Microsoft Corp. is showcasing new solutions designed specifically for healthcare providers, caregivers and patients, as well as solutions-applied healthcare scenarios.

April 6, 2009 - More than 70 clinical information systems from 72 different technology companies and organizations are demonstrating how their products communicate and interact with each other in the Interoperability Showcase at the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition, April 4 – 8 in Chicago.

April 6, 2009 – Nuance Communications Inc. is previewing version 8 of its Enterprise Workstation at HIMSS 2009.

April 5, 2009 - GE Healthcare will collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Public Health Informatics in a project demonstrating the capability of a public health agency to utilize electronic medical record (EMR) systems to provide clinicians with timely, patient-specific information at the point of care.

April 6, 2009 – Wolters Kluwer Health unveiled at HIMMS 2009 itsProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, an order set development solution that combines ProVation Medical’s technology platform with UpToDate’s premier clinical decision support content.

April 6, 2009 — Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is using optical molecular imaging technology from Carestream Molecular Imaging to advance the study of diseases and therapies involving cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious agents, inflammatory disease and other conditions.

April 3, 2009 - Long-term data presented at ACC.09 from Abbott’s SPIRIT II clinical trial demonstrated the clinical advantages of the XIENCE V Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent continued to increase between two and three years compared to the TAXUS Express2 Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent / TAXUS Liberte Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary
Stent (TAXUS).

April 3, 2009 - Sorin Group today announced CE mark certification and market release of the ESPRIT pacemaker family in Europe, which the company says is the world’s smallest pacemaker at 8cc.

April 3, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. will demonstrate its latest advances in connectivity and workflow integration technology on its SonoSite Turbo ultrasound system platform, during the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) 2009 Conference April 4-8 in Chicago.

April 3, 2009 - ZOLL Medical Corp. said yesterday it initiated a voluntary worldwide field corrective action on its ZOLL AED Plus automated external defibrillator, where the company found some batteries do not work properly when used with AED Plus defibrillators manufactured prior to Feb. 12, 2009 (serial numbers below X_ _ _200000).

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