Industry News

CMS tests IT systems for quality reporting project
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected six healthcare IT suppliers to participate in a project that will test IT solutions to facilitate the submission of Physician Quality Reporting Initiative measures data gathered from EMRs.

Federal agencies share open connection for national health info exchange
The connection shared by federal agencies to the Nationwide Health Information Network will be open, flexible and extensible, possibly making the network useful to organizations outside the federal government in the future, according to Federal Health Architecture officials.

SPOTLIGHT: GE Healthcare unveils new FDA-approved Signa MR scanner
GE Healthcare has received clearance from the FDA for its new Signa MR750 3.0T MR scanner, the latest addition to GE's Signa family of MR systems, which was introduced at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Toronto this week.

Clinical Studies

Molecular breast imaging shows promise for surgical planning, screening
An evolving nuclear medicine imaging technology, molecular breast imaging, is showing promise in the evaluation of diagnosed breast disease and as a breast cancer screening tool, according to studies presented at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting, held April 30 - May 4.

New Products

UltraRAD debuts new product, service offerings
UltraRAD, a medical image and information management technology developer of West Berlin, N.J., has released a clutch of new offerings and upgrades to its product suite.

Partnerships & Alliances

St. Jude, Microsoft partner to integrate implantable device data into PHRs
St. Jude Medical has formed a partnership with the Microsoft Health Solutions Group to research the integration of data from implantable devices with patient-controlled, personal health records (PHRs).

Initiate Systems integrates software with Intel SOA Expressway
Initiate Systems will now offer Initiate Patient, a master data management software solution for healthcare enterprises, as a pre-validated integrated offering with the new Intel service-oriented architecture (SOA) Expressway for Healthcare.

Contracts & Installations

Indiana clinic completes eRAD PACS install
The Hammond Clinic in Munster, Ind., is now operational with an eRad PACS, from eRAD, a provider of web-enabled PACS and teleradiology products.

U.S. military embraces Nuance clinical documentation software
The U.S. Military Health System over the past year has adopted Nuance Communication's Dictaphone Healthcare division's Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical software.

In-progress Australian university hospital selects Elekta
Elekta has been selected as the main provider of a suite of cancer and neurosurgical treatment solutions, as well as supporting IT systems, to the new Macquarie University Private Hospital in Killara, Australia, which is currently under construction.

NHS selects Advanced Input hypoallergenic keyboards
The Connecting for Health Agency within the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) has purchased 7,500 Medigenic infection resistant keyboards from Advanced Input Systems, for use in English hospitals to help improve patient safety by preventing the spread of hospital infections.

Financial News

Neoprobe sees slight revenue increase, net loss decrease for Q1
Neoprobe, a developer of oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, has reported consolidated results for the first quarter of 2008.

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