May 9, 2007 - GE Healthcare is exhibiting the Lunar Prodigy Primo, a performance bone mineral density (BMD) system designed to help doctors detect and diagnose osteoporosis, at the 55th Annual Clinical Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) May 7-9, in San Diego, CA.

May 9, 2007 - A report recently released by independent market analyst Datamonitor (London, UK), predicts the PACS market in Europe and North America will reach a value of $8.6 billion by 2011, compared to an estimated $4.9 billion today, providing increasing opportunities for technology vendors.

May 9, 2007- Siemens will introduce, at the the 28th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society, syngo DynaCT Cardiac, which enables 3-D imaging reportedly comparable to CT in the EP lab during procedures, and which is said to enhance diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities by enabling electrophysiologists to visualize the left atrium in 3-D during complex cardiac procedures, eliminating the need for pre-procedural CT or MRI exams.

May 9, 2007 - New imaging research at UCLA shows that impairments in autistic children's ability to imitate and empathize can be linked to dysfunction in the brain's mirror-neuron system.

In research to be presented May 4 at the annual International Meeting for Autism Research in Seattle, UCLA scientists demonstrated a clear link between a child's inability to imitate expressions on the faces of other people and a lack of activity in the mirror-neuron system (MNS).

May 9, 2007 - St. Jude Medical, Inc. announced FDA clearance for the EnSite System Version 7 software and EnSite Fusion Registration Module, new products designed to help physicians create more detailed images of the heart for navigating during electrophysiology (EP) procedures that treat complex arrhythmias, which it will feature at the 2007 Heart Rhythm Society meeting on May 9 through 12.

May 9, 2007 - InSite One Inc. recently announced the signing of an enterprise-wide, long-term archive contract with Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, incorporating InSite One’s InDex, a digital medical archiving service for radiology, mammography and cardiology.

InDex delivers a suite of managed solutions for DICOM archiving services including off-site capacity and disaster recovery. InDex services have reportedly become the diagnostic imaging industry alternative to in-house proprietary archive solutions.

MAY 9, 2007 - Data released in a poster at the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) annual meeting show that MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is a more effective option for a broader population of uterine fibroid sufferers.
Phyllis Gee, M.D. of the North Texas Uterine Fibroid Institute in Plano, TX, presented the test results showing that women undergoing MRgFUS experience rapid and sustained relief from their condition and have a reduced need for alternative, invasive treatments in the future.

iASSIST is a Bluetooth-enabled remote control that provides seamless operation of Aplio XG from up to 30 feet away.

May 8, 2007 - When developing "evidence-based" guidelines, the World Health Organization routinely forgets one key ingredient: evidence. That is the verdict from a study published in The Lancet online Tuesday.

The medical journal's criticism of WHO could shock many in the global health community, as one of WHO's main jobs is to produce guidelines on everything from fighting the spread of bird flu and malaria control to enacting anti-tobacco legislation.

May 8, 2007 - Over the past three years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has criticized HHS repeatedly for a chronic failure to set benchmarks by which it can measure the success or failure of its own activities.

Last Friday, the GAO took aim at HHS and the CMS and found they have failed to establish ways to gauge their own progress in promoting the use of healthcare information technology so that hospitals can do a better job of measuring and reporting the quality of care they provide to patients.

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