Agfa HealthCare and TomTec partner on echocardiography analysis and measurement solution

Industry News 27 Aug 2010
IMPAX Cardiovascular intends to expand offering with Image-Arena analysis and quantification tool for multimodal 2D/3D/4D data Agfa HealthCare,  a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions,  announces today that it has signed an agreement with TomTec,  active in the sector of echocardiography image analysis, reporting and data management, for the integration of its Image-Arena solution into the company's IMPAX Cardiovascular Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). TomTec offers a wide range of 2D and 3D/4D technologies for visualization...

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Agfa HealthCare and TomTec partner on echocardiography analysis and measurement solution

Industry News 27 Aug 2010
IMPAX Cardiovascular intends to expand offering with Image-Arena analysis and quantification tool for multimodal 2D/3D/4D data Agfa HealthCare,  a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions,  announces today that it has signed an agreement with TomTec,  active in the sector of echocardiography image analysis, reporting and data management, for the integration of its Image-Arena solution into the company's IMPAX Cardiovascular Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). TomTec offers a wide range of 2D and 3D/4D technologies for visualization...

Open-Source Initiative Targets Bird Flu
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IBM and over 20 major worldwide public health institutions, including the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced the Global Pandemic Initiative, a collaborative effort to help stem the spread of infectious diseases. <!--break--> As part of the initiative, IBM said it would contribute several of its key software technologies to the open source community and establish healthcare "Innovation Centres" at the company's worldwide Research laboratories to work with the global healthcare community in this collaborative effort....