Hansen Medical has signed an agreement with Philips Healthcare, granting the latter exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Hansens Fiber Optic Shape Sensing and Localization (FOSSL) technology.

Toshiba America Medical Systems has signed a three-year agreement with healthcare supply contracting company Novation, which will now offer Toshiba CT scanners to provider members of VHA, University HealthSystem Consortium and Provista.

Under intensifying demand for more appropriate and higher quality imaging, P4 medicinecare that is predictive, personalized, preemptive and participatorymay just offer patients, payors and radiologists cutting-edge improvements and quality of care, according to an article published in the February edition of Radiology.

The FDA has approved Boston Scientifics Renegade HI-FLO Fathom system for selective access and delivery of diagnostic, embolic and therapeutic materials to the peripheral vasculature.

The protocol and technique for oncologic PET/CT varies widely, intensifying the need for general standards but underscoring variabilitys impedance to comparable, sound evidence for establishing such standards, concluded a study published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Despite a relatively low rate of therapeutic accidents, concern over safety in radiation oncology is growing, both among the public and within the specialty. As the field continues to evolve and become more technical, radiation oncologists may understand the frequency and causes of errors less and less, intensifying the need for greater quality assurance, argued the authors of a study published in the January-March edition of Practical Radiation Oncology.

Meriter Health Services, a health system based in Madison, Wis., has implemented Corepoints Integration Engine, replacing its legacy interface engine as a part of a technological upgrade.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has purchased Carestream Healths RIS.