August 29, 2007 — EndoGastric Solutions, a leader in natural orifice surgery (NOS), announced it has completed a $30 million round of private financing to fund expansion of sales in the U.S. of the StomaphyX device, cleared for U.S. sales in March, and the anticipated launch of its EsophyX device later in 2007.
The financing, EndoGastric Solutions' Series D Round, was led by DeNovo Ventures of Palo Alto, CA. In connection with the financing, Joe Mandato of DeNovo Ventures will join the company's Board of Directors.

August 29, 2007 – IntraOp Medical Corp. announced it has received $5.4 million of new equity and arranged for the extinguishment of over $8.7 million of notes and payables. In addition to the capital restructuring, a new President and CEO has been named, and a new Board of Directors has been appointed.

John Powers, the new CEO and President of IntraOp, comes from a strong business operations background with over 20 years of experience in the fast-paced wireless industry, including executive posts at metroPCS, VelociTel, Inc., Crown Castle International and Motorola, Inc.

August 29, 2007 — Roche Diagnostics said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its biologics license for a test for direct detection of West Nile virus in donated human blood and plasma.

August 29, 2007 — Merge Healthcare, a leading medical imaging software and services provider, announced the creation of a new eStore Affiliates program, which enables participating organizations to sell eFilm Workstation and other eCommerce products offered through Merge Healthcare's industry-leading eCommerce web site.
The eStore Affiliates program represents an expansion of the eCommerce channel, which has provided a cost-effective and user-friendly way to try, buy, license and receive support for eFilm Workstation as well as future eCommerce products.

August 29, 2007 — ReBuilder Medical Technologies Inc. announced it has negotiated an exclusive license from Molluscum Medical Technologies Inc. for the nano silver and electronic based technology to treat the highly contagious skin disease, Molluscum Contagiosum.

August 29, 2007 — Performance management solutions company SciHealth was named to the first-ever Inc. 5000 magazine list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the country.
SciHealth was ranked the 69th fastest growing software company, posting a 442 percent growth rate from 2003 to 2006.

August 29, 2007 — eHealth Global Technologies Inc., an industry-leading provider of patient medical records management services, and MedLink International Inc. an Ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) and related solutions vendor, have entered into a strategic alliance that will provide clinicians with greater access to a patient’s medical record.

MedLink will promote eHealth Global’s portfolio of services to customers who do business with MedLink, while eHealth Global will promote MedLink’s portfolio of solutions to its current and future customers.

August 29, 2007 — A disease management program that focuses on case management and interdisciplinary communication for chronically critically ill patients and their caregivers significantly reduced the cost of care after hospital discharge without increasing the hospital’s costs of delivering care, according to a report in the September issue of the American Journal of Critical Care.
People with chronic conditions account for most healthcare costs and caring for chronically critically ill persons carries the highest costs.

August 29, 2007 – Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. will serve as a flagship sponsor of the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.

August 29, 2007 – Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company and 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.
The Toolkit will allow Varian to accelerate the development of DICOM-compliant solutions cost effectively.

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