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FDA clears Nucletron's new VCMC Applicator for gynecologic cancers

During the first day of the annual conference for the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) in Miami, Nucletron, an Elekta company, today announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its new Vaginal CT/MR Multi Channel (VCMC) Applicator, offering a brachytherapy solution that enables very precise dose delivery for gynecologic cancers.

From Elekta 3 Oct 2011

First clinical implementation of RayStation at MGH

RaySearch Laboratories AB announces that the first cancer patient has been treated using a treatment plan created with RaySearch's treatment planning system RayStation. The treatment was carried out at the Massachusetts General Hospital Radiation Oncology Department.

From Elekta 3 Oct 2011

H.I.M. ON CALL releases AVIANCE DNFB Management solution at AHIMA Convention and Exhibit

H.I.M. ON CALL, a technology and outsourcing services company for health information management, coding and revenue cycle, announced the availability of its latest AVIANCEHealth technology solution, AVIANCE DNFB Management today at the American Health Information Management Association Convention and Exhibit at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1 Oct 2011

QHR announces 1,000,000 stock options to various directors and employees

QHR Technologies Inc. announced today that it has granted an aggregate of 1,000,000 stock options to various directors, employees and consultants of the Company.

1 Oct 2011

Nightingale retains Questrade to provide market making services

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services today announced that it has retained Questrade Inc. to provide market making services. The market making service will be undertaken by Questrade in compliance with the guidelines of the TSX Venture Exchange.

1 Oct 2011

PHAB selects Liaison International's eAccreditation System for health departments

After a comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) selected Liaison International's eAccreditation System to manage the accreditation of more than 3,000 health departments.

1 Oct 2011

Unibased integrates EHR, periOperative RMS and anesthesia IMS at Monongalia General Hospital

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. recently completed an integration of an anesthesia information management system, with an EHR where the key linkage is the Unibased award-winning ForSite2020 periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS) at Monongalia General Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia.

30 Sep 2011

XECAN's RFID Oncology Solution integrated with ThingMagic Astra UHF Reader

Trimble announced today that m, a leading provider of RFID patient safety solutions, has integrated the ThingMagic Astra UHF Reader into its RFID Oncology Solution. The XECAN solution enhances the patient experience and significantly assists in the goal of eliminating treatment errors allowing healthcare organizations to offer a safer and more inviting medical experience.

28 Sep 2011

HealthUnity announces availability of HIE and MPI version 5.5

HealthUnity Corporation today announced general availability of version 5.5 of its award-winning Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Master Person Index (MPI) solution.

28 Sep 2011

Breast imaging reports generated with automatic speech recognition more likely to contain errors

Breast imaging reports generated using an automatic speech recognition system are nearly six times more likely to contain major errors than those generated with conventional dictation transcription, a new study in Canada shows.

23 Sep 2011

Cambridge Heart enters agreement with EO Medical for MTWA technology

Cambridge Heart, Inc., a developer of non-invasive diagnostic tests for cardiac disease, today announced that it has executed an exclusive agreement with EO Medical Pte Ltd to distribute its HearTwave II System and proprietary Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) software and Micro-V Alternans Sensors in Singapore upon regulatory approval.

22 Sep 2011

FDA clears Toshiba's advanced M-Power interface

Increasing MR exam efficiency, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.'s advanced M-Power interface has received FDA clearance. M-Power is a customizable MR system user interface enabling technologists to streamline and accelerate scanning processes and enhance diagnoses.

21 Sep 2011

Akeso Medical Imaging closes first financing round to develop imaging device for rheumatoid arthritis disease activity monitoring and control

Akeso Medical Imaging BV, a spin-off from Philips Research, announces today the closure of its first financing round led by Thuja Capital Healthcare Seed Fund with additional financing from the Brabant Spin-Off Fund and Point-One Innovation Fund.

20 Sep 2011

Autism Speaks and Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation select apps to help people with ASD

Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization, and the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism today announced technology applications ("apps") to be developed to benefit people with autism as part of the "Hacking Autism" initiative.

20 Sep 2011

Phytel launches new suite of automated care management solutions

Phytel today launched the next generation of automated care management solutions with its integrated Atmosphere™ platform, which enables providers to better manage quality and proactively improve chronic and preventive care across their populations. These scalable, Software-as-a-Service automation tools together comprise the first comprehensive, integrated population health management solution designed for providers.

19 Sep 2011

Intelligent t-shirt patient biomonitoring platform

Using this garment-based patient biomonitoring platform allows us to register a number of the patient's physiological parameters in a non-intrusive manner. "The information gathered by an intelligent t-shirt using e-textile technology is sent, without using wires, to an information management system, which then shows the patient's location and vital signs in real time", explain the UC3M researchers.

19 Sep 2011

SuccessEHS acquires MediaDent EDR and Dental Imaging solution

SuccessEHS has announced the acquisition of MediaDent, a Practice Management, Electronic Dental Record and Dental Imaging solution. MediaDent is the flagship product of Georgia-based MMD Systems Inc., which will operate as a new division of SuccessEHS.

19 Sep 2011

Christiana Care Health System named to 2011 InformationWeek 500

Information technology magazine InformationWeek has named Christiana Care Health System to its 2011 InformationWeek 500, calling the health system an innovative technology user and featuring one Christiana Care IT initiative in the annual issue's "20 Innovative IT Ideas To Steal" article.

17 Sep 2011

Radiology Associates of North Texas extends billing services contract with Zotec Partners

Zotec Partners, an industry leader in medical billing, practice management and Radiology Information Systems (RIS) software and services, announces today it has received a multi-year contract extension from Radiology Associates of North Texas, PA, formerly Radiology Associates of Tarrant County.

17 Sep 2011

Leica Microsystems bringing digital pathology excellence to the hematopathology workshop

Leica Microsystems, world-leading providers of Total Digital Pathology solutions, are a proud platinum sponsor of this year’s joint workshop of the Society for Hematopathology and the European Association for Haematopathology (SH/EAHP) being held at the Ritz-Carlton Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, USA, from October 27-29, 2011.

15 Sep 2011

Software News and Research

FDA clears Nucletron's new VCMC Applicator for gynecologic cancers

First clinical implementation of RayStation at MGH

H.I.M. ON CALL releases AVIANCE DNFB Management solution at AHIMA Convention and Exhibit

QHR announces 1,000,000 stock options to various directors and employees

Nightingale retains Questrade to provide market making services

PHAB selects Liaison International's eAccreditation System for health departments

Unibased integrates EHR, periOperative RMS and anesthesia IMS at Monongalia General Hospital

XECAN's RFID Oncology Solution integrated with ThingMagic Astra UHF Reader

HealthUnity announces availability of HIE and MPI version 5.5

Breast imaging reports generated with automatic speech recognition more likely to contain errors

Cambridge Heart enters agreement with EO Medical for MTWA technology

FDA clears Toshiba's advanced M-Power interface

Akeso Medical Imaging closes first financing round to develop imaging device for rheumatoid arthritis disease activity monitoring and control

Autism Speaks and Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation select apps to help people with ASD

Phytel launches new suite of automated care management solutions

Intelligent t-shirt patient biomonitoring platform

SuccessEHS acquires MediaDent EDR and Dental Imaging solution

Christiana Care Health System named to 2011 InformationWeek 500

Radiology Associates of North Texas extends billing services contract with Zotec Partners

Leica Microsystems bringing digital pathology excellence to the hematopathology workshop

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How ELRIG Is Helping Mid-Career Scientists Navigate Leadership, Career Change and Redundancy

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