February 26, 2008 – Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. named Girish T. Hagan as vice president, Marketing.

Previously, Hagan served as the director of Business Development and Strategic Management for Toshiba. Additionally, Hagan was an integral part of Toshiba’s alignments with multiple vendors including McKesson and Vital Imaging, said Toshiba.

February 26, 2008 - MDnetwork Inc. and M*Modal entered into an agreement to combine each company’s services in order to provide better clinical documentation, allowing MDnetwork clients to use M*Modal’s advanced speech understanding technology, AnyModal CDS(Conversational Documentation Service), which combines speech recognition and natural language understanding to capture and comprehend clinical information from dictation, transforming it directly into accessible, retrievable and shareable electronic files.

February 26, 2008 - Cerner Corp. and Hill-Rom formed a partnership to integrate their technologies to improve and coordinate healthcare delivery, featuring Hill-Rom hospital beds that communicate directly with the Cerner Millennium healthcare computing platform.

February 26, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. introduced the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund, a $3 million initiative designed to empower providers with targeted funding to stimulate the research and development of online tools that improve health.

February 26, 2008 - Village Health Partners is the recipient of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence in the ambulatory category, reportedly chosen because of the efficient practice, especially the online health services offered through its Patient Portal.

February 26, 2008 - NEC Display Solutions of America received 510k market clearance for radiology from the FDA for the MD205MG 5-megapixel flat-panel monitor, sporting a 2560-by-2048 native resolution and featuring advanced in-plane switching (IPS) LCD technology, which offers 3,061 shades of gray.

February 26, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. released at HIMSS 2008 its Patient Safety Screening Tool (PSST), a software-based solution designed to help identify potential adverse events that occur during hospitalization, featuring a set of indicators that provide information on potential in-hospital complications following surgeries and medical procedures.

February 26, 2008 - Acuo Technologies debuted a fully integrated Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging XDS-I solution, allowing multiple healthcare delivery organizations in the same community of care to share clinical records by way of documents and images throughout the patient care process, at HIMSS 2008

February 26, 2008 - Harris Corp. and Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI) paired to advance the quality and delivery of radiation oncology, using Harris’ advanced imaging and information systems that reportedly assure critical medical information is delivered with accuracy, speed, security and privacy.

February 26, 2008 – FUJIFILM featured at HIMSS 2008 its Synapse PACS along with Empiric’s RIS, highlighting that the integration provides a single view and workflow for the clinical information needed by radiologists.

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