December 11, 2007 – McKesson Corp. announced that the Practice Partner Research Network (PPRNet) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, S.C., received a $1.2 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to research medication safety in the ambulatory setting.

December 11, 2007 - iCAD Inc. a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, announced two U.S. patents have recently been granted to the company by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

According to Ken Ferry, President and Chief Executive Officer of iCAD, the first patent provides an information fusion method for multiple indicators of cancer by using a specific method of combining lesion information, while the second patent addresses improved clinical workflow.

December 11, 2007 - A poll of infection prevention professionals conducted six months after the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology’s (APIC) national MRSA Prevalence Study indicated that while 59 percent of the 2,100 who responded are adopting or already adopted interventions to address Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 50 percent said their healthcare facility is not doing as much as it could.

December 11, 2007 - When it comes to evaluating the quality of surgical care, a Thomson Healthcare analytical method that uses data from healthcare claims is as effective as a methodology that uses data taken directly from medical records, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

December 11, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems announced that two new private cancer centers in Switzerland have been equipped with the company’s radiotherapy machines, offering image guided advanced intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatments to patients.

December 11, 2007 - Carestream Health Inc. announced that Ultrasound Associates of Virginia has purchased its KODAK CARESTREAM Outpatient Solution, a new turnkey digital imaging and information management package designed for imaging centers.

December 11, 2007 - GE’s SnapShot Pulse technology for prospectively gated diagnostic cardiac CT exams has been proven to reduce a patient’s radiation exposure by up to 83 percent and improve image quality, validated from clinicians performing thousands of exams at sites around the world.

December 11, 2007 - Frost & Sullivan presented the 2007 Global Excellence Award in speech recognition technology to Philips Speech Recognition Systems (Philips SRS), for its demonstrated leadership in the field of speech recognition technologies for the healthcare market.

December 11, 2007 - Carestream Health Inc. launched computer-aided detection (CAD) software for its CR-based mammography platforms in Europe and Canada, aiming to assist in the early detection of breast cancer.

December 11, 2007 ― GE partnered with anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians and other fields of medicine to design new editions of its LOGIQ e compact and a new edition of the LOGIQ Book XP Enhanced compact, as part of its 2008 ultrasound releases introduced today.

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