Carestream expanded its line of imaging agents with Kodak X-Sight Nanosphere Conjugates labeled with Streptavidin for both in vivo and in vitro applications, aiming to provide an effective means for life science researchers to detect biotinylated probes in fluorescent molecular biology research applications.

May 30, 2008 – Draeger Service, the Service arm of Draeger Medical Inc., this week launched its Draeger Medical Service Community (DMSC), designed to address the ever-evolving nature of medical technology and the importance of accurate, updated information.

The launch of the Web site comes days before the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Annual Conference and Expo, where Draeger Medical will be displaying its new patient-worn telemetry system, Infinity M300.

May 30, 2008 – GE Healthcare IT and Kryptiq, a provider of healthcare information technology solutions, entered a joint agreement for GE to exclusively distribute Kryptiq’s eScriptMessenger (eSM) in conjunction with GE's Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Centricity Practice Solution.

The offering aims to provide a proven ePrescribing solution benefiting physicians with speed and ease in managing prescription activities—addressing a critical need to improve patient safety and care quality.

May 30, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Virginia has completed the implementation of Soarian, a health information management system from Siemens Healthcare.

The facility will use both Soarian Clinicals and Soarian Financials. St. Mary’s hopes to use Soarian to improve productivity and drive throughput, while making critical information available to authorized caregivers at all points of care.

May 30, 2008 – ECRI and Institute Phoenix Data Systems, Inc., provider of AIMS Equipment Maintenance Management Software, announced a new agreement to provide medical device data integration for hospitals’ computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs).

The Phoenix Data integration will offer hospitals interfaces between: AIMS and ECRI Institute’s Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System (UMDNS), Health Devices International Sourcebase manufacturer codes, and Alerts Tracker, a Web-based, automated patient safety system for alert and recall management.

May 30, 2008 — Today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, eHealth Global Technologies introduced a new medical record management service, eHealthConnect for Clinical Trials, aiming to gather scattered patient records and imaging needed for clinical trials, regardless of location and format.

eHealthConnect for Clinical Trials is a service with reportedly enhanced workflow to support the specific needs of clinical trials benefiting trial sponsors, participants and examiners.

May 30, 2008 - Microwaves with frequencies from a few hundred gigahertz (GHz) up to slightly over 1 terahertz (THz) could be used to detect skin cancer or image dental flaws beneath the enamel, according to a study published in the May issue of the journal Physical Review E.

May 29, 2008 - For the seventh year in a row, GE Healthcare has won Omega Management Group’s prestigious NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for excellence in customer satisfaction and loyalty in servicing anesthesia machines and patient monitors.

May 29, 2008 - ECRI Institute issued a priority medical device alert on its Web site recommending immediate volume testing of Curlin Medical’s 2000 CMS, 4000 CMS, 6000 CMS and PainSmart series pumps for potential overinfusion of medications.

May 29, 2008 - ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has issued a priority medical device alert recommending immediate volume testing of Curlin Medical’s 2000 CMS, 4000 CMS, 6000 CMS, and PainSmart series pumps for potential overinfusion of medications.

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