Clinicians spend a lot of time walking around hospitals looking for equipment, other staff members, and sometimes even their patients.

July 16, 2008 - Earlier this week, the FDA released a notification that the X-rays used during a CT examination may cause some implanted and external electronic medical devices to malfunction.

The devices include cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulators, external drug infusion pumps, cochlear implants and retinal implants.

July 16, 2008 - Earlier this week President Bush vetoed the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (HR 6331) because it excluded a 10.6 percent pay cut to doctors who treat patients in the Medicare program. However, on July 15 the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate voted overwhelmingly voted to override the veto.

July, 16, 2008 - American Medical Sales Inc. announced it took orders for an additional 19 PACS sites from its distributor network during May and June of 2008.

These orders consisted of products from both AMS' MIDAS line of mid-sized PACS solutions and its PACS-in-a-BOX products designed for private practices and imaging centers. A number of end-users are also upgrading to include some of AMS' imaging tools, such as the OsteoGram bone density testing software and TraumaCad orthopedic templating software.

July 15, 2008 - Santiago Horgan, M.D., director of the UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery, used USGI Medical�s EndoSurgical Operating System (EOS) to demonstrate a technique that allows for appendectomy without abdominal incisions at the Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research's (NOSCAR) 3rd International Conference on Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) on July 12.

July 15, 2008 - The Ranger Irrigation Fluid Warming System from Arizant Healthcare is said to offer the high-volume delivery of warmed fluids required by demanding urology, gynecology or orthopedic procedures while providing true temperature control � reportedly eliminating the potential cool down of fluid bags removed hours earlier from the warmer.

The system�s dry heat technology also addresses concerns about water in the O.R. and the potential sources of nosocomial pathogens associated with water bath-based warmers.

July 15, 2008 - Gaymar Industries� redesigned T/Pump series of products used for localized temperature therapy offer both cold and warm therapy in a single unit, and new T/Flash technology allows the T/Pump to provide periodic temperature changes.

Two versions of the T/Pump are now available: a Classic Model designed for long-term care and home care environments, and a Professional Model reportedly suitable for all healthcare settings.

July 15, 2008 - Kubtec will introduce at the AHRA 2008 in Denver a touchscreen-based specimen radiography system called XPERT 40, a specimen radiography system with up to an 8-by-8-inch digital detector and with up to a 1 mA xray source.

The 19-inch medical grade touchscreen monitor is currently used for other medical imaging applications and will enhance the XPERT 40�s ease of use in the OR and in the biopsy suite. Some of the other firsts the XPERT 40 possesses are the ability to send annotations to PACS and the ability to send multiple images to PACS with a single click.

July 15, 2008 - iCRco released its Clarity PACS, which is designed to offer an affordable image management solution to imaging centers and medical practices using digital radiology.

Clarity is said to be scalable to meet the needs of clinician offices, multiphysician practices, radiology imaging centers and multi-site facilities connected over the Internet. Key features of Clarity include a full-featured DICOM archive, connectivity with a RIS, HIS or third-party PACS, diagnostic viewing with Web-based viewing capabilities, a workflow manager and CD/DVD burning.

Clarity PACS is designed to offer an affordable image management solution to imaging centers and medical practices using digital radiology.

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