RamSoft and StructuRad announced that PowerServer PACS users will have MacroLive as an add-on macro reporting feature, available early 2008. The service reportedly will allow a user to access the StructuRad 7,000 macro library from within PowerServer PACS to quickly create and store a report.

KJAYA Medical's new managed services reportedly combine powerful graphics processing units, computer hardware and proprietary software to deliver breakthrough results allowing quick distribution of CT images via standard high speed internet.

November 21, 2007 - Ventracor announced 10 U.S. hospitals have implanted at least one VentrAssist left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as part of its U.S. clinical trials, as part of the company’s strategy to penetrate the U.S. VAD market.

November 21, 2007 - Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. has signed a three-year contract by MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, a group purchasing organization, to provide Magnevist (gadopentetate dimeglumine) Injection contrast media to members of the MedAssets network.

MedAssets serves more than 125 health systems, including 2,500 hospitals and 30,000 non-acute care healthcare providers. With this agreement, Magnevist is now on contract or has agreements with nearly all of the major GPOs in the United States.

November 21, 2007 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. will sell all of its shares of SagaX Inc. for $4.0 million plus future royalties on sales of 8.0 percent, allowing MIV to focus on the interventional cardiology space and save $1.0 million plus annually in development costs.

The payments will be made in increments of $1.0 million upon the achievement of various equity financing parameters, which may be met by SagaX over a four-year period from closing.

November 19, 2007 - Endovascular therapy as opposed to open surgery is a less invasive treatment choice that also appears to improve patient outcome, according to author Mark A. Farber, M.D., associate professor, division of vascular surgery at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

November 19, 2007 - 20/20 HealthCare signed an agreement with Rcadia to distribute Rcadia’s COR-Analyzer computer-aided detection (CAD) software for automatic segmentation and classification of coronary CT angiogram procedures, using 20/20 HealthCare’s subsidiaries, Viztek and 20/20 HealthCare Global, as distribution channels.

November 19, 2007 – Covidien Imaging Solutions, a subsidiary of Covidien Ltd., signed a multi-year deal to supply X-ray contrast imaging agents to customers of MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, a St. Louis-based group purchasing organization, as part of Covidien's plan to broaden its distribution channels for its imaging agents.

November 19, 2007 – Prescient Medical Inc. has acquired Time Resolved Light Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy (TR-LIFS) technology designed for early detection, diagnosis and quantification of coronary artery disease.

TR-LIFS exploits the phenomenon that bi-products of metabolic activity behave differently than surrounding tissue. In TR-LIFS, a short light pulse (picoseconds) is used to excite the tissue, and then the resulting light that emanates from the tissue is monitored over a brief time span (several nanoseconds).

November 19, 2007 - U.S. hospitals that deliver better clinical outcomes for cardiovascular care also treat heart patients in less time and at a lower cost, according to a study released today by Thomson Healthcare.

The 2007 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success analyzed the performance of nearly 1,000 U.S. hospitals based on their outcomes for eight measures related to congestive heart failure, heart attacks, coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), such as angioplasties.

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