October 3, 2007 - Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp. recently introduced reusable instruments made from high-grade, plastic that can be sterilized.
The company says these instruments can be sterilized in an autoclave and are resistant to chemicals and ultrasonic waves. The patterns available include: sponge forceps, towel clamps, stitch scissors, mosquito forceps and kocher forceps.
Spectrum’s plastic instruments are designed to be used for approximately 100 sterilization cycles.

October 3, 2007 - Symx Technologies said Oct. 3 it hopes to increase patient safety in hospitals with RFID by incorporating its Symx ATLAS into Microsoft’s newly launched BizTalk Server 2006 R2.

October 3, 2007 - Newton-Wellesley Hospital said today it is implementing Isabel Healthcare’s decision support system to aid in formulating accurate and timely diagnoses.
Newton-Wellesley is the first Massachusetts hospital to provide its 1,100 physicians access to the Isabel technology system. Dr. Jim Kaplan, a member of the Newton-Wellesley Board of Trustees, brought the Web-based decision support system to the hospital, believing its use at the point of care will help further ensure accurate diagnoses.

October 3, 2007 – Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, PA said it had great success using the HCS Medication Reconciliation service the first night of service recently in its emergency department.

October 3, 2007 — Hologic, Inc., a provider of diagnostic imaging and digital imaging systems directed towards women’s health, opened the NASDAQ Stock Market, October 2, 2007 in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, commemorated annually on October 1st.
Chairman and CEO of Hologic, Jack Cumming, presided over the NASDAQ opening bell ceremony at the NASDAQ Market Site.

October 3, 2007 - McKesson will debut its new anesthesia management solution, McKesson Anesthesia Care, alongside its Horizon Surgical Manager and Revenue Cycle Outsourcing during the American Society of Anesthesiologists show Oct. 13-17 in San Francisco.
Together the company says these solutions provide a very comprehensive anesthesia solution, enabling healthcare organizations to improve both clinical and financial operations.

Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc. announced that is had received FDA clearance to market its Oasis magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that reportedly features vertical field magnet technology inclusive of high magnet homogeneity and higher order active shim, in an open architecture magnet design.

The system contains a magnetic field strength of 1.2 Tesla, a high performance gradient system coupled with an eight-channel Radio Frequency (RF) system and Hitachi-designed RF coils.

For more information: www.hitachimed.com

October 3, 2007 - According to the study by the New England Journal of Medicine(NEJM), conclusions made were that primary CTC and OC screening strategies ended in similar detection rates for advanced neoplasia, though the numbers of polypectomies and complications were smaller in the CTC group, supporting the use of CTC as a primary screening test before therapeutic OC.

Results from the study, reported by NEJM:

October 3, 2007 - Embedded RFID solutions maker SkyeTek Inc, said today Aionex has adopted its M1 HF SkyeModule RFID reader technology to streamline delivery of patient care in hospitals.
The readers provide Aionex’s Patient Response Platform (PRP) with the information it needs to monitor patient care, authenticate hospital staff members, and track process efficacy.

October 3, 2007 - Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc., a product-focused molecular imaging company, announced today that enrollment has begun in a proof-of-concept phase I clinical trial investigating Avid’s development compound 18F-AV-133 for imaging patients with movement disorders, including Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and essential tremor and dementias, including Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).

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