September 8, 2011 — EVOCS has released a cloud-based medical image sharing platform to enhance image management, distribution and data exchanges between referring physicians and hospitals, regardless of geographical location. Fysicon was one of the first to create this picture archive solution and has since gone on to control 85 percent of the Dutch market. More than 60 million images have been exchanged via the EVOCS image sharing technology.

September 8, 2011 – KOM Networks, provider of storage management solutions for secure archiving, compliant data protection and retention, announces the KOMpliance i-Series Archive Gateway.

September 8, 2011 — Naviscan announced it obtained CE Mark approval for its high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and PET-guided biopsy accessory. The breast application of the scanner is positron emission mammography (PEM). Naviscan has expanded its distribution into 13 European countries and has already received its first two orders in Germany and Switzerland.

September 6, 2011 – Accuray announced the launch of Accuray Exchange in Radiation Oncology (AERO), a global organization for CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System and TomoTherapy Radiation Therapy System users dedicated to advancing patient care through worldwide clinical and technical collaboration.

September 1, 2011 — The Breast Patient Navigator Certification examination will be held on Sept. 19, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas. The last day for registration is Friday, Sept. 9. To register for the certification examination, print an application from the organization’s website. The application may be returned by mail or faxed to 574-267-8268.

September 1, 2011 – The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHR Association), a collaboration of 42 EHR supplier companies, in responding to the Center for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) proposed rules for the Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS) and the hospital outpatient prospective payment system for 2012, asked CMS administrator Donald M. Berwick, M.D., to reconsider its proposal to require the submission of patient-level data as it pilots electronic submissions of clinical quality measures (CQMs) based on the burden it would impose on provider organizations and other considerations.