August 28, 2007 — Biometric technology research and development firm M2SYS Technology said it has partnered with Gnosis Medical Services to provide a biometric fingerprint solution for patient identification in developing countries.
"In many developing countries, there is no form of identification,” said Rogers Hellman, founder of Gnosis. “When an individual visits a doctor, there is no way to identify them or to find a record of their past medical history, and language barriers can create a problem in receiving effective medical treatment.”

August 28, 2007 — To support initiatives that enhance patient safety and quality of care, Cardinal Health announced it is granting up to $1 million to fund new and innovative programs at hospitals, health systems and community health clinics across the country.
This grant is the largest and first of its kind given by a health-care company. Grants of up to $50,000 will provide funding for programs that establish or implement creative and replicable methods to address challenges in providing quality patient care and to help drive improvements.

August 28, 2007 - Misys Healthcare Systems and iMedica jointly announced an agreement that Misys will license iMedica’s innovative electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) solutions as the foundation for a new family of physician offerings focused on small-sized practices.

Initial products, including ASP service offerings, will be announced in November 2007. The offerings will complement the existing Misys suite of solutions, including Misys Vision, Misys Tiger, Misys EMR and Misys Payerpath.

August 28, 2007 - Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. recently announced that the company is a flagship sponsor of the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, a five-mile, noncompetitive walk, set to take place Oct. 14, 2007 in Boston, MA.

The event is the nation’s oldest and largest one-day walk, raising more than $33 million to fight breast cancer since its inception in 1993. In 2006, nearly 40,000 walkers raised $3.2 million.

August 28, 2007 – CardiArc Inc. announced that researchers at Emory University Hospital will perform evaluations in clinical settings of the design and performance of the company’s CardiArc SPECT system, the second healthcare facility to research and provide clinical evaluations of the heart imaging system after an agreement with Cleveland Clinic was announced in June.

The testing and research is expected to yield valuable data in gaining additional knowledge of heart disease and to optimize the imaging system’s performance.

August 28, 2007 – GE Healthcare announced that it has signed an agreement with Novation for GE’s advanced radiology and cardiology image and information management technologies, which will extend technology offerings to VHA Inc. (VHA) and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), two national health care alliances, and Provista member healthcare organizations.

August 28, 2007 – Arizona State University (ASU) recently announced that they have received the National Science Foundation grant, the largest grant amount ever awarded to fund mathematics research at ASU, awarded to support a project aimed at making advances in medical technology to improve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

The National Science Foundation grant will provide $1 million over three years to the project titled “Mathematical Foundations of Magnetic Resonance Imaging” led by Rosemary Renaut, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

August 28, 2007 - Carestream Health, Inc. announced that Médical Tronik Montreal Ltd. has become the exclusive supplier for the company’s digital medical imaging and information technology (IT) solutions in Quebec, Canada.

August 28, 2007 - Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company and a medical imaging software and services company, announced that Varian Medical Systems has licensed the Cedara MergeCOM-3 DICOM Toolkit for use in their medical imaging applications, allowing Varian to accelerate the development of DICOM-compliant solutions cost effectively.

August 27, 2007 – Toshiba America Medical Systems announced the installation of two Infinix CF-i/BP vascular X-ray systems at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center, providing a five-axis bi-plane system that is designed for improved patient access.

The hospital selected the units for the five-axis bi-plane system, flat panel detector movement and C-arm flexibility, according to Robert Vincent, M.D., pediatric cardiologist and head of the Cardiac Catheterization Department, Children’s Sibley Heart Center.

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