December 4, 2007 - Merge Healthcare introduced eFilm Workstation version 3.0 diagnostic imaging software, including enhancements in a Gold version and a Platinum version that are designed to accelerate radiologist productivity; both are available as an update for existing eFilm Workstation customers.

December 4, 2007 - Royal Philips Electronics announced it will acquire US-based Emergin Inc., a provider of software utilized to rapidly transmit medical alarm signals throughout hospitals, and will expand the use of information technology in healthcare – and specifically in its patient monitoring business – to improve patient outcomes and help hospitals work more efficiently.

The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007, upon which Emergin will become part of the Patient Monitoring business unit within Philips’ Healthcare sector.

December 4, 2007 – TeraRecon announced new workflow technologies, “Workflow Templates” and “Workflow Scenes” as part of the Aquarius iNtuition platform, identifying the nature of each examination received by the server, without relying on DICOM headers, then performing pre-processing steps using optimized algorithms selected for the anatomy being processed.

December 4, 2007 - RamSoft will release version 4.5 of the new PowerServer RIS/PACS at the end of the first quarter of 2008, providing facilities with a comprehensive “all-in-one” RIS/PACS solution running on a single server and database.

December 3, 2007 - Members of FASA and American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers have voted to approve the proposed merger between FASA and the AAASC.

As a result, on Jan. 1, 2008, FASA and AAASC will join together to become one organization that will be known as the ASC Association.

December 3, 2007 - B. Braun Medical Inc. today launched its PINNACLE TPN Manager, complementing the company’s PINNACLE TPN Management System, which offers computer physician order entry (CPOE) and calculating software which streamlines the total parental nutrition (TPN) compounding process from the moment an order is entered by the pharmacist until the time it is infused into the patient.

December 3, 2007 - Baxa Corp. today launched the MedBoard Web-based medication tracking system, designed to record pharmacy preparation and delivery activities.

December 3, 2007 - Outsourced hospital compounded sterile preparations maker PharMEDium Services LLC said today it is offering compounded pre-filled, perioperative anesthesia drugs, an effort devoted to reducing medication errors and improving OR efficiencies.

The service line covers the most commonly used drugs in the OR, including about 75 percent of those typically used in surgical procedures.

December 3, 2007 - CareTech Solutions, a healthcare information technology and health information management (HIM) services provider, today said it signed a multi-year IT infrastructure outsourcing contract with The Christ Hospital, a leading acute care hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Following a competitive selection process, CareTech was chosen to provide the hospital with IT infrastructure outsourcing, help desk services and web services. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

December 3, 2007 - A panel of researchers, anesthesia professionals and a patient/advocate assembled last week at a forum for healthcare journalists to tackle the complex issue of anesthesia awareness, the rare but devastating condition that is of heightened public concern due to Nov. 30 release of the movie “Awake.”

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