PARIS — During MEDEC 2009, the annual conference for general practitioners held here last week, the French leader for practice and patient management software, Cegedim (Boulogne-Billancourt, France), previewed an integration package that aims to serve as a work-around solution for the flailing government program intended to create patient dossiers and a national electronic healthcare system. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — At the European Congress of Cardiology here last week, Philips Healthcare (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) rolled out a new 3 Tesla MRI machine to enter a market its says is rapidly expanding and currently dominated by GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) and Siemens (Erlangen, Germany). (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — Florence Gazeau is everything you would expect in a French researcher studying structural mobility for the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexe with the Université Paris-Diderot. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria — Just as high-end ultrasound machines were reaching maturity with the menace of commodity market pricing a break-through opens new applications for tissue characterization with elastography. (Medical Device Daily)

VIENNA, Austria – The little things mattered the most at this year's European Congress of Radiology (ECR), held here this week. (Diagnostics & Imaging Week)

VIENNA, Austria — Along with the world première of Viamo, a portable ultrasound unit, at the European Congress of Radiology here earlier this week, Toshiba (Tokyo) presented an estimate of the worldwide market for such devices, placing current sales at €500 million ($632 million). (Medical Device Daily)