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Lumetra PSO to distribute iSOFT’s AIMS incident management software in the U.S. market

iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world’s largest healthcare information technology companies, today announced a strategic partnership with Lumetra PSO, a US Government-backed Patient Safety Organization (PSO). Lumetra agreed to provide iSOFT’s AIMS incident management software to US healthcare organizations that are seeking to reduce the complexity and cost of their patient safety and risk management programs.

1 Mar 2010

Toshiba America Medical Systems releases new cardiac CT software for Aquilion systems

Responding to the cardiac CT market’s need for superior image quality with lower radiation doses, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., has unveiled new cardiac software enhancements available now for the Aquilion® ONE and Aquilion Premium CT systems. The new cardiac CT software package is designed to reduce radiation exposure while maintaining outstanding image quality.

1 Mar 2010

Elsevier to present tactical solutions for advancing healthcare quality at HIMSS 2010

Advancing healthcare quality to help improve patient outcomes and economic efficiency continues to be a primary focus in 2010 for Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information. During HIMSS 2010 (Atlanta, GA, March 1-3), Elsevier Clinical Decision Support will feature solutions that directly impact the quality of care, including evidence-based clinical content and tools; interdisciplinary documentation, planning and guidelines; drug decision support; interactive skills and procedures; data mining and outcomes analysis; and eLearning.

1 Mar 2010

Alere Health's chief officer to discuss factors essential to create most effective health ecosystem

Noting that most people are struggling with information overload and confusion when it comes to the nation's disparate and complex healthcare system, Gordon Norman, M.D., chief innovation officer for Alere Health, LLC, will highlight a range of attainable solutions at the 10th annual Population Health & Disease Management Colloquium to be held February 28 – March 2 in Philadelphia.

1 Mar 2010

Pangu BioPharma's naturally occurring splice variants of human tRNA synthetases study awarded second grant

The Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong government has awarded Pangu BioPharma, the Hong Kong subsidiary of aTyr Pharma, a second grant to fund research it is performing in collaboration with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) provides matching funds over the next 18 months to expand Pangu's successful work in the identification and characterization of naturally occurring splice variants of human tRNA synthetases.

1 Mar 2010

PPMG selected as agency of record for INADA massage chairs

The Pollack PR Marketing Group (PPMG) announced today, that it was selected as agency of record for INADA massage chairs (INADA), a leading designer and manufacturer of massage chairs.

1 Mar 2010

Axolotl celebrates 15 years of software development and HIE implementation

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) services and solutions, celebrates fifteen successful years of software development and HIE implementation. Since its founding in 1995, Axolotl has been providing advanced Clinical Networking™ solutions to meet the diverse and changing needs of physicians, hospitals, regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and statewide HIEs to achieve interoperability across entire medical trading areas.

1 Mar 2010

Resurrected ParticipACTION initiative in Canada still has potential to succeed

Despite a six-year hiatus, a resurrected national physical activity initiative in Canada, ParticipACTION, still has the potential to succeed thanks to a "sticky" brand fostered over thirty successful years, and support from organizations with health promotion and physical activity as their mandates, University of Alberta researchers have found.

1 Mar 2010

Aurora BayCare to host statewide meeting to promote development of medical technology businesses

Aurora BayCare will host a statewide meeting Friday, March 5, to promote the development of medical technology businesses in northeastern Wisconsin. The "Medical Device Collaboration Gathering" will take place at Aurora BayCare Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center, 1160 Kepler Drive in Green Bay.

1 Mar 2010

arGEN-X SIMPLE Antibody platform delivers multiple, diverse, ultra-potent functional antibodies

SIMPLE Antibody(TM) Platform Delivers Unprecedented Choice of Ultra-Potent Functional Antibody Leads Against Challenging Soluble and Cell Surface Targets. - ARGX-109, a Fully Human mAb Targeting Autoimmune, Inflammation and Oncology Indications, Enters Preclinical Development in Less Than 12 Months From Start of Discovery.

1 Mar 2010

Continua Health Alliance, ETSI, IHE-Europe announce receipt of funding from EC for Smart Personal Health project

Continua Health Alliance, an international organization of leading health care and technology companies, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), responsible for standardization of ICT within Europe, and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Europe (IHE-Europe) today announced receipt of funding from the European Commission (EC) for a 12-month project called Smart Personal Health.

1 Mar 2010

Aruba Networks, Motion Computing announce unified communications and data access healthcare solution

Aruba Networks, Inc., a global leader in 802.11n wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, and Motion Computing, a leading provider of integrated mobile computing solutions, today announced a certified healthcare solution to reliably deliver unified communications services and data access at the point-of-care.

1 Mar 2010

CareTech Solutions to demonstrate BoardNet at HIMSS10

CareTech Solutions (www.caretech.com), an information technology (IT) and Web products and services company serving U.S. hospitals and health systems, will showcase BoardNet™, the company's secure internet portal for hospital boards and administrators in its booth (Hall C; 1242) at HIMSS10 annual conference and exhibition at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

1 Mar 2010

Growth rate among non-radiologists who own/lease PET equipment is on the rise: Study

Just as with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the growth rate among non-radiologists who own or lease positron emission tomography (PET) equipment is also on the rise, contributing significantly to the ongoing issues surrounding self-referral and unnecessary utilization of imaging in the United States, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (www.jacr.org)

1 Mar 2010

Smoking cessation: New nicotine lung delivery technology promising

A novel technology for delivering nicotine to the lungs may soon give smokers a new way to kick the habit.

1 Mar 2010

CareTech Solutions to showcase full IT service and eHealth Web portfolio at HIMSS10

CareTech Solutions (www.caretech.com), an information technology (IT) and Web products and services company serving U.S. hospitals and health systems, will showcase its full IT service and eHealth Web portfolio during HIMSS10 annual conference and exhibition at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

1 Mar 2010

Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

Hartford Hospital, one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals, is collaborating with NextGate in a Health Information Exchange (HIE) implementation and a separate work-flow integration project. With an aim to improve patient care, both initiatives rely on NextGate's MatchMetrix indexing solution to uniquely identify a patient across multiple encounters and locations within the Hartford healthcare system and beyond.

28 Feb 2010

TripleTree and WLSA extend I Award nomination deadline

Due to the high levels of interest in the I Award program, TripleTree and the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) announced today that the application deadline has been extended to March 8th. This prestigious award recognizes innovation, insight, and initiative within wireless-life sciences and mobile health industry sectors. Applications will be accepted now through March 8, 2010.

27 Feb 2010

MDB Capital Group selects Health Discovery as one of Top 50 “Best and Brightest” companies

Health Discovery Corporation announced today it has been selected by MDB Capital Group as one of its Top 50 “Best and Brightest” companies that will present at the invitation-only, 1st Annual Bright Lights Conference, the first public company conference to focus exclusively on companies with disruptive and market changing intellectual property.

27 Feb 2010

Electronic prescribing decreases prescription errors

Should doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven times less likely to make errors than those writing their prescriptions by hand. The study appears today in the online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

27 Feb 2010

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Lumetra PSO to distribute iSOFT’s AIMS incident management software in the U.S. market

Toshiba America Medical Systems releases new cardiac CT software for Aquilion systems

Elsevier to present tactical solutions for advancing healthcare quality at HIMSS 2010

Alere Health's chief officer to discuss factors essential to create most effective health ecosystem

Pangu BioPharma's naturally occurring splice variants of human tRNA synthetases study awarded second grant

PPMG selected as agency of record for INADA massage chairs

Axolotl celebrates 15 years of software development and HIE implementation

Resurrected ParticipACTION initiative in Canada still has potential to succeed

Aurora BayCare to host statewide meeting to promote development of medical technology businesses

arGEN-X SIMPLE Antibody platform delivers multiple, diverse, ultra-potent functional antibodies

Continua Health Alliance, ETSI, IHE-Europe announce receipt of funding from EC for Smart Personal Health project

Aruba Networks, Motion Computing announce unified communications and data access healthcare solution

CareTech Solutions to demonstrate BoardNet at HIMSS10

Growth rate among non-radiologists who own/lease PET equipment is on the rise: Study

Smoking cessation: New nicotine lung delivery technology promising

CareTech Solutions to showcase full IT service and eHealth Web portfolio at HIMSS10

Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

TripleTree and WLSA extend I Award nomination deadline

MDB Capital Group selects Health Discovery as one of Top 50 “Best and Brightest” companies

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