April 3, 2008 - Picis this week launched the Picis Perioperative Dashboard, a business activity monitoring (BAM) solution for hospitals’ surgical departments, during the 2008 Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Congress in Anaheim, CA.

April 4, 2008 - The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is offering an online educational session at 10 a.m. CST Thursday, April 24 to help clarify and demystify the HIPAA security audit, explaining how it works, the timeline and the selection process for audited organizations.

April 3, 2008 - eHealth Global Technologies introduced at ACC its medical record management services, including eHealthConnect, eHealthShare and eHealthLoader, which use digital standards to collect disparate records for referred patients from reportedly any location into any digital format.

eHealthConnect replaces ad hoc data collection with a systematic method that is reliable and swift. Upon request from a clinician or administrator, the company's team collects, digitizes, organizes stores and secures medical records for clinical viewing.

April 3, 2008 – The FDA granted 510K clearance to Kanteron Systems for marketing its KDS (Kanteron DICOM Station), offering an open source mini-PACS and multimodal workstation in the market for processing, rendering and storing digital medical images.

April 3, 2008 - Dr. David C. Levin's service to the field of radiology was recently awarded by the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), honoring him with the 2008 Gold Medal Award during the final evening of its 56th annual meeting.

April 3, 2008 - Philips announced the launch of its new USB Smart Key, a tool that allows dictation software licenses to be uploaded to reportedly any computer to replace dongles and offer more flexibility.

With this tool, Philips replaces current dongles and older security codes that had to be manually typed in. The USB Smart Key is now packaged with Philips SpeechExec Pro Dictate and Philips SpeechExec Pro Transcribe, as well as Transcribe software packages.

April 3, 2008 – New medical equipment company Medifico Inc. this week launched the Brainvue-TCD 1000, which uses ultrasound to measure blood flow in the brain to aid in the diagnosis, prevention, intervention, and treatment of strokes, migraines, concussions, sickle cell disease and detection of PFOs (holes between the chambers of the heart).

The device is a portable, hand-held, battery-operated unit. The company said it can also be used for soldiers in battle, as well as athletes prone to head injuries.

April 3, 2008 - Quest International Inc. recently released its QMDL5PCX for patient monitoring and information management created for vital signs monitoring.

The 15-inch, touchscreen optional, patient monitor is reportedly suitable for any patient care environment and is virtually able to universally replace OEM specific displays even when specific, non-VESA timings are required.

For more information: www.questinc.com

April 3, 2008 - Cardinal Health signed an exclusive agreement with UltraSPECT to provide cost-effective imaging processing software to cut scanning time in half or double the image resolution of existing nuclear medical imaging equipment.

CoActiv EXAM-NET, a suite of digital communications products and services designed to optimize the capabilities of teleradiology groups and other radiologists who work in multiple locations, will be featured at SIIM 2008.

EXAM-NET aims for fast, anywhere, any time access to images to provide greater efficiency and fully integrated workflow among all radiology group members, wherever located. Combined with the CoActiv EXAM-PACS, it offers location-free image management including image distribution, reading and archiving.

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