March 12, 2008 - Neoteric Technology Ltd. said yesterday a new study in this month’s American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Journal of Transfusion shows dramatic time and cost savings can be achieved by hospitals that implement BloodTrack OnDemand.

March 12, 2008 - D2 Sales LLC said today Carle Clinics of Urbana, IL selected the My Patient Passport Express for its kiosk-based patient check-in program.

The My Patient Passport Express kiosk has been customized specifically for Carle’s needs, featuring a 17-inch touchscreen, magnetic card reader, back-lit signature pad, bar-code scanner, biometric fingerprint reader, both an 80mm receipt printer and a 8.5-inch sheet printer, and 801.llg WiFi with WPA/WPA2 capabilities.

March 12, 2008 - B. Braun Medical Inc. said this week its PINNACLE TPN Management System, a medical device that improves patient safety and compounding efficiency when pharmacies compound intravenous (IV) formulations, can be easily integrated with the home infusion therapy industry's leading information system, CPR v8.0.

Created and distributed by Definitive Homecare Solutions (D.H.S.), CPR is used by more than 800 home infusion providers nationwide.

March 12, 2008 - Four Rivers Software Systems, a provider of computerized maintenance management systems for the healthcare industry, and ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, this week announced the availability of new, real-time interfaces for inventory management, hazard and recall alert applications.

March 12, 2008 - ZONARE Medical Systems Inc. inked an agreement with West Virginia United Health System (WVUHS), reportedly the largest healthcare provider in the state, for the installation of 12 z.one ultrasound systems in 2008, with the contract extending over the next four years.

March 12, 2008 - Doctors at Nagoya University Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, are using the Mobetron, self-shielding linear accelerator to deliver intraoperative electron-beam radiation therapy (IOERT) to breast cancer patients, reportedly offering improved physiological and psychological benefits.

March 12, 2008 - Acceleware Corp. launched its AxRecon image reconstruction solution created to reduce the time it takes for image reconstruction of CT scanners, reportedly from hours to minutes, this week at ECR 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

March 12, 2008 - Merge Healthcare released an imaging informatics solution, eFilm RIS/PACS, created for small imaging centers and specialty practices to acquire basic RIS/PACS functionality, featuring eFilm Workstation desktop imaging software.

March 12, 2008 - Siemens will showcase its latest ultrasound technologies, focusing on its ACUSON S2000, ACUSON X300 and the laptop-based ACUSON P50 echocardiography system, at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), March 12-15, in San Diego, CA.

March 12, 2008 - i3Archive Inc., National Digital Medical Archive Inc. and InSite One Inc. have agreed to dismiss all claims and counterclaims regarding invalid patents of InSite One Inc.

The litigation, sparking in Oct. 2006, read that i3Archive Inc. and National Digital Medical Archive Inc., filed action against InSite One seeking a Declaratory Judgment that clams of the company’s U.S. Patent No. 6,574,742 are invalid and not infringed. InSite One later filed its response including an Answer, Affirmative Defenses and Counterclaim.

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