January 9, 2008 - Mayo Clinic and IBM collaborated to create The Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center (MI3C) aimed at advancing medical imaging technologies to improve the quality of patient care, an extension of a Mayo-IBM research collaboration announced in 2007, the results of which have given physicians the ability to register medical images up to 50-times faster and provide critical diagnosis, such as the growth or shrinkage of tumors, in seconds instead of hours.

January 9, 2008 - Avista Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm, has completed its acquisition of Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Imaging, a business unit of Bristol-Myers Squibb that supplies medical imaging products for nuclear and ultrasound cardiovascular diagnostic imaging procedures.

ision-Sciences Inc.'s advanced digital, video-based flexible Cystoscope is used in conjunction with an integrated "built-in" light source, eliminating the need for a separate camera head, light guide cable and optical coupler.

January 8, 2008 - MEDHOST, a provider of emergency department information systems (EDIS), said yesterday it successfully integrated with the FreeNET Voice Over Wireless Fidelity (VoWiFi) system from Ascom, allowing messages and alerts generated in MEDHOST to be distributed to multiple types of wireless devices.

January 8, 2008 - InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. announced its new brand name, INSIGHT IMAGING, to better reflect its day-to-day operations and enable patients, payors and physicians to easily identify and choose from among the many INSIGHT IMAGING facilities that comprise its national network.

Effective today, 22 fixed-site centers in California, 10 fixed-site centers in Arizona and two fixed-site centers in Nevada have transitioned to the new INSIGHT IMAGING brand. The rebranding initiative is expected to be complete by mid-2008.

January 8, 2008 - Vision-Sciences Inc. received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its new advanced digital, video-based flexible Cystoscope, used in conjunction with an integrated "built-in" light source, eliminating the need for a separate camera head, light guide cable and optical coupler.

January 8, 2008 – After just eight months since its publication launch, the Patient Resource Cancer Guide has printed over 500,000 issues and mailed to more than 6,000 oncology offices.
The cancer guide made its debut in April 2007 as the first ever publication of its kind: a direct to patient educational tool, allowing cancer patients and their families access to vital information in making informed medical decisions about treatment. This 128 page, full color publication is made available free of charge to cancer patients and their families.

January 8, 2008 – The cardiac imaging community has until Jan. 12 to contribute to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) public comments forum regarding CMS’ proposed National Coverage Decision (NCD) that would limit reimbursement for coronary CTA to just two clinical indications.

In the decision, CMS states that “[t]he evidence is inadequate to conclude that cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is reasonable and necessary under section 1862(a)(1)(A) for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD).”

January 8, 2008 - GE Healthcare has initiated a vendor-independent educational program, designed specifically for biomedical and technical professionals, to enhance their knowledge of IT concepts for healthcare, identifying core IT skills critical to servicing and supporting today’s integrated and networked medical devices.

January 8, 2008 - A high-energy form of ultrasound imaging developed by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering produces pictures of liver tumors that are better than those made with traditional ultrasound, may offer a new tool for screening patients at increased risk for liver cancers according to results of a clinical study.

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