September 21, 2007 – To cure the medical profession’s deficiency in the Internet world, a group of doctors has launched a campaign to make it easy and affordable for every doctor to develop a customized Web site.

It’s been a mind-boggling paradox in medicine: Doctors use state-of-the-art equipment and the latest technology to diagnose patients, yet lag well behind almost every other profession when it comes to having Internet sites.

September 21, 2007 — ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches best approaches to improving patient care, is offering hospitals a one-day pump workshop with support from Massachusetts General Hospital.

Hospital and healthcare system staff will have an opportunity to learn from presenters who will combine clinical considerations, information from medical device evaluations, and guided interaction with devices to teach acquisition strategies. This program builds on the success of past programs to offer attendees best practices.

September 21, 2007 — According to a new survey, the cognitive impairment experienced by 14 to 45 percent of cancer patients can be long-lasting and severely affect their personal and professional lives.

Patients report that the lack of concentration, short-term memory loss, difficulty with word recall and the inability to organize or multi-task have led to significant problems at home and in the workplace.

September 21, 2007 — Cianna Medical has been created as a new company to focus exclusively on its innovative SAVI breast brachytherapy technology.

Cianna is a spinoff of BioLucent Inc., with Cianna retaining the same team that developed the SAVI technology.

The creation of Cianna Medical comes with the completion of Hologic Inc.'s acquisition of BioLucent and its MammoPad breast cushion business. Virtually all of BioLucent's leadership team will remain at Cianna Medical.

September 21, 2007 – STERIS Corp. and Questra Corp. recently announced the launch of the ProConnect Response Center.

September 21, 2007 – DataBay Resources, a provider of healthcare market assessment software, announces the release of NavigateMD, an Internet-based system for health care strategic planners, marketers and physician recruiters designed to determine the physician supply and community demand of a service area.

NavigateMD incorporates new technologies and methodologies to include a physician’s out-of-area influences and does not limit the determination by only the physical location of the physician.

September 21, 2007 - North American Scientific Inc. announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of its NOMOS Radiation Oncology business to privately-held Best Medical International Inc.

September 21, 2007 - Carestream Health Inc. announced it has secured a multimillion-dollar order with the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) New England Region for the company’s premier healthcare IT systems, allowing the company to provide healthcare IT solutions that include a KODAK CARESTREAM PACS, a regional archive, data migration, network integration and other professional IT services.

September 20, 2007 — Healthcare information systems developer, Global Care Quest Inc. today announced that Century City Doctors Hospital (CCDH), an acute-care facility located in Los Angeles, CA., has gone live with Global Care Quest's Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS).

September 20, 2007 - The 22nd annual Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) International Congress and Exhibition takes place June 25-28, 2008 in Barcelona.

As a result of widespread clinical acceptance of computer assisted methods and tools, more than half of the symposium organizing and program committees for CARS are radiologists or surgeons, the remainder being computer scientists and engineers.

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