April 26, 2007 - Iapyx Medical introduced its Stable-Line family of catheter stabilization products designed to minimize the risk of catheter-related bloodstream and urinary tract infections, two of the three most common hospital-acquired infections.

With the launch of Stable-Line Arterial and Stable-Line Foley catheter stabilization devices, Iapyx Medical aims to combat the epidemic of hospital-acquired infections and improve patient care and clinician safety.

April 26, 2007 – Vision RT recently introduced its AlignRT, a non-invasive radiation therapy system designed with tools for tracking the 3-D surface of patients for both patient setup and real-time monitoring.

April 26, 2007 - Cepheid, a broad-based molecular diagnostics company, and Instrumentation Laboratory, a clinical diagnostics company, announced a development and distribution agreement for molecular diagnostic tests in hemostasis. Cepheid will develop a line of tests for hemostasis applications to be used on its GeneXpert System. IL will market these tests as a key complement to its panel of automated hemostasis diagnostic assays.

April 26, 2007 - MedAssets Supply Chain Systems announced today an exclusive multi-year affiliate agreement with M Cubed Medical, a newly formed specialty group purchasing organization, effective April 1, 2007.

April 25, 2007 - Direct Medical Systems, LLC received FDA clearance to market its InnovaSound USB Ultrasound System, a Plug and Play ultrasound probe system equipped with standard ultrasound probe capabilities but without the six-figure price tag.

The computer requirements for the USB ultrasound system are USB 2.0 and an operating system of Windows XP or Vista with minimum of 1 Megaherts processor, 512 memory. This technology results in affordable ultrasound being available in non-traditional locations.

April 26, 2007 - Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, Ed Markey (D-MA) and other Members of the House and Senate released a report conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Federal efforts to improve the state of the nation's public health and hospital emergency preparedness programs.


The theme of SNM’s 54th Annual Meeting to be held on June 2–6 in Washington, D.C., this year is “SNM: Advances in Personalized Medicine.” As part of the conference’s goal of presenting recent improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening cancer, heart disease and brain disorders, it has initiated a new program, InfoSNM, to leverage IT for more effective use of data in the research, educational and clinical setting.

April 26, 2007 - Eastman Kodak Company today announced that its new digital dashboard, which provides system administrators with tools for monitoring equipment performance, storage utilization and user volumes for picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), is available worldwide.

April 26, 2007 — Northwest Center for Congenital Heart Disease has announced the establishment of an imaging network to improve cardiac services provided to patients throughout the Inland Northwest. The new network enables the transmission of an echocardiogram, a moving ultrasound image of the heart, through a secure Internet site from a hospital to an office/home computer.

April 24, 2007 – Teramedica and Aurora Health Care announced that TeraMedica’s Evercore - Clinical Information Manager will be implemented in order to integrate Aurora’s medical images and distribute them to health care providers in a lightweight format within the Cerner Power Chart Module of Aurora’s Electronic Health Record (EHR). This will allow the provider to see, in electronic format – both the medical image and the text report interpretation of the image – in the patient’s medical record.

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