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April 5, 2009 - InSite One Inc. announced at HIMSS 2009 it will re-sign a three-year contact with InSight Health Corp. for its imaging centers’ enterprise storage with a cohesive service level agreement as the exclusive archive provider, providing InSite One’s InDex DICOM standards-based storage and content management services.

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April 7, 2009 - Ziosoft Inc. today announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market cardiac function analysis and calcium scoring applications for use with the Ziostation thin-client advanced visualization system.

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April 7, 2009 - The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association is providing recommendations for the use of minimally invasive procedures to treat brain blood vessel diseases.

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April 7, 2009 - In the European experience, the DuraHeart Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) showed sustained benefits in providing safe and reliable long-term circulatory support with an improved survival rate and an acceptable adverse event rate in advanced heart failure patients who were eligible for transplantation.

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April 7, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. has acquired the U.S., Canadian and Australian rights to MS-325 (formerly marketed as VASOVIST, gadofosveset trisodium, by Bayer Schering Pharma) from EPIX Pharmaceuticals.

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April 6, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, GE Healthcare said today announced it will work with Providence Health & Services (Portland, OR) to develop a new connectivity platform to integrate electronic records from hospitals with GE Healthcare’s Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR), a widely used EMR designed for the ambulatory setting.

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April 6, 2009 - TeraRecon Inc. recently announced the election of a new board of directors at its annual meeting of the shareholders held last week. The elected directors are TeraRecon founder Motoaki Saito, M.D., Ph.D., Robert James Taylor, Ph.D., Fumio Urano, Shigeyuki Watanabe and Matthew James Ostrander. Biographies for each director can be found on the company’s website.

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April 6, 2009 – According to The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), an unprecedented rush of applications to meet a March 31 deadline for applying for the 2008 cycle of certification testing brought to 64 the number of ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) products seeking to become CCHIT Certified.

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April 6, 2009 – The Image and Knowledge Management (IKM) business unit of Siemens Healthcare and Harris Corp. are joining forces to offer healthcare providers reportedly affordable solutions critical for PACS disaster recovery to support business continuity.

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April 6, 2009 - Evalve Inc. announced today the first enrollment in the ACCESS-Europe study, a post-market observational study of the MitraClip therapy in Europe. The MitraClip system is the first commercially available treatment option for nonsurgical mitral valve repair for patients suffering from the effects of functional and degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR).

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April 6, 2009 - Compellent Technologies Inc.‘s storage area network (SAN) is reportedly helping healthcare customers overcome IT challenges and enhance patient care through better data storage management.

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April 6, 2009 - The 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS 2009) featured 25,672 total registrants, 13,677 exhibitor staff and 11,291 professional attendees, according to the organization.

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April 6, 2009 - A new study from healthcare research firm KLAS entitled “The KLAS report For Better or Worse: A Report for Providers on Healthcare IT Mergers & Acquisitions” look at why some healthcare IT mergers and acquisitions succeed in creating value for healthcare providers while others severely impact customer satisfaction.

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April 6, 2009 – At HIMSS 2009, KeyScan showcased its new keyboard scanner that is upgraded to scan also healthcare, insurance plastic cards and driver license cards.

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April 6, 2009 - The majority of medical errors in hospitals are absolutely predictable human error, according to HIMSS 2009 keynote speaker Dennis Quaid, actor and founder of the Quaid Foundation.

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