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NITAAC awards prime contract to SAIC for critical IT solutions

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today it was awarded a prime contract by the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) to provide a broad range of mission critical information technology (IT) solutions in support of multiple Federal agencies.

31 May 2012

DPR, ClearCanvas collaborate to distribute CaseReader

ClearCanvas Inc., an innovative medical imaging informatics company, today announced a new partnership agreement with DPR of San Ramon, California, a technology company that delivers intelligent imaging informatics solutions for the radiology industry. The companies will work together on joint marketing and sales efforts to further distribute their combined solutions.

31 May 2012

Omixon Target, a next generation sequencing analysis software for targeted sequencing, released by Omixon

Today Omixon – a genomic software company - announced the commercial release of Omixon Target, a next generation sequencing analysis software for targeted sequencing. Omixon built its new software Target with the vision of helping diagnostic labs to adopt next generation sequencing to replace and complement traditional capillary Sanger sequencing.

30 May 2012

GPUs simulate molecular processes during swine flu drug treatment

Professor Adrian Mulholland and Dr Christopher Woods from Bristol's School of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Thailand, used graphics processing units (GPUs) to simulate the molecular processes that take place when these drugs are used to treat the H1N1-2009 strain of influenza - commonly known as 'swine flu'.

30 May 2012

Beike stem cell bank in China granted AABB accreditation

Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd announced that it has been awarded AABB accreditation for cord blood and cord tissue banking. This accreditation has been granted following an intensive on-site assessment by AABB assessors and establishes that the level of medical, technical and administrative performance within the facility is in accordance with the AABB standards or exceeds those set by AABB.

30 May 2012

Laboratory middleware solution to be exhibited by NoemaLife at this year’s AACC

NoemaLife, Europe’s leading provider of clinical and hospital software solutions, will exhibit the company’s HALIA middleware for clinical chemistry, microbiology and molecular biology labs at this year’s AACC (American Association of Clinical Chemists) Annual Meeting (15-19 July 2012, Los Angeles, CA).

30 May 2012

NTT DATA signs non-exclusive license to resell DATATRAK ONE in the Chinese market

DATATRAK International, Inc., a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced NTT DATA signed a non-exclusive license to resell DATATRAK ONE in the Chinese market.

29 May 2012

Unrestricted sales into prenatal health announced by Fluidigm

Fluidigm Corporation has announced that it can now offer unrestricted sales of its digital PCR and other advanced technology to customers interested in pursuing research and product development into the prenatal health and non-invasive prenatal diagnostics fields, as well as other fields.

28 May 2012

ABL receives CE-IVD approval for DeepChek and ViroScore Suite clinical genotyping solutions

Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) announced today that DeepChek and ViroScore Suite clinical genotyping solutions are now CE-IVD (In Vitro Diagnostics) approved for commercial use in Europe and other countries that recognise CE certification.

28 May 2012

EPSRC to help researchers in synthetic biology to establish platform technology

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will help the UK's world-leading researchers in synthetic biology to establish platform technology in the emerging field with a new grant of almost -5 million. Platform technology is the crucial next step necessary for applications to be produced and commercialised.

25 May 2012

Datix, UHC partner to improve patient safety and quality in U.S. hospitals

At the National Patient Safety Foundation Congress beginning today in Washington, D.C., two leaders in their respective healthcare areas have joined forces to improve patient safety.

24 May 2012

MTI develops SureTouch Wireless system for breast cancer screening

Medical Tactile, Inc. (MTI), with the support of The Pre-Mammogram Foundation and Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced that they have developed a pre-commercial SureTouch Wireless system that uses 3G-enabled tactile sensor technology for breast cancer screening.

23 May 2012

SOAPware releases new product that interfaces with Inmediata's PM module

SOAPware, Inc., a leading developer of certified Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR) and Practice Management (PM) software, is pleased to announce the release of a newly updated SOAPwareXchange product which interfaces with Inmediata's PM module.

23 May 2012

Researcher restructures innovative virus-tracking software

A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.

23 May 2012

Glytec receives FDA clearance for Glucommander 2.0 Enterprise software

Glytec, LLC, headquartered in Greenville, SC, announced today that its Glucommander 2.0 Enterprise software has been cleared by the FDA for pediatric use, ages 2 - 17.

22 May 2012

Laxative free bowel prep visualized on Viatronix V3D-Colon platform

Viatronix Incorporated, a leading innovator and developer of 2D/3D medical imaging and diagnostic software today announced that their V3D-Colon platform was exclusively used to perform a key study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

21 May 2012

A better way to 'spell check' gene sequences

A PhD student from CSIRO and the University of Queensland has found a better way to 'spell check' gene sequences.

21 May 2012

BIOCRATES Life Sciences to introduce AbsoluteIDQ p180 and p150 research kits

Austrian BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, prime developer of state-of-the-art metabolite biomarker panels, is about to launch new editions of two of its well-established research kit products -AbsoluteIDQ p180 and p150.

21 May 2012

The Patient Status Engine™ – Industry’s First Cloud-Based Wireless Sensor Vigilance System for Real-time and Predictive Patient Status – Introduced by Isansys

Isansys Lifecare Limited, the provider of complete real-time physiological patient data services and systems, today announces the introduction of its Patient Status Engine™ – the first cloud-based patient digitization and analytic solution for monitoring and predicting the present and future clinical status of patients anytime, anywhere. The introduction of the Patient Status Engine provides the platform for Isansys’ “Vitals as a Service™” solution, which is now offered for priority beta deployments in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

From Isansys Lifecare Ltd. 21 May 2012

A-TEK receives CIO-SP3 government wide acquisition contract from NIH

A-TEK, Inc. announced today it has been awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) Government Wide Acquisition Contract.

19 May 2012