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iMDsoft to install MetaVision clinical information system across Queensland's network of public hospitals

iMDsoft® announced today that the Government of Queensland has signed an agreement to install MetaVision® in selected ICUs across the state's network of public hospitals. MetaVision will be installed in 14 hospitals and will be implemented in a diverse range of ICU settings including pediatric, neurology and cardiac units. The university-affiliated Gold Coast Hospital will be the first to implement MetaVision under this agreement.

6 Oct 2010

New software helps visually-impaired people to access computers

For many blind people, computers are inaccessible. It can cost upwards of AUD$1000 to purchase "screen reader" software, but two blind computer programmers from Australia have solved this problem.

6 Oct 2010

Mercy Medical Center and Alegent Health implement PatientKeeper NoteWriter documentation software

PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading provider of physician information technology, today announced that its new physician documentation software product, PatientKeeper NoteWriter™, has successfully been deployed for physician use at two premier community medical centers in the Midwest.

6 Oct 2010

Telehealth care benefits patients with severe asthma

Health care delivered via telephone or Internet might not improve the quality of life for people with mild asthma, but it could keep those with severe asthma out of the hospital, a new evidence review finds.

6 Oct 2010

Elsevier launches new version of BrainNavigator online research tool

Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced a new version of its online research tool BrainNavigator.

6 Oct 2010

New Wipro Rapid Trials platform launched to accelerate drug development

Wipro Technologies, the global Consulting, System Integration and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited, today announced the launch of Wipro Rapid Trials platform to accelerate drug development across the globe.

6 Oct 2010

Nonin Medical announces name change of capnography manufacturing center

Nonin Medical, Inc. today announced that its Hudiksvall-based capnography manufacturing center, formerly MedAir AB, has changed its name to Nonin Medical AB and expanded its operations to better serve Nonin Medical's European customers and distributors.

6 Oct 2010

DATATRAK receives consulting contract to provide clinical data management

DATATRAK International, Inc., a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced the award of a consulting contract with an existing global research-based biopharmaceutical client to provide clinical data management and trial design services.

5 Oct 2010

CLC bio publishes article for simulating de novo assemblies

In the inaugural edition of the Open Access Journal "Genes", scientists from CLC bio along with Michael M. Miyamoto from the University of Florida published an article with corresponding free software for simulating de novo assemblies.

5 Oct 2010

HighPoint Solutions launches ICD-10 Appliance for healthcare systems

HighPoint Solutions announced today the launch of its ICD-10 Appliance, a master data solution that helps hospitals, healthcare systems, and payers with ICD-10 compliance. The ICD-10 Appliance employs master data management principles and tools to create a central business management layer with ICD-9/ICD-10 mappings, translations, and business rules that can be utilized by all applications.

5 Oct 2010

Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel honored with Barlett & Steele Awards

Reuters received the gold award and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the silver award in the fourth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced today.

5 Oct 2010

GOPiCE real-time volumetric imaging incorporated in Medison's ultrasound units

ContextVision, the software imaging partner for the most recognized medical imaging manufacturers worldwide, today announced that Medison, a world-class manufacturer of advanced ultrasound technology, will incorporate ContextVision's volumetric image enhancement tool, GOPiCE® US, into its ultrasound units during the second half of 2010. GOPiCE, the first real-time volumetric filtering software for ultrasound, offers clinicians the ability to see areas never seen before, including anatomies comprised of deep tissue and behind bone.

5 Oct 2010

Mayo Clinic implements Medidata Rave technology to manage multi-site clinical research studies

Mayo Clinic is making it easier for industry sponsors and investigators at sites across the country to collaborate with Mayo on complex and groundbreaking research studies and clinical trials.

5 Oct 2010

Gentel Biosciences, RayBiotech to develop antibody array products with APiX chromogenic detection platform

Gentel Biosciences, a leader in proteomics profiling tools and RayBiotech, Inc., a pioneer and leader in protein and antibody array technologies, jointly announce today their partnership to develop and market RayBiotech's vast collection of antibody array products covering a wide variety of cytokines and other proteins for use with Gentel's APiX chromogenic detection platform.

5 Oct 2010

Delta Health introduces ClinicalVirtuoso solution to optimize homecare therapist

In response to the growing homecare and therapy markets, and the importance of "aging-in-place" as an alternative solution to institutionalized care, Delta Health Technologies, LLC today announced the introduction of ClinicalVirtuoso the first clinical solution developed to optimize the homecare therapist.

5 Oct 2010

Brothers lead charge for electronic medical records push, but find barriers

The New York Times reports on the Doerr brothers, one a venture capitalist and the other a physicianr and software designer, who are leading the charge to push doctors to use electronic medical records. "It seems straightforward. Just combine technology skills with investment money, and then develop innovative products. But to date, the push for a digital revolution in doctors' offices has brought mostly frustration for the many companies big and small that are trying to conquer the field.

4 Oct 2010

GlobalNet Services awarded $14M contract to support FDA Unified Registration and Listing System

GlobalNet Services, Inc., a premier information technology provider for businesses and the Federal government, today announced that it had been awarded a $14 million contract to support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Unified Registration and Listing System (FURLS). This five-year contract, which includes one base year and four option years, supports federal initiatives that require all facilities, which manufacture, process or hold FDA-regulated products to be registered with the Agency.

4 Oct 2010

NextGen Ambulatory EHR version 5.6 SP1 achieves ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today that NextGen® Ambulatory EHR version 5.6 SP1 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR on September 30, 2010 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

4 Oct 2010

UofL School of Nursing awarded $792,000 grant to develop nursing informatics education

The University of Louisville School of Nursing has earned a $792,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration to develop nursing informatics education for UofL's undergraduate and graduate nursing students as well as practicing nurses from University of Louisville Hospital.

4 Oct 2010

Researchers identify ways to predict embryonic developmental success

Two-thirds of all human embryos fail to develop successfully. Now, in a new study, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that they can predict with 93 percent certainty which fertilized eggs will make it to a critical developmental milestone and which will stall and die. The findings are important to the understanding of the fundamentals of human development at the earliest stages, which have largely remained a mystery despite the attention given to human embryonic stem cell research.

4 Oct 2010

Software News and Research

iMDsoft to install MetaVision clinical information system across Queensland's network of public hospitals

New software helps visually-impaired people to access computers

Mercy Medical Center and Alegent Health implement PatientKeeper NoteWriter documentation software

Telehealth care benefits patients with severe asthma

Elsevier launches new version of BrainNavigator online research tool

New Wipro Rapid Trials platform launched to accelerate drug development

Nonin Medical announces name change of capnography manufacturing center

DATATRAK receives consulting contract to provide clinical data management

CLC bio publishes article for simulating de novo assemblies

HighPoint Solutions launches ICD-10 Appliance for healthcare systems

Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel honored with Barlett & Steele Awards

GOPiCE real-time volumetric imaging incorporated in Medison's ultrasound units

Mayo Clinic implements Medidata Rave technology to manage multi-site clinical research studies

Gentel Biosciences, RayBiotech to develop antibody array products with APiX chromogenic detection platform

Delta Health introduces ClinicalVirtuoso solution to optimize homecare therapist

Brothers lead charge for electronic medical records push, but find barriers

GlobalNet Services awarded $14M contract to support FDA Unified Registration and Listing System

NextGen Ambulatory EHR version 5.6 SP1 achieves ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification

UofL School of Nursing awarded $792,000 grant to develop nursing informatics education

Researchers identify ways to predict embryonic developmental success

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