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AbleNet to market Possum's ECU products in North America

AbleNet announces a new partnership with the British company Possum Limited, to market and sell their product line in Environmental Control Units (ECU) to the North American market. Possum Limited is an independent, privately owned British company, which develops, manufactures, supplies, installs and supports electronic assistive technology products and systems. AbleNet will begin marketing the Possum products in January 2010.

18 Jan 2010

Fluke announces enhancements to its bench digital multimeters

Fluke Corporation, a global leader in test and measurement technology, today announced enhancements to its bench digital multimeters. The Fluke 8808A 5.5 digit Digital Multimeter and the 8845A/8846A 6.5 digit Multimeters will now include a USB to RS232 Cable Adapter as well as FlukeView Forms Basic software. In addition, Fluke has increased the warranty period on these meters to three years.

18 Jan 2010

Metabolon awarded US Patent for ‘metabolomics methods’

Metabolon, Inc., the leader in global metabolism through biomarker discovery and analysis, today announced that it was awarded US Patent 7,635,556 “Methods for Drug Discovery, Disease Treatment and Diagnosis Using Metabolomics” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on December 22, 2009.

18 Jan 2010

MediSens Wireless to begin its wireless body-monitoring system clinical trials following FDA approval

MediSens Wireless, a startup company in UCLA's on-campus technology incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute, has obtained approval under federal Food and Drug Administration guidelines to begin clinical trials on its novel wireless body-monitoring system, which assesses muscle and neuromotor functions in the upper extremities.

18 Jan 2010

Studies show treatment success for chronic hepatitis C may be predicted by rapid virological response

The likelihood of treatment success of 48 wk peg-interferon (PEG-IFN) plus ribavirin (RBV) therapy for chronic hepatitis C may be predicted by viral kinetics on therapy. In particular, recent studies have shown that sustained virological response (SVR) can be predicted by a rapid virological response (RVR), and an early virological response (EVR).

17 Jan 2010

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute implements UltiPro to enhance IT operations

Ultimate Software, a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, announced today that Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), the largest independent, nonprofit organization in the U.S. focused solely on infectious disease research, is experiencing IT improvements since switching from an on-premise human resource management system (HRMS) to UltiPro delivered through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

13 Jan 2010

Zassi Medical Evolutions forms new company to develop electrical stimulation technology

Zassi Medical Evolutions, a privately held organization that innovates, designs and develops high technology medical devices and software announced today that it has successfully spun out and formed a new company with Tucson, Arizona based Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) to pursue the continued development of a novel electrical stimulation technology for the gastrointestinal continence control market.

13 Jan 2010

The Automation Partnership announces the US launch of Cell-IQ

The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development of innovative automation for life science applications, today announced the US launch of Cell-IQ® - a live cell observation and analysis system.

13 Jan 2010

GeckoSystems continue to better understand the benefit of personal care robots

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (http://www.geckosystems.com/) announced today that they continue to better understand the benefit of personal care robots, such as their CareBot™, to the family as their in home evaluation trials continue.

13 Jan 2010

GE Healthcare selects PTC’s PLM software to replace its legacy data management and MCAD software

PTC, The Product Development Company®, today announced that GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, has selected Windchill, PTC’s PLM software, and Pro/ENGINEER to replace its legacy data management and MCAD software.

13 Jan 2010

Send Word Now to provide emergency voice and text communication services to Unity Health System's hospitals

Send Word Now, the leading provider of emergency notification and on-demand alerting and response services, announced today that Unity Health System, a 681-bed health-care network based out of Rochester, New York, has selected Send Word Now to provide emergency voice and text communication services to its hospitals.

13 Jan 2010

Thames Valley Cancer Network implements ARIA system for Medical Oncology

A chemotherapy software solution that enables patients to become more involved in managing their own care has been successfully rolled out across a network of hospitals in the UK. The Thames Valley Cancer Network has implemented Aria for Medical Oncology™ from Varian Medical Systems and already has more than 850 clinical staff routinely using the system.

12 Jan 2010

CBIZ acquires National Benefit Alliance

CBIZ, Inc. today announced the acquisition of National Benefit Alliance ("NBA"), an employee benefits firm located in Midvale, Utah, effective January 1, 2010.

12 Jan 2010

Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust implements Picis software solutions

Picis today announced that Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, England has successfully implemented Picis integrated surgical, anesthesia, recovery room and critical care software solutions.

12 Jan 2010

FDA approves Celsius RMT ThermoCool catheter for use with Stereotaxis' magnetic navigation system

Stereotaxis announced that the Celsius® RMT ThermoCool® catheter has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use with Stereotaxis' magnetic navigation system for the treatment of Type 1 atrial flutter. The product is the fifth advanced ablation catheter resulting from the on-going co-development agreement between Stereotaxis and Biosense Webster to design and distribute magnetically enabled catheters for mapping and ablation.

12 Jan 2010

GeckoSystems' CEO issues 2009 year end open letter to stockholders

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (http://www.geckosystems.com/) announced today that a 2009 year's end letter from their CEO can be viewed at their website, or Pinksheets.com.

12 Jan 2010

U.S. physicians can receive interest-free loan from Ingenix to license and implement CareTracker EHR

Ingenix today introduced a package that includes interest-free financing, health information technology (HIT) services and performance guarantees to help physicians integrate HIT into their practices.

12 Jan 2010

SAC named alpha site for AQI's first national anesthesia data registry

Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants (SAC) has become an alpha site for the first national anesthesia data registry developed by the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI).

12 Jan 2010

Integration demonstration between EHR platforms and Nextrials’ Prism EDC technology

Nextrials, Inc., a leader in clinical research software and services, will participate in an integration demonstration between its PrismTM, an award-winning clinical trial electronic data capture technology, and electronic health records (EHR) platforms used within healthcare systems at the 11th Annual IHE North America Connectathon, being held January 11-15 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry’s largest interoperability testing event dedicated to establishing standards that address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care.

12 Jan 2010

NetApp, Stanford Genome Technology Center build gastric cancer registry powered by NetApp storage technology

Gastric cancer is the number two cancer killer worldwide and one of the top cancer killers in the U.S., but gastric cancer research gets the least federal funding of any type of cancer research. According to a CBS News analysis of data released by the American Cancer Society, for every cancer-related death in the U.S., only $1,168 federal research dollars are spent on gastric cancer, versus $18,870 for cancer of the cervix and $14,095 for breast cancer.

12 Jan 2010

Software News and Research

AbleNet to market Possum's ECU products in North America

Fluke announces enhancements to its bench digital multimeters

Metabolon awarded US Patent for ‘metabolomics methods’

MediSens Wireless to begin its wireless body-monitoring system clinical trials following FDA approval

Studies show treatment success for chronic hepatitis C may be predicted by rapid virological response

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute implements UltiPro to enhance IT operations

Zassi Medical Evolutions forms new company to develop electrical stimulation technology

The Automation Partnership announces the US launch of Cell-IQ

GeckoSystems continue to better understand the benefit of personal care robots

GE Healthcare selects PTC’s PLM software to replace its legacy data management and MCAD software

Send Word Now to provide emergency voice and text communication services to Unity Health System's hospitals

Thames Valley Cancer Network implements ARIA system for Medical Oncology

CBIZ acquires National Benefit Alliance

Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust implements Picis software solutions

FDA approves Celsius RMT ThermoCool catheter for use with Stereotaxis' magnetic navigation system

GeckoSystems' CEO issues 2009 year end open letter to stockholders

U.S. physicians can receive interest-free loan from Ingenix to license and implement CareTracker EHR

SAC named alpha site for AQI's first national anesthesia data registry

Integration demonstration between EHR platforms and Nextrials’ Prism EDC technology

NetApp, Stanford Genome Technology Center build gastric cancer registry powered by NetApp storage technology

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