November 30, 2007 - Cardinal Health said this week it is partnering with nine hospitals across the country to help simplify how medications are purchased and dispensed to patients.

The hospitals, including Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Memorial Hermann, Nebraska Medical Center, Ochsner Medical Center, Oregon Health and Science University, St Joseph’s Orange, and SSM St. Anthony Hospital, will leverage Cardinal Health technologies, services and expertise to improve their hospitals’ processes for medication management.

November 30, 2007 - A former president and CEO of an international producer of medical devices will serve as the executive director of the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development at Purdue University.

Today Purdue and Purdue Research Foundation officials named John C. Hertig, the former president and CEO of Enpath Medical Inc., will be the institute's inaugural executive director. The Purdue engineering alumnus begins his duties on Monday, Dec. 3.

November 30, 2007 - In the fight against deadly Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which responds poorly to conventional antibiotic treatment, NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Inc. is developing an anti-infective, but technically not an antibiotic.

The company recently announced results from a Phase I clinical trial with its NVC-422, whose trade name is AgaNase, which is a new compound with reportedly has potent activity against numerous pathogens, including MRSA.

December 1, 2007 — iCAD Inc. and GE Healthcare will develop a customized version of iCAD’s SecondLook Digital, a computer-aided detection (CAD) solution for mammography, specific to GE’s Senographe and Seno Advantage systems designed to enhance the overall clinical performance with Senographe and Seno Advantage systems.

The new version of SecondLook is intended to specifically improve sensitivity to breast cancer imaging, enhancing usability and workflow as well as providing diagnostic support tools.

December 1, 2007 – Emageon Inc. highlighted at RSNA 2007 enhancements to its “vendor neutral” image sharing PACS and announced a new cardiology/radiology workstation will be introduced in 2008.

December 1, 2007 – Candelis featured ImageGrid RIS (IG RIS), its newly expanded radiology information system (RIS) built on its ImageGrid PACS appliance designed to streamline and improve workflow in a radiology environment.

The IG RIS is a web-enabled application residing on the PACS appliance to allow radiologists, technologists and staff to better access patient data and information from a single platform, reaching any workstation on a LAN, WAN or VPN connection.

December 1, 2007 – The Merge Healthcare Teleradiology division of Merge Healthcare earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval by demonstrating compliance with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization’s (JCAHO) national standard for healthcare quality and safety.

December 1, 2007 - Confirma previewed its first version of CADstream improved analysis and reporting for prostate MRI and introduced the next generation of CADstream for breast MRI at RSNA 2007.

The prostate application is designed to offer radiologists comprehensive and clinically valuable tools for improved quality, standardization and efficiency in MRI study analysis and reporting.

The next generation of CADstream for breast MRI, which features a customizable, BI-RADS-centric user interface, improved morphology tools and patient monitoring capabilities.

December 1, 2007 - Visage Imaging Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems Inc., and Medicsight have partnered to jointly develop a CT colonography solution which will be fully integrated with the Visage Thin Client/Server platform designed to provide hospitals and imaging centers with easy deployment and enhanced accessibility to CT colonography.

December 1, 2007 – Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals previewed at RSNA 2007 VistaTrak, a password protected contrast media cabinet that tracks media stock using RFID labels.

The cabinet can be interfaced with an electronic medical record (EMR), PACS/RIS and billing system to access patient data. The company’s MAGNEVIST (gadopentetate dimeglumine) contrast agent will be the first product to carry the RFID tag in the VistaTrak cabinet.

The cabinet is also password protected and is only accessible by using either a coded badge or a pin code.

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