September 23, 2011 – Increasing magnetic resonance (MR) exam efficiency, Toshiba America Medical Systems’ advanced M-Power interface has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance. M-Power is a customizable MR system user interface that enables technologists to streamline and accelerate scanning processes and enhance diagnoses. M-Power will be available for use on Toshiba’s Vantage Atlas, Vantage Titan 1.5 and Titan 3.0T MR systems with an upgrade path for those systems already installed.

September 23, 2011 – GE Healthcare announced the availability of HDlive and Volume Speckle Reduction Imaging (SRI) for women’s health imaging products within its Voluson Expert series platform. These innovations are being showcased for the first time in the United States at the 2011 International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) congress, Sept. 18-22 in Los Angeles.

September 23, 2011 — Bionix Radiation Therapy announced the addition of Breath Hold, an interactive breath hold control monitoring system from MedSpira, as an accessory to its Omni V Patient Positioning System.

September 20, 2011 – Carestream’s innovative Vue Motion zero-footprint, Web-based enterprise viewer enables convenient on-demand access to imaging data and patient information by clinicians anytime, anywhere. This viewer’s support of mobile devices such as Apple iPads and tablet PCs is pending U.S Food and Drug administraion (FDA) clearance in the United States but is available in other countries worldwide.

Carestream recently enhanced its established portfolio of Vue for cloud-based services that includes picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), archiving and collaborative information sharing. A new portal service allows healthcare facilities to quickly and easily share images and information with any authorized physician. This facilitates obtaining secondary opinions from specialists and sharing diagnoses with referring physicians.Healthcare providers can also use the portal to allow patients to securely access their own medical information. Carestream’s fully featured PACS and vendor-neutral archiving cloud services allow providers to achieve affordable and predictable costs while ensuring business continuity and security.The archiving service delivers consolidated data storage and management solution for any data type, regardless of vendor. It converts proprietary image data into a vendor-neutral format that preserves data integrity and streamlines data sharing among authorized users and facilities.For more information: www.carestream.com