JANUARY 23, 2006 — GE Healthcare announced today that the company received full corporate accreditation by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), the not-for-profit accrediting agency for entities that send or receive HIPAA transactions or that transport or process EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions between two or more trading partners in the healthcare community.

January 23, 2007 - ECRI, a nonprofit health services research agency, announced the publication of its 19th annual edition of the 2007 Healthcare Standards: Official Directory, an updated print edition that indexes titles of more than 39,000 official and hard-to-find healthcare standards, practice guidelines, policy statements and other authoritative documents from more than 1,250 issuing organizations.

January 22, 2007 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (formerly SCAR), a professional organization at the nexus of medical imaging and information technologies, has launched its new website: www.siimweb.org.

The new website coincides with the re-branding of the society and the intention to use the Internet as a much stronger platform to serve its members throughout the year. The website provides valuable content for the entire medical imaging community and serves as a resource for the emerging field of imaging informatics.

January 22, 2007 — Matrox Graphics Inc. has sealed a technology partnership with Larivière GmbH, pairing Matrox TheatreVUE display projection controller boards with
Larivière's AcuScreen for LCD/DLP and D-ILA Projectors solution and Canon's XEED projector with LCOS-Technology.

January 22, 2007 - Washington Hospital will be among the first facilities in the world to offer the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion by Elekta, a stereotactic radiosurgery treatment device for surgery on brain tumors.
Located in Washington Hospital's new Taylor McAdam Bell Neuroscience Institute, Gamma Knife Perfexion will be used for brain tumor therapy, spine surgery and neurodegenerative disorders, and controversies in cerebrovascular disease. Gamma Knife

Hospital patients define medical errors much more broadly than the traditional clinical definitions of medical errors. The patient definition of medical errors includes communication problems, responsiveness and falls, according to a new study published in the January 2007 issue of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

Jan. 19, 2007 - A staph germ circulating in and out of hospitals produces a poison that can kill pneumonia patients within 72 hours, researchers said on Thursday.

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — or S. aureus — can pass one another the gene for the toxin and are apparently swapping it more often, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

The toxin, called Panton Valentine leukocidin, or PVL, can itself cause pneumonia and can kill healthy tissue.

Jan. 18, 2007 - “Do I really need to fill out that form again? Isn’t there a way I can just answer the few questions that are different?”

This is one of the most common complaints Michael Zaroukian, M.D., hears from his patients — at least when he’s wearing his ‘primary care physician’ hat.

Jan. 18, 2007 - Polymer Solutions Inc.’s team of scientists led the research and development activities that created an advanced polymer wound care bandage that stays moist for multiple days and is absolutely non-stick. The concept of this technology, TheraGauze, originated with Dr. Guy Levy, founder of Soluble Systems LLC, a Virginia company.

January 18, 2007 - General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and Abbott (NYSE: ABT), a global leader in medical diagnostic instruments and tests, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for GE to acquire Abbott’s primary in vitro diagnostics businesses and Abbott Point-of-Care diagnostics business (formerly known as i-STAT) for $8.13 billion in cash. Abbott’s Molecular Diagnostics and Diabetes Care businesses are not part of the transaction and will remain part of Abbott.

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