2 Mar 2010

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Aspirus, a non-profit system of hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities with more than 4,200 employees and more than 400 licensed inpatient beds in its system, is helping its practitioners streamline workflows while reducing IT administrative costs leveraging EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization.

2 Mar 2010

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

Lexmark International, Inc. will showcase Lexmark Downtime Reports, the first printer-based healthcare downtime solution, at the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference being held in Atlanta.

2 Mar 2010

AdMeTech Foundation: Health care reform highlights need for better screening and prevention of prostate cancer

AdMeTech Foundation announced today that its President and CEO Dr. Faina Shtern will testify on March 4 before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on how health care reform highlights the need for increased funding for research aimed at creating accurate, life-saving diagnostic tools for prostate cancer, which will improve screening, prevention, early detection and reduce health costs.

2 Mar 2010

Merge Healthcare launches Patient Kiosk and deploys new patient engagement tool in U.S. imaging centers

In an effort to leverage health information exchange technology for consumers, Merge Healthcare today announced the introduction of the Merge Patient Kiosk™ and the successful deployment of this new patient engagement tool in several imaging centers in the U.S. Combining the best of kiosk technologies already present in other industries and the specific requirements of healthcare consumers, the Merge solution creates a new way for imaging practices to stay connected to their customers.

2 Mar 2010

Life Technologies announces early stage results from SMS technology

Life Technologies Corporation today announced early stage results from its single molecule sequencing (SMS) technology. The technology promises to combine virtually unlimited continuous long read lengths with unmatched accuracy to deliver targeted genomic sequence data in a matter of hours, paving the way for sequencing to become a commonplace tool in research laboratories and clinical settings worldwide.

2 Mar 2010

Hyland Software increases domain expertise in workflow solutions by acquiring eWebHealth

Hyland Software has purchased privately held eWebHealth, a leading provider of hosted medical records workflow solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

2 Mar 2010

Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses Positron facility in Fishers to handle radioactive material

Positron Corporation a molecular imaging solutions company focused on Nuclear Cardiology, announced today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has licensed the Positron facility in Fishers, Indiana to handle radioactive material.

2 Mar 2010

$Visceral fat can increase fracture risk in obese teenage girls$

Visceral fat can increase fracture risk in obese teenage girls

According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), obese teenage girls with a greater ratio of visceral fat (fat around internal organs) to subcutaneous fat (fat found just beneath the skin) are likely to have lower bone density than peers with a lower ratio of visceral to subcutaneous fat.

2 Mar 2010

Imaging News and Research

Acuo Technologies granted patent covering technology implemented in DSG software suite

PINC trial to test anti-malarial drug in women with DCIS

Robotic surgery does not compromise clinical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery

Harvard Professor urges medical community to use ultrasound for diagnosing acute female pelvic conditions

TomTec Imaging Systems to present radiology and software solutions at the upcoming ECR

BGU study: Healthy, long-term weight loss diets can significantly reverse carotid atherosclerosis

TechniScan launches clinical study to assess clinical utility of Warm Bath Ultrasound

Merge Healthcare introduces new mobile device application for eFilm Workstation v3.3

Imaging technique combining ultrasound and microscopic bubbles help visualize tumor activity at molecular level

Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, Netherlands Vaccine Institute launch AmpVacs project to develop influenza A vaccine

UC Davis Medical Center to implement LUMEDX Apollo interoperability solutions for cardiovascular information management

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

AdMeTech Foundation: Health care reform highlights need for better screening and prevention of prostate cancer

Merge Healthcare launches Patient Kiosk and deploys new patient engagement tool in U.S. imaging centers

Life Technologies announces early stage results from SMS technology

Hyland Software increases domain expertise in workflow solutions by acquiring eWebHealth

Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses Positron facility in Fishers to handle radioactive material

Visceral fat can increase fracture risk in obese teenage girls

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