July 27, 2007 - Internationally Recruited Nurses: Creating Positive Practice Environments is the topic of a conference being sponsored by the International Centre on Nurse Migration and the American Nurses Association Aug. 3 to 7 in Chicago, Ill.

The conference will serve to provide a better understanding of the immigration process and the strategies that create a positive work environment and facilitate the successful integration of internationally recruited nurses into the healthcare team.

July 27, 2007 — In a recent opinion poll conducted by Sage Products Inc., 57 percent of the 200 wound ostomy continence nurses who responded said their hospital has a specific protocol in place for prevention of incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD). Forty-three percent do not have any protocols in place. The poll was conducted at the Wound Ostomy & Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society’s annual conference, June 9-13, 2007.

July 27, 2007 – Concerned about the unanticipated negative impact on Medicare beneficiaries and their quality of care as a result of reimbursement changes made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for procedures performed at freestanding imaging centers, MedSolutions has concluded that there are significant implications for beneficiaries if access to freestanding imaging centers is diminished because of CMS cuts to reimbursement as a result of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA).

July 27, 2007 – Merge Healthcare introduced Merge Ortho, a software application to help orthopedic surgeons perform planning and automatic templating, featuring customizable workflow and advanced visualization. The digital workstation solution reportedly helps orthopedic specialists save time and improve clinical effectiveness in orthopedic planning and diagnosis.

July 27, 2007 – The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology encourages radiation oncologists to participate in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), which runs from July 1 – Dec. 31, 2007.

July 27, 2007 — eHealth Global Technologies Inc. has entered into a cooperative marketing agreement with Carestream Health Inc. in order to explore unique opportunities to jointly provide health information exchange services, and to promote each other’s products and solutions.
eHealth Global Technologies will provide service-based solutions that are complementary to Carestream Health’s product and service portfolio. The companies are also exploring ways to further leverage Carestream Health’s offerings into eHealth Global’s services.

July 27, 2007 - Guardian Technologies International Inc. has announced the successful completion of a clinical study involving the evaluation of its Signature Mapping software solution product to a clearly defined online database of mammographic X-ray exams known as the DDSM Project.

July 27, 2007 - Advanced Image Enhancement Inc., a provider of optimized image enhancement solutions for digital radiology, announced that the firm has entered into a licensing agreement with Hologic, agreeing that AIE will provide its image enhancement software for Hologic's SecureView diagnostic mammography workstations.

AIE's proprietary image enhancement software, which leverages signal processing technology originally developed from Navy research to locate undersea mines, reportedly enables physicians to extract more information from medical images.

July 27, 2007 - Duke University Medical Center's Multi-Modality Imaging Lab (MMIL) recently announced that it is combining SPECT and CT technologies into one device for 3D volumetric breast imaging to reach both functional and anatomical information in a single exam.

For more information: medschool.duke.edu

July 27, 2007 – GE Healthcare recently announced that it has entered an agreement with Canada based Medipattern Corp. to develop and customize Medipattern's computer-aided detection (CAD) product line for GE's ultrasound imaging systems and allow GE to resell Medipattern's B-CAD product.

For more information, www.gehealthcare.com, www.medipattern.com

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