May 16, 2007 - IBM announced at the American Telemedicine Association today the availability of its new Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS), a cross-IBM offering comprised of storage, software, servers and services with a multi-tier, multi-application and multi-site enterprise storage archive for delivering medical images, patient records and other critical healthcare reference information on demand.

May 16, 2007– In a $2 million deal, Providence Health Care organization, which operates seven facilities in Vancouver, Canada and provides care to over 372,000 patients per year, will implement Misys Laboratory, a laboratory information system developed by Misys Healthcare Systems, to assist its physicians in making better-informed care decisions through quick access to patient laboratory data.

May 16, 2007 - In addition to a software update to all of its Echelon 1.5T MR imaging system users, Hitachi Medical Systems America recently added the RADAR feature, a new motion compensating image collection technique, to provide another way to conform the MR image collection process to the patient.

May 15, 2007 - Smith & Nephew plc, a global medical technology business, announced that its advanced wound management business has agreed to purchase BlueSky Medical Group Inc. ("BlueSky"), a privately-held company headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, for an initial payment of $15 million. The company has developed products for treating chronic wounds using negative pressure wound therapy ("NPWT") and manufactures a range of negative pressure pumps and wound dressing kits to serve its global customer base.

May 15, 2007 - According to two separate studies presented at the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS) Annual Meeting, an intraoperative breast cancer probe, the Dune Medical probe, demonstrated significant potential for reducing positive surgical margins in lumpectomy patients—including those with hard-to-detect, pre-invasive, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).