December 28, 2007 - Sutter Solano Medical Center (SSMC) was recently named a 2007 Press Ganey Compass Award Winner for its Emergency Department's overall improvements in patient satisfaction scores, compared to all other facilities being measured.

The award is a symbol of achievement in the healthcare industry that is bestowed annually, and SSMC is just one of three facilities in its class (emergency departments under 30,000 annual visits) to receive the honor.

December 28, 2007 - AspenBio Pharma Inc. has outlined plans in 2008 for submitting its final data package to the FDA for market approval of AppyScore, the first blood-based screen/triage test for human appendicitis.

Following its official pre-IDE response from FDA in November, AspenBio plans to complete the final data package for a 510(k) submission by mid to late 2008. FDA regulations require the FDA to complete the 510(k) review within 90 days of submission.

December 29, 2007 - Cone-beam breast CT provides exceptional tissue contrast and can potentially reduce examination time with comparable radiation dose to conventional 2D mammography, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

December 28, 2007 – CML HealthCare Income Fund has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire American Radiology Services Inc. (ARS), a provider of fully integrated diagnostic medical imaging services based in Baltimore, MD.

ARS, in conjunction with The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation is one of the largest providers of medical imaging services in the U.S. by volume, performing approximately 2.2 million medical imaging scans per year.

December 28, 2007 - The data converter and amplifiers market for portable imaging systems will reach $582.7 million in 2011 up from $316 million in 2006, according to research from Frost & Sullivan.

CardioDynamics received market clearance from the FDA for its new BioZ Impedance Cardiography (ICG) clinical parameters and electronic medical record (EMR) interface capability for its BioZ Dx system.

The MD Scientific LLC EndoTool Glucose Management System controls in-patient blood glucose levels with a reportedly sophisticated software system that calculates the dose of intravenous (IV) insulin needed to quickly control blood glucose levels in a critical care setting.

Wolfe Tory Medical Inc., the manufacturer of AbViser AutoValve Intra-Abdominal Pressure (IAP) monitoring devices, has incorporated a white stripe on all the AbViser tubing used for measuring IAP.

This change is in response to The Joint Commission 2006 Sentinel Event Alert regarding tubing misconnections and the potential for errors. The new white stripe reportedly allows the clinician to identify the tubing in the AbViser IAP Monitoring kit, reducing chances of a mishap. Tubing misconnections have become a failure mode for hospital mishaps causing injury to patients.

MAQUET Critical Care offers the SERVO-i MR environment option and NAVA (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist), which is capable of providing critically ill patients with advanced ventilatory care using the same machine wherever they are in the hospital.

The SERVO-i MR environment option allows patients who require an MRI exam to stay connected to the same SERVO-i ventilator that serves them in the ICU. MAQUET Critical Care’s SERVO-i ventilator with NAVA lets the patient control the ventilator with his/her respiratory center in the brain.

Canopy by Allscripts is a complete care management system that streamlines and automates utilization, case, discharge and quality management processes.

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