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December 19, 2008 – To meet the growing demand for the high quality diagnostic imaging and testing services in local communities, the North Shore-LIJ Health System has opened a newly renovated $4.3 million, 4,000-square-foot outpatient imaging center.

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December 19, 2008 – GE Healthcare IT released Centricity Business version 4.3, the latest version of the GE Healthcare solution for revenue cycle management, patient access and managed care is designed to drive efficiency and enhance services for academic medical centers, hospitals and hospital networks and large practices in the U.S.

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December 19, 2008 - GE Healthcare’s Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system was selected by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as a reporting registry for the 2008 program, and GE expects this registry certification to continue in 2009.

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December 19, 2008 — While radiation treatments deliver precise doses of high-energy X-rays to stop cancer cells from spreading or to shrink tumors, oncologists have become increasingly concerned about inadvertent exposures during head and neck cancer treatments to nerves responsible for upper body mobility.

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December 19, 2008 - Siemens Healthcare signed an agreement with Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, to integrate the use of laboratory diagnostics, imaging and information technology systems to improve management of patient care from early detection and diagnosis of diseases or conditions to patient treatment.

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December 18, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients with a reportedly fast and precise form of radiotherapy, using RapidArc radiotherapy technology by Varian Medical Systems.

Time December 18, 2008
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December 18, 2008 - The addition of an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map to T2-weighted images can improve the diagnostic performance of MR imaging in prostate cancer detection.

Time December 18, 2008
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December 18, 2008 – The FDA has cleared the 3.0 Tesla IMRISneuro manufactured by IMRIS Inc. for sale in the U.S. IMRISneuro is available with either a 1.5 Tesla or a 3T magnet. Both systems provide IMRIS' patented technology and utilize 70 cm wide bore advanced magnetic resonance imaging systems from Siemens.

Time December 18, 2008
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December 18, 2008 - EDAP TMS SA, a therapeutic ultrasound manufacturer, has filed a 510(k) marketing application with the FDA for its newly designed, high-end Sonolith I-Sys device.

Time December 18, 2008
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December 12, 2008 - Patients with breast cancer whose tumors were HER2-positive and one centimeter or smaller had a significant risk of relapse compared with other tumor types, according to a new study presented at the CRTC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

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December 18, 2008 - Therapeutic strategies that use neoadjuvant RT for patients with resectable pancreatic cancer showed a survival benefit over surgery alone or surgery with adjuvant RT in treating pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in the November 2008 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics.

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December 18, 2008 — Emageon Inc. announced that its stockholders voted to approve Emageon’s proposed merger with Health Systems Solutions Inc. at a special meeting of stockholders held at Emageon’s offices yesterday.

Time December 18, 2008
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December 18, 2008 – Today marks the final day of bidding on the Ysio, a digital radiography (DR) system with wireless detector from Siemens Healthcare, as part of a charity event for Children’s Health Fund (CHF), a national organization dedicated to providing health care for homeless and medically disadvantaged children and advocating on behalf of all children, to be put up for auction.

Time December 17, 2008
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December 18, 2008 — AngioDynamics Inc. announced the use of its irreversible electroporation (IRE) technology on a lymph node metastasis and the first lung lesion case at The Alfred in Melbourne, Australia.

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December 17, 2008 - A study released this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that colonoscopy is associated with lower death rates from colorectal cancer, however, the procedure missed lesions more often on the right side of the colon versus the left side.

Time December 17, 2008
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December 17, 2008 – Teleradiology provider Imaging On Call said it signed contracts with Orange Radiology Associates in Monroe, NY and Interfaith Medical Center based in Brooklyn, NY. Imaging On Call offers various packages, including preliminary or final reads, subspecialty reads, vacation coverage, post processing and interpretation for coronary CTA and breast MRI.

Time December 16, 2008
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December 16, 2008 – Two imaging facilities in Delaware are the latest to select NovaRad’s imaging and scheduling technologies to enhance workflow and productivity. The facilities include: - Limestone Open MRI & Diagnostic Imaging in Wilmington, selected NovaPACS - Mid Delaware Imaging in Dover, selected NovaPACS and NovaRIS

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December 16, 2008 - Rcadia Medical Imaging Ltd., developer of the COR Analyzer software for the automated analysis of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies, closed a $3.3M investment round led by BioVentures Investors of Cambridge, MA.

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December 16, 2008 - OnePacs LLC is offering its new fully functional, free version of the OnePacs web-enabled PACS system, as a way to work alongside and integrate with a current PACS or replace it.

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December 16, 2008 – Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine compared narrow-band imaging (NBI) without high magnification to standard white light colonoscopy in differentiating colorectal polyps during real-time colonoscopy and found that NBI was not more accurate than white light colonoscopy.

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