September 4, 2007- New recommendations released today in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography further support the role of stress echo in accurately identifying coronary artery disease (CAD), determining prognosis of patients with known or suspected CAD, in addition to providing recommendations for optimizing imaging.

September 4, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare demonstrated at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2007 its new IMPAX Cardiovascular (CV) Suite, a system that integrates multi-lingual, multimodality image and reporting capabilities and provides access to a consolidated view of all cross-modality cardiology and radiology images within a single review station.

September 4, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions expanded its portfolio of ultrasound applications with the syngo Arterial Health Package (AHP) that calculates cardiovascular risks by measuring the carotid intima media thickness and determining the so-called vascular age, the relative age of the vessel.

Together with other factors, such as cholesterol values and blood pressure, the physician can use the results of syngo AHP to better assess a patient's myocardial or stroke-related risk and establish an individual prevention and treatment plan.

September 4, 2007 - Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has developed SMD 21510 D, a 21-inch monochrome display suited for mammography diagnosis and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) applications.

The new 5MP display supports a "Fully Automated Stability" system that reportedly ensures reliably verified grayscale response and continuous luminance levels. The new medical display can be used with a number of standard or high-performance graphic cards of the latest generation.

September 4, 2007 - The first few minutes are instrumental in emergency situations and a new portable ultrasound device from Siemens Medical Systems will help clinicians in these efforts.

September 4, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems announced today that six hospitals in northern England are implementing ARIA, a Varian Medical Systems software system that enables them to function as one clinical network.

The rollout of ARIA for Medical Oncology at hospitals in Lancashire and Cumbria is expected to improve patient care and departmental efficiency by fully integrating the prescribing, preparation, dispensing and administration of drugs for treating cancer.

For more information: www.varian.com

September 4, 2007 – Philips recently demonstrated its HeartStart MRx monitor/defibrillator that enables paramedics to transmit patient data from the ambulance to the hospital’s emergency department, at the European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) annual congress in Vienna, Austria.

Upon reception of the data at the hospital, clinicians can use the ECG data to begin assessing what treatment the incoming patient will need. By allowing a hospital to begin organizing its resources before the patient arrives, the MRx can reportedly help reduce the time to treatment.

August 30, 2007 — David B. Samadi, MD, chief of the division of robotics and minimally invasive surgery in the Department of Urology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, performed a record five robotic prostatectomies Aug. 27 using just one robot.
“The da Vinci Surgical System is a remarkable tool,” said Dr. Samadi. “This is the ultimate form of minimally-invasive surgery, therefore, the procedure is not as time-intensive as traditional open surgery. Patients recover faster, and the technology also gives surgeons more time to help more patients. It’s a win-win.”

August 31, 2007 — Medical Records Institute announced the availability of EMRCompare data on 14 companies' EMR products on its website www.medrecinst.com/emrcompare/index.html.

EMRCompare was developed to provide physicians and others with broader, more transparent information than is available elsewhere about EMR systems, including cost, functionality, and usability.

August 31, 2007 – The National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) and GE Healthcare announced collaboration to launch The Institute for Transformational Healthcare Leadership.

The institute will develop an integrated portfolio of educational offerings designed to create and sustain leadership excellence across a highly complex healthcare system. These unique offerings include assessment and planning methods, learning programs to systematically develop leaders from the front line to senior executive level and access to in-depth, onsite guidance and expertise.

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