January 23, 2008 - Starting Feb. 1, 2008, MHA Insurance Company will grant a premium credit of up to five percent for qualifying policyholders who utilize an electronic medical record (EMR) system.

A qualifying policyholder would include independent, solo physicians and group physician practices.

To receive a first-year premium credit of 5 percent, and subsequent annual 2.5 percent credits, qualifying policyholders of MHA Insurance Company must use an EMR system certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.

January 23, 2008 - Masimo said yesterday it signed a three-year supplier agreement with HealthTrust Purchasing Group, representing more than 3,800 facilities, including acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, alternate care sites and physician practices, with an annual purchasing volume of more than $13 billion.

The agreement provides HealthTrust members access to Masimo SET pulse oximetry and Masimo Rainbow SET monitoring technologies.

January 23, 2008 – Telanetix Inc. announced the installation of its Digital Presence products in four medical facilities affiliated with a major university, making it possible for field specialists and consulting physicians to teach and be called upon for consultations remotely, in real time with life-like interaction.

The room-based solutions provided by Telanetix also incorporate data-sharing from a wide array of sources, such as X-rays and ultrasounds, allowing the university to utilize the expertise on its staff, regardless of which location that staff member is stationed.

January 23, 2008 - S&S Technology’s new hospital grade cabinet optimized for catheter storage is a fully networkable cabinet that features login password protection and electronic locking for secure storage and inventory tracking of expensive vascular supplies.

January 23, 2008 - A new study by researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has found gastric banding surgery has a profound impact on diabetes.
The study, published today in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found obese patients with Type 2 diabetes who underwent gastric banding were five times more likely to have their diabetes go into long-term remission, compared with patients who engaged in conventional weight loss therapies, such as a controlled calorie diet and exercise.

January 23, 2008 - NEC Display Solutions of America released a 30-inch MultiSync LCD3090WQXi wide-screen display, which delivers display performance for users CAD/CAM industries and hosts a 4MP (2560-by-1600), wide-gamut, wide-screen.

An extension of the MultiSync 90-Series, the display features ColorCompT, which works to reduce LCD uniformity errors, also compensating for differences in color/grayscale and luminance and advanced backlight technology, which enables the display to produce 102 percent of the NTSC color scale for unsurpassed color gradation.

January 23, 2008 – ScImage gained FDA clearance for primary diagnostic review of mammographic images using its enterprisewide, Web-based PACS, PicomEnterprise Version 3.0, which includes default hanging protocols for standard screening exams, automated hanging protocols for prior comparison and linked window/level and pan/zoom functions.

January 23, 2008 - American healthcare can be greatly improved by embracing “openness” throughout the healthcare arena is the principle finding of a new report, Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care, released by the Digital Connections Council (DCC) of the Committee for Economic Development (CED).

January 23, 2008 – The president of Agfa HealthCare Americas, Bob Pryor, has retired and will be replaced by Barry Stone, COO of Agfa HealthCare Americas.

Pryor joined the Agfa team with the the Sterling Diagnostic Imaging acquisition in 1999, and celebrates a 34-year career in the healthcare field.

For more information: www.agfa.com

January 23, 2008 – The Invivo Corp. supplied two of its flagship Precess MRI patient monitors to monitor a pair of conjoined twins from Costa Rica simultaneously last August as they underwent studies for the feasibility of surgical separation at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, CA.

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