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Community Memorial Health System selects Allscripts EHR and PM solution to enhance patient experience

Allscripts announced today that Community Memorial Health System has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution, with Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management, to enhance the quality of care, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery.

9 Dec 2009

MLL team finds 454 Sequencing technology promising for leukemia genetic characterization

This week at the 51st American Society for Hematology Annual Meeting, a team of researchers from the MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory presented results from a series of groundbreaking studies which explore alternative, high-throughput 454 Sequencing methods for distinguishing and characterizing the many forms of leukemia and myeloproliferative disorders.

9 Dec 2009

USPTO grants CyDex Pharmaceuticals patent for Captisol

CyDex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent to the company entitled “Sulfoalkyl Ether Cyclodextrin Compositions and Methods of Preparation Thereof.” This patent, along with other previously issued technology patents, will provide broader protection for CyDex’s Captisol® technology until 2028.

9 Dec 2009

NPH acquires an exclusive license from UCLA for a suite of supramolecular nanoparticle technologies

NanoPacific Holdings, Inc. (NPH) announces the acquisition of an exclusive license from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for a suite of supramolecular nanoparticle technologies. Under the terms of the agreement between NPH and UCLA, NPH will have an exclusive worldwide license of a system composed of a ternary mixture of modular components that self-assemble into supramolecular nanoparticles.

9 Dec 2009

Waters begins shipping its ground-breaking SYNAPT G2 Mass Spectrometer

Waters Corporation announced today that it has shipped the first units of its ground-breaking SYNAPT(TM) G2 Mass Spectrometer, first introduced at the 2009 American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) annual conference in Philadelphia in June.

9 Dec 2009

Varian Medical Systems receives IDG's InfoWorld 100 Award for innovative use of IT

Zenprise, Inc., a provider of mobile management software, today announced its customer, Varian Medical Systems Inc., received IDG's InfoWorld 100 Award based on its deployment of the Zenprise MobileManager platform. The InfoWorld 100 Awards recognizes the top 100 most innovative uses of IT initiatives to further business goals.

9 Dec 2009

Newly created line of skin care products based on ISCO’s proprietary Parthenogenic Stem Cells

Lifeline Skin Care, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of International Stem Cell Corporation, announced today that it has retained the services of a highly experienced expert in the skin care industry, Raulee Marcus, to help design a marketing program for its newly created line of skin care products based on ISCO’s proprietary Parthenogenic Stem Cells.

9 Dec 2009

UnitedHealthcare improves access to health care with DocGPS App of Apple’s iPhone

UnitedHealthcare is helping improve access to health care by putting its vast network of doctors, clinics, hospitals and other health care services on a new app just introduced on Apple’s iPhone.

9 Dec 2009

SC Magazine names BIO-key International as 2009 Innovator of the Year in Biometrics

BIO-key International, Inc., a leader in finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced that SC Magazine, one of the world's most respected security publications, named BIO-key International the 2009 Innovator of the Year in the Access Control sub-category Biometrics.

9 Dec 2009

BIOLASE Technology's Waterlase MD laser system receives FDA marketing clearance

BIOLASE Technology, Inc., the world's leading dental laser company, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Waterlase MD™ laser system for removal of subgingival calculi to prevent and treat periodontitis, the greatest cause of tooth loss for adults over 35 and a condition impacting more than half of Americans over the age of 55, as reported by the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP).

9 Dec 2009

HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security Accreditations for MedRisk

MedRisk, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded the HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security Accreditations from URAC, a Washington, DC-based health care accrediting organization that establishes quality standards for the health care industry.

9 Dec 2009

INOVEM’s Inclusionware aids NWL PCTs in the ‘Get Better’ project

INOVEM, a British developer of collaborative and consultation technology, empowered the North West London Primary Care Trusts (NWL PCTs) to work together and engage with local communities more meaningfully in support of the ‘Get Better’ project.

9 Dec 2009

TECHGENE project: CLC bio selected as software partner

Today the EU project, TECHGENE, that focuses on developing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) diagnostic tools for genetic disorders, announced that CLC bio has been selected as the software partner for this project.

9 Dec 2009

Vestagen Technical Textiles introduces Nanotechnology-Based Healthcare Specialty Textiles

Vestagen Technical Textiles today announced its entry into the advanced performance textile arena with the introduction of the first of a new class of Nanotechnology-Based Healthcare Specialty Textiles.

9 Dec 2009

GPEC receives unrestricted grant of $250,000 to study new treatments for breast cancer

Located at Vancouver General Hospital and a partner of the BC Cancer Agency, the Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre, led by three prominent pathologists, is a recognized world leader in cancer research in the area of biomarker technology. Today, with an additional unrestricted grant of $250,000 from sanofi-aventis, GPEC is ready to make even more scientific breakthroughs.

9 Dec 2009

Depression drug TC-5214 earns USF its most lucrative patent royalties to date

A depression drug created and patented by a team of University of South Florida researchers is at the center of major deal between global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC and Targacept, Inc., earning the university its potentially most lucrative patent royalties to date.

9 Dec 2009

Canadians have mixed emotions about their priorities for national healthcare system, finds survey

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that Canadians have mixed emotions about their priorities for the national healthcare system.

9 Dec 2009

New Medical Design Partner Specialist joins Microchip Technology's program

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced a new Medical Design Partner Specialist. TechEn, Inc. joins Microchip’s program of more than 14 Design Partner Specialists in areas such as medical electronics, Radio-Frequency (RF) design and touch sensing.

9 Dec 2009

New IME-developed cardiac biomarker testing system saves time

Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed a rapid and sensitive integrated system to test simultaneously for specific cardiac biomarkers in finger prick amount of blood.

9 Dec 2009

Dr. Brian Newman to conduct two training sessions for medical professionals on Veinwave system

Brian Newman, MD, FRCS, will conduct two training sessions for medical professionals on the Veinwave(TM) system, a revolutionary system used by doctors around the world to non-invasively eliminate spider veins and telangiectasia.

9 Dec 2009

Technology News and Research

Community Memorial Health System selects Allscripts EHR and PM solution to enhance patient experience

MLL team finds 454 Sequencing technology promising for leukemia genetic characterization

USPTO grants CyDex Pharmaceuticals patent for Captisol

NPH acquires an exclusive license from UCLA for a suite of supramolecular nanoparticle technologies

Waters begins shipping its ground-breaking SYNAPT G2 Mass Spectrometer

Varian Medical Systems receives IDG's InfoWorld 100 Award for innovative use of IT

Newly created line of skin care products based on ISCO’s proprietary Parthenogenic Stem Cells

UnitedHealthcare improves access to health care with DocGPS App of Apple’s iPhone

SC Magazine names BIO-key International as 2009 Innovator of the Year in Biometrics

BIOLASE Technology's Waterlase MD laser system receives FDA marketing clearance

HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security Accreditations for MedRisk

INOVEM’s Inclusionware aids NWL PCTs in the ‘Get Better’ project

TECHGENE project: CLC bio selected as software partner

Vestagen Technical Textiles introduces Nanotechnology-Based Healthcare Specialty Textiles

GPEC receives unrestricted grant of $250,000 to study new treatments for breast cancer

Depression drug TC-5214 earns USF its most lucrative patent royalties to date

Canadians have mixed emotions about their priorities for national healthcare system, finds survey

New Medical Design Partner Specialist joins Microchip Technology's program

New IME-developed cardiac biomarker testing system saves time

Dr. Brian Newman to conduct two training sessions for medical professionals on Veinwave system

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