October 22, 2007 - Pioneer Surgical Technology today announced the U.S. market availability of its CLARITY Posterior Retractor System, developed to help meet the challenge of reducing operating room time and improving patient outcomes.

October 22, 2007 - Health benefits company WellPoint Inc. and Zagat Survey LLC today announced the upcoming launch of a new online survey tool that will allow consumers to share their physician experiences with others.

WellPoint will begin to offer the online tool using the Zagat approach to select members in its Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield licensed subsidiaries in January 2008.

October 19, 2007 - Healthcare virtual reality (VR) applications have experienced double-digit growth both worldwide and in the U.S. since the turn of the century, and the 2010 U.S. market for virtual reality in surgery, medical education, therapy and other areas is expected to grow to $290 million, according to “Virtual Reality Market in the U.S. Healthcare Sector: Markets for Remote Surgery, 3D Modeling, Pain Distraction and Other Applications,” a new report from life science research firm Kalorama Information.

October 22, 2007 - Vendormate Inc. today released VISION 4.0, a solution for vendor security and ethics compliance monitoring which makes it easier for users to gather and process the information.

October 22, 2007 - In a major step aimed at making healthcare more affordable while strengthening patient safety and outcomes, the Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition is calling for industry-wide adoption of organizational and product identifiers from GS1, an international organization dedicated to designing and implementing supply chain standards.

October 22, 2007 - GE Healthcare highlighted the advantages of its digital flat panel Biplane imaging systems, the Innova 3131IQ and 2121IQ, which are designed to enable imaging fine vessels and cardiovascular anatomy and to perform 3D rotational imaging to produce three-dimensional images of the vascular system, bone and soft tissue in the body.

October 200, 2007 - OrthoView announced that it will feature demonstrations of its latest Client/Server software including customized versions for major PACS vendors, such as GE (Centricity Web), McKesson (Horizon Medical Imaging), Philips (iSite), Agfa (Impax) and Carestream and a new module for Limb Deformity repair, at RSNA 2007 in Chicago, Nov. 25 to Nov.30.

October 22, 2007 - IBM and Initiate Systems Inc. announced today that Ochsner Health System, reportedly Louisiana’s largest private health system, has selected the companies to improve the capabilities of its electronic medical record (EMR) system, customizing Initiate PatientT, an advanced Enterprise Master -Person Index (EMPI) solution for the sharing and management of patient data in an environment of rapid expansion and across highly disparate patient registration systems.

October 22, 2007 - An educational program developed by the International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer (iSBTc) will take place in Boston on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007 at the Seaport World Trade Center.

The “Workshop on Future Opportunities for Combination Biological Therapy of Cancer” will address relevant and exciting new opportunities for creating and implementing combination therapies in the field of oncology.

October 22, 2007 - Quantum Medical Imaging, in partnership with Agfa Healthcare, has introduced two new CR systems, the CR30-SP, which is a tabletop unit, capable of 60 plates per hour and the upright unit CR35-SP, which completes up to 73 plates per hour.

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