Jan. 10, 2007 - The growth in U.S. healthcare spending has declined to its slowest rate since 1999, largely because of a dramatic dip in the growth of prescription drug spending, government economists reported Tuesday.

At the same time, however, households are seeing health-care costs consume more of their personal income, according to the government's annual report on healthcare spending.

Jan. 10, 2007 - In a webcast hosted this morning, Kevin Hobert, president of the Eastman Kodak Health Group, and Robert Le Blanc, managing director, Onex Corporation, announced that Onex plans to change the Kodak Health Group name, yet retain the Kodak brand name in the healthcare industry and all of its existing products.
According to a a company spokesperson, "The Health Group products will retain Kodak branding, however, the company will have a new name once the deal passes regulatory approvals and becomes official. The name of the new company has not yet been determined."

January 9, 2007 - Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced that it has been awarded contract positions with Amerinet, a group purchasing organization (GPO), for computed radiography, laser imagers and medical imaging films, effective from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2009.

Jan. 10, 2007 – Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it has entered into an agreement to sell its Health Group to Onex Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Onex Corporation, in a move that will sharpen Kodak’s strategic focus on consumer and professional imaging and the graphic communications industry.

Agfa HealthCare will introduce at HIMSS 2007 new suite patient-centric healthcare IT solutions to steps develop electronic clinical pathways.
The HIT suite includes Agfa’s IMPAX Data Center for enterprise-wide storage of all multi-media patient-related data; the iPlan Enterprise Scheduler for web-based scheduling throughout a hospital’s continuum of care; and two works-in-progress – the Clinical Dashboard designed to provide an integrated view of all patient information from existing clinical systems and ORBIS, a hospital and clinical information system (HIS/CIS).

Jan. 9, 2007-Virginia Hospital Center signing an agreement with Siemens Medical Solutions to implement its workflow-engineered health information solution, Soarian, to create efficiencies and orchestrate clinical best practices.
Virginia Hospital Center will use Soarian’s workflow management
tools to help drive organizational efficiencies, address patient safety initiatives and enhance clinical decision-making. By managing and synchronizing information across the entire enterprise, Soarian is designed to intuitively deliver information when and where it's needed most.

Jan. 8, 2007 - Behind the scenes of last week’s thrilling overtime win by Boise State over the Oklahoma Sooners in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the CR 30-X, a new tabletop Computed Radiography (CR) solution from Agfa HealthCare, was making some moves of its own. The CR 30-X with Agfa's NX software was used to X-ray players who sustained injuries, facilitating quick evaluations and possibly a greater chance of faster recovery.

Philadelphia Business Journal - January 5, 2007
by John George
Staff Writer

Jan. 8, 2007 - Neurostar Solutions will debut at HIMSS 2007 its next-generation version 6.4 Virtual Radiology Network (VRN) clinical image workflow platform that reportedly enables a digital radiology environment and outsourcing radiologists.

Jan. 5, 2007 - Variations in genes that play a role in regulating heart rate and kidney function appear to affect blood pressure differently in men and women, new research suggests. This could have important implications for selecting blood pressure-lowering medications.

"Sex is like a prism that refracts the effects of the gene very differently for men and women," Dr. Daniel T. O'Connor, from the University of California at San Diego, said in a university statement.

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