November 9, 2007 - The National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE) issued guidance Nov. 8 to all its members advocating carbon monoxide screenings for patients presenting with any of the signs of carbon monoxide poisoning, and advocated enhanced carbon monoxide training programs.

November 9, 2007 - Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals announced that the company has been awarded a three-year contract renewal by HealthTrust Purchasing Group, LP (HealthTrust), to make Magnevist (gadopentetate dimeglumine) Injection available to members of the HealthTrust network.

Magnevist is used to enhance certain MRI procedures, and reportedly has the broadest range of FDA approved indications of any MRI contrast agent for adult and pediatric patients.

November 9, 2007 - NeuroLogica Corp. announced that its CereTom portable CT scanner was successfully used during the separation surgery of Omani conjoined twins, Safa and Marwah, at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

November 9, 2007 - Matrox Graphics announced that Cedara Software is using Matrox 10-bit MED Series display controller boards to develop a 10-bit version of the Cedara I-ReadMammo 6.2 mammography software.

Cedara's work-in-progress 10-bit I-ReadMammo application will reportedly be able to display images with up to 1,024 simultaneous levels of gray, when combined with a Matrox 10-bit board and 10-bit displays. This feature aims to provide medical professionals with a more detailed image for more accurate diagnoses.

November 9, 2007 - Carestream Health and Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC) have entered into an agreement that enables CMTC to begin selling Carestream Health’s line of CARESTREAM PACS and Information Management Solutions in the U.S., effective immediately.

November 9, 2007 - Clinicians at BC Cancer Agency have treated a prostate cancer patient with a technique, called volumetric arc therapy (VMAT), allowing clinicians to deliver a single treatment to their 72-year-old patient in less than two minutes.

November 9, 2007 - Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. recently introduced its Infinix VF-i/SP X-ray system, a universal cardiovascular system designed to accommodate diagnostic and interventional procedures.

November 9, 2007 – TeraRecon received the Frost & Sullivan 2007 Market Penetration Leadership Award for demonstrating strategic excellence in product innovation, marketing and sales strategies that resulted in the both the largest gain in market share and an outstanding financial performance over the past two to three years.

November 8, 2007 - EMC Corporation today said the University of Miami Clinical Enterprise Technologies (UMCET) is using the EMC Documentum ApplicationXtender software suite to transition the University of Miami Medical Group to an electronic medical record system.

November 8, 2008 - Carolinas Medical Center - NorthEast (CMC-NorthEast) recently selected HealthMatics ED Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) from Allscripts to automate emergency room operations and improve access to clinical information.

CMC-NorthEast currently has 160 physicians in 40 clinics using Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions.

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