April 30, 2007 - Early studies have shown that an experimental breast cancer scanning technology, called digital breast tomosynthesis, appears to be more accurate than a mammogram in detecting breast cancer tumors, and the scan ideally will involve less pressure on the breast, the Wall Street Journal reports (Kranhold, Wall Street Journal, 4/24).

April 26, 2007 – The WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety will hold a telephone and on-site news conference to unveil nine solutions to prevent healthcare errors throughout the world, May 2, in Washington, D.C.

Working together, the World Health Organization, The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International are focusing their attention on patient safety solutions and best practices that can reduce risks to patients and are coordinating international efforts to broadly share these solutions.

April 27, 2007 - Parents-to-be might soon don 3-D glasses in the ultrasound lab to see their developing fetuses in the womb "in living 3-D, just like at the IMAX movies," according to researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering.

The same Duke team that first developed real-time, 3-D ultrasound imaging says it has now modified the commercial version of the scanner to produce an even more realistic perception of depth. Paired images seem to pop out of the screen when viewed with the special glasses.

April 27, 2007 - Guardian Technologies International, Inc., a security and healthcare imaging solutions company, announced that it has signed a collaboration and strategic alliance agreement with Confirma, Inc., a developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) for magnetic resonance imaging, in which both parties will collaborate on the design, development and commercialization of radiology imaging solutions for new clinical applications.

April 26, 2007 - Frost & Sullivan selected GE Healthcare as the recipient of the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Best Customer Value in the North American patient monitoring markets.

Improved ROI, innovative design and gold-standard customer care are a few of the major advantages offered by GE Healthcare's patient monitoring solutions.

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.

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