August 1, 2007 — The Iowa Health System has selected Allscripts as its provider of an Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to automate emergency room operations and improve access to patient information for nearly 300,000 annual patient visits in 11 of the organization's hospitals and urgent care clinics.

August 1, 2007 — Viking Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of laparoscopic vision systems for use in minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures, expanded its international distribution network by partnering with Saudi Services & HealthCARE Co., Ltd., a medical device distributor in Saudi Arabia.

August 1, 2007 — A method for making instant steam, without the need for electricity, promises to be useful for tackling antibiotic resistant 'superbugs' like MRSA and C. difficile, according to a report in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the Society of Chemical Industry.

August 1, 2007 - The Board of Commissioners of The Joint Commission announced the appointment of Mark R. Chassin, M.D., M.P.P., M.P.H., as The Joint Commission’s new president, effective Jan. 1, 2008.

August 1, 2007 – BrainLAB previewed new products at the recent American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting.

On display were:
- Autosegmentation of H&N, which has been added to the iPlan Image Treatment planning software for automatic contours in just minutes.
- Additional Smart Tools that have been added to provide fast and efficient delineation of the tumor and other structures.

August 1, 2007 - The results of a pilot study on a new optical technology, coupled with routine endoscopy, presented in the Aug. 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, could represent a new approach to detecting pancreatic cancer at a very early stage.

Developed by Northwestern University biomedical engineers, the new optical technology, with routine endoscopy, exposes cellular changes indicative of cancer in tissue near the pancreas that had previously been detectable only through intensive radiologic scanning or invasive surgery.

August 1, 2007 - Positron Corp. announced that a recent study by The State University of New York at Buffalo reveals that Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning when used as the first tool to diagnose heart-vessel blockages, is more accurate, less invasive and cost effective than SPECT imaging.

August 1, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems is one of seven vendors selected to participate in the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Electronic Health Records (EHR): 2007 Oncology Symposium scheduled for Sept. 19-20, 2007, in Dallas, TX.

August 1, 2007 - GE Healthcare’s Integrated IT Solutions (IITS) business announced today that its Centricity RIS-IC services organization has achieved certification under the Service Capability & Performance (SCP) Standards program, after an extensive audit of its Burlington, VT support center.

August 1, 2007 - UltraSPECT Inc., a provider of products for the enhancement of Nuclear Medicine imaging announced its 100th product installation in the U.S. with the purchase of its half-scan-time image reconstruction package for cardiac applications, the Xpress.Cardiac, at a Georgia hospital.

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