October 1, 2007— North American Scientific Inc. announced that its ClearPath-HDR device has been used in a patient for the first time.
For use in Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) treatment plans, ClearPath-HDR reportedly combines the benefits of balloon brachytherapy products with the customized dose planning benefits of the multi-catheter brachytherapy procedure into one device.

October 1, 2007 — The proportion of physicians in solo and two-physician practices decreased significantly from 40.7 percent in 1996-97 to 32.5 percent in 2004-05, according to a national study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).

October 1, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions and Kameda Healthinformatics Institute Inc. established a joint venture company named Siemens Kameda Healthcare IT Systems K.K., to strengthen Siemens' position in the rapidly growing Japanese healthcare market.
Siemens Medical Solutions will hold two-thirds ownership and Kameda Healthinformatics Institute will hold one-third ownership of the newly formed company.
According to YANO Research, Japan is currently the second largest healthcare information systems market.

October 1, 2007 - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has named recipients of the 2007 Nicholas E. Davies Awards of Excellence in the organizational, ambulatory and public health categories.
The Davies awards recognize excellence in the implementation of the electronic health record. Originally created by CPRI-HOST in 1994, the program is named in honor of Dr. Nicholas E. Davies, a practicing physician who believed that the computer-based patient record was needed to improve patient care.
The recipients of the 2007 Davies awards are:

October 1, 2007 - A consortium of experts in the field of human virus research and vaccine development have joined forces to develop a novel pandemic influenza vaccine as a potential emergency vaccination.
The four-year project has been awarded a grant of EUR3.5 million from the European Union to help fund the research and the development of the new vaccine. The so-called FluVac project will be coordinated by Nobilon International BV, which is part of Organon, the human healthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel.

InDex Archive solution has been upgraded, enabling immediate access to relevant prior exams through temporary onsite storage called the InDex Archive ExamReady feature.

InSiteOne Inc., a manufacturer of digital medical image archiving, storage and disaster recovery services for the healthcare industry, announced on Friday a contract extension with MedAssets Supply Chain Systems. InSiteOne’s pricing model of a one-time fee-per-study with no additional maintenance costs and the InDex suite of fully managed services are among the factors that provide benefits for MedAssets’ customers.

October 1, 2007 - Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Siemens K.K. Japan have agreed to change the ownership interest both companies hold in their joint venture Mochida Siemens Medical Systems Co. Ltd., due to the fact that the collaboration has steadily expanded its business in the diagnostic ultrasound market in Japan, especially in the obstetrics and gynecology market where it holds a significant market share.

October 1, 2007 - The board of the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program recently reported the results of a fifteen-month study assessing the security risks associated with electronic health record (EHR) systems, evaluating current industry information security practices and assessing level of risk related to EHR systems, finding that commercial EHR systems are vulnerable to exploitation given existing industry development and disclosure practices.

CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions provide lifecycle management of data, while enabling access to images and information stored in many platforms and locations across a healthcare enterprise or regional community. The portfolio includes enterprise information management (EIM), hosted information management (HIM) and regional information management (RIM).

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