August 23, 2007 - The FDA has updated its guidance on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a tool for identifying and tracking items or people in hospitals.

August 22, 2007 - GE Healthcare announced today that it has received a Bronze IDEA award for the Signa HDe MR system in the Medical & Scientific Products category for the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards, the only diagnostic imaging product to win an IDEA 07 award from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).

Co-sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine in conjunction with IDSA, the idea program fosters business and public understanding of the impact of industrial design excellence on the quality of life and the economy.

August 22, 2007 - Research published in the academic journal, Chemical Communications, reveals that a new compound may be used in a 'chemically-sensitive MRI scan' to help identify the extent of progression of diseases such as cancer, without the need for intrusive biopsies.

August 22, 2007 - LUMEDX Corp., a provider of fully integrated cardiovascular information systems, recently introduced the Cardiac Transplant solution, a cardiology software that automates donor/recipient record keeping for heart transplant centers, reportedly helping to streamline and simplify the process of collecting and managing adult cardiac transplant patient data from first consultation through evaluation, activation, transplant and post-transplant follow-up visits.

August 21, 2007 — Joint Commission Resources (JCR) announced the launch of the Multi-Drug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) consulting service to help healthcare organizations prevent and control MDROs.

JCR is a not-for-profit affiliate of The Joint Commission.

August 21, 2007 — Viking Systems Inc. a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-performance laparoscopic vision systems announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Tuebingen Scientific Medical GmbH, a Germany-based developer of articulating surgical instrumentation for minimally invasive surgery (MIS).

Tuebingen Scientific Medical markets its instruments under the brand name 'Radius'. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

August 21, 2007 — The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) 2007 Annual Conference, to be held in Philadelphia Oct. 28-31, is giving thousands of conference attendees the opportunity to connect personally and professionally via a new social networking tool prior to the conference.

The introNetworks tool will provide more than 3,000 group practice leaders and 400 exhibitors an online community before, during and after the conference, which draws the largest networking assembly of medical group practice leaders

August 21, 2007 — Varian Medical Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a "smart" radiotherapy treatment planning tool that will enable clinicians to significantly reduce the amount of time needed to plan advanced treatments, including intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT).

August 21, 2007 — FDA clearance of Roche Diagnostics' 9-minute Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) test during parathyroid surgery reportedly provides faster results for surgeons, which may result in shorter surgeries for patients.

The FDA gave Roche Diagnostics clearance in late July to market the test for use during surgery. The test is used on Roche's Elecsys 1010 and 2010 systems and cobas e 411 analyzer and has been available for non-operative use since April.

August 21, 2007 - In a signal of momentum for greater use of e-prescribing by America's physicians, the state of Minnesota has taken steps to require physicians contracting with the state employee health plan's medical networks to use e-prescribing by 2011, said the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) Aug. 20.

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