Coastal Healthcare Consulting Inc. a provider of information technology consulting services for healthcare facilities, has received the "Best in KLAS" designation for the
Supportive Clinical Implementation services market segment for the second consecutive year.

Baxter Healthcare has received conditional approval from the FDA for the corrective action plan it developed for COLEAGUE infusion pumps — this comes three months following FDA’s seizure of COLLEAGUE pumps at the company’s northern Illinois warehouses over design and user interface issues.

Bluesocket, Inc.’s BlueSecure WLAN solution suite has passed Vocera interoperability testing for Voice over WLANs (VoWLAN).

Siemens Medical Solutions announced today that it will begin clinical trials on what could be a breakthrough imaging biomarker that the company hopes could identify Alzheimer’s disease prior to the onset of noticeable symptoms.

Medipattern Corp. and MammoSolutions Inc. have announced an agreement to distribute Medipattern's B-CAD ultrasound CAD product in the southwestern United States. B-CAD is the only commercially available breast ultrasound CAD product in the industry.

AMICAS, Inc. announced today that it has executed a resale agreement with peerVue as part of its plan to enable the simple selection of images and rapid authoring of teaching files directly from the AMICAS PACS workstation.

The agreement makes peerVue’s digital teaching file and content management solution available as an integrated component of AMICAS’ product suite. In one click, users can launch an embedded AMICAS Vision Series PACS viewer to view corresponding studies in PACS directly from caseVue teaching files.

Viewing prior mammograms in association with current mammograms significantly improves radiologist performance and may decrease unnecessary recalls by up to 44 percent, according to a study in the January issue of Radiology.

For the study, 12 experienced screening radiologists studied 160 mammograms to retrospectively determine the influence of comparing current mammograms with prior mammograms on breast cancer detection in screening and to investigate a protocol in which prior mammograms are viewed only when deemed necessary by the radiologist.

The federal government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded more than $5 million for 19 new grants focusing on assessing and evaluating the roles that simulation can play to improve the safe delivery of quality healthcare.

The AP reports that states and communities around the nation are developing creative readiness strategies in preparation for the next influenza pandemic, for which the Bush administration has announced a call to action.

Examples include:

In Colorado, trailers packed with cots and medical supplies are parked in secret locations, ready for doctors to open makeshift hospitals in school gyms if a flu pandemic strikes.

An FDA panel comprised of independent experts has voted 11 to 8 against allowing the U.S. Navy to test emergency transfusions of an experimental blood substitute on civilian trauma patients because most of those patients would be unable to give consent. The panel concluded that the Navy lacked sufficient evidence to support its proposal to test Biopure Corp.'s Hemopure, which is made from cow blood.

"I do think there is a potential benefit. We just don't have the data," said panelist Dr. Thomas Quinn of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, according to a Yahoo News report.

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