March 26, 2008 – Philips will acquire TOMCAT Systems Ltd., based in Northern Ireland, with the deal expected to close in Q208 and TOMCAT becoming part of the Healthcare Informatics business group within the Philips Healthcare sector.

TOMCAT is a privately held company developing, selling and supporting Cardio-Vascular Information Systems (CVIS). The company offers a software solution to collect and aggregate data relative to the cardiac care of patients, and reportedly allows for a comprehensive, patient-centric presentation of the data to caregivers such as doctors and nurses.

March 26, 2008 – Siemens will launch its first molecular imaging biomarker production facility in Chennai, India, aiming to enable healthcare providers in Chennai and its surrounding areas to access the positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) technology in hopes of better diagnosing patients with life-threatening diseases.

March 26, 2008 - TomoTherapy Inc. issued a Treatment Quality Challenge, looking to award $250,000 to any U.S. cancer center that demonstrates its ability to beat the quality of a TomoTherapy treatment plan using the new RapidArc product from Varian Medical Systems.

March 26, 2008 - The Medipattern Corp. installed a B-CAD 2.2 at General Hospital in Salzburg, Austria.

Austria initiated a province-wide breast ultrasound-screening program for higher risk patients in January as a pilot program in preparation for countrywide adoption. The program focuses on higher risk patients and those with mammographically dense breast tissue, which is imaged more effectively with breast ultrasound technology.

March 26, 2008 - Clinicians changed the intended care of more than one in three cancer patients as the result of FDG-PET scan findings, according to a study of data from the National Oncologic PET Registry, published online March 24 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO).

March 26, 2008 - The Medipattern Corp. installed its B-CAD 2.2 at General Hospital in Salzburg, Austria, as part of the province-wide breast ultrasound-screening program for higher risk patients initiated in January 2008, as a pilot program to prepare for the countrywide adoption.

Edwards Lifesciences will display its PediaSat oximetry catheter and FloTrac system at the 2007 ASA show.
PediaSat is designed specifically for children and continuously monitors ScvO2 (central venous oxygen saturation) from a central line. The company says it is more accurate versus CO-oximetery, and it minimizes the need for frequent diagnostic sampling, thereby decreasing potential risk of infection and blood loss.

March 25, 2008 - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital physicians have demonstrated that children with bilateral Wilms tumor, a cancer of the kidneys, can retain normal function in both kidneys by undergoing a procedure called bilateral nephron-sparing surgery, even when preoperative scans suggest that the tumors are inoperable, said the hospital.

March 25, 2008 - An information technology application is improving cancer treatment with the use of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs), according to Supportive Oncology Services Inc. (SOS), a research-based health information company in Memphis, TN.

March 25, 2008 - Improved outcomes in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) led to top honors for AnMed Health in a recent competition hosted by McKesson to quantify the value of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support (CDS) in community hospital settings.

AnMed Health, a 500-bed health system in Anderson, SC, was one of multiple inpatient community organizations to participate in the metric-based CPOE and CDS competition.

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