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Argenteuil, outside Paris in France, a prominent public hospital is now initiating a pilot project offering women to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis screening in a single examination. The combined assessment of bone health is made possible by Sectra’s patented online service, Sectra OneScreen.

Following an extensive and lengthy procurement process, Carestream has been awarded the contract to supply CARESTREAM Vue RIS and Vue PACS to Helse Sør-Øst (HSØ), www.helse-sorost.no, the largest of the four Regional Health Authorities in Norway.  The contract spans eight years and the first phase of installations will extend to five Trusts.

As healthcare moves from a volume to a value proposition, building better, more efficient patient care is increasingly important. Radiologists will learn skills to help navigate this transition, become better leaders, and thrive under new delivery and payment systems, at the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) RLI Annual Event, to be held July 25–28, 2013, at the Kellogg School of Management on Northwestern University’s Evanston, IL, campus.

Elekta (NSE: EKTAb) and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced today that Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, Canada) will join their growing consortium to validate the clinical potential of MRI-guided radiation therapy.

Texas Children's Hospital announced today that it is the first children's hospital in the United States to begin using a PET/MRI (positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging) scanner, a state-of-the-art technology that will help in early and accurate diagnosis of various cancers, heart diseases and degenerative neurological disorders. Texas Children's is also the only hospital in the Texas Medical Center to have this machine.

J.M. Winston Radiology Associates, Inc.,  a 6-physician radiology practice based in Reading, Pa., has partnered with McKesson Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) to help improve cash flow and bolster regulatory compliance.

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that OnQ Research Pty Ltd, a South African based full-service Clinical Research Organization (CRO), has selected Merge's eClinical OS™ solution for electronic data capture (EDC) to expand their in-house data management service offering.

Providing clinicians real time data to optimize radiation dose management during cardiac procedures, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. introduces the FDA-cleared Dose Tracking System for InfinixTM-i cardiovascular X-ray.

Agfa HealthCare announces today it has renewed its commitment to support the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research & Education (R&E) Foundation and its bright researchers with a $500,000 commitment to be awarded over five years.

GE Healthcare continues to be a leader in dose-reduction features with the announcement that all of its new CT products meet the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) smart dose standard that raises the bar for CT dose management.

Visage Imaging, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. (ASX: PME), announced today that they have signed a five-year agreement with vRad (Virtual Radiologic), one of the world’s largest radiology groups.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) recognized medical facilities in New Jersey and Maine as the first-ever Diagnostic Imaging Centers of Excellent (DICOE), recognizing a distinctive level of excellence in diagnostic imaging.

Electrophysiology (EP) clinical teams require a unique set of technologies to perform accurate and safe exams. Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. offers these clinicians an InfinixTM-i cardiovascular X-ray system tailored for EP procedures with a new package of features, accessories and technologies

Amidst ongoing national debate about healthcare costs, new research unveiled today by Siemens Healthcare shows that the vast majority of Americans (92 percent) agree that “the value of knowing exactly what is wrong with their health is as important as having access to a doctor in the first place” and nearly four in five Americans (78 percent) would want to have a test done to diagnose a disease, even if there is no treatment or cure available.

Joint Township District Memorial Hospital (St. Marys, Ohio) purchased and installed a fully featured CARESTREAM Cardiology PACS and integrated that platform with its CARESTREAM Vue PACS and CARESTREAM Vue RIS. The hospital is a member of Grand Lake Health System.

Agfa HealthCare announces today that it has successfully implemented its DX-D 600 Direct Radiography (DR) system at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL), creating a new DR room at the Leigh Infirmary.

Intelerad software enables simultaneous increases in quality and efficiency for Optimal Radiology Partners, facilitating dramatic growth during a challenging time in the healthcare industry.

The American Telemedicine Association’s Industry  Council Awards is presented annually to recognize substantial contributions toward the advancement of telemedicine across the country and around the world.

In today’s age where sending an email or text message are second nature, it’s hard for many to comprehend that this simple transfer of information is not an option for most doctors when sharing patient information and reaching a diagnosis.

Siemens Healthcare has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently cleared the company’s CAIPIRINHA (Controlled Aliasing in Volumetric Parallel Imaging Results IN Higher Acceleration) software as part of Siemens’ syngo MR D13A software package for parallel magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.

MILabs, B.V. the Netherlands‐based innovator and manufacturer of pre‐clinical SPECT/PET/CT imaging devices used in biomedical research, today announces the release of the new mini product family ‐ an easy‐to‐use series of benchtop SPECT and PET imagers for small animals that combine simplified workflow, compact dimensions and affordable pricing to bring high‐performance SPECT/PET within everyone’s reach.