French doctors recently added a new wrinkle to the lexicon of outpatient surgery by successfully operating on a conscious patient in spurts of weightlessness during a three-hour period, the Associated Press reported.

NightHawk Radiology Holdings Inc., a teleradiology services group, recently announced that it has issued an initial public offering of 6,300,000 shares of common stock sold at $16 per share, as the Australian-based company begins trading on the Nasdaq National Market.
Of the 6.3 million shares, NightHawk will sell 5,800,000 shares, and entities affiliated with Summit Partners will sell 500,000 shares. Designated selling shareholders have granted the underwriters an over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 945,000 shares.

Misys Healthcare Systems will unveil the Misys Homecare’s My Day, a point-of-care dashboard that addresses the shifting challenges of home care clinicians, October 18 at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice in Baltimore, MD.
A customizable tablet (or laptop) desktop display, My Day removes navigation requirements and distills the workflow and clinical information onto one screen, providing immediate access to all work and patient-related data. Clinicians can manage their patient’s needs and their own work from one desktop.

Rendoscopy, Inc., a developer of advanced 3-D visualization software, announced that the FDA has given 510(k) market clearance to its Gentle Colon virtual colonoscopy application, designed to offer a speedy solution to the market.
Gentle Colon can reportedly achieve faster rendering speeds than other virtual colonscopy solutions via its virtual fly-through mode. The software provides the flattened view and the split-colon view and generates 2-D and 3-D views on a single user interface.