STD Med gets new space in Bridgewater

STD Med (Stoughton, Massachusetts) reported the acquisition of a new 32,000 sq. ft. facility in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. This is in addition to the current footprint of 120,000 sq. ft.

This space will be used to expand the company's cleanroom capacity to accommodate STD Med's growing base of business. STD Med anticipates an increase in its current workforce of close to 50 new jobs over the next 3 years. Additionally the facility will house several innovative STD Med incubated start-up companies including Spirus Medical, and Cardiosolutions, as well as a new venture capital firm, Makaira Venture Partners.

The opening of this new facility is scheduled for summer 2010.

Accuray: 12,000 treatments with CyberKnife

Accuray (Sunnyvale, California) reported that more than 12,000 courses of lung cancer treatment have been completed with CyberKnife radiosurgery.

CyberKnife radiosurgery offers lung cancer patients a non-invasive means for treating their disease. The outpatient treatment is completed in five or fewer visits, and is both painless and non-surgical. Because the CyberKnife System uses continual image guidance along with continual correction for respiratory motion, it is able to deliver high-doses of radiation to the tumor from hundreds of angles with pinpoint precision, Accuray claims.

The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is a robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body non-invasively. Using continual image guidance technology and computer controlled robotic mobility, the CyberKnife System automatically tracks, detects and corrects for tumor and patient movement in real-time throughout the treatment. This enables the CyberKnife System to deliver high-dose radiation with pinpoint precision, which minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue and eliminates the need for invasive head or body stabilization frames.

AHA endorses MedsTracker for reconciliation

The American Hospital Association (AHA; Chicago) said it has exclusively endorsed Design Clinicals' (Seattle) MedsTracker for medication reconciliation management. MedsTracker medication reconciliation software automates medication management and improves the medication reconciliation workflow for hospital and clinic physicians and nursing staff.

AHA selected MedsTracker for endorsement following an intensive evaluation process dedicated to helping hospitals improve patient safety through automated medication reconciliation. MedsTracker was shown to be intuitive and inclusive, supporting multidisciplinary use by physicians, nurses and pharmacists.