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GE event assembles investors, advocates to fight cancer
By Cynthia E. Keen
NEW YORK CITY - GE Healthcare today upped the ante in its war on cancer, assembling a star-studded field of public health advocates and venture capitalists to announce a new round of investments to accelerate innovation in cancer detection and therapy.
September 14, 2011
Zotec merges with Medical Business Service
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical billing firm Zotec Partners is merging with Medical Business Service of Coral Gables, FL.
September 14, 2011
Toshiba donates Aquilion CT to Kenyan hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems said it has donated and installed a refurbished Aquilion 4 CT system at a Kenyan hospital.
September 14, 2011
Elekta completes Nucletron purchase
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Oncology firm Elekta announced it has completed its acquisition of radiation therapy firm Nucletron for 365 million euros ($522.1 million U.S.) in cash.
September 14, 2011
Novarad nets Calif. NovaMG contracts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
RIS and PACS vendor Novarad said it has won two mammography contracts in California for its NovaMG breast imaging viewer.
September 14, 2011
Mirada inks deal with clinical trial firm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical imaging software developer Mirada Medical has signed an agreement with clinical trial support firm ABX-CRO that will allow the company to use Mirada's multimodality imaging applications for clinical trials in oncology and the neurosciences.
September 14, 2011
GE to invest $1B in new oncology R&D
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has announced plans to dedicate $1 billion of its total R&D budget over the next five years to expand its advanced cancer diagnostic and molecular imaging offerings, as well as technologies for manufacturing biopharmaceuticals and for cancer research.
September 14, 2011
Surface registration unites prone and supine CTC data
By Eric Barnes
A new endoluminal surface registration approach has succeeded in cobbling together prone and supine virtual colonoscopy datasets more completely than previous methods to create a virtual endoluminal view similar to that of conventional colonoscopy, according to a study in Medical Physics.
September 14, 2011
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RSNA's Image Share project hopes to repeat DICOM success
By Erik L. Ridley
In the late 1990s, radiology societies helped encourage vendor adoption of the DICOM 3.0 standard, a milestone that ultimately sparked a revolution in digital image management. Now, RSNA hopes its Image Share project will do the same for the nascent field of image sharing.
September 14, 2011
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NextComputing debuts 3D bundle
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Workstation provider NextComputing has released a 3D bundle for use with its Nucleus compact workstation.
September 13, 2011
Breast density bill passes in Calif.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
California's state Legislature has passed a bill that requires women with dense breast tissue to be informed of their status, according to its sponsor, Sen. Joe Simitian. The bill now goes to Gov. Jerry Brown for consideration.
September 13, 2011
FDA public workshop weighs clinical decision support
By Erik L. Ridley
The final day of a two-day public forum on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulation of mobile medical apps addressed clinical decision-support (CDS) software. It's a tricky subject given the differences in CDS tools, levels of patient risk, and even the very definition of what constitutes a CDS application.
September 13, 2011
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