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ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, announced today that the Kuopio University Hospital (KUH), one of the largest hospitals in Finland, has successfully implemented the AutoPulse® Non-invasive Cardiac Support Pump in its Intensive...

Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. announced today the market release of the Cross-Fuse™ Lateral Option System. The Cross-Fuse is Pioneer’s latest addition to a comprehensive family of PEEK (poly-ether-ether-ketone) VBRs. Dr. Richard Nussbaum of the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Institute...

Use of Information Technology in Healthcare,especially Electronic Health Records (EHRs),can potentially improve healthcare. However,worldwide the usage of EHRs is limited and studies in developed countries like US have shown that electronic records systems have been slow to become part...

The healthcare industry is challenged by errors or theft of identity as well as fraud amounting to billions of US dollars each year. Precise Biometrics is now participating in the launch of a new generation of health cards with...

Overall  revenues in fiscal 2008 were lower than fiscal 2007 levels by $940,308  or 46%, operating expenses in fiscal 2008 were higher than fiscal 2007  levels by $340,184 or 5% and net loss for the 2008 fiscal year...

IntelliDOT Corporation, a leading provider of wireless handheld, barcode point-of-care (BPOC) solutions to hospitals, announced that customers of its flagship IntelliDOT Bedside Medication Administration (IntelliDOT BMA™) BPOC system have accumulated a total of 20,253,410 medication administrations preventing all five...

Cancer treatment specialists reported how new technologies are enabling them to provide faster, more accurate cancer treatments than was possible with earlier generations of radiotherapy technology. In presentations given at an "Emerging Technologies" Symposium sponsored by Varian Medical Systems...