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GE Healthcare IT announces Meaningful Use-ready software release for Centricity Enterprise

GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions, announced the availability of its Meaningful Use (MU)-ready software release for Centricity Enterprise - the integrated cross-continuum clinical, financial and administrative software solution for hospitals.

21 Jul 2010

iCAD launches new advanced MRI product suite

iCAD, Inc., an industry-leading provider of advanced image analysis and workflow solutions for the early detection of cancer, today announced the launch of an MRI product suite for breast, prostate, and other organs. The product suite, which is a comprehensive quantitative image analysis solution, brings together the company's current products SpectraLook® and VividLook® with the new OmniLook™ and VersaVue™ Enterprise, to offer a comprehensive quantitative image analysis suite.

21 Jul 2010

TCG releases Will-Call Rx system for accurate prescription pick up, inventory management

TCGRx announces the release of Will-Call Rx, a computerized system for hanging and retrieving will call prescriptions. Will-Call Rx uses energy efficient LED lights to identify prescription locations and barcode scanning ensures prescription verification, accurate prescription pick up and inventory management.

20 Jul 2010

MedeAnalytics 10 software platform released

MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, today announced its summer 2010 software platform release, MedeAnalytics 10, which offers performance-packed features for proactive alerting and outlier analysis. The release incorporates client input and reflects the company's ongoing investment in its analytic platform. New releases are provided to clients on a semi-annual basis and typically require no upgrades or installations.

20 Jul 2010

SHFL to upgrade to latest version of NetSol's LeaseSoft asset management solution

NetSol Technologies, Inc., a U.S. corporation providing global business services and enterprise application solutions to private and public sector organizations worldwide, today announced that the Company has signed a LeaseSoft license upgrade agreement with Singers Healthcare Finance Limited, one of the UK's leading providers of leasing solutions to the healthcare industry.

20 Jul 2010

UnitedHealth Group second-quarter consolidated revenues increase 7% to $23.3 billion

UnitedHealth Group today reported second quarter results, including better-than-projected growth in Health Benefits and Health Services. Key performance metrics and costs were in line with or better than Company expectations.

20 Jul 2010

ASTRO accepts 4 abstracts on Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for NSCLC

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has accepted four abstracts from users of Elekta Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) technology on the use of SBRT to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The clinicians will present their findings during presentations at ASTRO's 52nd Annual Meeting (October 31 - November 4) at the San Diego Convention Center.

From Elekta 20 Jul 2010

Cardiac Science issues update on AED recall announced in November 2009

Cardiac Science Corporation has issued an update to customers affected by a recall first announced by the Company on November 13, 2009.

20 Jul 2010

Cardiac Science addresses outstanding issues relating to corrective AED field action with FDA

Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated external defibrillator and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, announced it has addressed outstanding issues with the Food and Drug Administration relating to the corrective AED field action announced on November 13, 2009.

20 Jul 2010

Researchers monitor stress during a real-time war to refine PTSD therapy

Psychologists aren't usually called to the battlefield, but the 2008-09 Gaza War gave Tel Aviv University researchers a unique picture of how anxiety manifests during stressful situations.

20 Jul 2010

Applying a supermarket strategy to patient-specific marketing

Some hospitals are using a "customer management system" to "market to patients and physicians the same way supermarkets do -- by sending information they think a customer needs or wants based on their history," American Medical News reports. "The use of CRM software by the health industry is aided by the increasing automation of data ranging from physician referrals to electronic medical records.

19 Jul 2010

Pharma industry leaders reduce R&D time, costs with aspenONE Process Development software

Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical industry leaders are reducing their research and development time and costs using newly patented technology that is part of AspenTech's aspenONE Process Development for Pharmaceuticals software.

19 Jul 2010

Bay Area Hospital implements Unibased ForSite2020 periOperative Resource Management System

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. today announced Bay Area Hospital (BAH) in Coos Bay, Oregon successfully implemented the Unibased ForSite2020® periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS). BAH contracted with Unibased for the complete ForSite2020 surgery management system suite in December 2009 with the goal of achieving total perioperative automation and moving forward with their hospital-wide electronic health record (EHR) initiative.

19 Jul 2010

IBA Dosimetry to showcase Blue Phantom[2] radiation therapy commissioning solution with LDA-99SC at AAPM

IBA Dosimetry, member of IBA Group, will showcase its latest innovation in radiation therapy commissioning solutions, the Blue Phantom[2] water phantom equipped with advanced Linear Diode Array technology (LDA-99SC), at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, July 18 - 22, 2010.

19 Jul 2010

Erie County Medical Center to implement Allscripts EHR

Allscripts announced today that Erie County Medical Center Corporation, a 550-bed academic medical center in Buffalo, has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) for 100 of its physicians to enhance the quality of patient care, improve physician and patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery in 24 outpatient clinics.

19 Jul 2010

Visage Imaging releases Amira 5.3 single platform brain imaging tool

Visage Imaging®, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd., is pleased to announce the immediate release of Amira 5.3, a new major version of its market-leading software platform for visualizing, analyzing, and presenting complex 3D and 4D biomedical data.

19 Jul 2010

Low-dose method of performing CT heart scans developed at Porter Adventist Hospital

As warnings and concern increase over the health risks of commonly used scanning tests involving high doses of radiation, radiologists and scientists are seeking ways to improve the safety of the tools they use in diagnosing disease.

17 Jul 2010

Simulations Plus third-quarter consolidated revenues increase 14.9% to record $3.1 million

Simulations Plus, Inc., a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today reported financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2010 ended May 31, 2010 (3QFY10).

17 Jul 2010

An overview of AAPM annual meeting

AAPM is the premier organization in medical physics, a broadly-based scientific and professional discipline encompassing physics principles and applications in medicine and biology. Its membership includes medical physicists who specialize in research that develops cutting-edge technologies and board-certified clinical medical physicists who apply these technologies in community hospitals, clinics, and academic medical centers.

16 Jul 2010

Philadelphia to host 52nd annual meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Next week the city of Philadelphia will host the 52nd annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the premier organization in medical physics, a broadly-based scientific and professional discipline encompassing physics principles and applications in medicine and biology.

16 Jul 2010

Software News and Research

GE Healthcare IT announces Meaningful Use-ready software release for Centricity Enterprise

iCAD launches new advanced MRI product suite

TCG releases Will-Call Rx system for accurate prescription pick up, inventory management

MedeAnalytics 10 software platform released

SHFL to upgrade to latest version of NetSol's LeaseSoft asset management solution

UnitedHealth Group second-quarter consolidated revenues increase 7% to $23.3 billion

ASTRO accepts 4 abstracts on Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for NSCLC

Cardiac Science issues update on AED recall announced in November 2009

Cardiac Science addresses outstanding issues relating to corrective AED field action with FDA

Researchers monitor stress during a real-time war to refine PTSD therapy

Applying a supermarket strategy to patient-specific marketing

Pharma industry leaders reduce R&D time, costs with aspenONE Process Development software

Bay Area Hospital implements Unibased ForSite2020 periOperative Resource Management System

IBA Dosimetry to showcase Blue Phantom[2] radiation therapy commissioning solution with LDA-99SC at AAPM

Erie County Medical Center to implement Allscripts EHR

Visage Imaging releases Amira 5.3 single platform brain imaging tool

Low-dose method of performing CT heart scans developed at Porter Adventist Hospital

Simulations Plus third-quarter consolidated revenues increase 14.9% to record $3.1 million

An overview of AAPM annual meeting

Philadelphia to host 52nd annual meeting of American Association of Physicists in Medicine

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