PACSGear has acquired all assets of NAI Tech Products, a Auburn, Calif.-based developer of digital video capture of medical images, for an undisclosed sum.

Royal Philips Electronics has formed an agreement with Epson America that will help pair the Epsons ink jet printers and WorkForce all-in-ones for business environments with Philips ultrasound medical imaging systems used in healthcare clinics and hospitals.

Boston Scientific has begun patient enrollment in the EVOLVE clinical trial, which is designed to assess the safety and performance of its Synergy coronary stent, which uses a bioabsorbable PLGA polymer and everolimus drug formulation to create a uniform coating confined to the outer surface of the stent.

Specialized infection control packages can track, analyze and therefore prevent surgical site infections, saving lives and lowering costs. But reporting remains problematic everyone clamors for transparency, but SSIs are non-reimbursable, which discourages reporting. Can software solve this quandary?

Hosted services have been an IT staple in other industries for a decade or more. Now, like never before, hospital IT departments are turning to web hosting and portal-based approaches to access, store, maintain and exchange a widening range of electronic data. With 35 trillion gigabytes (GB) of digital information expected to be created and replicated by 2020, according to a recent report by IDC, moving to a hosted system might become a necessity for healthcare organizations that dont want to be in the data storage business.

It is a bigger jump than a lot of us understand to transition from the way the traditional exposition of medical knowledge exists today, to the implementation of information systems. Its time we make that journey, even though the adoption levels are just beginning to climb the Gartner hype cycle.

Boston Scientific has filed financial results for its second quarter, ending June 30, which were adversely affected by the FDA's halt on defibrillator systems, along with falling stent sales.

Socio-economic factors may impact physicians' decisions to treat patients with drug-eluting stents (DES). A study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions showed that African-American patients, Medicaid beneficiaries and the uninsured were least likely to receive DES during PCI procedures.