January 16, 2008 - Visage Imaging, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, will showcase its Visage Thin Client product family with features for workflow optimization and new clinical applications, at ECR 2008, March 7 to March 11 in Vienna, Austria.

January 15, 2008 - Physical rehabilitation therapists at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago are harnessing the illustrative power of ultrasound in treating such common conditions as pelvic pain, incontinence and lower back pain.

Heather Moky, DPT, physical therapist at the hospital, uses the portable ultrasound device in her practice to help illustrate to patients in real time how their muscles work and how they can improve their conditions through this understanding.

January 14, 2008 - NEC Display Solutions of America today announced the 30-inch MultiSync LCD3090WQXi wide-screen display.

An extension of the MultiSync 90-Series, this 30-inch display is a 4-megapixel (2560 x 1600), wide-gamut, wide-screen LCD designed for premium color performance. The LCD3090WQXi features ColorCompT, which reduces LCD uniformity errors, and compensates for differences in color/grayscale and luminance, and advanced backlight technology, which enables the display to produce 102 percent of the NTSC color scale, the company said.

January 15, 2008 - DocuSys Inc. has finalized a letter of intent to acquire Prompte LLC, a Chicago-based software provider of solutions designed to standardize and streamline the earliest stages of surgical planning through the capture of a patient’s health history.

DocuSys representatives said the transaction is expected to close within 30 days.

January 15, 2008 - Allscripts said today that it transmitted more electronic prescriptions in 2007 over the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange than any other e-prescribing vendor and it had more electronic prescribers connected to the Exchange than any other company during 2007.

January 15, 2008 - Janssen-Cilag International NV announced today IONSYS (fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system), a new needle-free system for the management of acute post-operative pain in a hospital setting, will become available in Germany, the U.K. and Ireland this week.

These countries represent the first markets to launch this product, and additional launches in other European countries are planned for the coming months.

January 15, 2008 - BeneChill Inc. today said it received CE approval for the commercial sale of the RhinoChill System, a battery-operated, noninvasive, portable, and easy-to-use medical device for rapid therapeutic patient cooling in European Union member countries.

January 15, 2008 – On March 7 and 8, Yale School of Medicine and Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) will hold the Second Annual John R. Murren Memorial Symposium: “Advances in Thoracic Oncology” at The Red Rock Conference Center in Las Vegas.

The Yale School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

January 14, 2008 - Dominion Diagnostics LLC, a privately-held clinical testing laboratory, announced the release of Scientifically Accurate Medication Monitoring (SAMM), a unique clinical medication monitoring report that is said to enhance the practice of pain and addiction medicine, and allows physicians to better individualize treatment for patients in their care.

January 14, 2008 - Concuity today said Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL selected ClearContracts to improve the management of payment variances, denials, and revenue recovery and EOB Pro to retrieve, consolidate, and standardize electronic remittances from multiple payers into 835s.

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