February 28, 2008 - Search giant Google launched Google Health and announced major industry partners on Thursday, aiming to be the Intuit for personal healthcare, where people can access all their health information in one spot.

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt answered reporters' questions after announcing Google Health.

February 28, 2008 - The first human received Medtronic’s investigational bifurcation stent, a Y-shaped design that matches the anatomy of lesions that form at the junctions of coronary arteries, intended to reduce the procedural challenges associated with current two-stent bifurcation techniques.

February 28,, 2008 - Following the line of enterprise-wide solutions, Emageon highlighted its enterprise medical information technology systems for hospitals and healthcare networks, which include RadSuite, HeartSuite and a pathology and orthopedic specialty suite.

February 27, 2008 - CircuLite Inc. released preliminary results of a pilot first-in-man study of four patients who have been implanted with the Synergy Pocket Circulatory Assist Device, a micro implantable blood pump, the size of a AA battery, that can be implanted superficially in a “pacemaker-like” pocket.

February 27, 2008 - diaDexus Inc. said the FDA cleared for marketing a new automated version of its proprietary PLAC Test. an automated immunoassay designed to run on common existing laboratory equipment, including clinical chemistry analyzers from Hitachi, Roche/Hitachi, and Olympus, expanding the number of clinical labs and physician offices that are able to offer the PLAC Test.

February 27, 2008 - Corgenix Medical Corp. received notification of European Patent Office (EPO) approval for technology to which Corgenix holds exclusive worldwide licensing rights.

McMaster University (McMaster) of Hamilton, Ontario, is the owner of the patent covering the aspirin resistance measurement method. Corgenix has licensed this technology from McMaster and is presently developing products to capitalize on the European protected technology. The patented technology is also related to Corgenix� AspirinWorks test kit, which received FDA clearance in 2007.

February 27, 2008 - ATS Medical Inc. released initial clinical results of stand-alone ablation procedures and an overall expansion into the stand-alone market, using the ATS CryoMaze product line.

February 27, 2008 - The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare and EMC Corp. will study how EMC’s employees diagnosed with hypertension can better manage their health through proactive monitoring and education, marking the first company to participate in SmartBeat, designed by the center.

February 27, 2008 - Boston Scientific Corp. said the FDA approved three products in its Cardiac Rhythm Management business, including the CONFIENT implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), the LIVIAN cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and an upgraded LATITUDE Patient Management System.

February 26, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. released at HIMSS 2008 its Patient Safety Screening Tool (PSST), a software-based solution designed to help identify potential adverse events that occur during hospitalization, featuring a set of indicators that provide information on potential in-hospital complications following surgeries and medical procedures.

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