January 7, 2008 - Emdeon Business Services said today it entered into an agreement with Tufts Health Plan to add its payment management services to their longstanding relationship.

January 7, 2008 - New polymerization technology may one day take the pain out of injections and blood draws, as a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina and Laser Zentrum Hannover recently used two-photon polymerization to create hollow needles so fine patients would could not feel them piercing the skin.

Clustered together on a patch, these microneedles can deliver drugs or draw blood efficiently as standard hypodermic needles. These findings are reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology.

January 7, 2008 – Dune Medical Devices announced new clinical developments of its breast cancer assessment probe, currently in investigational use, stating that results from a recent randomized clinical trial in 11 medical centers in Israel have underscored the safety and clinical benefit of the system in the intraoperative detection of tumors at the resection margins (positive margins) in specimens of patients undergoing breast conserving surgery.

January 7, 2008 - Imaging for early cardiovascular disease that causes heart attack and stroke is the focus of the High-Risk Plaque (HRP) Initiative, a new study to develop improved techniques for identifying individuals at risk for heart attacks and of advanced methods to monitor disease progression and treatment response.

January 7, 2008 - Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) has granted Biosound Esaote a nonexclusive license to pioneering patents owned by RCT that broadly cover ultrasound tissue harmonic imaging (THI), joining Acuson Corp., a Siemens company, Royal Philips Electronics and GE as a licensee of the technology.

January 4, 2007 - InfoLogix Inc. was recently featured in a FOX Business News interview about how the company’s mobile technology is helping to solve medication management errors among its 1,400 hospital customers across North America.

The interview with InfoLogix CEO and President David Gulian, originally scheduled to air Dec. 13, aired on FOX Business News Jan. 3, during the “C-Suite Sitdown” segment of the morning show.

January 4, 2008 - Pharmaceutical company Innocoll Inc. said today that the first of a series of planned phase 2 clinical trials to investigate the CollaRx Bupivacaine Surgical Implant for the management of post-operative pain, has commenced dosing.

January 4, 2008 – Respironics’ new OmniLab multi-mode titration system is intended to help sleep technicians titrate more types of patients than ever before.

The device incorporates six modes of therapy with multiple technologies, which can be accessed directly from a PC. Sleep technicians can choose the most effective therapy for each patient, all from one system. Patients can be titrated without interruption as they won’t need to move to another room in order to be titrated on a different system.

January 4, 2008 - Sectra inked an agreement with British Telecommunications plc (BT) to provide PACS products and services to the majority of London’s public hospitals, assuming full responsibility for the support and maintenance of the systems.

January 3, 2008 - BD Diagnostics said Jan. 2 it received clearance from the FDA for the BD GeneOhm StaphSR assay, which the company says is the first test to rapidly and simultaneously identify two deadly healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) - Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) - from patients with positive blood cultures.

BD says the test will enable physicians to implement the right treatment at the right time for patients with bloodstream infections, thereby transforming patient care and significantly reducing healthcare costs.

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