January 16, 2008 - Hillenbrand Industries Inc. said today it filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that should separate Hillenbrand’s two operating companies, Hill-Rom, the company’s medical technology business, and Batesville Casket, the company’s death care business, by March 31, 2008.

The company filed the first amendment to the Batesville Holdings Inc. Form 10 registration statement with the SEC related to the previously announced separation of Hill-Rom and Batesville Casket.

January 16, 2008 - Carrington Laboratories Inc. today said its wholly owned DelSite Biotechnologies Inc. subsidiary successfully completed preclinical toxicology studies of its GelVac nasal powder influenza vaccine under FDA-reviewed protocols.

This vaccine candidate is believed to be the only nasal powder vaccine under development that, if approved, could be shipped without refrigeration to peoples' homes and self-administered in the event of a pandemic outbreak of avian bird flu.

January 16, 2008 – Siemens Medical Solutions will display at HIMSS 2008 its syngo Workflow, an image and knowledge management solution designed to drive the radiological workflow from order entry to image and report distribution and offers role-based worklists as well as access to relevant information and tools.

January 16, 2008 - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is now accepting applications for the 2008 Davies Awards of Excellence Program, created for organizations that have successfully achieved value from electronic health records to improve healthcare delivery.

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.

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