December 4, 2007 - STERIS Corp. announced the launch of its newest surgical platform, the Surgimax General Surgical Table, which complements its industry standard Amsco 3085 SP and Cmax General Surgical Tables, specialty surgical tables and table accessory lines.

December 4, 2007 – The Indiana State Department of Health has launched a statewide deployment of a visual clinical decision support software system, Logical Images’ VisualDx.

The pilot program includes the installation of the software in 42 hospitals and 11 local health departments and clinics across the state. VisualDx will aid clinicians at these facilities in developing a more accurate, patient-centric diagnosis while simultaneously improving emergency preparedness.

December 4, 2007 - The University of Colorado Hospital has gone live this week with GE Healthcare's Centricity Perioperative System to streamline surgical services, integrating anesthesia, nursing, scheduling, surgery management and preprocedures services into one complete patient record.

December 4, 2007 – Sage Software today joins a list of petitioners urging the White House and President George W. Bush to revise regulations prohibiting controlled drugs from being electronically prescribed, because they are negatively impacting the adoption of electronic prescribing and foregoing potential significant efficiencies e-prescribing brings to healthcare.

Sage Software is among those submitting the letter along with large healthcare-related organizations such as BlueCross BlueShield, CVS, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and Wal-Mart.

December 4, 2007 - Omnicell Inc. today introduced its SinglePointe totally automated, patient-specific management solution along with the latest release of Omnicell 12.0 automated dispensing software, which together the company says will be a new way hospital pharmacies and nursing staffs can store, manage, and track patient-specific medications.

December 4, 2007 - Global Med Technologies Inc. an international e-Health, medical information technology company, said yesterday its Wyndgate Technologies division has signed an agreement to license its transfusion management system SafeTrace Tx to Sheridan Memorial Hospital, of Sheridan, WY.

December 4, 2007 - Invivo Corp., a designer and manufacturer of RF coils, MRI compatible patient vital signs monitors, visualization and analysis products for MRI, fMRI and interventional instruments, featured its Biopsy Breast Array Coils at RSNA 2007.

December 4, 2007 - "ER," the long-running drama on NBC, will feature a new star on its 300th episode, NeuroLogica's portable CT scanner CereTom, optimized for Otolaryngology, enabling ENT doctors to cost-effectively scan patients in-office for a quicker diagnosis.

December 4, 2007 - GE Healthcare IT announced that the University of Colorado Hospital is now live with the company’s Centricity Preoperative System to streamline surgical services across five business segments, integrating anesthesia, nursing, scheduling, surgery management and pre-procedures services into one patient record.

December 4, 2007 - InSite One’s InDex Archive surpassed 1.5 billion individual images and over 20 million studies stored for over 500 sites nationally, equating approximately three percent or 9 million of the U.S. patient population.

InSite One offers an out-sourced archiving service, which on a weekly basis reportedly receives 12 terabytes of medical information in its Tier-4 data centers.

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