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Zotec Partners announces strategic technology alliance with Florida-based MBS

Zotec Partners, an industry leader in medical billing, practice management and Radiology Information Systems software and services, is announcing today a strategic technology alliance with Florida-based Medical Business Service, Inc. This alliance enables Zotec Partners to further penetrate the radiology and pathology markets and strengthen its position as a leader in hospital-based revenue cycle management.

24 May 2010

Immunome announces completion of financing by BioAdvance

Immunome, a discovery-stage antibody platform company focused on life-threatening infectious diseases, announced today the completion of a financing by BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania. The funding round also included private investors.

24 May 2010

Expression Analysis agrees to purchase PacBio RS DNA sequencing system from Pacific Biosciences

Expression Analysis, a leading provider of genomic services for clinical trials and research, announced today that it has agreed to purchase a PacBio RS DNA sequencing system from northern-California based Pacific Biosciences, whose third-generation DNA sequencing technology is expected to revolutionize the field of genetic analysis through the use of single molecule real time detection of biological events.

24 May 2010

BHS selects Compuware's EHR Service Delivery Solution to monitor performance of its EHR systems

Compuware Corporation today announced that Baptist Health System, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems and employers in Alabama, has selected Compuware's EHR Service Delivery Solution—powered by Compuware Vantage—to monitor the performance and availability of its Electronic Health Record systems and ensure Service Level Agreements are being met.

24 May 2010

ZyGEM announces acquisition of MicroLab Diagnostics

ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., today announced that it has acquired MicroLab Diagnostics Inc., a private company developing microfluidic devices for rapid DNA testing. ZyGEM intends to market products integrating its unique DNA extraction and reagents and detection assays with the breakthrough microfluidic chip technology developed by MicroLab, which will operate as a business unit of the new company.

24 May 2010

Sangamo's ZFP Therapeutics technology highlighted at ASGCT Annual Meeting

Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. announced today that data from research and preclinical programs focused on the development of zinc finger DNA-binding protein Therapeutics were described in fifteen presentations given by Sangamo scientists and collaborators at the 13th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.

24 May 2010

Spectrum Health receives MEDSEEK's 2010 eHealth Excellence Award

MEDSEEK, the industry's only provider of the eHealth ecoSystemTM, announced today that Spectrum Health was awarded MEDSEEK's 2010 eHealth Excellence Award for outstanding vision, innovation and performance in using eHealth technology to enhance care delivery, information access and service. The award was presented at MEDSEEK's 10th Annual eHealth Client Congress in San Diego, Calif., on May 5, 2010.

24 May 2010

DCA implements Demandforce D3 to improve patient communications

Demandforce, the leader in consumer demand creation for small-businesses, has been chosen by Dental Care Alliance, a Dental Service Organization, as their patient communication software system. Dental Care Alliance has 76 affiliated dental practices in seven states throughout the East Coast and is continuing to expand into new regions.

24 May 2010

Volcano to highlight extensive pipeline of imaging and therapy products at EuroPCR 2010

Volcano Corporation announced today the company's plans to highlight its new product launches, presence in live cases, and participation in late breaking trials during EuroPCR from May 25 – 28 in Paris.

24 May 2010

State roundup: Genetic testing on campus, Texas docs in Mass., and more

"A plan by the University of California, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming freshman has come under fire from critics who said the school was pushing an unproven technology on impressionable students. The university has said it will send test kits to 5,500 new students to analyze genes that help control the body's responses to alcohol, dairy products and folic acid" (Wohlsen, 5/21).

24 May 2010

New Mexico meets all requirements for operational planning as part of ARRA state HIE program: ONC

New Mexico is the first state to meet all requirements for strategic and operational planning as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act state health information exchange cooperative agreement program, according to the United States Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

24 May 2010

New technique designed to analyze individual immune cells may help diagnose food allergies: Study

About 30 percent of Americans believe they have food allergies. However, the actual number is far smaller, closer to 5 percent, according to a recent study commissioned by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. That's due in large part to the unreliability of the skin test that doctors commonly use to test for food allergies.

24 May 2010

Research roundup: Lessons from Medicare Part D; Evaluating medical homes; Insuring young adults

Lessons Learned: Who Didn't Enroll In Medicare Drug Coverage In 2006, And Why? - With data from the 2005 and 2006 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, this study examines enrollment of those who were previously without either public or private sources of prescription drug coverage. The authors report "63 percent of all eligible seniors and 69 percent of low-income beneficiaries were enrolled in Part D in 2006.

24 May 2010

Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopt resolutions on variety of global health issues

The 63rd World Health Assembly, which brought together Health Ministers and senior health officials from the World Health Organization's Member States, concluded business and closed Friday evening.

24 May 2010

South Dakota State University mathematicians design mathematical models to treat cancer

South Dakota State University mathematicians are helping doctors of the Mayo Clinic build mathematical models to fine-tune an innovative strategy to treat cancer.

24 May 2010

KIKA Clinical Solutions upgrades Veracity EDC platform for all clinical trial stakeholders

KIKA™ Clinical Solutions, the leader in advanced EDC solutions for Clinical Asset Management, announced a significant upgrade of its groundbreaking Veracity EDC platform today. KIKA will demonstrate Veracity 3.9 at the 46th DIA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., June 13-17, Booth 2419.

24 May 2010

At-home blood pressure monitors help patients manage their high blood pressure: Research

The use of at-home blood pressure monitors and web-based reporting tools that connect clinicians and patients via the Internet appears to significantly improve patients' ability to manage their high blood pressure to healthy levels, according to research from Kaiser Permanente.

24 May 2010

SiMoA technology measures individual PSA molecules in prostate cancer patients: Nature Biotechnology

Quanterix Corporation, the single molecule diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing high sensitivity tests, announced the publication of a breakthrough study of the company's proprietary technology that demonstrates an unprecedented sensitivity for measuring a biomarker for prostate cancer recurrence.

24 May 2010

Abviva receives new patent grant notifications for MSA technology

Abviva, Inc., a biomedical company engaged in the development and commercialization of breast cancer related applications of Mammastatin, today provided further details about worldwide patent protection for its breast cancer risk assessment technology.

24 May 2010

New national standards issued for newborn screening

New national standards issued today will assist states to align their newborn screening programs with "the most up-to-date research, technology, laboratory and public health standards and practices."

24 May 2010

Technology News and Research

Zotec Partners announces strategic technology alliance with Florida-based MBS

Immunome announces completion of financing by BioAdvance

Expression Analysis agrees to purchase PacBio RS DNA sequencing system from Pacific Biosciences

BHS selects Compuware's EHR Service Delivery Solution to monitor performance of its EHR systems

ZyGEM announces acquisition of MicroLab Diagnostics

Sangamo's ZFP Therapeutics technology highlighted at ASGCT Annual Meeting

Spectrum Health receives MEDSEEK's 2010 eHealth Excellence Award

DCA implements Demandforce D3 to improve patient communications

Volcano to highlight extensive pipeline of imaging and therapy products at EuroPCR 2010

State roundup: Genetic testing on campus, Texas docs in Mass., and more

New Mexico meets all requirements for operational planning as part of ARRA state HIE program: ONC

New technique designed to analyze individual immune cells may help diagnose food allergies: Study

Research roundup: Lessons from Medicare Part D; Evaluating medical homes; Insuring young adults

Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopt resolutions on variety of global health issues

South Dakota State University mathematicians design mathematical models to treat cancer

KIKA Clinical Solutions upgrades Veracity EDC platform for all clinical trial stakeholders

At-home blood pressure monitors help patients manage their high blood pressure: Research

SiMoA technology measures individual PSA molecules in prostate cancer patients: Nature Biotechnology

Abviva receives new patent grant notifications for MSA technology

New national standards issued for newborn screening

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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