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Agilent's GeneSpring Bioinformatics Solution integrated with GeneGo's MetaCore

GeneGo, Inc., a leading provider of databases, software and services in systems biology and chemistry, and Agilent Technologies, Inc., the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications, announced today that they have integrated Agilent's GeneSpring Bioinformatics Solution with MetaCore.

22 Nov 2010

ContextVision launches GOPView CT image enhancement software on standard CPU platform

ContextVision, the software imaging partner for the most recognized medical imaging manufacturers worldwide, today announced GOPView® CT, the company's CT image enhancement software, on a standard CPU platform. This standalone cost-effective CPU-based solution enables OEMs to leverage advanced imaging technology for low dose CT imaging.

22 Nov 2010

New study links high prevalence of insomnia and poor quality of life in software engineers

Insomnia is bad news for software engineers' quality of life and deserves greater recognition and attention, according to new research by Sara Sarrafi Zadeh and Khyrunnisa Begum from the University of Mysore in India. Their work shows that poor sleep has a bearing on quality of life - affecting physical and mental health in particular - in this group with high levels of job-related stress. Their paper is published online in Springer's journal Applied Research in Quality of Life.

22 Nov 2010

2011 RAC Summit prepares physicians for new audit landscape

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama this past March greatly expands the audit operations for Medicare and Medicaid programs. At the hub of these efforts are the Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), which are fully operational for the Medicare program, and will expand to include services reimbursed by state Medicaid programs in April of 2011.

22 Nov 2010

National Marrow Donor Program adopts IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management software

IBM announced today that the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP) has adopted IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management (BPM) software to help automate its donor and patient management process. Both processes are critical to facilitate the matching of donors to patients needing cellular transplants.

20 Nov 2010

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals software suite achieves Complete EHR certification

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals®, the industry's most comprehensive software suite used by clinicians, patients and healthcare executives to promote high quality, safe care, has received Complete EHR certification — deeming the software capable of enabling providers to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

20 Nov 2010

NJBIZ selects AHM as fifth fastest growing company

Advanced Health Media, LLC, the leading U.S. provider of meeting logistics, speaker programs and commercial compliance management software for the life sciences industry, announced it has been named the fifth fastest growing company in the state by NJBIZ, New Jersey's leading statewide business newspaper.

20 Nov 2010

HealthPort enters agreement with CompuGroup to sell Solution Services Division

Today, HealthPort, a leading health information technology provider announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its Solution Services Division based out of Columbia, SC to CompuGroup Medical AG.

20 Nov 2010

SuccessEHS Mobile EHR for iPhone helps secure access to critical data

SuccessEHS, a Birmingham-based company specializing in electronic health record (EHR / EMR) and physician practice management software systems, is pleased to announce the launch of Mobile EHR for the iPhone.

20 Nov 2010

Volpara breast imaging software receives FDA clearance

Offering radiologists a reliable and cost-effective tool to generate automatic volumetric breast density values, Volpara, Ltd., announced today that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for its Volpara breast imaging software. Volpara, a subsidiary of Matakina Technology, Limited of New Zealand, is responsible for commercial operations in the United States.

19 Nov 2010

Nightingale second quarter revenue increases to $4.2 million

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services announces its financial results for the three- and six-month periods ended September 30, 2010.

18 Nov 2010

CDS implements eRAD's ASP hosted teleradiology software solution

eRAD, a division of RadNet, Inc., an industry leader in Web-based RIS, PACS and Teleradiology solutions, announced teleradiology service provider Century Digitec Services, Inc. (CDS) has gone live on eRAD's ASP Hosted Teleradiology Software Platform.

18 Nov 2010

OptiMedica's Catalys Precision Laser System improves precision in cataract surgery

Global ophthalmic device company OptiMedica Corp. has announced that results from a clinical study of its Catalys Precision Laser System were published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine.

18 Nov 2010

MEDRAD to offer RSNA attendees hands-on demonstration on P3T PA software

MEDRAD will offer RSNA attendees hands-on demonstrations of personalized-protocol software that individualizes CT Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA) contrast dosing, and has proven to increase the percentage of diagnostic-quality studies to rule out Pulmonary Embolism (PE) when compared to the institution's standard protocol potentially obviating the need to rescan the patient.

18 Nov 2010

State-of-the-art imaging system helps locate and count myriad connections between brain nerve cells

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, applying a state-of-the-art imaging system to brain-tissue samples from mice, have been able to quickly and accurately locate and count the myriad connections between nerve cells in unprecedented detail, as well as to capture and catalog those connections' surprising variety.

18 Nov 2010

New theoretical model could develop novel clinical decision making in cancer research

Schonfeld, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor of electrical and computer engineering, is studying gene expression and interactions in ways that are analogous to the workings of electrical or computer networks. He is project director and principal investigator of a four-year, $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant.

18 Nov 2010

Rheonix receives U.S patent for microfluidic device

Rheonix, Inc., developer of the Rheonix CARD system to provide multiplexed endpoint analysis for a wide breadth of diagnostic applications, announced that on November 16, 2010 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent Number 7,832,429 "Microfluidic Pump and Valve Structures and Fabrication Method" to the Company.

18 Nov 2010

Siemens launches MAMMOMAT Inspiration Full-Field Digital Mammography System in the U.S.

Siemens announces that the MAMMOMAT® Inspiration Full-Field Digital Mammography System is now commercially available in the United States. The MAMMOMAT Inspiration offers digital screening and diagnostic mammography, stereotactic biopsy, and upgrade capability to future technologies all in one system.

17 Nov 2010

New method to improve coordinating care in children with chronic conditions

Children with chronic health conditions such as cystic fibrosis, type 1 diabetes, sickle cell diseases and cerebral palsy represent less than two percent of the population but can consume more than 50 percent of resources at children's hospitals throughout the country. Coordinating care for these children has historically been difficult because hospitals have varying methods to identify them in their systems.

17 Nov 2010

Agilent introduces OpenLAB chromatography data system

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced Agilent OpenLAB CDS, the next-generation chromatography data system (CDS) of Agilent's market-leading ChemStation and EZChrom Elite CDS platforms. OpenLAB CDS is designed on the modern and fully scalable OpenLAB Shared Services architecture. This provides major feature improvements to current ChemStation and EZChrom Elite platforms.

17 Nov 2010

Software News and Research

Agilent's GeneSpring Bioinformatics Solution integrated with GeneGo's MetaCore

ContextVision launches GOPView CT image enhancement software on standard CPU platform

New study links high prevalence of insomnia and poor quality of life in software engineers

2011 RAC Summit prepares physicians for new audit landscape

National Marrow Donor Program adopts IBM's WebSphere Lombardi Business Process Management software

McKesson's Horizon Clinicals software suite achieves Complete EHR certification

NJBIZ selects AHM as fifth fastest growing company

HealthPort enters agreement with CompuGroup to sell Solution Services Division

SuccessEHS Mobile EHR for iPhone helps secure access to critical data

Volpara breast imaging software receives FDA clearance

Nightingale second quarter revenue increases to $4.2 million

CDS implements eRAD's ASP hosted teleradiology software solution

OptiMedica's Catalys Precision Laser System improves precision in cataract surgery

MEDRAD to offer RSNA attendees hands-on demonstration on P3T PA software

State-of-the-art imaging system helps locate and count myriad connections between brain nerve cells

New theoretical model could develop novel clinical decision making in cancer research

Rheonix receives U.S patent for microfluidic device

Siemens launches MAMMOMAT Inspiration Full-Field Digital Mammography System in the U.S.

New method to improve coordinating care in children with chronic conditions

Agilent introduces OpenLAB chromatography data system

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