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National Marrow Donor Program adopts IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management software

IBM announced today that the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP) has adopted IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management (BPM) software to help automate its donor and patient management process. Both processes are critical to facilitate the matching of donors to patients needing cellular transplants.

20 Nov 2010

HRSA awards $8 million for Community Health Center Cooperative Agreements

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the awarding of nearly $8 million for existing Community Health Center Cooperative Agreements.

20 Nov 2010

CAP offers complimentary EHR support services for members

To help its physician members and their office administrators make informed decisions when implementing or upgrading an Electronic Health Record system, this month the Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. began offering complimentary EHR support services exclusively to its more than 11,000 members.

20 Nov 2010

CVS Caremark Customer Care team ranked second in the world for Best Customer Service

CVS Caremark's Pharmacy Benefit Management Customer Care team was ranked second in the world for Best Customer Service with an Internal Contact Center by Contact Center World at the organization's Global Top Ranking Performers Awards Conference in Las Vegas. The awards recognize the best in the contact center industry worldwide.

20 Nov 2010

Harvard researcher to receive 2010 Naomi Berrie Award from Columbia University Medical Center

Columbia University Medical Center will present the 2010 Naomi Berrie Award to a Harvard researcher who has made important advances in understanding the molecular basis for links between obesity, diabetes and heart disease. A promising young investigator at Columbia will also be recognized for her novel investigations regarding the basis for disordered lipid metabolism in diabetes.

20 Nov 2010

Gore sponsors EVEResT Lunch Symposium

W. L. Gore & Associates is sponsoring the EVEResT (European Virtual Reality Endovascular Research Team) Lunch Symposium taking place on Friday, Nov. 19 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at the VEITHsymposium in the Gramercy A room, second floor. The symposium will detail the evidence for simulation in medical training and in other fields. Companies will demonstrate how new simulation technologies are designed to enhance performance in endovascular procedures.

20 Nov 2010

Eastern Virginia professor says average doctor may be toting new pocket-sized ultrasound machine

Since the Civil War, the stethoscope has been a standard tool of the trade for physicians. Soon, the average doctor may be toting another valuable diagnostic tool: a pocket-sized ultrasound machine.

20 Nov 2010

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals software suite achieves Complete EHR certification

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals®, the industry's most comprehensive software suite used by clinicians, patients and healthcare executives to promote high quality, safe care, has received Complete EHR certification — deeming the software capable of enabling providers to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

20 Nov 2010

Cascade reaffirms position on non-invasive detection of melanoma by SkinSpect device

Cascade Technologies, Corp. announced today that, in response to significant recent attention to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel evaluation of Mela Sciences' MelaFind device, the company has received a number of inquiries about its similar instrument.

20 Nov 2010

Franklin ranked among top 10 hospitals in New York State for joint replacement

Franklin Hospital is ranked the best on Long Island for joint replacement outcomes and also is tops in Nassau County for its overall success in orthopedics and joint replacement, according to the latest national study by HealthGrades.

20 Nov 2010

GRRL Tech offers students career insight into STEM industries

With record-breaking attendance, Tech Collective's 10th annual GRRL Tech event today welcomed more than 525 female high school students as well as over 90 educators and business professionals to the Roger Williams University Bristol campus.

20 Nov 2010

New multimode imaging could help detect blood stain at crime-scene investigations

Chemists at the University of South Carolina have developed a camera with the ability to see the invisible and more. The new technology, called multimode imaging in the thermal infrared, could eventually be used in crime-scene investigations, since it can capture blood stains that the human eye can't see.

20 Nov 2010

HealthPort enters agreement with CompuGroup to sell Solution Services Division

Today, HealthPort, a leading health information technology provider announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its Solution Services Division based out of Columbia, SC to CompuGroup Medical AG.

20 Nov 2010

PROTOX closes first tranche of investment by Warburg Pincus

Protox Therapeutics Inc., a leader in the development of receptor targeted therapeutic fusion proteins, today announced it has closed the first tranche of the investment by Warburg Pincus. The investment was approved by 100% of the votes cast by shareholders at the recent special shareholders meeting.

20 Nov 2010

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy reduces pain and improves function in knee osteoarthritis patients

The first American study that positions Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) as a viable means in managing knee osteoarthritis, appeared today in the December issue of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPMR). The study, authored by Dr. Steven Sampson of the Orthohealing Center in Los Angeles, details the account of 14 patients with primary and secondary knee osteoarthritis receiving three platelet-rich plasma injections in the affected knee at 4-week intervals with one year follow up.

20 Nov 2010

Siemens to unveil Biograph mMR system at RSNA Annual Meeting

At the 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), November 28 - December 2 in Chicago, Siemens Healthcare (Booth #822, East Building/Lakeside Center, Hall D) will unveil the Biograph mMR, the world's first integrated whole-body molecular Magnetic Resonance (MR) system with simultaneous data acquisition technology, currently undergoing clinical use testing.

20 Nov 2010

NEXTERONE Premixed Injection uses CyDex Captisol technology platform

CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Prism Pharmaceuticals' NEXTERONE (amiodarone HCL) Premixed Injection, which recently received supplemental new drug application (sNDA) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, makes use of the patent-protected CyDex Captisol technology platform.

20 Nov 2010

GE Healthcare Canada wins ITAC 2010 Company of the Year Award

GE Healthcare Canada, a global leader in information technology, has won the Information Technology Association of Canada's (ITAC) 2010 Company of the Year Award. This award recognizes a distinguished for-profit healthcare IT company that has demonstrated excellence in the Canadian health informatics industry over the past twelve months. GE Healthcare won the award as the solutions provider for several major image exchange projects funded by Canada Health Infoway and eHealth Ontario.

20 Nov 2010

NexACT technology improves oral delivery of five small molecule drugs

Apricus Biosciences, Inc., today announced data from animal studies showing that the NexACT technology significantly improved the oral delivery of five small molecule drugs tested, with the best improvements up to 20-fold, in terms of improvement in absorption.

20 Nov 2010

Boston Scientific signs definitive agreement to acquire Sadra Medical

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement, under which Boston Scientific will acquire Sadra Medical, Inc., a development-stage company in Los Gatos, California. Sadra is developing the first fully repositionable device for percutaneous aortic valve replacement to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis.

20 Nov 2010

Technology News and Research

National Marrow Donor Program adopts IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management software

HRSA awards $8 million for Community Health Center Cooperative Agreements

CAP offers complimentary EHR support services for members

CVS Caremark Customer Care team ranked second in the world for Best Customer Service

Harvard researcher to receive 2010 Naomi Berrie Award from Columbia University Medical Center

Gore sponsors EVEResT Lunch Symposium

Eastern Virginia professor says average doctor may be toting new pocket-sized ultrasound machine

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals software suite achieves Complete EHR certification

Cascade reaffirms position on non-invasive detection of melanoma by SkinSpect device

Franklin ranked among top 10 hospitals in New York State for joint replacement

GRRL Tech offers students career insight into STEM industries

New multimode imaging could help detect blood stain at crime-scene investigations

HealthPort enters agreement with CompuGroup to sell Solution Services Division

PROTOX closes first tranche of investment by Warburg Pincus

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy reduces pain and improves function in knee osteoarthritis patients

Siemens to unveil Biograph mMR system at RSNA Annual Meeting

NEXTERONE Premixed Injection uses CyDex Captisol technology platform

GE Healthcare Canada wins ITAC 2010 Company of the Year Award

NexACT technology improves oral delivery of five small molecule drugs

Boston Scientific signs definitive agreement to acquire Sadra Medical

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