Providing healthcare services through telemedicine creates a unique set of challenges for healthcare organizations, including acquiring new technology and ensuring the quality of telemedicine services, according to ECRI (www.ecri.org), a nonprofit healthcare research institute.

Birmingham, AL-based HealthSouth Corp. chose Megadyne Medical Products Inc. to supply its group of outpatient surgery centers with electrosurgical products, effective immediately. Under the three-year agreement, Draper, UT-based Megadyne becomes the exclusive, sole-source supplier of such products as electrosurgical generators, electrodes, smoke evacuators and a variety of accessories and peripheral products. HealthSouth plans to integrate Megadyne products into its surgery center purchasing portfolio with a goal of 90 percent contract compliance after implementation.

JANUARY 25, 2007 - When Tyco Healthcare Group formally separates from parent company Tyco International Ltd. this spring it will adopt a new name as its overarching national brand. It’s Covidien. Tyco Healthcare began the search for a new name, in preparation for the divestiture, last year and picked Covidien from approximately 6,000 choices. Covidien’s origin stems from collaboration and life. Tyco filed financial and legal documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission this month, outlining its plans to separate into three separate investor-owned companies.

Jan. 25, 2007 - GE Healthcare is partnering with Joint Commission Resources (JCR), an affiliate of The Joint Commission, to help market and distribute an ongoing series of original programs addressing quality and safety for hospitals across the country. The Joint Commission Resources Quality & Safety Network will present 12 original satellite, live web, and web archive programs beginning Thursday, January 25.

Jan. 25, 2007 - Cardinal Health said it will sell its pharmaceutical technologies and services businesses to the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, for about $3.3 billion in cash. Cardinal announced plans to divest the business in November 2006 in order to focus its full attention and resources on its supply chain and clinical products businesses.

JANUARY 25, 2007 - Surgical and medical imaging technology provider, ND Systems has changed its name to NDS Surgical Imaging and moved its headquarters to San Jose, CA.

JANUARY 25, 2007 - The percentage of women 40 and older who said they had a mammogram in the previous two years dropped from 76.4 percent to 74.6 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The decline of less than two percentage points may seem small, but it could be terribly significant, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the American Cancer Society’s deputy chief medical officer.

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

January 25, 2007 - The percentage of American women getting mammograms has dropped slightly in the past few years, in what health officials say is a troubling sign that the battle against breast cancer is flagging.

The percentage of women 40 and older who said they had a mammogram in the previous two years dropped from 76.4 percent to 74.6 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

January 25, 2007—Dynamic Imaging (www.dynamic-imaging.com), a provider of Web-based image and information management, announced that at HIMSS 2007 it will underscore the good marks it achieved with IntegradWeb MAMMO for the successful implementation of the new IHE Mammography Profile at the recent IHE 2007 Connect-a-thon, held in Chicago during the week of January 15 – 19, 2007.

January 25, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare announces today that it has completed the initial phase of the ORBIS Hospital Information System (HIS) implementation at the Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit GmbH, Germany's largest municipal hospital group and will complete the single source-solution with ORBIS RIS, establishing Vivantes as a paperless group of hospitals.

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