August 30, 2007 — St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA is the first hospital within the St. Joseph Health System to go live with the Patient Safety Lighting System (PSLS), having recently installed the LED fiber optic lighting system in the patient rooms on the Oncology and Medical Pulmonary units.
The new lighting system is designed to improve overall patient care and comfort, as well as to help meet the 2005 JCAHO Goal for Hospitals to reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls.

August 29, 2007 — The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) is inviting medical professionals from around the world to attend CHEST 2007, the 73rd Annual International Scientific Assembly, Oct. 20-25, 2007, in Chicago.
CHEST 2007 is the only medical meeting focusing on clinical chest medicine, including pulmonology, critical care, cardiology, and sleep medicine.

August 30, 2007 - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently announced that its second Virtual Conference and Expo is slated for Nov. 6 to Nov. 7, 2007.

August 29, 2007 - Patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who are admitted to the hospital from the emergency department have similar outcomes whether they are admitted to cardiology units or family practice units, a finding that might help alleviate emergency department overcrowding by moving ACS patients out of the emergency department more quickly. The study appears online in the Annals of Emergency Medicine (“Do Emergency Department Patients With Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome Have Better Outcomes When Admitted to Cardiology Versus Other Services?”)

August 29, 2007 - St. Jude Medical Inc. announced that it has received regulatory approval from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW), in addition to reimbursement approval, for the Angio-Seal STS Plus Vascular Closure device, strengthening the companies position in the international vascular closure device market.

August 29, 2007 - The European Society of Cardiology has released new ESC Guidelines for Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. These new guidelines cover two main areas: The permanent pacing in bradyarrhythmias, syncope and other specific conditions like hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and ventricular resynchronization as an adjunct therapy in patients with heart failure. The guidelines also cover complex devices like pacemakers and cardiac synchronizers.

August 29, 2007 - Calgary Scientific Inc. Medical Group (CSIMG), a provider of advanced visualization and analysis software solutions, announced the receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for its ResolutionMD Cardiac suite of applications, including Calcium Scoring and Coronary Artery Analysis. The move supports CSIMG’s mission to become the ease-of-use and workflow leader by delivering integrated advanced visualization solutions through PACS, HIS, RIS, EMR and practice management tools.

August 20, 2007 - Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in patients with heart failure cut death rates by 20 percent, but most patients never actually get a therapeutic jolt from their heart-shock implants, a new report finds.

ICDs are lifesavers for people at high risk of sudden cardiac death. But the sophisticated devices aren't without risk. Is the benefit really worth it?

August 28, 2007 - Misys Healthcare Systems and iMedica jointly announced an agreement that Misys will license iMedica’s innovative electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) solutions as the foundation for a new family of physician offerings focused on small-sized practices.

Initial products, including ASP service offerings, will be announced in November 2007. The offerings will complement the existing Misys suite of solutions, including Misys Vision, Misys Tiger, Misys EMR and Misys Payerpath.

August 28, 2007 – CardiArc Inc. announced that researchers at Emory University Hospital will perform evaluations in clinical settings of the design and performance of the company’s CardiArc SPECT system, the second healthcare facility to research and provide clinical evaluations of the heart imaging system after an agreement with Cleveland Clinic was announced in June.

The testing and research is expected to yield valuable data in gaining additional knowledge of heart disease and to optimize the imaging system’s performance.

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