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Identification of gaps in accessing stroke centers cuts down the deadly toll of stroke

When stroke strikes, choking off blood supply to the brain, every minute counts: Nearly 2 million neurons die each minute a stroke is left untreated, making it a race to recognize symptoms so that lifesaving "clot-busting" drugs can be administered.

25 Feb 2010

Eclipsys, Microsoft sign health information technology alliance

Eclipsys Corp.® and Microsoft Corp. today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of closed, proprietary systems, the two companies will offer the market tightly integrated health IT solutions designed to make it easy for physicians, nurses and hospital administrators to gain insights from data aggregated from multiple clinical and financial systems across the hospital.

25 Feb 2010

Mariner to present HAI controlling dashboard at 2010 Microsoft Health User Group Exchange

Mariner, an industry-leading business intelligence, performance management and analytics solutions provider, will present an exciting new data-driven dashboard at the Microsoft Health User Group Exchange 2010 taking place during HIMSS10 at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, February 28th. Designed to help the medical center’s infection control practitioner’s control HAIs, the Dashboard has been the subject of recent POC activity at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC).

25 Feb 2010

New data shows Valortim antibody enhances human T cell response to B. anthracis

PharmAthene, Inc., a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced today that new data from the Company's Valortim® anthrax anti-toxin program were presented at the 8th Annual ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting, held in Baltimore, Maryland, February 21-24, 2010.

25 Feb 2010

EpiCept provides business update and fourth-quarter financial highlights

EpiCept Corporation today announced operating and financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009, and provided an update on Ceplene® and several of the Company’s key product candidates.

25 Feb 2010

FDA, NIH initiative: From scientific breakthrough to the availability of new medical therapies for patients

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health today unveiled an initiative designed to accelerate the process from scientific breakthrough to the availability of new, innovative medical therapies for patients.

25 Feb 2010

BIDHC selects MedAptus Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology

MedAptus(R), the market leader for charge capture technologies, today announced that Needham-based Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare (BIDHC) has selected the company's Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology for its hospitalist group. BIDHC, a network of primary care physicians, will roll-out the web-based version of MedAptus' Inpatient Edition for the timely and compliant capture of inpatient charges originating at three area hospitals.

25 Feb 2010

Deciphering babies' cries: Hope for new parents

Baby monitors of the future could translate infant cries, so that parents will know for certain whether their child is sleepy, hungry, needing a change, or in pain. Japanese scientists report details of a statistical computer program that can analyze a baby's crying in the International Journal of Biometrics.

25 Feb 2010

Virginia Life Science Investments completes recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron

Virginia Life Science Investments, LLC and other investors have completed a recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron, Inc., a Delaware corporation established in 2001, with principal offices in Modi’in, Israel. The transaction provides significant new capital to support the continued growth and development of Cupron Inc.; as well as the formation and initial capitalization of an independent new entity, Cupron Medical Inc., a Delaware corporation with principal offices in Richmond, VA.

25 Feb 2010

Genetic Disorder Tracker introduced by Guidepoint Global

Guidepoint Global, LLC, a leading primary research firm, today announced the launch of their Genetic Disorder Tracker, a monthly longitudinal data release that captures commercial trends, on a worldwide basis, associated with the treatment of eight rare genetic disorders: Gaucher's disease, Fabry's disease, PKU, MPS I (Hurler Syndrome), MPS II (Hunter Syndrome), MPS VI (Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome), Niemann-Pick disease and Pompe disease.

25 Feb 2010

Zcube joins Mission Bay Capital Fund with $1M investment

Mission Bay Capital, LLC, has added a new limited partner to its first venture fund, bolstering the fund's ability to invest in promising bioscience companies emerging from the University of California.

25 Feb 2010

FDA may set patient safety regulations for health IT

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund: "In the past two years, the agency has received reports of six patient deaths and several dozen injuries linked to malfunctions in the systems, Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in testimony prepared for a government hearing on Thursday. ... The FDA has been studying the issue for several years. Its latest concerns are surfacing as the government ramps up an ambitious plan to spend as much as $27 billion in stimulus money helping doctors and hospitals across the country purchase electronic medical records systems that rely on digital software rather than paper medical charts."

25 Feb 2010

PositiveID, FIS partner to launch Health Link personal health record

PositiveID Corporation announced today that it has entered into a partnership with FIS™, one of the world’s largest providers of banking and payments technology, to launch the Company’s next generation Health Link personal health record (“Health Link”).

25 Feb 2010

Researchers develop evaluation tool to help guide asymptomatic pancreatic cyst treatment

As a result of improved imaging technology, pancreatic cysts are increasingly diagnosed in asymptomatic individuals who undergo scans for other reasons. And while most of these cysts follow a benign course, a small but significant number are either malignant at the time of diagnosis or have the potential to develop into pancreatic cancer during a patient's lifetime.

25 Feb 2010

Special Issue of Business Horizons addresses issues central to healthcare and life sciences

A recent Special Issue of Business Horizons (www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor), the journal of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and published by Elsevier, addresses issues central to healthcare and life sciences. Healthcare reform, for example, has been at the center of U.S. political debate in recent years with renewed attempts to gain bipartisan support from Congress for passage of a national system of health insurance coverage.

25 Feb 2010

MedNet Solutions introduces iMedNet eClinical technology platform

MedNet Solutions, a global life sciences technology solutions company specializing in clinical study management systems, is pleased to announce iMedNet™, the company's ground-breaking new electronic data capture (EDC)/eClinical technology platform.

24 Feb 2010

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery program performed at John Muir Medical Center

As part of John Muir Health’s Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery program, a minimally invasive thymectomy – removal of the thymus gland – was successfully performed recently at the John Muir Medical Center – Concord Campus. This procedure, designed to minimize trauma to patients, uses the latest generation da Vinci® Si Surgical System to help surgeons see vital anatomical structures more clearly and to perform a more precise operation.

24 Feb 2010

Unique technology identifies drug candidates, speeds up drug development

The search for new therapeutic agents is time-consuming and expensive. Pharmaceutical companies may have to screen thousands of compounds for the ability to bind a target molecule before they hit upon a promising drug candidate.

From NanoTemper Technologies 24 Feb 2010

American People's Online Health Summit to be hosted in response to bipartisan health summit

In response to President Barack Obama's bipartisan health summit on February 25, Newt Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation will host the "American People's Online Health Summit," a LIVE blog to engage the American people in health reform negotiations and give them a voice in Washington.

24 Feb 2010

Holy Name Hospital implements Fujitsu PalmSecure authentication technology for patient registration and identification

Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc., a leading supplier of innovative computer products including peripherals and biometric security solutions, today announced that Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J. is the first hospital in New Jersey to implement the Fujitsu PalmSecure™ palm vein authentication technology for patient registration and identification. The Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric solution integrates into Holy Name's new Palm First registration system to bolster security of medical records and enhance the overall patient experience.

24 Feb 2010

Technology News and Research

Identification of gaps in accessing stroke centers cuts down the deadly toll of stroke

Eclipsys, Microsoft sign health information technology alliance

Mariner to present HAI controlling dashboard at 2010 Microsoft Health User Group Exchange

New data shows Valortim antibody enhances human T cell response to B. anthracis

EpiCept provides business update and fourth-quarter financial highlights

FDA, NIH initiative: From scientific breakthrough to the availability of new medical therapies for patients

BIDHC selects MedAptus Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology

Deciphering babies' cries: Hope for new parents

Virginia Life Science Investments completes recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron

Genetic Disorder Tracker introduced by Guidepoint Global

Zcube joins Mission Bay Capital Fund with $1M investment

FDA may set patient safety regulations for health IT

PositiveID, FIS partner to launch Health Link personal health record

Researchers develop evaluation tool to help guide asymptomatic pancreatic cyst treatment

Special Issue of Business Horizons addresses issues central to healthcare and life sciences

MedNet Solutions introduces iMedNet eClinical technology platform

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery program performed at John Muir Medical Center

Unique technology identifies drug candidates, speeds up drug development

American People's Online Health Summit to be hosted in response to bipartisan health summit

Holy Name Hospital implements Fujitsu PalmSecure authentication technology for patient registration and identification

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