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Expert addresses need to improve risk stratification of heart failure patients eligible for ICD or CRT-D

Responding to a recent study showing that 40% of patients who receive CRT-ICD therapy do not benefit from the device (Sipahi, et al – 6/13/11), Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD, stated that improving risk stratification of heart failure patients eligible for an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or cardiac resynchronization therapy with a defibrillator (CRT-D) is essential.

28 Jun 2011

454 Life Sciences launches new GS FLX+ System for high-throughput sequencing

454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, announced today the launch and immediate availability of the new GS FLX+ System, an instrument capable of generating extra-long sequencing reads up to 1,000 by in length.

28 Jun 2011

Drug labels sometimes lack key safety warnings: Consumer Reports Health

It's comparable to driving a car without a seatbelt—a new investigation from Consumer Reports Health finds that drug labels sometimes lack key safety warnings and some pharmacies fail to include the medication guides required by the federal government.

28 Jun 2011

Experian to acquire Medical Present Value

Experian, the leading global information services company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Medical Present Value, Inc., a leading provider of revenue cycle management software, data and analytics to more than 75,000 U.S. physicians.

28 Jun 2011

Data from microarrays co-developed by OGT to be presented at ECC 2011

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, has announced details of its upcoming workshop at the European Cytogenetics Conference 2011, held in Porto, Portugal (2–5 July).

From Oxford Gene Technology 28 Jun 2011

New software program can allow scientists to produce single brain images

A University of Colorado Boulder research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what can be a tedious, time-consuming research process.

28 Jun 2011

RL Solutions, 3M to offer new software for minimizing risk of healthcare-acquired infections

3M Infection Prevention and RL Solutions today announced a joint feasibility program to provide healthcare facilities data on the rate of infection in real-time and the costs associated with those infections.

28 Jun 2011

Gene Codes releases Sequencher 5.0

Gene Codes Corporation announces the release of Sequencher 5.0. It incorporates new DNA sequence data alignment algorithms with SNP and methylation analysis for next-generation DNA sequence data. Performance for assembly and alignment of sequences and contigs is hundreds of times faster.

28 Jun 2011

UC Health chooses Recondo software services to reduce costly insurance denials

UC Health, the University of Cincinnati Hospital system, has selected Recondo software services Auth-DP and EligibilityPlus.

28 Jun 2011

Passport Health Communications wins revenue cycle solution contract with SSM Health Care

Passport Health Communications Inc. has announced a contract to deliver revenue cycle software and services to 15 hospitals owned and operated by St. Louis-based SSM Health Care. SSM will use Passport's integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to improve the speed, accuracy and efficiency of financial operations within each facility and achieve Payment Certainty for Every Patient™.

27 Jun 2011

NovaSom completes $35M equity financing led by Safeguard Scientifics

NovaSom, Inc., the market leader in technology-driven, payer-aligned cost-saving solutions for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) management, today announced it has closed $35 million in equity financing.

27 Jun 2011

athenahealth announces new client and employee training center at Point Lookout facility

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health record (EHR), and patient communication services to medical groups, today announced that it has closed on the purchase of property in Northport, Maine for $7.7 million.

24 Jun 2011

Automated screening system helps identify cases of unexpected drug diversions

Electronic data from automated drug dispensing carts can help to identify drug diversion by anesthesia care providers, according to a report in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.

24 Jun 2011

Clinical trial management systems market to reach over $1.76B by 2017

It is expected that the clinical trial management systems (CTMS) market will achieve a value of $1.76 billion by 2017, according to a new report on companiesandmarkets.com.

24 Jun 2011

Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis have higher vascular density in mouth

A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has found that a hereditary colon cancer syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), is associated with abnormally dense blood vessel growth in the skin lining the mouth.

24 Jun 2011

New VAAST software tool can identify disease-causing mutations in rare genetic disorders

Harnessing the new generation of rapid, highly accurate gene-sequencing techniques, a research team has identified the disease-causing mutation in a newly characterized rare genetic disease, by analyzing DNA from just a few individuals.

24 Jun 2011

CBMi creates iPad app for exploring human genomic information

Navigating the human genome with software that you can view on an iPad® sounds pretty impressive, until perhaps you reflect that nature has already encoded trillions of copies of this in your chromosomes. Then again, printing that data using ink and paper would produce a mind-staggering pile of pages—so viewing it on an iPad® may be impressive after all.

24 Jun 2011

Positive results from Neurelis NRL-1 Phase I pharmacokinetic study on acute repetitive seizures

In a recent announcement by Neurelis, a proprietary intranasal formulation of diazepam achieved positive clinical results in a Phase I pharmacokinetic study.

23 Jun 2011

Loyola to launch innovative clinic for runners

Loyola University Health System is launching an innovative new Running Clinic that will help runners avoid injury, improve their stride and boost race times.

23 Jun 2011

Integromics announces winners of proteomics grant competition

Integromics, a leader in IT solutions for life sciences in the field of genomics and proteomics, today announces the two winners of the Integromics 'Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Research Grant' competition, for the creative use of Integromics' OmicsHub(R) proteomics solution. The winners are Prof. Stephen Pennington from University College Dublin and Dr. Michelle Cilia from the USDA-ARS (U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service).

22 Jun 2011

Software News and Research

Expert addresses need to improve risk stratification of heart failure patients eligible for ICD or CRT-D

454 Life Sciences launches new GS FLX+ System for high-throughput sequencing

Drug labels sometimes lack key safety warnings: Consumer Reports Health

Experian to acquire Medical Present Value

Data from microarrays co-developed by OGT to be presented at ECC 2011

New software program can allow scientists to produce single brain images

RL Solutions, 3M to offer new software for minimizing risk of healthcare-acquired infections

Gene Codes releases Sequencher 5.0

UC Health chooses Recondo software services to reduce costly insurance denials

Passport Health Communications wins revenue cycle solution contract with SSM Health Care

NovaSom completes $35M equity financing led by Safeguard Scientifics

athenahealth announces new client and employee training center at Point Lookout facility

Automated screening system helps identify cases of unexpected drug diversions

Clinical trial management systems market to reach over $1.76B by 2017

Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis have higher vascular density in mouth

New VAAST software tool can identify disease-causing mutations in rare genetic disorders

CBMi creates iPad app for exploring human genomic information

Positive results from Neurelis NRL-1 Phase I pharmacokinetic study on acute repetitive seizures

Loyola to launch innovative clinic for runners

Integromics announces winners of proteomics grant competition

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