The Oxinet III remote monitoring system from Covidien enables effective respiratory monitoring on general care floors, step-down units and specialty care areas.
The Oxinet III central station and paging system offers a reportedly cost-effective method for implementing continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in areas with lower nurse-to-patient ratios. The system provides continuous central station monitoring of up to 24 Nellcor pulse oximeters, providing earlier notification of developing respiratory events.

The vitalHEAT (vH2)Temperature Management System from Dynatherm Medical is designed to non-invasively prevent or treat intraoperative hypothermia through the encapsulation of only one hand.
Utilizing the application of heat under low vacuum to open AVAs (thermo-regulatory structures) in the palm and fingers, the vH2 warms blood in the extremity then delivers this warmth directly to the core through the venous vasculature rather than warming large body surface areas.

October 11, 2007 — Biospace Med recently announced that it has received 510k clearance from the FDA to market EOS, a new digital Xray imager for 2D imaging use.

October 11, 2007 — According to the results of a survey, "Cancer and the Public," 62 percent of the 32 percent of cancer patients who suspected they had cancer, were not diagnosed for three months or more.
In addition, nearly half of the respondents did not feel that their insurance coverage would provide adequate care if diagnosed with a life threatening illness. The total number of respondents to the survey was 4,402, (1,779 males and 2,623 females) representing every state in the U.S.

October 11, 2007 — Carestream Health Inc. announced its KODAK CARESTREAM Digital Dashboard now supports monitoring of KODAK CARESTREAM RIS operations, reportedly providing system administrators with a convenient way to proactively monitor equipment performance, storage utilization and user volumes as well as verify network communication of other vendor’s devices.

October 11, 2007 - GE Healthcare said today it completed the acquisition of Web-based image and information management provider Dynamic Imaging LLC.
The acquisition of Dynamic Imaging and its IntegradWeb suite of products, will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offerings of information technology (IT) products and services across all segments of healthcare throughout hospital integrated delivery networks (IDNs), community hospitals, outpatient imaging centers, radiology group practices, and physician offices. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

October 11, 2007 - Major financial implications are at stake if healthcare facilities and physicians do not accurately record the health conditions of patients that are present on admission (POA), according to new regulations by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

October 11, 2007 - Omnicell Inc., a provider of system solutions to acute healthcare for improving patient safety and efficiency, said today introduced its WorkflowRx 5.0 central pharmacy automation solution.

October 11, 2007 - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dynamic Imaging, LLC (“Dynamic Imaging”) and its leading IntegradWeb suite of products, which will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offerings of information technology (IT) products and services across all segments of healthcare - throughout hospital integrated delivery networks (IDNs), community hospitals, outpatient imaging centers, radiology group practices and physician offices.

The syngo Lung CAD software was created for automated detection of solid lung nodules in thoracic CT studies and reportedly has improved detection performance for solid nodules (the next generation version is works-in-progress and not yet available for clinical use). syngo Lung CAD is based on proprietary image processing and pattern recognition algorithms that have reportedly been extensively trained on a large database of thoracic CT studies.

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