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Phenomenex, AB SCIEX collaborate to improve food testing

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and Phenomenex, a global leader in separation science techniques, today announced a collaboration agreement designed to significantly improve food testing.

24 Jan 2012

Novel method can rapidly scan and capture 3D maps of muscle structure

Simon Fraser University associate professor James Wakeling is adding to the arsenal of increasingly sophisticated medical imaging tools with a new signal-processing method for viewing muscle activation details that have never been seen before.

23 Jan 2012

Welch Allyn's Connex IWS, EVD System and ProBP 3400 to be showcased at Arab Health 2012

Welch Allyn, a leading global provider of medical diagnostic devices headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, NY, will showcase its newest generation of connected solutions designed to address the needs of busy medical practices this week at Arab Health 2012 in Dubai.

23 Jan 2012

Technological breakthrough allows U-M Health System to reduce patients' radiation exposure

A technological breakthrough is allowing the University of Michigan Health System to be the first teaching hospital in the U.S. to perform some CT scans using a fraction of the radiation dose required for a conventional CT image.

20 Jan 2012

ArmAssist project to find out degree of satisfaction in patients with brain stroke

Today 15 million persons throughout the world suffer from an ictus every year and 5 million are left with chronic disabilities. TECNALIA designed a system for alleviating neuromuscular disability amongst these patients from their homes and by which these can be permanently supervised by the therapist who will be able to carry out a quantitative evaluation of the therapy. To this end, they have brought together new technologies and entertainment and a greater quality of rehabilitation.

20 Jan 2012

FDA to implement Abbott's STARLIMS LIMS software

Abbott announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin implementing Abbott's STARLIMS software-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) as part of the agency's initiative to enhance FDA testing laboratories.

19 Jan 2012

Wis. company helps lead the way to digitizing health records

Operating on 800 acres of former farmland near Madison, Wis., Epic Systems supplies electronic records for large health care providers like the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles ...

18 Jan 2012

Premier, Horizon enter three-year national group purchasing contract

Horizon Software International, the leader in K-12 food service technology and online account management, has been awarded a three-year national group purchasing contract with the Premier healthcare alliance.

17 Jan 2012

Stallergenes chooses Magic Software's iBOLT integration platform

Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a global provider of mobile and cloud-enabled application and business integration platforms, announced today that Stallergenes, a biopharmaceutical company and world leader in the treatment of severe allergic respiratory illnesses, has chosen Magic Software's iBOLT integration platform to integrate its various purchasing systems with its SAP ERP.

17 Jan 2012

Viewpoints: Recession's effect on health spending; The flaws in raising Medicare eligibility age

Health care spending in the United States increased at the slowest rate in half a century in 2009 and 2010. ... That looks like good news after decades of soaring health care spending that outpaced economic growth. The hitch: the main factor was the recession that left millions of Americans unemployed, uninsured, short of income, and unable or unwilling to spend money on health care.

13 Jan 2012

RaySearch releases version 2.5 of RayStation treatment planning system

RaySearch Laboratories announces that version 2.5 of RaySearch's RayStation treatment planning system has been released for clinical use in Europe and USA and is pending regulatory approval in Canada. The new version includes a wide range of new features and improvements.

12 Jan 2012

Health Fidelity, Columbia University enter license agreement to commercialize MedLEE NLP

Columbia University and Health Fidelity, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a license agreement for commercialization of Columbia's MedLEE Natural Language Processing technology.

12 Jan 2012

Virtual reality technology will advance rehabilitation research for cognitive and physical disabilities

Kessler Foundation and the University of Southern California (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies will collaborate on clinical research projects applying virtual reality technology to cognitive and motor rehabilitation research.

11 Jan 2012

FDA grants 510(k) clearance for Varian's new radiotherapy treatment planning tool

Varian Medical Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a new radiotherapy treatment planning tool designed to work with the company's market leading Eclipse™ treatment planning software to reduce the amount of time needed for planning advanced treatments.

11 Jan 2012

IBM software powers BodyMedia FIT body monitoring system

IBM announced today that BodyMedia, Inc., a leader in wearable body monitors designed for health and wellness, is using IBM software to help consumers more easily achieve their weight-loss goals. Powered by IBM software, the new personalized feedback capabilities in the BodyMedia FIT body monitoring system now provide users with their own fitness coach.

11 Jan 2012

Researchers create SketchUp program to help kids with autism

These days, we hear a lot about the disorder of autism, but researchers at the University of Utah have created a program that helps kids with autism focus on building their skills and utilizing an aptitude for visual-spatial thinking, computers and other electronic media.

10 Jan 2012

Life Technologies takes orders for new benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer

Life Technologies Corporation today announced it is taking orders for the new benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer that is designed to sequence the entire human genome in a day for $1,000.

10 Jan 2012

ManTech International acquires Evolvent Technologies

ManTech International Corporation today completed the acquisition of Evolvent Technologies, Inc. of Herndon, Va., a focused healthcare-systems integrator with particular strength in federal healthcare systems.

9 Jan 2012

HDC, NeoGenomics sign worldwide licensing agreement to develop LDT

Health Discovery Corporation, a molecular diagnostics leader in the use of patent protected advanced mathematical techniques for personalized medicine, has entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with NeoGenomics, Inc. for laboratory developed tests in the Field of hematopoietic and solid tumor cancers excluding breast cancer, which was previously licensed to Quest Diagnostics and Smart Personalized Medicine and excluding cancer of the retina which was previously committed to Retinalyze, LLC.

9 Jan 2012

Progress report on commercialization of BENLYSTA to be announced at JPMorgan Healthcare Conference

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. will today announce its priority goals for 2012 and report on progress with the commercialization of BENLYSTA (belimumab), the first approved drug for systemic lupus in 56 years, during a presentation this afternoon by H. Thomas Watkins, President and Chief Executive Officer, to financial analysts and investors at the 30th Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

9 Jan 2012

Software News and Research

Phenomenex, AB SCIEX collaborate to improve food testing

Novel method can rapidly scan and capture 3D maps of muscle structure

Welch Allyn's Connex IWS, EVD System and ProBP 3400 to be showcased at Arab Health 2012

Technological breakthrough allows U-M Health System to reduce patients' radiation exposure

ArmAssist project to find out degree of satisfaction in patients with brain stroke

FDA to implement Abbott's STARLIMS LIMS software

Wis. company helps lead the way to digitizing health records

Premier, Horizon enter three-year national group purchasing contract

Stallergenes chooses Magic Software's iBOLT integration platform

Viewpoints: Recession's effect on health spending; The flaws in raising Medicare eligibility age

RaySearch releases version 2.5 of RayStation treatment planning system

Health Fidelity, Columbia University enter license agreement to commercialize MedLEE NLP

Virtual reality technology will advance rehabilitation research for cognitive and physical disabilities

FDA grants 510(k) clearance for Varian's new radiotherapy treatment planning tool

IBM software powers BodyMedia FIT body monitoring system

Researchers create SketchUp program to help kids with autism

Life Technologies takes orders for new benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer

ManTech International acquires Evolvent Technologies

HDC, NeoGenomics sign worldwide licensing agreement to develop LDT

Progress report on commercialization of BENLYSTA to be announced at JPMorgan Healthcare Conference

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