April 2, 2008 – McKesson Corp. has acquired Rosebud Solutions LLC, a provider of software solutions to track and manage instruments, endoscopes and tissue implants for surgical services, as well as medical crash carts and mobile equipment.

April 2, 2008 - Cardinal Health displayed its CareFusion Transfusion Verification application at the 2008 AORN show, which is designed to protect patients from blood transfusion errors in operating rooms, emergency departments and other critical care areas, where transfusions need to occur rapidly.

April 2, 2008 – Patient-monitoring company Fukuda Denshi USA Inc. announced an agreement Monday at the 2008 AORN conference with iSirona LLC to offer iSirona’s device connectivity solution DeviceConX to Fukuda Denshi customers.

The companies said the agreement will enable Fukuda Denshi customers to improve nursing productivity and reduce medical errors by integrating data from Fukuda Denshi bedside patient monitors and central stations directly to their hospital or clinical information system (HIS/CIS) via HL7.

April 2, 2008 - Kimberly-Clark Health Care yesterday unveiled an expanded surgical products portfolio, including new surgical gowns, drapes and packs, at the 2008 AORN Congress March 30-April 3 in Anaheim, CA.

The company said the new portfolio was due to customers asking for reliable and cost-effective surgical gowns and drapes for use during shorter duration and lower fluid procedures. Kimberly-Clark has organized its gowns, drapes and packs into three performance classes for different types of procedures.

April 3, 2008 - In preparation for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the General Electric Company said this week two research programs have started to demonstrate health monitoring using ultrasound imaging and early intervention leads to injury prevention and enhanced health and sports performances for athletes.

April 2, 2008 - Amicas Inc. partnered with Radiology Imaging Associates (RIA) to allow Amicas to apply its medical image and information management tools as part of RIA’s customer service and outpatient growth initiatives.

In turn, RIA will use the new modular, Web-based technology to customize an integrated scheduling, billing, marketing and tracking system. The partnership includes AMICAS Vision Series RIS, Vision Reach, Insight Dashboards and Vision Series Document Management solutions.

April 2, 2008 - Quest International Inc. will showcase at SIIM 2008, true 12-bit, grayscale mammographic images, utilizing an Apple Mac system, OsiriX and the Totoku, ME551i2, medical LCD display.

The company will display the images using the using the Apple Mac Pro 8-Core workstation with two ME551i2 medical, LCD displays. The ME551i2 is a 21.3-inch, 5MP, DICOM-compliant diagnostic display, and is reportedly the only display able to interface with the new 64-bit version of OsiriX, an advanced open- source PACS workstation DICOM viewer.

April 2, 2008 - Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital (SPMH) in Kerrville, TX, selected IDC’s X1590 and X2200 direct digital radiography systems for its new, expanded medical facility, to improve X-ray throughput .

According to the hospital, SPMH originally selected IDC to improve the productivity of capturing of X-rays because of the hospital’s growing number of patients. The new, comprehensive Peterson Regional Medical Center is due to open on April 12, 2008 on a 35-acre campus.

April 2, 2008 - Ellsworth County Medical Center (ECMC) of Kansas installed NovaPACS from NovaRad in hopes to enhance patient service and streamline image reading and reporting, totaling 20 clinics and hospitals throughout the Kansas area with NovaPACS installations.

According to the company ECMC’s radiologists read about 10,000 studies annually and the NovaPACS installation has reduced the time of reading and reporting from three days to 12 hours. With the system, radiologists are able to access images at ECMC or via a secure password, reportedly from any Web-enabled computer.

April 2, 2008 – RealVision revealed the new FVT series products at DHIMS 2008, designed for medical imaging applications and based on RealVision Fine View Technology.

FVT 200, used with IT/consumer monitors, works to provide a safe and reliable solution for review station and clinical imaging applications. It adds two additional bits to the native data, and provides 10-bit look-up-tables for each RGB component. This generates in a palette of 1,021 grayscale tones, from which 256 tones can be simultaneously displayed.

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