Anthro Corp. announced a new member to the Elevate Electric Lift Table family, the Elevate Corner, a workstation ideal for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), utilizing corner spaces, as well as acting as an L-shaped configuration.

June 1, 2007 — Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company, has released its C4 platform, an integration framework that enables modular integration of clinical applications with minimal impact on the host software product. A C4 enabled host and clinical application provide an integrated desktop with procedure-centric workflow.

June 1, 2007 — In an effort to alleviate preventable medical errors and insurance fraud, Siemens Medical Solutions announces the general availability of the CardOS Health 2.0 Patient Health Card Solution.

Gambro has signed an agreement with Intensive Care On-line Network (ICON) to provide its intensive care customers with 24-hour access to critical care experts.

Gambro customers can now call a toll-free number and talk directly with intensive care physicians, nurses, critical care PharmD, respiratory therapists, nutritionists, and information technology specialists.

June 1, 2007 — In January, at just 31⁄2 months old, Jake Joye became the first patient to undergo a revolutionary surgical procedure at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.

"Baby and family are doing just fine," according to Dr. Steven R. Cohen in an update on the condition of baby Jake.

June 1, 2007 – The Cancer Centers of Excellence (CCE), a new national network of oncologists made up of a group of 224 physicians representing 21 practices in the U.S announced that it has launched with the goal of bringing together community-based oncologists to improve the care of cancer patients by aiming to provide high-quality, cost-effective, best-in-class care for cancer patients.

June 1, 2007 - NovaRad Corp. recently announced the signing of three new NovaPACS contracts for hospitals in the Midwest: Shenandoah Memorial Hospital in Shenandoah, IA, Starke Memorial Hospital in Knox, IN and Western Plains Regional Hospital in Dodge City, KS.

June 1, 2007 – Clinicians at Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL, recently reported that they are using Trilogy, an image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) technology from Varian Medical Systems to offer some cancer patients a treatment that adapts to changes in the tumor so that more healthy tissue can be preserved.

May 31, 2007 - Saint Joseph Mercy Health System (SJMHS), located in Ann Arbor, MI, recently announced it will begin treating patients with the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, a system that non- invasively treats cancers anywhere in the body, including previously inoperable tumors, with accuracy and with little to no discomfort.

As the only hospital in Michigan to offer CyberKnife, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor expects to draw patients from across the state who are seeking new hope in their cancer treatment.

May 31, 2007 — A new study to be published in the June issue of the journal Medical Care finds that hospitals that have better staffing and less overtime for registered nurses are safer for elderly intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

The study is yet another piece of scientific evidence that bolsters the case for increasing RN staffing in hospitals, prohibiting mandatory overtime and limiting the number of patients assigned to a nurse.

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