February 27, 2008 - More than 200 patient rooms at Sharp Grossmont Hospital are wired to an on-demand communication and television service known as Skylight ACCESS that provides patients access to hospital services and entertainment at the touch of a button.

“The new system encourages patients and their families to take part in care," said Michele Tarbet, CEO of Sharp Grossmont Hospital. “It also improves communication between staff and patients, and allows our nurses to greatly enhance productivity and spend more time on what they do best – provide superior clinical care.”

February 27, 2008 - Neoteric Technology Ltd.’s LacTrack SafeLx solution won the 2008 MS-HUG (Microsoft Healthcare Users Group) Healthcare Innovation Award in the category of Delivery Transformation.

The company received its award at a ceremony held at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, FL.

February 27, 2008 - Hologic Inc. announced the publication of a study evaluating the Hologic MammoSite Radiation Therapy System (RTS), one-, two- and three-years after treatment.

The study by Frank A. Vicini, M.D., and others, published in the February 15, 2008, issue of Cancer, the peer-reviewed professional journal of the American Cancer Society, reports on treatment efficacy, cosmetic results and toxicities of patients enrolled in the American Society of Breast Surgeons MammoSite Breast Brachytherapy Registry Trial.

February 27, 2008 - GE Healthcare displayed at HIMSS 2008 its Centricity OneView, a Web-based clinical information and workflow management system designed to connect multiple discrete RIS and PACS solutions, featuring a single point of access for radiologists and technologists.

February 27, 2008 – Microsoft highlighted the new Microsoft Amalga family of Enterprise Health Systems at HIMSS 2008, a solution aiming to give clinicians and administrators access to real-time information across the health enterprise.

Without having to replace a current system, Amalga users a way to capture, consolidate, store, access and present data.

February 28, 2008 - Following the line of enterprise-wide solutions, Emageon highlighted its enterprise medical information technology systems for hospitals and healthcare networks, which include RadSuite, HeartSuite and a pathology and orthopedic specialty suite.

February 27, 2008 – TeraMedica brought to HIMSS 2008 its Evercore SOAR (Service Oriented Architecture Repository) platform that operates as a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by using industry-standard Web services protocols.

The Evercore Platform includes the Evercore Connector, which connects data and images, the Evercore SmartStore with clinical storage rule and an Evercore Distributor feature that serves all customers.

February 27, 2008 - Carestream Health enhanced its Kodak Carestream Digital Dashboard to include proactive notification for system events by email or text messaging, also supporting Kodak Carestream RIS/PACS and Kodak Carestream Information Management Solutions.

The system is said to let users monitor equipment performance, storage utilization and user volumes, from virtually anywhere, and also enables administrators to verify network communication of other vendors' devices.

February 27, 2008 - Nuance Communications Inc. launched its on-demand offering for critical test result management (CTRM), Vocada Veriphy 2.0 at HIMSS 2008, including new features for closed-loop communication.

February 27, 2008 – AMICAS showcased its solutions for hospitals and ambulatory imaging businesses at HIMSS 2008, focusing on RadStream, Vision Reach, Vision Series Financials, Insight Dashboards, Vision Series RIS and Vision Series PACS.

RadStream is designed to reduce medicolegal risk by automating and documenting critical results communications. The product also automates prioritization of imaging exams based on a "most likely to interrupt" method, which has reportedly been shown to increase radiologist productivity.

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