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Study: 17% of homeless people in Toronto report unmet health care needs

Most studies of healthcare for homeless people have been conducted in the United States, where it's not surprising that lack of money and insurance are the main barriers.

22 Jul 2010

UMHS selects Epic Systems for medical information technology overhaul

The University of Michigan Health System has just embarked on a multi-year journey to completely transform the way its physicians, nurses, other care providers and administrators use information technology in every U-M hospital, clinic and office.

22 Jul 2010

Report on Malaysian SMBG devices and strips market

According to the International Diabetes Federation, there were a staggering 185.5 million diabetics globally in 2009, with Asia Pacific accounting for 76.5 million of them. Out of this, Malaysia contributed 1.33 million diabetics, of which only 0.6 million were diagnosed.

22 Jul 2010

Somaxon's Silenor Phase 3 clinical data accepted for publication in Sleep, Sleep Medicine journals

Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the in-licensing, development and commercialization of proprietary branded pharmaceutical products and late-stage product candidates for the treatment of diseases and disorders in the central nervous system therapeutic area, today announced that detailed results from two Phase 3 clinical trials of the company's product Silenor® (doxepin) have been accepted for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

22 Jul 2010

GE Healthcare awarded $1M to develop MRI for Pediatrics Populations project

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, in collaboration with Cincinnati Children's Medical Center and the Davis Heart and Lung Institute of The Ohio State University, was awarded $1 million for magnetic resonance imaging and devices for the "Pediatrics Population" project. This project reinforces GE's commitment to healthymagination which works to bring new technologies and solutions to more people.

22 Jul 2010

Southeast Emergency Consultants changes name to Titan Emergency Group

Southeast Emergency Consultants, an emergency medicine physician group that contracts with hospitals throughout the Southeast, changed its name to Titan Emergency Group announced Ray Gyarmathy, M.D., F.A.A.E.M., the company's president. The group selected the name to kick off a period of aggressive growth to expand the number of hospitals where it provides emergency department staffing and support services. The new name better reflects the company's personality and eliminates any potential confusion related to its geographic service area.

22 Jul 2010

North Shore-LIJ selects Skire's Unifier solution to help manage capital improvement program

Skire, Inc., the leading provider of capital program, facilities, real estate and project portfolio management software, today announced that the North Shore-LIJ Health System has selected Skire's Unifier solution to help manage its five-year, $2 billion capital improvement program. Unifier will seamlessly work within all of North Shore-LIJ's construction business processes, including controlling budget and cash flow, tracking contracts, and managing schedules while creating transparency into its project portfolio.

22 Jul 2010

OhioHealth selects CredenceHealth as partner in real-time clinical surveillance initiative

CredenceHealth, a provider of real-time clinical intelligence for hospitals and health plans, announced today that OhioHealth, an 8-hospital, 2000+bed, not-for-profit hospital system in Columbus, Ohio, has selected CredenceHealth for its latest real-time clinical surveillance initiative.

22 Jul 2010

TCF7L2 protein may play important role in heart disease, other metabolic disorders: Researchers

Studying a protein already known to play an important role in type 2 diabetes and cancer, genomics researchers have discovered that it may have an even broader role in disease, particularly in other metabolic disorders and heart disease. In finding unsuspected links to other disease-related genes, the scientists may have identified future targets for drug treatments.

22 Jul 2010

New research identifies stem cells that generate three critical classes of nerve cells

New research, published in the journal Development, by Dr. Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, professor of Pharmacology & Physiology and director of the newly formed GW Institute for Neuroscience, and his colleagues have identified the stem cells that generate three critical classes of nerve cells - olfactory receptors, vomeronasal and gonadotropin releasing hormone neurons - that are responsible for enabling animals and humans, to eat, interact socially and reproduce.

22 Jul 2010

Saskatchewan nursing homes to test improvement program to increase patient care time in hospitals

Three Saskatchewan nursing homes will be the first long-term care facilities to test the effectiveness of an improvement program that has been shown to increase the amount of time providers spend on direct patient care in hospitals.

22 Jul 2010

New telepathology system connects UHN pathologists to Northern Ontario communities

Physicians in three Northern Ontario communities are now virtually linked at all times to pathology specialists at University Health Network (UHN), thanks to a revolutionary new way of diagnosing pathology cases over the Internet.

22 Jul 2010

Columbia Asia opens new 82-bed medical facility in Nusajaya, Malaysia

Columbia Asia, a fast-growing hospital company with Pacific Northwest roots, is now part of a major new development in Nusajaya, Malaysia - a mere 10-minute drive from the bustling country of Singapore.

22 Jul 2010

Prototype ring with sensors helps to detect, prevent preterm labor

The birth of a baby is usually a joyous event, but when a child is born too early, worrisome complications can occur, including serious health problems for the baby and steep medical bills for the family. To address this, Johns Hopkins graduate students and their faculty adviser have invented a new system to pick up very early signs that a woman is going into labor too soon.

22 Jul 2010

Physicians Practice, Wolfson Children's Hospital to help doctors manage patient care in Jacksonville area

Physicians Practice and Wolfson Children's Hospital have joined forces to help provide area physicians and their staff more time to devote to patient care. This new partnership is a unique program designed to help doctors in the Jacksonville area better handle the cumbersome and time-consuming issues of managing a busy practice.

22 Jul 2010

Hospital updates: ERs try to shorten waits, Florida Children's Hospital to join with Johns Hopkins

To attract patients, hospitals are increasingly posting wait times for their emergency rooms "on billboards, websites, social media outlets like Twitter and in text messages," The Salt Lake Tribune reports. "It's a competitive strategy, but also a tool for bending the wait-time curve and, hopefully, improving patient care, said Mary Joe Jones, chief clinical nursing officer at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City."

22 Jul 2010

FSH selects HMS to provide clinical, financial information system applications for neuro-spine facility

Foundation Surgical Hospital has selected Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. to provide a full suite of integrated clinical and financial information system applications for the 64-bed orthopedic and neuro-spine facility, located in the Greater Houston market.

22 Jul 2010

Researchers speculate about risks, rewards of making clinicians' notes transparent to patients

Technology has placed vast amounts of medical information literally a mouse click away. Yet what often may be central - a doctor's notes about a patient visit - has traditionally not been part of the discussion. In effect, such records have long been out of bounds.

22 Jul 2010

ASP EVOTECH Endoscope Cleaner and Reprocessor technology superior to manual cleaning: Study

Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) announced today newly published data showing the ASP EVOTECH® Endoscope Cleaner and Reprocessor (ECR) provides an automated approach superior to the manual cleaning required when using traditional AERs. Published in the July issue of Biomed Central, the combination clinical-use and simulated-use study was led by Michelle Alfa, Ph.D., FCCM, Medical Director, Microbiology Discipline Diagnostic Services of Manitoba (DSM) St. Boniface General Hospital Site.

22 Jul 2010

Ampio Pharmaceuticals commences Optina Phase II clinical trial for diabetic macular edema

Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the initiation of a Phase II clinical trial of Optina™ for the treatment of diabetic macular edema, an early stage of diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic macular edema is responsible for most vision loss in patients with diabetes mellitus.

22 Jul 2010

Hospital News and Research

Study: 17% of homeless people in Toronto report unmet health care needs

UMHS selects Epic Systems for medical information technology overhaul

Report on Malaysian SMBG devices and strips market

Somaxon's Silenor Phase 3 clinical data accepted for publication in Sleep, Sleep Medicine journals

GE Healthcare awarded $1M to develop MRI for Pediatrics Populations project

Southeast Emergency Consultants changes name to Titan Emergency Group

North Shore-LIJ selects Skire's Unifier solution to help manage capital improvement program

OhioHealth selects CredenceHealth as partner in real-time clinical surveillance initiative

TCF7L2 protein may play important role in heart disease, other metabolic disorders: Researchers

New research identifies stem cells that generate three critical classes of nerve cells

Saskatchewan nursing homes to test improvement program to increase patient care time in hospitals

New telepathology system connects UHN pathologists to Northern Ontario communities

Columbia Asia opens new 82-bed medical facility in Nusajaya, Malaysia

Prototype ring with sensors helps to detect, prevent preterm labor

Physicians Practice, Wolfson Children's Hospital to help doctors manage patient care in Jacksonville area

Hospital updates: ERs try to shorten waits, Florida Children's Hospital to join with Johns Hopkins

FSH selects HMS to provide clinical, financial information system applications for neuro-spine facility

Researchers speculate about risks, rewards of making clinicians' notes transparent to patients

ASP EVOTECH Endoscope Cleaner and Reprocessor technology superior to manual cleaning: Study

Ampio Pharmaceuticals commences Optina Phase II clinical trial for diabetic macular edema

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