Doctors at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam have used RapidArc technology from Varian Medical Systems to treat four early stage lung cancer patients and now plan to replace conventional stereotactic radiotherapy treatments with RapidArc for all such patients.

Mountain Medical Imaging Center in Salt Lake City has installed the commercial Vanguard breast coil from Sentinelle Medical, designed for Siemens Healthcares Magentom Avanto and Espree dedicated breast MR tabletop.

HCCS - Experts in Healthcare Learning has partnered with Medical Learning, to deliver a new series of online, interactive training courses in the areas of coding, billing and reimbursement. The library of more than 50 online courses will educate hospital and clinic physicians, coders, billing staff and administrators on compliance and best practices to maximize reimbursement, the companies said.

EDS will condense FDA applications from five agency data centers into one EDS-managed data center for production operations, as part of the FDAs new $2.5 billion award program to update its IT and data center management services over the next 10 years.

Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta has installed the Aquilion ONE from Toshiba America Medical Systems.

While the U.S. and world economies have us distracted, concerned and pensive these days, the business priorities of healthcare imaging and IT leaders in 2008 are clearpatients, efficiency and building revenue are top of mind.

Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., is using MammoSite, anaccelerated partial breast irradiation device, that delivers higherdose radiation therapy to breast cancer patients, from the Marlborough,Mass.-based Cytyc, a Hologic company.

Yakima Valley Radiology in Yakima, Wash., has licensed the ElectronicBilling Center practice management and billing software suite fromZotec Partners.