A story of transformation.

This is for all of those who have hung up their diet plans and shoved their weighing machine under the couch. Dieting can be tough or even tougher to keep the weight off once you have lost it, but who says it's over and done? A weight-loss "surgery" always had our eyebrows doing synchronized question marks in our mind but not so much of a blur anymore. Approximately 140,000 Americans had weight-loss surgery back in 2004 and the figures and results now are not bad either. With all those inspirational weight loss stories all around, one have more and more research material.

This is my best pick. A pleasantly pump Popeeah and her amazing story of transformation. She went ahead to celebrate her 100 lbs loss with a tattoo!! ..and chose 'Miracle' by Audio Adrenaline to say that it all with her cute smile. Boy, she is beautiful !!

CBaySystems acquires AMSplus.

AMSplus was acquired for a price of 12.5 USD in cash by CBaySystems, another acquisition highlighted this week. AMSplus will be merged to Mirrus Systems (CBay's US-based group company) and is expected to have an expansion in growth and opportunities based on customer base.

Philips’ Medispeech by SpeechMagic

Now that’s another name in Speech Recognition making its way to Healthcare IT. One of the most advanced hospitals in Belgium, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital (900-bed) has chosen the technology and is in all smiles with a 60% decrease in waiting time for reports.

MediSpeech identifies section headings in a dictated text and allocates each part of the report to the corresponding field in the hospital EMR system. The relevant data is made available for communication between the various medical specialties in the hospital, streamlining workflow and protecting patient privacy. Read Ahead.