December 18, 2007 - Royal Philips Electronics today announced a merger agreement with clinical IT and service provider Visicu Inc., which Philip’s hopes to integrate the company’s remote patient monitoring and clinical decision support technology with Philips’ patient monitors.

Philip’s said the merger will help produce products to give more clinical decision support to hospital staff, while and allow them to monitor greater numbers of critically ill patients.

December 18, 2007 - The American Cancer Society recently reported 12 million new cases of cancer diagnosed worldwide in 2007, with 7.6 million people dying from the disease.
According to the report, Global Cancer Facts & Figures, 5.4 million cancers cases and 2.9 million deaths are in more developed nations, while 6.7 million new cancer cases and 4.7 million deaths are in developing countries.

December 18, 2007 - BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.), today announced a major study published in the British Journal of Surgery demonstrates that rapid screening for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) could help reduce hospital infection rates by almost 40 percent.

December 18, 2007 - Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) today released the fifth annual “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism” report, which found while important progress has been made, critical areas of the nation’s emergency health preparedness effort still require attention.

In addition, the continuing trend of annual cuts in federal funding for state and local preparedness activities threatens the nation's safety, the study said.


Linear accelerators typically last about seven years and can cost more than $2 million, but return many times more in cancer therapy revenue for busy outpatient imaging centers. Housed in specially built shielded bunkers, these nine-ton behemoths commonly referred to as “linacs” are the powerful, complex, multitasking engines of radiotherapy.

What did you learn from the inaugural “Women’s Health and Imaging in a Digital Environment” meeting in late January 2007 that encouraged you to expand the content of the second annual conference, but with a simpler title – “Women’s Imaging 2008?”

The New York Times sports an age-old and notable credo with “all the news that’s fit to print.” If there’s an unofficial motto that Outpatient Care Technology magazine can adopt it’s this: All the news we can fit in print.
You may have noticed within the last year a small box that tends to show up at the end of some of our longer features, titled, “Continued online: Due to space constraints this article is continued at www.OPCTonline.net.”

It’s no secret that the bariatric patient population poses considerable challenges to the healthcare provider, particularly in the outpatient segment, and to the healthcare product manufacturer. One has to prepare its facilities to accommodate the patients; the other has to make products that facilitate such preparation.

The incidence of obesity and its related co-morbidities are increasingly becoming more visible. Primary pathologies, such as high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, abnormal cholesterol levels, and secondary conditions such as sores, ulcers, arthritis, chronic pain, sleep disorders and depression all can be traced to rising incidences of obesity.
The climbing prevalence of these conditions is placing a significant strain on the healthcare system. Recent estimates show the cost of obesity-linked illnesses to the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the U.S. is over $40 billion.

Delivering a concentrated dose of radiation to a specific anatomical target that typically moves tends to be a hit-and-miss proposition without the proper tools.
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