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NacTel installs and integrates new customer communications system for Drive Medical

NacTel, a leading provider of enterprise telecommunications and data systems has successfully installed and integrated a new state-of-the-art customer communications system for Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing, one of the fastest growing durable medical equipment companies in the world. Drive Medical needed a sophisticated feature set to serve its customers, and chose the ShoreTel UC system, a brilliantly simple unified communication (UC) solution based on its award-winning IP business phone system, installed by NacTel.

25 Aug 2010

Guided Therapeutics receives fund to commercialize LightTouch for cervical cancer detection

Guided Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it was awarded $1.0 million to fund the second year of a $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced in 2009.

25 Aug 2010

Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration solution to be deployed at Park Nicollet by Enventis

Enventis, a subsidiary of HickoryTech, today announces it has been selected by Park Nicollet Health Services to deploy a Cisco Unified Communications and collaboration solution across their business including 19 clinics, the Methodist Hospital and the Park Nicollet Clinic campus. Enventis, a trusted partner and technology integrator for Park Nicollet since 2001, designed a solution that will allow Park Nicollet to reduce its costs and transform the way they communicate, both internally and externally, while also improving patient care.

25 Aug 2010

CRT, Bayer Schering Pharma partner to study new leptin antagonist peptides in gynaecological, oncological diseases

Cancer Research Technology has signed an agreement with Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany to evaluate new leptin antagonist peptides as potential experimental treatments initially in the area of gynaecological diseases, including cancer.

25 Aug 2010

Vitamin D2 in AbM mushroom can neutralize oxidative stress: Research

Total Nutraceutical Solutions, Inc., announced that it has completed a research study comparing the therapeutic effect of single nutrient forms of synthetic Vitamin D3 and D2 versus natural Vitamin D2 within a whole food. The study focused on the control of Paraquat induced oxidative stress/biologic death.

25 Aug 2010

MedAssets to offer Prodigo's e-procurement marketplace solutions

To improve efficiency and contract compliance for hospitals and other health care providers, Prodigo Solutions LLC today announced an exclusive agreement with MedAssets to offer its customers Prodigo's electronic-procurement marketplace solutions.

25 Aug 2010

TSI Healthcare recognized in 'HCI TOP 100’ 2010 annual listing

TSI Healthcare, a local and national leader in the sales and support of customized technology solutions for physician practices, was recognized for the second consecutive year in the "Healthcare Informatics TOP 100 Vendors" 2010 annual listing.

25 Aug 2010

VA launches new pilot in Indianapolis to improve delivery of Veterans health information

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a new pilot in the Indianapolis region that will improve the delivery of Veterans health information. The Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis will partner with the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), the largest health information exchange organization in the United States, to securely exchange electronic health record (EHR) information using the Nationwide Health Information Network.

25 Aug 2010

Cedarlane to distribute Pfenex's high value reagent proteins in Canada, U.S.

Pfenex Inc. and Cedarlane today announced that they have entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement. Cedarlane will market and distribute high value reagent proteins produced by Pfenex to researchers in Canada and the United States.

25 Aug 2010

Holy Cross Hospital performs first advanced sensor assisted knee surgery

The first advanced sensor assisted knee surgery in the world has been performed at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Through collaboration with OrthoSensor, Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, the new sensor technology is designed to improve patient recovery and overall implant function.

25 Aug 2010

Pen-size plasma sterilization device

Prof. Jiunn-Der Liao of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, has led Post Doctorate Chih-Chiang Weng and a research team to develop a pen-size plasma sterilization device which can sterilize instruments and wounds by relying on the process of plasma sterilization.

25 Aug 2010

Scientists discover Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy can rapidly diagnose degenerative disorders

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy can distinguish between neurological diseases in patients without clear symptoms.A team of American scientists claim that a new method of testing for neurological diseases could provide doctors with a rapid and non-invasively method of diagnosing degenerative disorders.

25 Aug 2010

Intermountain Healthcare chooses Optilink software to enhance nursing productivity management

Intermountain Healthcare, one of the nation's most progressive health systems in leveraging technology to improve care delivery, has chosen OptiLink to enhance nursing productivity management across its health system. OptiLink is a software solution from The Advisory Board Company that captures patient acuity and determines staffing demand.

25 Aug 2010

Agilent Technologies introduces SureSelect Human All Exon v2 Target Enrichment kit for cancer assay

Agilent Technologies Inc.today introduced the SureSelect Human All Exon v2 Target Enrichment kit, which was developed in close collaboration with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The kit, the 15th SureSelect product in Agilent's portfolio, is a single tube assay that allows researchers to streamline experiments by sequencing the expressed genome while discarding regions not of interest.

25 Aug 2010

ITelagen finds place on 2010 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies

ITelagen, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare IT and medical billing solutions, today announced that the company was named to the prestigious 2010 Inc. 5000 list, a compendium of the most entrepreneurial and fastest growing companies in America.

25 Aug 2010

CMC Biologics completes new, disposable manufacturing facility at Seattle

CMC Biologics, a Contract Manufacturing Organization with manufacturing sites in Europe and the USA, today announced the completion of a new state-of-the-art disposable manufacturing facility at its Seattle, WA site. The addition comes as part of a staged major expansion plan, which will add significant production capacity to its existing facility to accommodate a growing demand for cGMP manufacture of biopharmaceuticals.

25 Aug 2010

Health law continues to be embroiled in politics, though toned down

In a bid to rally support for the health overhaul among doctors, a White House official underscored both sticks and carrots the federal government is offering the health industry, Reuters reports: "Administration officials said the new law will provide doctors with information technology and incentives to improve the care they deliver, but only if they cooperate.

25 Aug 2010

Centice Corporation launches partner program for PASS Rx system availability

Centice Corporation, a pioneer in chemical verification of dispensed drug prescriptions and the manufacturer of the PASS Rx system, today launched a partner program to make available the PASS Rx® system to companies wanting to include unique prescription verification technology into workflow projects.

25 Aug 2010

Kamada, Baxter enter distribution and manufacturing agreement for Glassia Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Product

Kamada, Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company engaged in development, production and marketing of specialty life-saving therapeutics and Baxter International Inc., a global, diversified healthcare company announced today that they have entered into an exclusive distribution and manufacturing agreement for Kamada's liquid, ready to use, intravenous Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Product for the treatment of hereditary Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency approved by the USFDA on July 1st, 2010 for marketing under the trade name "Glassia™".

From Baxter International Inc. 25 Aug 2010

Louisiana Public Health Institute receives $2 million GE Foundation grant

The GE Foundation - the philanthropic organization of GE - announced today a $2 million grant to Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), as part of GE's Developing Health program. This grant will underwrite a program led by School Health Connection (SHC) in Orleans Parish, LA, to provide students with increased access to healthcare through school-based health centers.

25 Aug 2010

Technology News and Research

NacTel installs and integrates new customer communications system for Drive Medical

Guided Therapeutics receives fund to commercialize LightTouch for cervical cancer detection

Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration solution to be deployed at Park Nicollet by Enventis

CRT, Bayer Schering Pharma partner to study new leptin antagonist peptides in gynaecological, oncological diseases

Vitamin D2 in AbM mushroom can neutralize oxidative stress: Research

MedAssets to offer Prodigo's e-procurement marketplace solutions

TSI Healthcare recognized in 'HCI TOP 100’ 2010 annual listing

VA launches new pilot in Indianapolis to improve delivery of Veterans health information

Cedarlane to distribute Pfenex's high value reagent proteins in Canada, U.S.

Holy Cross Hospital performs first advanced sensor assisted knee surgery

Pen-size plasma sterilization device

Scientists discover Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy can rapidly diagnose degenerative disorders

Intermountain Healthcare chooses Optilink software to enhance nursing productivity management

Agilent Technologies introduces SureSelect Human All Exon v2 Target Enrichment kit for cancer assay

ITelagen finds place on 2010 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies

CMC Biologics completes new, disposable manufacturing facility at Seattle

Health law continues to be embroiled in politics, though toned down

Centice Corporation launches partner program for PASS Rx system availability

Kamada, Baxter enter distribution and manufacturing agreement for Glassia Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Product

Louisiana Public Health Institute receives $2 million GE Foundation grant

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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