Onmark, a national group purchasing organization (GPO) for community-based practices, has announced the launch of Onmark Regimen Profiler, a new Web-based tool that helps community oncology practices and patients gain a better understanding of clinical and financial information for commonly-used oncology treatment regimens.

Viking Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of 3-D and 2-D vision systems for use in minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures, has entered into an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) supply agreement with CompView Medical of Beaverton, Oregon, for the company's NuBOOM product, image management software and related accessories.

Medline Industries Inc. has joined the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to announce increased outreach to consumers in addition to ongoing work with hospitals and other healthcare providers to make surgery safer across the country. Medline is providing key support and resources toward this effort to help ensure that surgical care is improving nationwide.

Getting patients to take their medications as directed can cut health-care costs, but improving their pill-taking habits can be difficult, researchers say.

As part of their research into the issue, a team at the University of Chicago conducted two studies. The first found that patients with mild to moderate ulcerative colitis who consistently took a prescribed medication — 5-aminosalicyclic acid (5-ASA) — had 12.5 percent lower medical costs than patients who did not comply with the therapy.

Healthcare employers facing aggressive organizing scored a victory last week with a federal labor ruling that blocks certain nurses from joining the rank-and-file. For hospitals and health systems, the new ground rules will likely emerge as a flash point in organizing campaigns and contract talks. This may create new legal challenges for employers already having trouble with organized labor.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are two of the most common medical reasons for hospitalization among middle-aged and older patients. Both have accepted standards for diagnosis and management, supported by large bodies of scientific evidence and international practice guidelines; yet a new study from Boston’s Caritas St Elizabeth’s Medical Center, published in the October issue of Respiratory Care, shows that the use of the primary confirmatory tests—recommended both for diagnosis and assessment of severity—differs substantially in the two dise

GE Healthcare announced today at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics annual meeting that the FDA gave it 510(k) clearance on the new Snapshot Cine, a multislice computed tomography (CT) feature designed to enable clinicians to obtain quality images of a patient’s heart with up to a 70 percent reduction in dose per exam independent of heart rate.

Philips highlighted new computed tomography (CT) TrueView software at Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s (CRF) eighteenth annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, as part of its portfolio of combined imaging and interventional techniques and procedures to better diagnose and treat patients.
Using 3D CT images in the cath lab, Philips CT TrueView is designed to improve and streamline treatment planning for patients undergoing invasive procedures for stent placement and chronic total occlusions (CTO).

Varian Medical Systems has announced that the company's On-Board Imager (OBI) device for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and image-guided radiosurgery (IGRS) has received an R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant products of the past year.

Addressing the growing demand for healthcare environments that balance the healing process for patients with the comfort and support requirements of staff and visitors, Keilhauer has spent the last four years in search of remedies for issues inhibiting effective healthcare seating solutions. To solve this problem, the company has created Sittris, a new company dedicated to healthcare seating, and it will be launched at Healthcare Design 2006 in Chicago, November 4 through 7.

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