February 20, 2008 - A newly released set of treatment recommendations for knee and hip osteoarthritis may help millions of people worldwide who live in pain due to inconsistent treatment approaches and confusion about what therapies are most effective.

The 25 recommendations appear in the February issue of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

February 20, 2008 – Mobile Anesthesiologists Holdings LLC (Mobile) has announced the spin-off of its procurement operation into an independently operating company to be known as Pro Cure LLC, a company that will provide a full spectrum of procurement services to the rapidly growing ‘alternate-site’ market comprised of office-based practices as well as smaller chain and independent ASCs.

February 20, 2008 - A new study has found that pending congressional legislation seeking the mandatory disclosure of prices for certain medical technologies would likely result in increased prices and “provide no tangible benefits to patients.”

February 20, 2008 - Spring Medical Systems announced the availability of SpringChartsA Version 9.5 (V9.5), which is designed to improve functionality, ease-of-use, and allow detailed information to to instantly appear in key areas of the user interface.

New features in SpringCharts V9.5 include:

February 20, 2008 - Siemens Healthcare announces an exclusive partnership with Prowess Inc. to develop advanced radiation oncology treatment planning software for integration into Siemens' linear accelerators.

February 20, 2008 - Derma Sciences Inc. announced today that four abstracts detailing the clinical usage of its newly released MEDIHONEY Wound & Burn Dressings with Active Leptospermum Honey were accepted for presentation at the upcoming annual American Professional Wound Care Association conference, held this year between March 6 - 9 in Forth Worth, TX.

Additionally, the company has announced that the use of MEDIHONEY Dressings is a topic on the general session agenda for the conference.

The abstracts include the following:

February 19, 2008 - Quest Diagnostics Inc. announced that it has licensed rights to uses of the Septin 9 DNA methylation biomarker from Epigenomics AG (Frankfurt, Germany), a cancer molecular diagnostics company, to develop a molecular-based laboratory test designed to help physicians detect colorectal cancer based on a patient’s blood specimen.

February 20, 2008 - Pyng Medical Corp. announced the company has received 510(K) regulatory clearance from the FDA to market its FAST1 Intraosseous (IO) Infusion System, an alternative to conventional IV infusion providing vascular access for fluid and drug resuscitation in shock and trauma victims.

The product has been re-engineered with an infusion tube that no longer requires the use of a removal tool.

For more information: www.pyng.com

February 20, 2008 - SourceMedical has entered a partnership with Medical Web Technologies (MWT) to offer One Medical Passport to its Vision, AdvantX and SurgiSource customers, allowing facilities using SourceMedical applications the ability to have their patients complete their own registration and preoperative medical history securely via the Internet.


In the last edition of Outpatient Care Technology, I explained why the magazine’s revamped Web site is becoming more of a content extension of the print version of OPCT. The bottom line: We’ve got so much stuff to show and tell you that we can’t shoehorn enough of it in these pages. That’s why you’ll notice “Continued Online” boxes bookending some stories to let you know you can read the “editor’s cut” on the Web (even though, technically, the editor had to cut the story to fit it in print). But enough about semantic technicalities.
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