May 14, 2007 — Cardinal Health and VIASYS Healthcare announced a definitive agreement for Cardinal Health to acquire VIASYS for approximately $1.5 billion, including the assumption of outstanding debt.

Under the agreement, Cardinal Health will make a cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of VIASYS common stock at a price of $42.75 per share.

May 14, 2007 — Royal Philips Electronics today announced at the 2007 World Conference on Interventional Oncology in Washington, D.C., that it has collaborated with Traxtal Inc. to deliver integrated soft tissue therapeutic and diagnostic navigation solutions.

May 14, 2007 – Carestream Health announced today that the first integrated digital medical imaging system featuring a portable X-ray generator and computed radiography system pioneered by Carestream Health Inc. and Siemens Medical Solutions is now available in the U.S. and Europe.

May 14, 2007 - Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development (OTD) and Leica Microsystems, a developer in the optical and opto-electronic industries, today announced that Harvard has licensed its CARS microscopy technology to Leica for use in the company’s confocal microscopes to expand the optical microscopes imaging capabilities, enhancing scientists’ ability to image molecules in living cells and organisms.

May 14, 2007 - The annual TEPR Conference and Exhibition will feature a session on the ELINCS-HL7, a new messaging specification recently classified as an HL7 standard that is intended to increase the value of electronic lab data, May 19-23 in Dallas, TX.

May 11, 2007 - A new study of emergency patient preferences for boarding locations shows that admitted patients prefer to board out of the emergency department and in inpatient hallways by a margin of three to two. The study appears online in the Annals of Emergency Medicine (“Emergency department patient preferences for boarding locations when hospitals are at full capacity”).

May 11, 2007 - AdvanDx Inc. announced a group of infectious disease specialists, headed by Shmuel Shoham M.D. at the Washington Hospital Center, revealed new clinical data that demonstrated how AdvanDx's PNA FISH diagnostic test reduced mortality and hospital costs associated with staphylococcal bloodstream infections (BSI).

May 11, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare and InterComponentWare AG (ICW) announced that they are intensifying their co-operation efforts. The nonexclusive agreement covers the development of seamless integration and interoperability between Agfa HealthCare's Hospital Information System (HIS) ORBIS and ICW's eHealth Framework.

May 11, 2007 - Sonitor Technologies, a developer of indoor positioning systems, and Patient Care Technology Systems, a provider of workflow automation solutions, announced an alliance to jointly market their workflow technologies for hospitals and medical facilities.

May 11, 2007 - Biosign Technologies Inc., a medical technology company, announced the results of a study showing that blood glucose measurements from its noninvasive monitoring system are not significantly different from laboratory blood analysis.

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