February 27, 2008 - The Prevent Cancer Foundation's interactive Super Colon is scheduled to visit communities across the country that have the highest rate of colon cancer to promote National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March, said the foundation.

The Super Colon is an inflatable, twenty foot long, 8-foot high replica of a human colon. The Super Colon tour will make a total of 22 stops throughout Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In 2008, the Super Colon will visit a record number of cities, over 70 stops are already in the works, doubling last year’s number.

February 27, 2008 - Dr. Peter Basch, Medical Director, Ambulatory Clinical Systems for MedStar Health received the HIMSS Physician IT Leadership Award presented at HIMSS 2008, given to a person who has demonstrated noteworthy leadership in the area of applying IT to the needs of physicians, serving the organization and/or the industry.

February 26, 2008 - Arrowsight Medical launched Patient Safety Focus (PatientSafetyFocus.com), a reportedly comprehensive online resource on patient safety programs, statistics and solutions, for healthcare industry professionals, media and consumers.

The blog is being introduced on the occasion of Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 2-8), a national education and awareness-building campaign.

February 26, 2008 — Continuing its channel preference study of office-based physicians, SK&A Information Services Inc. reports 87 percent of physician offices surveyed accept fax communications about various topics of interest, including product recalls and updates, information on continuing medical education, medical office products announcements and publication offers.

February 26, 2008 - Socket Communications Inc. has partnered up with eSUNTech, makers of RxTRAKKER software and the RxTRAKKER RFID wristband, to release the Socket Mobile SoMo 650 hand-held computer with the RxTRAKKER suite, a bundled solution designed to enable quick recall of vital medical information.