October 2, 2007 - MedQuist Inc. signed a multi-year agreement with MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, one of the nation's largest group purchasing organizations, renewing the relationship with MedAssets and allowing it to complete the MedQuist suite of voice capture, speech recognition and clinical documentation solutions.
As partners, MedAssets and MedQuist will provide services resulting in margin and cash flow improvements to MedAssets customers nationwide.

October 1, 2007 - Merlyn Medical received FDA approval (510K) for FlexWarmer, a portable fluid warmer that requires neither battery nor electric power.
The new product will be launched at the 2007 EMS Expo in Orlando, FL, Oct. 11-13 and the Anesthesiology Society of America Conference in San Francisco Oct. 14-17.

October 2, 2007 - As part of a far-reaching effort to enhance patient safety, strengthen accountability and improve quality of care, the North Shore-LIJ Health System has started to publicly disclose infection rates at 10 of its hospitals on Long Island, Queens and Staten Island, NY.

October 2, 2007 - SonoSite Inc. announced the introduction of the M-Turbo hand-carried ultrasound system for use in the full range of clinical applications at the point of care, reportedly delivering an exponential increase in raw processing power for improved image clarity across all exam types.

October 2, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions launched the world's smallest and first pocket ultrasound system, the ACUSON P10, which is a little larger than a common PDA.
The device weighs 1.6 pounds, and fits easily into a lab coat pocket, the company says. It is intended for complementary initial diagnostic care and triage, particularly in cardiology, emergency care and obstetrics.

October 2, 2007 - Nuance Communications Inc. today announced that it has acquired Commissure Inc., a medical imaging software company that provides speech-enabled radiology workflow optimization and data analysis solutions, allowing Nuance to broaden the capabilities of its Dictaphone solutions for the medical imaging industry, extending the company's domain in the radiology market.

October 2, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare announced that the company presented its standards-based solution for demonstrating healthcare information exchange using its IMPAX Data Center, at PHIN (Public Health Information Network) 2007, held Aug. 27 to Aug. 29, in Atlanta, GA.

October 2, 2007 - 3DR Laboratories LLC and Visage Imaging Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems Inc., signed an agreement to integrate Visage Imaging’s Visage CS Thin Client/Server and Visage PACS Server into the company’s product portfolio to provide internal and remote advanced 2D and 3D capabilities and services to healthcare enterprise customers.

October 1, 2007 - GE Healthcare demonstrated at its Global Research Center what it says is the first 3D X-ray plus ultrasound image fusion system (DBT-US fusion) developed for clinical applications such as breast imaging.

October 1, 2007 - Researchers at GE Healthcare’s Global Research Center announced that they are working to better enable monitoring of the temperature changes and tissue damage with MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) to enable the noninvasive treatment of cancer and ensure that tumors can be safely destroyed without damaging healthy tissue around the tumor itself.

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