September 6, 2007 - Iomai Corp. said it began dosing in a Phase 1/2 study to assess the safety and dose-sparing capability of the company's immunostimulant patch when used in combination with an injected H5N1 influenza vaccine.

September 6, 2007 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the most sweeping rule changes for hospital reimbursement since 1983.
The new regulations, which affect acute care hospitals nationwide, go into effect October 1, 2007, and will have significant impact on how hospitals are reimbursed for in-patient services (IPPS), according to recently completed studies by American Hospital Directory.

September 6, 2007 - A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR, because it increases blood flow through the heart by 25 percent over the current method.
A new technique is needed because conventional CPR has a success rate of 5 percent to 10 percent, depending on how fast rescuers are able to respond and how well the procedure is performed. For every one minute of delay, the resuscitation rate decreases by 10 percent.

September 6, 2007 - Fluke Biomedical released the Ansur plug-in for all models of QED 6 Defibrillator/Transcutaneous Pacer Analyzer to improve testing quality, repeatability and productivity using a single human interface, no matter how many different mainframe testers are used.

September 6, 2007 - Zotec Partners, a solutions firm providing proprietary medical billing services and licensed software to hospital-based physician specialty practices, announced today that Health Inventures has selected them as their exclusive billing and radiology information services (RIS) provider.

Zotec's RIS is resource-based and template driven, which will allow Health Inventures’ imaging centers to effectively manage their practice scheduling and workflow needs. Features available include the ability to overbook, block and reschedule appointments.

September 6, 2007 - Patient Comfort Systems Inc. recently introduced MRI table pad and patient positioning sets specially developed for stereotactic breast biopsies.

The new Patient Comfort sets address the need for enhanced comfort during these procedures that require women to lie prone for extended time periods. The cushioning system will reportedly make lengthy exams more tolerable and reduce movement during critical exam times as well as possible abortion of procedures.

September 6, 2007 – Sectra recently announced that the Oncológico hospital in San Sebastián, Spain, has invested in a complete digital mammography solution from the company, reportedly enabling the hospital to offer customers safe and efficient mammography examinations at the lowest radiation dose on the market without compromising image quality.

September 6, 2007 - Using an imaging technique called optical projection tomography (OPT), originally developed at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Human Genetics Unit based in London, England, MRC scientists have generated startling 3D images of the inside of a fruit fly for the first time, possibly helping to speed up genetic research into Alzheimer's and other human diseases that affect brain cells.

September 6, 2007 - Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company, announced the introduction of a C4 enabled I-ReadMammo, creating a plug-in version of its digital mammography solution, designed for modular integration into any C4 enabled imaging solution, such as a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS).

Cedara also reported that several imaging equipment vendors are integrating this new C4 enabled version of I-ReadMammo into their PACS solutions.

The Step & Shoot Cardiac from Toshiba is the company’s newest cardiac imaging innovation for its CT 64-slice configuration, providing high quality CT images of the coronary arteries and heart anatomy at low radiation dose levels and short breath-holds.

Offered as an option for the Philips Brilliance CT, 64-slice configuration, the Step & Shoot Cardiac allows the table to automatically move and stop the rotor within gantry spins to acquire images.

Subscribe to
© Copyright Wainscot Media. All Rights Reserved.
Subscribe Now