March 21, 2008 - Drawing on its experience in disease management for Medicaid patients and consumer-based technologies, McKesson recently unveiled its Community Care Advantage, software aimed at improving outcomes while eliminating unnecessary costs to help meet the medical needs of indigent, chronically ill and newly discharged patients.

March 21, 2008 - The FDA gave conditional approval to PLC Systems to begin enrollment in a U.S. pivotal trial to study the effectiveness of RenalGuard Therapy and RenalGuard System in the prevention of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy (CIN).

March 20, 2008 – The number of CT procedures performed continues to grow despite a slow down in CT system purchases from 2000 to 2008 in the U.S. as CT sites focus on the efficient utilization of their CT equipment, indicated a report by the IMV Medical Information Division.
An estimated 68.7 million CT procedures were performed in 7,640 hospital and non-hospital sites in 2007, said the report. This represents an average annual growth rate of approximately 8 percent since 2003, when an estimated 50.1 million procedures were performed.

March 20, 2008 - Siemens Medical Solutions has received FDA 510(k) market clearance for the sale and distribution of two solutions for urological applications: Lithoskop and ModularisVariostar.

Encompassing lithotripsy, endourology, urodiagnostics and percutaneous interventions, Lithoskop is a multifunctional, high-end system for many urological applications, said Siemens.

March 20, 2008 - Harris Corp. was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop and integrate an open-source, National Health Information Exchange Gateway solution, enabling federal healthcare agencies and healthcare providers to quickly and easily share patient information.