Impact Corelab has announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors, both from affiliated company Radiological Associates of Sacramento (RAS), with key specialties and sub-specialties relevant to the company's focus areas.  Dr. Vipin Bansal, M.D., currently Chair of the RAS Finance Committee, and Dr. Mark Leibenhaut, M.D., F.A.C.R., an Executive Committee member for RAS, have both joined the Impact Corelab board, effective immediately. 

Since the successful launch of the CRM tool in Europe about 4 years ago, the application has recently been deployed in the U.S. After an initial pilot team, over 200 US sales people use this web based application. The overall results are positive, but Mölnlycke wants more, and Roderik Mooren, Head of IT, explains why:

Sectra reported a profit after tax of SEK 340.0 million for the six-month period, May – October 2011, including the operation being discontinued. The profit includes a preliminary capital gain of SEK 322.6 million generated by the divestment of the MicroDose operations, which was finalized during the second quarter.

 The radiation oncology department at internationally renowned Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge, U.K.) is upgrading its radiotherapy capabilities with Elekta therapy systems, oncology information system (OIS) and image guided workspace. The two Elekta Synergy® image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) systems replace one Siemens linear accelerator and one Varian linear accelerator that had been in service for more than 10 years at the medical center, which is run by the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Merge Healthcare, a provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, today announced the addition of two industry executives to lead key growth areas. Peter Urbain has joined Merge Healthcare as its Senior Vice President of Partner Sales and Steven Tolle has joined as Senior Vice President of Solutions Management. 

The new service – called Side by Side – launches today following a successful trial by NHS Western Isles and O2 Health which demonstrated improved clinician productivity, a 30% reduction in travel costs and fewer appointment cancellations.