April 7, 2009 - The World Health Imaging Alliance (WHIA) said at HIMSS 2009 that it has cemented key partnerships that will enable it to significantly ramp up its efforts to bring digital imaging technology to sites in need around the world.
April 8, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc. is showcasing the newly released Aquarius iNtuition ("AQi") software version 4.4 with advanced decision support and visualization at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition this week in Chicago.
April 8, 2009 - The Helena Cardiology Clinic of Helena, MT has installed two Toshiba Aplio Artida ultrasound systems with 3D Wall Motion Tracking capabilities, allowing sonographers and physicians to more quickly and accurately identify wall motion defects and the timing of cardiac events.
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April 5, 2009 - InSite One Inc. announced at HIMSS 2009 it will re-sign a three-year contact with InSight Health Corp. for its imaging centers’ enterprise storage with a cohesive service level agreement as the exclusive archive provider, providing InSite One’s InDex DICOM standards-based storage and content management services.
April 7, 2009 - Ziosoft Inc. today announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market cardiac function analysis and calcium scoring applications for use with the Ziostation thin-client advanced visualization system.
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April 7, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. has acquired the U.S., Canadian and Australian rights to MS-325 (formerly marketed as VASOVIST, gadofosveset trisodium, by Bayer Schering Pharma) from EPIX Pharmaceuticals.
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April 6, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, GE Healthcare said today announced it will work with Providence Health & Services (Portland, OR) to develop a new connectivity platform to integrate electronic records from hospitals with GE Healthcare’s Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR), a widely used EMR designed for the ambulatory setting.
April 6, 2009 - SenoRx said that two peer-reviewed journal articles summarizing clinical findings related to its Contura Multi-Lumen Balloon (MLB) Catheter are pending publication. These and other studies support the company’s belief that a patient treated with Contura MLB receives a more targeted dose of radiation, while minimizing radiation to healthy tissue such as
April 6, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has recently updated its patient brochure “Plain Talk for Radiation Therapy Patients: Stereotactic Radiation” to include information about stereotactic radiation.
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April 6, 2009 - Harris Corp. said at HIMSS 2009 that it is re-engineering and redesigning the Web site CTisUS (www.ctisus.com) to deliver intuitive navigation to state-of-the-practice medical imaging content for radiologic technologists and other allied healthcare professionals who access the site every day from more than 100 countries.
April 6, 2009 — Viztek released a Web-based interface with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for its family of PACS offerings.
April 6, 2009 - INFINITT North America is now offering an off-site disaster recovery (DR) service to all INFINITT North America customers. With off-site copies of patients' images and a fully replicated database, medical facilities can take advantage of the very fastest method of restoring data in case of a total catastrophic disaster, according to the company.
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April 6, 2009. Long time members of NCBC and corporate sponsors of the NQMBC™ Quality Initiative, KUBTEC has joined forces with the National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) to further its mission of increasing the quality of breast health care by sponsoring the NCBC 2009 Poster Sessions this year in Las Vegas.
April 6, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc. recently announced the election of a new board of directors at its annual meeting of the shareholders held last week. The elected directors are TeraRecon founder Motoaki Saito, M.D., Ph.D., Robert James Taylor, Ph.D., Fumio Urano, Shigeyuki Watanabe and Matthew James Ostrander. Biographies for each director can be found on the company’s website.
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April 6, 2009 – According to The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), an unprecedented rush of applications to meet a March 31 deadline for applying for the 2008 cycle of certification testing brought to 64 the number of ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) products seeking to become CCHIT Certified.
April 6, 2009 – The Image and Knowledge Management (IKM) business unit of Siemens Healthcare and Harris Corp. are joining forces to offer healthcare providers reportedly affordable solutions critical for PACS disaster recovery to support business continuity.
April 6, 2009 — Carestream Health displayed the “power viewer” for its PACS workstation, a power viewer designed to speed interpretation and reporting for routine exams and 3D imaging studies where complex data sets need to be compared, at HIMSS 2009.
April 6, 2009 - Compellent Technologies Inc.‘s storage area network (SAN) is reportedly helping healthcare customers overcome IT challenges and enhance patient care through better data storage management.
April 6, 2009 - The 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS 2009) featured 25,672 total registrants, 13,677 exhibitor staff and 11,291 professional attendees, according to the organization.
April 6, 2009 - A new study from healthcare research firm KLAS entitled “The KLAS report For Better or Worse: A Report for Providers on Healthcare IT Mergers & Acquisitions” look at why some healthcare IT mergers and acquisitions succeed in creating value for healthcare providers while others severely impact customer satisfaction.