March 26, 2008 – Philips will acquire TOMCAT Systems Ltd., based in Northern Ireland, with the deal expected to close in Q208 and TOMCAT becoming part of the Healthcare Informatics business group within the Philips Healthcare sector.

TOMCAT is a privately held company developing, selling and supporting Cardio-Vascular Information Systems (CVIS). The company offers a software solution to collect and aggregate data relative to the cardiac care of patients, and reportedly allows for a comprehensive, patient-centric presentation of the data to caregivers such as doctors and nurses.

A new, low-cost hospital blood glucose meter from Nova Biomedical provides the same analytical performance of Nova's patented Multi-Well test strip for those testing situations where glucose meter interface capability is not needed.

The introduction of StatStrip Xpress provides hospitals a choice of glucose monitors with or without a connectivity solution using the same Multi-Well test strip.

The SIS Surgical Scheduling Solution consisting of SIS Patient Scheduling, SIS Staff Scheduling and SISWeb, is designed to help hospitals streamline operational processes and systems to optimize efficiency and improve the patient experience.

Lionville designs versatile carts for anesthesia and other OR applications, as well as iPoint workstations for mobile computing.

iPoint and i/8 Med Carts are designed to be mobile and with flexible for technology capabilities that support all software platforms and hardware options including thin or thick client, laptop, and all-in-one computers.

Resurgent Health and Medical is introducing its new CleanTech IC hand washing system, which incorporates RFID compliance monitoring to ensure staff hand hygiene compliance.

The heart of the system is the use of patented, rotating cylinders that provide a high pressure, low volume water spray for fast, effective hand washing. Water and the company�s CHG-based solution are forced between the inner and outer sections of the cylinder through 20 jet spray nozzles. These nozzles are located throughout the cylinder to clean from fingertip to wrist.

Inviro Medical Devices' InviroSNAP! with InviroSTRIPE is a manually retractable safety syringe with a write-on stripe that provides sharps protection and performance advantages over retrofitted syringe designs.


In as much as the environment in which you live can affect your quality of life, so can the environment in which someone receives medical care affect patient outcome – at least in theory.

March 25, 2008 - Data on the MitraClip, a device that just received CE Mark approval and is designed to nonsurgically treat the effects of mitral regurgitation (ischemic and cardiomyopathy), will be presented at the SCAI-ACCi2 annual meeting in Chicago as part of the late-breaking clinical trial program on Tuesday, April 1.

James Hermiller, M.D., director of the interventional fellowship program at St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana in Indianapolis, IN, will make the presentation.

March 25, 2008 - Investigational agent KYNAPID (vernakalant hydrochloride) Injection converted short-duration atrial fibrillation (AF) to sinus rhythm in 51 percent of the patients in a Phase III study launched by Astellas Pharma US and Cardiome Pharma Corp., reported Circulation, the official journal of the American Heart Association.

March 25, 2008 - Medical Simulation Corp. will present a comprehensive onset-of-symptoms-to-cath lab scenario at the SCAI/ACC national conference in Chicago, IL, March 30-April 1, in a presentation that follows a patient suffering from myocardial infarction from door-to-cath lab.

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