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SDI releases 2011 rating of top 100 integrated healthcare networks

SDI announced today the release of the SDI 2011 Top 100 IHNs, the 14th edition of its annual assessment of the 100 most integrated healthcare networks (IHNs). SDI's report, regarded as the nation's premier rating system, evaluates IHNs on their performance and degree of integration.

25 Jan 2011

East Liverpool City Hospital, Foundation Radiology Group enter imaging services agreement

Foundation Radiology Group, the premier provider of diagnostic imaging professional services for community hospitals, is pleased to announce its exclusive imaging services agreement with East Liverpool City Hospital located in East Liverpool, Ohio.

25 Jan 2011

Fixed Phage to develop products based on Strathclyde's technology for tackling infections

A new company has been launched to commercialise an award-winning technology, developed at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, for tackling bacterial infection and contamination, including superbugs such as MRSA.

25 Jan 2011

UAE Oasis Hospital to implement Quantros suite of patient safety and compliance solutions

Quantros, a leading provider of clinically-focused data management and decision support solutions for the healthcare industry, has partnered with Oasis Hospital, the first private hospital in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) to receive Joint Commission International accreditation, to implement the Quantros suite of patient safety and compliance solutions.

25 Jan 2011

New investigative tool may explore intracellular processes with unprecedented clarity

Nongjian Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have pioneered a new technique capable of peering into single cells and even intracellular processes with unprecedented clarity.

25 Jan 2011

RemitDATA launches TITAN to solve healthcare transparency problem

RemitDATA, an expert in reimbursement, productivity and utilization solutions in outpatient healthcare, today launched TITAN, a new, data-rich solution that provides a real-time, transparent view of essential business metrics.

25 Jan 2011

FDA grants pre-market clearance for SBi's rHead Extended Stem

Small Bone Innovations, an orthopedics company focused exclusively on serving patients and their physicians with technologies and treatments for joint repair and trauma reconstruction around the small bones & joints of the thumb, fingers, hand, wrist, elbow, toes and foot & ankle announced that it has received 510(k) pre-market clearance notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the radial Head Extended Stem to be used in the correction of complex elbow instabilities and/or elbow reconstruction.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 24 Jan 2011

Laparoscopic grasp instrument can reduce complications in keyhole surgery

The number of complications following keyhole surgery can be reduced by giving the surgeons a better feeling of how hard they are grasping the tissue with their operating instruments. This is made possible by designing the instrument in such a way that it sends tangible feedback signals to the handle held by the surgeon.

24 Jan 2011

FedEx launches Deep Frozen Shipping Solution for temperature-sensitive healthcare products

FedEx Corp. today announced the launch of FedEx Deep Frozen Shipping Solution, which offers an innovative end-to-end service for the shipping of temperature-sensitive healthcare products around the world.

24 Jan 2011

Victoria’s e-health system may still yield benefits: Experts

According to e-health experts, the state government should continue to patronize Victoria’s $360 million health technology program because it was finally starting to deliver some benefits.

24 Jan 2011

Myriant closes $60M strategic equity investment from PTT Chemical

Myriant Technologies, Inc., a privately-held, biotech developer and manufacturer of renewable bio-based chemicals, announced today the closing of a $60 million strategic equity investment from PTT Chemical Group, Thailand's largest petrochemical producer.

24 Jan 2011

Digital Assent closes $2 million Series A equity financing round

Atlanta-based Digital Assent, provider of the PatientPad self-service patient check-in and patient education solution, announces the closing of a $2 million Series A round of equity financing led by Imlay Investments, Fulcrum Equity Partners and BLH Venture Partners.

24 Jan 2011

Medisafe 1 Technologies' 2012 revenues to exceed $10M

Medisafe 1 Technologies Corp., a developer of patented technologies that physically prevent unauthorized administration of prescription medications, announced today that the company expects revenues in 2012 to exceed $10M .

24 Jan 2011

Boston Scientific completes enrollment in comparison trial of SYNERGY Stent to PROMUS Element Stent

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the completion of patient enrollment in the EVOLVE clinical trial, which is designed to assess the safety and performance of the Company's fourth-generation SYNERGY™ Coronary Stent. The randomized, single-blind, non-inferiority trial will compare the SYNERGY Stent to the PROMUS Element™ Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent in patients with a single de novo native coronary artery lesion.

24 Jan 2011

NHLBI, HeartWare award $13.3M to study benefits of heart devices for heart failure

The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded $13.3 million to explore the potential benefits of heart devices for the large and growing group of Americans with heart failure.

24 Jan 2011

Agenus enters research agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Agenus Inc. today announced it has entered into a research agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) using Agenus' proprietary cancer vaccine technology.

24 Jan 2011

KineMed's fibrosis research program featured in Nature Medicine

KineMed Inc.'s fibrosis research program, which aims to advance the discovery and development of drugs to treat this major disease, is featured in the January edition of Nature Medicine.

24 Jan 2011

BDSI refutes MonoSol's patent infringement claims relating to BEMA Buprenorphine

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. today responded to a process patent infringement lawsuit filed and recently served against the Company and certain co-defendants by MonoSol Rx, LLC. The purpose in responding at this time is for BDSI to strongly refute MonoSol's claims and to assure BDSI stockholders that the Company remains focused on vigorously progressing its pipeline and not allowing this claim to present a distraction.

24 Jan 2011

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

York South-Weston area residents will soon benefit from reduced MRI wait times, thanks to the addition of a new MRI machine and additional funding to reduce the number of patients waiting for MRI scans at the Humber River Regional Hospital's Church St. site.

24 Jan 2011

Accent Dual Mode RF System is a less invasive anti-aging skin care technology

What most don't realize is that there is a revolutionary, virtually pain-free technology that delivers dramatic skin tightening and wrinkle reduction results without the pain and recovery of needle injections. Always at the forefront of the latest anti-aging skin care technologies, Manhattan-based JUVA Skin and Laser Center specializes in the Accent Dual Mode RF System.

24 Jan 2011

Technology News and Research

SDI releases 2011 rating of top 100 integrated healthcare networks

East Liverpool City Hospital, Foundation Radiology Group enter imaging services agreement

Fixed Phage to develop products based on Strathclyde's technology for tackling infections

UAE Oasis Hospital to implement Quantros suite of patient safety and compliance solutions

New investigative tool may explore intracellular processes with unprecedented clarity

RemitDATA launches TITAN to solve healthcare transparency problem

FDA grants pre-market clearance for SBi's rHead Extended Stem

Laparoscopic grasp instrument can reduce complications in keyhole surgery

FedEx launches Deep Frozen Shipping Solution for temperature-sensitive healthcare products

Victoria’s e-health system may still yield benefits: Experts

Myriant closes $60M strategic equity investment from PTT Chemical

Digital Assent closes $2 million Series A equity financing round

Medisafe 1 Technologies' 2012 revenues to exceed $10M

Boston Scientific completes enrollment in comparison trial of SYNERGY Stent to PROMUS Element Stent

NHLBI, HeartWare award $13.3M to study benefits of heart devices for heart failure

Agenus enters research agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

KineMed's fibrosis research program featured in Nature Medicine

BDSI refutes MonoSol's patent infringement claims relating to BEMA Buprenorphine

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

Accent Dual Mode RF System is a less invasive anti-aging skin care technology

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