April 3, 2008 - eHealth Global Technologies introduced at ACC its medical record management services, including eHealthConnect, eHealthShare and eHealthLoader, which use digital standards to collect disparate records for referred patients from reportedly any location into any digital format.

eHealthConnect replaces ad hoc data collection with a systematic method that is reliable and swift. Upon request from a clinician or administrator, the company's team collects, digitizes, organizes stores and secures medical records for clinical viewing.

April 3, 2008 - Cardinal Health reached an agreement with ClearCount Medical Solutions to distribute on of the first system cleared by the FDA that integrates both counting and detection for sponge management during surgeries.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cardinal Health will be the primary distributor for ClearCount's patented SmartSponge system to hospitals, surgery centers and other health care distributors in the U.S. The company will offer the SmartSponge system as part of its Presource surgical kits and as a stand-alone offering.

April 3, 2008 - Corgenix Medical Corp. has entered into an agreement with Randox Laboratories, a UK-based diagnostic company, in a partnership designed to expand the processing technology and distribution network of the Corgenix AspirinWorks platelets test kit product.

April 3, 2008 - Cardinal Health signed an exclusive agreement with UltraSPECT to provide cost-effective imaging processing software to cut scanning time in half or double the image resolution of existing nuclear medical imaging equipment.

April 3, 2008 - Patients treated with the TAXUS Stent had significant reductions in one-year revascularization rates in both large and small diameter vessels compared to bare-metal stents (BMS), according to the TAXUS IV and V results presented by David A. Cox, M.D., FACC, at the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with the ACC/i2 Summit in Chicago.

Picis launched the Picis Perioperative Dashboard, a business activity monitoring (BAM) solution for hospitals' surgical departments, during the 2008 Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Congress in Anaheim, CA.

April 3, 2008 – New medical equipment company Medifico Inc. this week launched the Brainvue-TCD 1000, which uses ultrasound to measure blood flow in the brain to aid in the diagnosis, prevention, intervention, and treatment of strokes, migraines, concussions, sickle cell disease and detection of PFOs (holes between the chambers of the heart).

Corgenix Medical Corp. offers the Corgenix AspirinWorks platelets test kit product for patients with heart disease or stroke.

April 3, 2008 - In preparation for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the General Electric Company said this week two research programs have started to demonstrate health monitoring using ultrasound imaging and early intervention leads to injury prevention and enhanced health and sports performances for athletes.

April 1, 2008 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) responded to Senate Finance Committee's senior Republican, Charles Grassley of Iowa, regarding his concerns about reports that two pharmaceutical companies delayed the release of the results from the ENHANCE trial.

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