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Mirth Corporation announces the launch of Mirth Meaningful Use Exchange

Mirth Corporation, the leader in commercial open source healthcare information technology, today announced the launch of Mirth Meaningful Use Exchange (Mirth MUx) as well as the first Mirth MUx implementation at Thayer County Health Services (TCHS).

6 Oct 2009

Shore Memorial Hospital to implement MRO’S Audit Tracker Online software

MRO Corp., the market leader of shared-service, release-of-information (ROI) and audit tracking solutions for healthcare providers, today announced Shore Memorial Hospital (Somers Point, N.J.) has contracted to implement Audit Tracker Online.

6 Oct 2009

BronxRHIO to deploy Axolotl's health information exchange solutions

The Bronx Regional Health Information Organization today announced that it has signed an agreement with Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services. The BronxRHIO, a not-for-profit organization established by the borough’s leading healthcare organizations, will deploy Axolotl’s Elysium® Exchange suite of solutions to enable healthcare providers to securely access and share clinical information, with a goal of reducing healthcare costs and improving the quality of patient care.

5 Oct 2009

Coventry Health Care signs definitive agreement to acquire Preferred Health Systems

Coventry Health Care, Inc. (NYSE: CVH) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Preferred Health Systems, Inc. (“PHS”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Via Christi Health System, Inc.

5 Oct 2009

Myocardial and neurological effects of Tβ4 presented

REGENERX BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC. today reported on the results of several important research programs with Thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4) presented at the Second International Symposium on Thymosins in Health and Disease, in Catania, Italy.

5 Oct 2009

SunLink Health Systems' fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 and fourth-quarter results announced

SunLink Health Systems, Inc. today announced earnings from continuing operations for its fourth fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2009 of $850,000, or $0.11 per fully diluted share, compared to earnings from continuing operations of $579,000, or $0.07 per fully diluted share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2009.

3 Oct 2009

Opinions: Bridging the divide to stop the spread of HIV; ending future world hunger

"With less than half the people who need treatment having access and with each day more people becoming infected with HIV than are started on treatment, we are mortgaging our future. But we are also exposing a fundamental social injustice - between the privileged and the forsaken - a divide we can bridge," Michael Sidibe, the executive director of UNAIDS, writes in a Daily Nation opinion piece.

1 Oct 2009

Cardinal Health Foundation awards more than $1 million fund to improve the quality of care

The Cardinal Health Foundation today announced it will award more than $1 million in funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community health clinics improve the efficiency and quality of care.

1 Oct 2009

Effect of healthcare reform on treating cardiovascular disease patients

The Ninth Annual Controversies and Advances in Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease continuing medical education conference will feature several discussions and presentations on how healthcare reform could affect cardiovascular disease patients' diagnosis, treatment and outcome.

1 Oct 2009

Meridian Bioscience Europe to distribute the BÜHLMANN Calprotectin test in Italy

Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio announced today that Meridian Bioscience Europe srl, Milan, Italy has signed an agreement with BÜHLMANN Laboratories AG, Schönenbuch, Switzerland for distribution in Italy of an innovative test for inflammatory conditions of the intestine, Quantum Blue® Calprotectin.

1 Oct 2009

New provider management solution from Initiate Systems

Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in data management solutions for the exchange of health information, announced today the launch of its Initiate® Provider Management solution, a unique offering that allows healthcare organizations to create a provider registry to ensure that all systems using provider data operate from the same up-to-date information.

1 Oct 2009

Baxa launches new pricing model for IntelliFlowRx and Intellifill I.V. without capital investment

Baxa Corporation announces the launch of a new program for sourcing its IntelliFill i.v. Automation and IntelliFlowRx Pharmacy Workflow Manager products. The Baxa IntelliSource(TM) program offers health-system pharmacies access to the automation and software they need to ensure that each dose dispensed is safe and accurate - without making capital investments, paying one-time setup fees or signing capital leases.

1 Oct 2009

CPM Marketing Group launches New Movers marketing program for hospitals and health systems

CPM Marketing Group Inc., the market leader for healthcare customer relationship management (CRM) and strategic marketing solutions, today announced the launch of a multimedia New Movers marketing program, which enables hospitals and health systems to more effectively and efficiently identify, communicate and establish relationships with new residents to its surrounding communities.

30 Sep 2009

Baptist Memorial Health Care implements Allscripts Electronic Health Record solution

Allscripts announced today that Baptist Memorial Health Care has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution to automate and connect clinical and business functions for their 65 employed physicians and the more than 3,100 independent physicians affiliated with the health system's 15 hospitals in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.

30 Sep 2009

Proton therapy center to treat pediatric and adult cancer patients

The development of a proton therapy center in the Pacific Northwest has taken a significant step forward with the signing of a letter of intent between the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) and ProCure Treatment Centers Inc. (ProCure). SCCA and ProCure announced the agreement today and are moving the project forward to bring this advanced form of radiation therapy to adult and pediatric cancer patients.

29 Sep 2009

Symposium on ways to lower preterm birth rate

Journalists are invited to attend a gathering of the nation's leading maternal-child and quality assurance health care experts who will review and develop programs that may help lower the nation's costly preterm birth rate.

26 Sep 2009

WHO lowers expectation of H1N1 vaccine output, appeals for donations to fight pandemic

International drug makers are expected to produce three billion doses of the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine, "enough for just under half the world's population," a WHO official said Thursday, Canwest News Service/Ottawa Citizen reports. "The agency was hoping pharmaceutical companies would be able to make about five billion doses a year, but data collected over the summer led to the revised estimate," the news service writes (Fitzpatrick, 9/24).

25 Sep 2009

Obama addresses U.N. General Assembly, calls for 'new era of engagement'

In his first U.N. General Assembly address, President Obama on Wednesday "called for 'a new era of engagement' ... with the world, pledging to work together with other countries while defending the interests of the United States," Reuters reports (9/23).

24 Sep 2009

Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by The Quantum Group

The Quantum Group, Inc. (NYSE Amex:QGP) announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 ended July 31, 2009.

23 Sep 2009

British Prime Minister to unveil $1b effort to improve health systems in developing countries

During the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday is scheduled to announce that Britain is teaming up with Norway, the Netherlands and Australia to invest $1 billion to strengthen the health systems in developing countries, the Financial Times/NineMSN reports (Jack, 9/21).

23 Sep 2009

Health Systems News and Research

Mirth Corporation announces the launch of Mirth Meaningful Use Exchange

Shore Memorial Hospital to implement MRO’S Audit Tracker Online software

BronxRHIO to deploy Axolotl's health information exchange solutions

Coventry Health Care signs definitive agreement to acquire Preferred Health Systems

Myocardial and neurological effects of Tβ4 presented

SunLink Health Systems' fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 and fourth-quarter results announced

Opinions: Bridging the divide to stop the spread of HIV; ending future world hunger

Cardinal Health Foundation awards more than $1 million fund to improve the quality of care

Effect of healthcare reform on treating cardiovascular disease patients

Meridian Bioscience Europe to distribute the BÜHLMANN Calprotectin test in Italy

New provider management solution from Initiate Systems

Baxa launches new pricing model for IntelliFlowRx and Intellifill I.V. without capital investment

CPM Marketing Group launches New Movers marketing program for hospitals and health systems

Baptist Memorial Health Care implements Allscripts Electronic Health Record solution

Proton therapy center to treat pediatric and adult cancer patients

Symposium on ways to lower preterm birth rate

WHO lowers expectation of H1N1 vaccine output, appeals for donations to fight pandemic

Obama addresses U.N. General Assembly, calls for 'new era of engagement'

Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by The Quantum Group

British Prime Minister to unveil $1b effort to improve health systems in developing countries

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