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Insurers, providers announce partnerships in Wash., Pa. and Minn.

Group Health Cooperative and Tacoma-based Franciscan Health System have signed a five-year contract aimed at reducing costs and providing a more seamless experience for patients. Since 1996, Group Health has sent South Sound patients needing hospital care to Franciscan facilities, primarily St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.

16 Jun 2012

CMS awards nearly $18 million to spread collaborative care model for managing depression

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded almost $18 million to a local and national collaboration of partner organizations with the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) as lead organization.

16 Jun 2012

Not many EHR systems meet new federal standards

Electronic health records (EHRs) are used widely by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet new federal standards aimed at improving the quality of health care, according to a report from UCSF researchers.

16 Jun 2012

Freedom Innovations’ Plie 2.0 MPC Knee receives American Technology Award

Freedom Innovations, LLC, today announced that its Plie 2.0 MPC Knee has been selected as winner of the Health & Medical Technologies category for the TechAmerica Foundation's American Technology Awards, the only national "Best Of" awards that recognize products and services across the technology industry.

From PROTEOR 16 Jun 2012

SAGE to launch three open access journals in engineering and medicine

SAGE today announced they are launching a further three broad-spectrum open access journals - SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering.

16 Jun 2012

iPS Academia Japan, Life Technologies partner for induced pluripotent stem cell patent portfolio

Life Technologies Corporation today announced that it has deepened its commitment to stem cell research and its customers by signing a non-exclusive agreement with iPS Academia Japan for its induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell patent portfolio.

16 Jun 2012

NextGen commercializes new assay for identification of biomarkers in brain disorders

NextGen Group Plc, the AIM listed company developing its own diagnostics product pipeline and providing diagnostic biomarker development services, announces the commercialisation of a new assay for the identification of diagnostic biomarkers in brain disorders in animal models.

15 Jun 2012

Simple exercise stress test still the most widely used medical test for coronary artery disease

Most people might assume that technology first developed in 1928 would be obsolete by now. But from air conditioned buildings to sliced bread, many inventions of that era are still essential to our lives today. That includes the exercise stress test, which is still the most widely used medical test for coronary artery disease.

15 Jun 2012

Advances in robotic spine surgery

1. Please could you give a brief outline of robotic spine surgery and its recent history? Robotic spine surgery is very new, less than 10 years old. There are only 10 hospitals in the US offering it and we are the second hospital in California to offer this technology.

15 Jun 2012

STENTYS initiates enrollment in Self-Apposing Sirolimus-eluting stent trial for heart attack

STENTYS S.A., a medical technology company commercializing the world's first and only Self-Apposing Stent to treat Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), announced today that it has enrolled the first patient in its 'APPOSITION IV' clinical study using its new Self-Apposing Sirolimus-eluting stent.

From Medtronic 15 Jun 2012

Researchers outline strategy and benchmarks to curb childhood preventable deaths

Preventable childhood deaths caused by illnesses such as pneumonia and diarrhea can be nearly eliminated in 10 years according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Institutes of Health. In a new commentary featured in the June issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers outline a strategy and benchmarks for curbing childhood preventable deaths and recommend a new common vision for a global commitment to end all preventable child deaths.

15 Jun 2012

Electronic health records inspire Mostashari, researchers, Olympians

CQ HealthBeat interviews the head of the government's IT effort while other news coverage focuses on a new report detailing the promise of electronic health monitoring.

15 Jun 2012

ISCO develops new TTF-based stem cell technology

International Stem Cell Corporation announced that scientists in its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lifeline Cell Technology (LCT), have developed a technology to modify human stem cells by using engineered proteins, called "transducible transcription factors" or "TTFs."

15 Jun 2012

DFINE completes initial phase of STAR Tumor Ablation System trial

DFINE, Inc., the developer of minimally invasive radiofrequency (RF) targeted therapies for the treatment of vertebral pathologies, today announced an upcoming poster presentation at the World Congress of Interventional Oncology (WCIO), June 14-18 in Chicago.

15 Jun 2012

MU in-home sensors monitor changes in aging adults’ health

Many adults wish to maintain their independence as they age, but health problems often require them to live in assisted-care facilities where they can be observed by medical professionals. Now, technologies developed by University of Missouri researchers could help aging adults stay in their own homes longer while still being monitored by health care providers.

15 Jun 2012

Positive results from Salutaris’ episcleral brachytherapy trial on Wet AMD

Positive results from a trial of episcleral brachytherapy to treat Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration (Wet AMD) were presented today at the ARVO Drug and Gene Delivery to the Back of the Eye Conference.

15 Jun 2012

Bruker inaugurates new applications and customer support Center of Excellence in Moscow

Bruker marks another milestone in its more than 40 year history in Russia, with today's grand opening of its new applications and customer support Center of Excellence in Moscow.

15 Jun 2012

Cedrus, Tobii to introduce StimTracker

Tobii Technology, the global leader in eye-tracking and interactive gaze technology, announced today that it has partnered with Cedrus, the leading provider of stimuli and response hardware for psychological studies, to introduce the StimTracker for Tobii TX300 Eye Tracker.

15 Jun 2012

Roke, University of Southampton pioneer use of Xbox computer technology for stroke

The University of Southampton, in collaboration with Roke Manor Research Ltd (Roke), a Chemring company, has pioneered the use of Xbox computer technology to develop the world's first process that measures hand joint movement to help stroke patients recover manual agility at home.

15 Jun 2012

Impel NeuroPharma announces important POD technology milestones

Impel NeuroPharma, a medical device company developing a novel drug delivery device that enables drugs to bypass the blood-brain barrier (BBB) using direct nose-to-brain delivery, today announced a set of important milestones in its drive to commercialize its POD technology.

15 Jun 2012

Technology News and Research

Insurers, providers announce partnerships in Wash., Pa. and Minn.

CMS awards nearly $18 million to spread collaborative care model for managing depression

Not many EHR systems meet new federal standards

Freedom Innovations’ Plie 2.0 MPC Knee receives American Technology Award

SAGE to launch three open access journals in engineering and medicine

iPS Academia Japan, Life Technologies partner for induced pluripotent stem cell patent portfolio

NextGen commercializes new assay for identification of biomarkers in brain disorders

Simple exercise stress test still the most widely used medical test for coronary artery disease

Advances in robotic spine surgery

STENTYS initiates enrollment in Self-Apposing Sirolimus-eluting stent trial for heart attack

Researchers outline strategy and benchmarks to curb childhood preventable deaths

Electronic health records inspire Mostashari, researchers, Olympians

ISCO develops new TTF-based stem cell technology

DFINE completes initial phase of STAR Tumor Ablation System trial

MU in-home sensors monitor changes in aging adults’ health

Positive results from Salutaris’ episcleral brachytherapy trial on Wet AMD

Bruker inaugurates new applications and customer support Center of Excellence in Moscow

Cedrus, Tobii to introduce StimTracker

Roke, University of Southampton pioneer use of Xbox computer technology for stroke

Impel NeuroPharma announces important POD technology milestones

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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