April 10, 2007 - Medical device maker DexCom Inc. is one step closer to gaining reimbursement for its continuous glucose monitoring devices.

The company said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid issued a positive preliminary decision on Friday for DexCom to develop Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes for its devices. The codes describe specific health care items and procedures and are necessary for processing health insurance claims.

However, DexCom must still receive a final decision from CMS following a public meeting on May 1.

April 10, 2007 - Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced its official U.S. launch. The new company incorporates the former Berlex Inc. into Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, as part of Bayer's acquisition of Schering AG, Germany, Berlex's former parent company.

April 10, 2007 - Atrium Medical Corp. has obtained FDA clearance for a new Omega 3 surgical mesh product called C-QURLite Mesh.

April 10, 2007 - DocuSys Inc., a provider of Anesthesia Information Systems (AIS) and Digital Drug Management Systems, announced the release of its second generation DocuJect, a point-of-care safety device for monitoring drug deliveries in the OR environment.

April 10, 2007 - Masimo, the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Read-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, reported that three new independent studies, including one presented the recent International Anesthesiology Research Society (IARS) Clinical & Scientific Congress in Orlando, concluded that Masimo Acoustic Respiratory Monitoring technology (ARM) is "at least as accurate as capnometry" and "significantly more reliable" for monitoring respiration in spontaneously breathing patients.


As another presidential campaign ramps up to be in full swing by the fall, healthcare promises to be a bellwether issue – a litmus test, if you will – for whomever is chosen to occupy the White House next.
While candidates swirl around several overarching issues, such as universal access and escalating costs, they aren’t really honing in on any of the undercurrent issues fueling the problems being promoted for public consumption.

Whether the growing number of prostate cancer patients being treated today can be attributed to increasing incidents of prostate cancer or to better technology enabling physicians to spot it sooner can be difficult to pinpoint.

April 10, 2007 - The number of U.S. radiation oncology sites that perform image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) in their department has risen from 15 percent in 2004 to over one-third, using either a dedicated IGRT imaging device or electronic portal imaging, according to a recent report by the IMV Medical Information Division.

April 10, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions' Ultrasound Division recently introduced its 9L4 Multi-D and 17L5 HD, high performance imaging transducers created for the ACUSON Sequoia echocardiography platform, at the fifty-sixth annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology.

April 9, 2007 – Mayo Clinic and IBM will present at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging in Washington, D.C., April 12–15, results of a study where they exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to increase the processing speed of 3-D medical images by fifty times faster than the average processors, as part of their strategy to enhance image registration and allow radiologists to more easily detect structural changes such as the growth or shrinkage of tumors.

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