February 29, 2008 - Physicians began performing the first European implants of the COGNIS cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and the TELIGEN implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) by Boston Scientific Corp. after both devices received CE Mark last month.

February 29, 2008 – A record-breaking 28,400 people and 900 companies attended the 2008 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, FL this week, demonstrating the continuing growth of the Health IT industry.

Previously, HIMSS' most successful conference was in San Diego in 2006, where 24,870 healthcare IT professionals attended and 859 companies exhibited.

McKesson's ECG Management module, a component of Horizon Cardiology, is a fully integrated, Web-enabled, electrocardiography (ECG) waveform data management product, said the company.

Philips' cardiovascular IT solution, the enhanced Xcelera solution is an integrated multimodality solution reportedly provides one access point for all relevant cardiology information, such as cardiovascular ultrasound, CT, MR, nuclear medicine, ECGs and electrophysiology recording signals, as well as long-term storage and enterprise distribution of multimedia studies.

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.

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