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Netherlands shows the way in healthcare accountability

As national healthcare reform initiatives grab headlines throughout the U.S., Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is quietly demonstrating how physicians, nurses, and administrators can be held accountable to national performance standards.

3 Sep 2009

Jedi Mind to develop medical applications for patients in wheelchairs

Jedi Mind, Inc. (Pink Sheets: JEDM) (http://www.jedimindinc.com) announced today that their Medical Division is now working on a number of medical applications for patients in wheelchairs.

3 Sep 2009

Implanet to use IBM's sensor technology for its new implant device tracking service

Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices, has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) sensor technology as the foundation for BeepN'Track, a new service that traces the movement of Implanet's products - including knee and hip implants - across its supply chain to hospitals.

3 Sep 2009

Tucson Orthopaedic Institute chooses CoreTrace's BOUNCER endpoint system protection solution

CoreTrace, the pioneer of client-based application whitelisting technology, today announced that Tucson Orthopaedic Institute, one of the largest orthopaedic groups in the United States, has selected CoreTrace's award-winning BOUNCER solution for endpoint protection of its systems located throughout the Institute's eight centers.

3 Sep 2009

Accuracy of the LENA Autism Screen increased

LENA Foundation has increased the accuracy of the LENA Autism Screen (LAS) to 91 percent for children 24 to 48 months. LAS - the first automatic and totally objective autism screen - is now as accurate or more accurate than other autism screens currently available to parents and clinicians.

3 Sep 2009

Ektron reports growth as more consumers select Ektron CMS400.NET

Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, reports a steady growth in customers in the Healthcare industry. Ektron attributes this growth to its Healthcare Practice, a team dedicated to working with healthcare providers in the development of their Web strategy using Ektron CMS400.NET.

2 Sep 2009

VisionShare joins select group of EHNAC HNAP-accredited organizations

Health IT connectivity leader VisionShare® Inc. announces it has achieved full accreditation with the Healthcare Network Accreditation Program (HNAP) from the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC). EHNAC’s HNAP accreditation recognizes excellence in health data processing and transactions and indicates compliance with industry-established standards and HIPAA regulations.

2 Sep 2009

Visioneer document scanner streamlines patient care delivery systems

There is constant pressure in the healthcare industry to streamline patient care delivery systems that will function effectively under the real world constraints faced by public and private hospitals. Whether it is an admissions process, patient records or a doctor’s office environment, Visioneer scanners make short and easy work out of converting paper into digital documents.

2 Sep 2009

New computer software capable of sifting through hundreds of cancer causing genetic mutations

Johns Hopkins engineers have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the DNA changes that are most likely to promote cancer.

1 Sep 2009

H1N1 flu vaccine forms processing service launched by Quality Associates

Quality Associates, Inc. (QAI) www.qualityassociatesinc.com, an established provider of services and solutions for large-scale document management, imaging, and archiving, announced the launch of its H1N1 Flu Vaccine Forms Processing Service, a comprehensive approach to help states, cities, counties, and providers in the private sector successfully and accurately capture and record essential demographic and health data from medical consent forms – a critical step in the administration of the H1N1 vaccine to millions nationwide beginning this fall.

1 Sep 2009

CompAnalyst helps healthcare providers gain insight into competitive salary data

Salary.com, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand compensation, payroll and talent management solutions, is providing several healthcare providers with on-demand market pricing software to help them gain insight into competitive salary data.

1 Sep 2009

Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to help healthcare HR for effective talent management

Salary.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLRY), a leading provider of on-demand compensation, payroll and talent management solutions, announced today that it has added the Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to its growing Job Model and Competency Library of more than 1,200 job models and 1,300 functional competencies, which provide data and structure for typical jobs at all levels of an organization. The framework will enable healthcare HR professionals to create job roles easily, deliver job models quickly, and power their talent management systems.

1 Sep 2009

Touchstone Health Partnership appoints Bryan D. Birch as President and Chief Executive Officer

Touchstone Health Partnership, a managed care company primarily operating in the Medicare Advantage Program, today announced the appointment of Bryan D. Birch as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Birch brings over 20 years of experience in the health services and managed care sector.

1 Sep 2009

MyMedicalRecords Pro EMR system launched by MMR Information Systems

MMR Information Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (the "Company"), which through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR"), provides consumer-controlled Personal Health Records ("PHRs") (www.mymedicalrecords.com) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions (www.myesafedepositbox.com), announced that it has launched its MyMedicalRecords Pro ("MMRPro") product which is designed to help doctors take the first steps towards an EMR system by digitizing medical records and making them available to patients through a patient portal that incorporates the MyMedicalRecords.com Personal Health Record.

1 Sep 2009

GenoCAD project receives financial support from NSF

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year $1,421,725 grant to Jean Peccoud, associate professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, to develop GenoCAD - a web-based Computer Assisted Design environment for synthetic biology.

1 Sep 2009

Tel Aviv University researcher devises mathematical formula for protecting the genetic privacy

Last year, after a published paper found serious security holes in the way DNA data is made publicly available, health institutes in the United States and across the world removed all genetic data from public access.

1 Sep 2009

MD Buyline introduces integrated capital planning and budgeting program

MD Buyline introduces Buyline BUDGET, an integrated capital planning and budgeting program for researching, selecting, budgeting, and purchasing capital equipment.

31 Aug 2009

New Hospital Operating System solution from StatCom launched

StatCom, a developer of innovative healthcare software, announced today availability of its Hospital Operating System™ solution, a comprehensive patient throughput solution.

31 Aug 2009

Illumina delivers its first individual genome sequence to Dr. Hermann Hauser

Illumina, Inc. today announced that it has delivered Hermann Hauser’s genome sequence. Dr. Hauser, Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, is the first consumer to purchase Illumina’s individual genome sequencing service working with his physician, Michael Nova, MD, of Pathway Genomics.

From Illumina, Inc. 31 Aug 2009

Four additional patents filed by Lifeline Biotechnologies for its First Warning System methods and technology

Lifeline Biotechnologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:LLBO) today announced that it has filed four additional patents on its First Warning System™ methods and technology.

31 Aug 2009

Software News and Research

Netherlands shows the way in healthcare accountability

Jedi Mind to develop medical applications for patients in wheelchairs

Implanet to use IBM's sensor technology for its new implant device tracking service

Tucson Orthopaedic Institute chooses CoreTrace's BOUNCER endpoint system protection solution

Accuracy of the LENA Autism Screen increased

Ektron reports growth as more consumers select Ektron CMS400.NET

VisionShare joins select group of EHNAC HNAP-accredited organizations

Visioneer document scanner streamlines patient care delivery systems

New computer software capable of sifting through hundreds of cancer causing genetic mutations

H1N1 flu vaccine forms processing service launched by Quality Associates

CompAnalyst helps healthcare providers gain insight into competitive salary data

Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to help healthcare HR for effective talent management

Touchstone Health Partnership appoints Bryan D. Birch as President and Chief Executive Officer

MyMedicalRecords Pro EMR system launched by MMR Information Systems

GenoCAD project receives financial support from NSF

Tel Aviv University researcher devises mathematical formula for protecting the genetic privacy

MD Buyline introduces integrated capital planning and budgeting program

New Hospital Operating System solution from StatCom launched

Illumina delivers its first individual genome sequence to Dr. Hermann Hauser

Four additional patents filed by Lifeline Biotechnologies for its First Warning System methods and technology

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