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.

February 29, 2008 – Radiation oncologists, radiation medical physicists and surgical oncologists at The James Cancer Hospital and the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center are teaching Chinese doctors how to use a portable electron-beam linear accelerator to deliver high-dose radiation to cancer patients during surgery, this month as part of a scholarly exchange with China.

February 29, 2008 - Agfa HealthCare, InterComponentWare (ICW) and Sun Microsystems joined the Open eHealth Foundation, a system working to improve the open standards-based exchange of medical information by providing software components under an Open Source license.

Philips' cardiovascular IT solution, the enhanced Xcelera solution is an integrated multimodality solution reportedly provides one access point for all relevant cardiology information, such as cardiovascular ultrasound, CT, MR, nuclear medicine, ECGs and electrophysiology recording signals, as well as long-term storage and enterprise distribution of multimedia studies.

Remote CardiacIT Administrator, available on syngo Dynamics Server or Acom.Net, is a server maintenance package designed to ensure servers stay up and running.

Philips' Essence technology is a combination of X-ray tube, detector system and reconstruction design elements designed to improve image quality of CT exams.

The new Brilliance 64 with Essence technology is designed for all routine radiological imaging including cardiac CT. Brilliance iCT offers 256 slices and high speed, X-ray tube power, coverage and efficient dose utility, said Philips.

February 28, 2008 - Veridex LLC said the FDA has granted an expanded clearance for the CellSearch System to be used as an aid in the monitoring of metastatic prostate cancer (MPC) patients.

The CellSearch System currently is cleared for monitoring metastatic breast and metastatic colorectal cancer patients.

February 28, 2008 - GE Healthcare IT will collaboration with Intel Corporation and Motion Computing on a mobile computing solution designed to eliminate the manual collection of patient vital sign data.

Slated for deployment at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, the goal is to provide nurses with a mobile workflow that incorporates the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant from Intel into vital sign collection using Centricity Enterprise in-patient electronic medical record (EMR) software and GE Healthcare's DINAMAP patient monitoring devices.

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