April 25, 2007 - Given Imaging Ltd., a manufacturer of capsule endoscopy, announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has granted a regulatory approval number for the company's PillCam SB capsule endoscope, allowing the company to market and sell the endoscopic pill in Japan.

April 24, 2007 - Color Kinetics Inc. announced a global licensing agreement with TRUMPF GmbH Co. KG, a $2 billion German manufacturing company.

TRUMPF will license Color Kinetics' patents to offer the iLED surgical light, which combines intelligent microprocessor control with LEDs to produce variable color temperatures of light. The license will also apply to any future intelligent LED-based medical lights that TRUMPF may develop. The agreement marks Color Kinetics' first in the medical lighting field, and the first related specifically to white light applications.

April 24, 2007 - AADCO Medical Inc. has developed a new sterilized disposable surgical drape, X-drape, made from AADCO's proprietary non-leaded composite radiation absorbing material, "X-Ban"and works within the sterile field to significantly reduce dose from scatter radiation, up to 98 percent.

April 24, 2007 - GE Healthcare recently announced it has received clearance from the FDA for the company's next-generation volume PET/CT application, PET VCAR (Volume Computer-Assisted Reading), created to help clinicians diagnose, stage, treat and monitor tumors and other lesions in the body.

PET VCAR offers several workflow enhancements for both single- and multi-exam review, including exam-to-exam auto-registration, tumor segmentation and quantification, and multi-planar image review.

April 24, 2007 - Eclipsys Corp. announced that PowerBANK Enterprise Edition, a solution for automating the functions of a hospital's blood bank, recently received FDA clearance. The system is a component of Eclipsys Sunrise Laboratory, a laboratory information solution (LIS) that helps increase productivity and decrease costs, providing efficient workflow and data management.

April 24, 2007- Dynamic Imaging today announced the launch of its PACS user group, Dynamic Imaging Associated Members Organized for Networking and Discussion (DIAMOND), designed to give PACS administrators, information technology directors and radiologists using IntegradWeb the opportunity to network, share information and communicate best practices.

April 24, 2007 - Emageon announced today that it has received the number one "Overall Vendor Ranking" among major industry vendors in the new KLAS April 2007 PACS Perception Report, ranking the highest in Vendor Vision, Clinical Workflow, End User Presentation (tie)and Technology/Architecture (tie) categories.

April 24, 2007 - GE Healthcare recently announced it has received clearance from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company's next-generation volume PET/CT application, PET VCAR (Volume Computer-Assisted Reading), created to help clinicians diagnose, stage, treat and monitor tumors and other lesions in the body.

April 24, 2007 - AADCO Medical Inc. has developed a new sterilized disposable surgical drape, X-drape, made from its non-leaded composite radiation absorbing material, "X-Ban" and reportedly works within the sterile field to significantly reduce dose from scatter radiation, up to 98 percent.

April 23, 2007 — IntelliDOT Corp. has announced the debut of the CAREt Vital Signs Collection (VSC) System, which electronically captures and documents patient vital signs at the point of care.

The CAREt VSC System allows the caregiver to document a patient's vital signs information. The vital signs product is designed to complement IntelliDOT's existing suite of patient safety solutions, allowing nurses to collect vital signs before, during or after the medication administration process.

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