From: JakeStraw | 6/17/2009 2:28:42 PM | | | | Leading Healthcare Group Selects Varian Medical Systems to Supply Cancer Treatment Technology for Treatment Centers Across the Western United States finance.yahoo.com Wednesday June 17, 2009, 1:58 pm EDT
Providence Health and Services (PH&S) Enters into Three-Year Agreement with Varian
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) and Providence Health and Services (PH&S) have signed a three-year agreement for Varian to provide PH&S treatment centers with advanced radiotherapy technology for treating cancer. The agreement covers Varian's state-of-the-art equipment and software.
"The Providence Health & Services organization encompasses over 33 participating treatment facilities across Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon, and California," said Michael Oswald, Director of Capital Equipment Contracting at PH&S. "We elected not to renew our previous agreements with certain other cancer treatment technology suppliers, and selected Varian as our vendor for radiation therapy treatment technology going forward." |
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From: JakeStraw | 6/25/2009 8:48:34 AM | | | | Varian Medical Systems Acquires Assets of IKOEmed and IKOEtech; Acquisition to Add Software for Accelerating Radiotherapy Treatment Planning finance.yahoo.com Thursday June 25, 2009, 8:30 am EDT
The software is designed to achieve greater than 50 percent reduction in the contouring portion of the radiotherapy treatment planning process, which typically takes anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours. It automates the contouring process by matching patient images with pre-contoured images from an expert database created by renowned radiation oncologists. This eliminates the need for clinicians to manually outline between 10 and 20 organs in each of anywhere from 100 to 200 images of a patient's disease site. |
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From: JakeStraw | 7/24/2009 8:40:28 AM | | | | Varian Medical Systems to Showcase a Wide Spectrum of New and Updated Products That Improve Radiotherapy Treatment Processes at 2009 AAPM Meeting finance.yahoo.com Thursday July 23, 2009, 4:19 pm EDT
New version of Eclipse(TM) treatment planning system incorporates five new tools that speed up and enhance radiotherapy treatment planning |
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From: JakeStraw | 10/30/2009 9:12:48 AM | | | | Varian Medical 4Q profit rises on system sales finance.yahoo.com
The company earned $97 million, or 77 cents per share, up from profit of $78.5 million, or 62 cents per share, during the same period a year ago. Revenue rose 8 percent to $642 million from $592.7 million. The fiscal 2009 fourth-quarter ended Sept. 30.
Looking ahead, the company said it expects profit from continuing operations between $2.65 and $2.75 per share in fiscal 2010 |
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From: JakeStraw | 1/12/2010 8:16:40 AM | | | | UK Cancer Network Implements Varian's ARIA(TM) for Electronic Prescribing and Comprehensive Electronic Patient Records finance.yahoo.com
OXFORD, England, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A chemotherapy software solution that enables patients to become more involved in managing their own care has been successfully rolled out across a network of hospitals in the UK. The Thames Valley Cancer Network has implemented Aria for Medical Oncology™ from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) and already has more than 850 clinical staff routinely using the system.
"The ARIA system has been extremely well received by clinical teams and patients alike," says Dr. Claire Blesing, consultant clinical oncologist at Churchill Hospital in Oxford and clinical lead for the project. "A big plus is that ARIA is not just a prescribing system, like the previous method we had here in Oxford, it's a full medical record. We were looking for something fresh and new to use in trusts that had no great background in electronic chemotherapy prescribing and ARIA gives us all the functionality we require." |
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