February 29, 2008 – Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. this week introduced the next generation of MAYFIELD titanium skull pins designed for use with the MAYFIELD cranial stabilization system to maintain the stability of a patient’s head during brain surgery.

The skull pins have FDA clearance and CE Mark Certification in the Europe.

February 29, 2008 – NightHawk Radiology Holdings Inc. appointed Timothy E. Murnane as its executive vice-president and Chief Operating Officer.

February 29, 2008 - The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati entered into an agreement with VISICU Inc. this week to implement its eICU telemedicine and ICU patient monitoring program.

Using early-warning software and remote monitoring tools, eICU technology enables off-site critical care physicians and nurses to monitor critically ill patients around the clock. The voice, video and data technology has been proven to reduce unnecessary complications, improve mortality rates and shorten hospital length of stay, Visicu officials said.

February 29, 2007 - GE Healthcare IT said this week it is collaborating with Intel Corp. and Motion Computing on a mobile computing solution to eliminate the manual collection of patient vital sign data, and it is slated for deployment at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center.

February 29, 2008 - Zebra Technologies said this week results from independent lab tests show its antimicrobial wristband coating effectively resists Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Results from independent lab tests confirmed the patent-pending antimicrobial coating effectively protects the Z-Band wristbands from MRSA in addition to S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and E. coli -the three leading causes of hospital infections in the U.S.

February 29. 2008 – Motion Computing’s C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) was featured by more than 50 vendors across the show floor at HIMSS 2008, an indication of its popularity since being introduced to the healthcare market a year ago.

February 29, 2008 - The Fujitsu PalmSecure PC Log-In Kit provides secure authentication for clinicians to enter electronic medical records using a biometric scan of their palm.

With the passage of the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), hospitals and other medical organizations are required to use two or more forms of authentication in order to access EMRs.

February 29, 2008 – A record-breaking 28,400 people and 900 companies attended the 2008 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, FL this week, demonstrating the continuing growth of the Health IT industry.

Previously, HIMSS' most successful conference was in San Diego in 2006, where 24,870 healthcare IT professionals attended and 859 companies exhibited.

February 29, 2008 - Array Corp. recently upgraded its MammoPro all-in-one, self-contained tabletop digitization system used to scan prior mammograms.

The system software is PC-friendly, includes an LCD touch screen, runs on Windows (embedded) XP operating system and includes DICOM conformance. The software also features a Patient Recall ability, letting users scan multiple examinations of the same patient without having to re-enter the demographic information.

February 29, 2008 - Yale School of Medicine and Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) will hold the Second Annual John R. Murren Memorial Symposium: “Advances in Thoracic Oncology,” March 7-8 in Las Vegas, NV, providing education to multidisciplinary clinicians involved in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with lung cancer and abnormal scans of the chest.

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