Civco Medical Instruments is showcasing its new Assist Positioning Arm system designed for the interventional imaging environment at the annual meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiologists (SIR) starting today in New Orleans (March 31 - April 5).

Dell this week introduced the Latitude X1, a lightweight notebook computer designed with traveling professionals in mind.

Doctors are using personal digital assistants to maintain their address book (87 percent), keep top of their appointments (80 percent) and check medications (65 percent), according to Forrester Research in a study that surveyed 1,331 U.S. physicians.

Matrox Graphics Inc. is introducing the newest addition to its line of Aurora VX series of display controller boards, the Aurora VX3mp, at the International Technical Exhibition of Medical Imaging (ITEM), in Yokohama, Japan, April 8 - 10.

Initiate Systems Inc., a provider of enterprise master person index (EMPI) software and services for managing patient and provider identities, has been selected by United Kingdom-based Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust to manage quality for a

Providence Hospital in Mobile, Ala., has begun treating patients once thought to have inoperable brain ailments with Varian Medical Systems' Trilogy stereotactic system.

National group purchasing organization Premier Purchasing Partners L.P. inked a multi-source two-year agreement to make McKesson's Horizon Medical Imaging PACS (picture archiving and communications system) service available to Premier's 1,500 member hospi

Ultrasound technology developer Zonare Medical Systems has signed a support agreement with Hologic Inc.