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Veeva announces seamless integration of CRM solution with Mederi

Veeva Systems, the global leader in cloud CRM solutions for the life sciences industry announces the ability to integrate with Mederi, a leading provider of network intelligence and insights for the healthcare industry. The seamless integration between Veeva CRM and Mederi allows pharmaceutical companies to manage their customer relationships and to analyse professional networks within one application, ensuring a much more coordinated and effective interaction with key stakeholders.

20 Dec 2010

Health-care coverage program for kids ends in Ariz.; Florida Medicaid patient information may be at risk

A new audit criticizes the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and a contractor for failing to properly control access to computer systems that include sensitive information about Medicaid beneficiaries (Saunders, 12/17).

20 Dec 2010

Tryton initiates enrollment in Side Branch Stent System trial for coronary artery disease

Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the pivotal trial to evaluate the Tryton Side Branch Stent System™ for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

20 Dec 2010

OSI Systems receives $1.2M UK hospital order for patient monitoring systems

OSI Systems, Inc., a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its Healthcare division, Spacelabs Healthcare, has received an order for approximately $1.2 million from a prominent hospital in the United Kingdom for an enterprise wide replacement program of their patient monitoring systems, which includes all departments across the care process from the ER to the ICU.

20 Dec 2010

Criterions EHR earns ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification

Criterions EHR has received the federal government's "meaningful use" stamp of approval by earning Complete EHR Ambulatory certification. The designation officially deems the electronic health record (EHR) software capable of enabling providers to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

20 Dec 2010

HistoRx grants Metamark worldwide license to AQUA technology for commercialization of Prognostic Assays

Metamark Genetics, Inc., a privately held oncology-focused molecular diagnostics company, and HistoRx, Inc., a diagnostics company developing tissue-based diagnostic solutions to advance individualized patient care, today announced a multi-year licensing agreement. HistoRx has granted Metamark a worldwide license to the AQUA technology for the clinical commercialization of Metamark's proprietary MetamarkDx™ Prognostic Assays.

20 Dec 2010

Mind Technologies to sell Emotiv EEG headset

Mind Technologies, Inc., announced today that the Company will begin selling the Emotiv EEG headset in addition to the thought-controlled software applications the Company develops.

20 Dec 2010

Opsens unveils EasyWire for growth market of Fractional Flow Reserve for coronary lesion assessment

Opsens Inc. today unveiled the EasyWire, developed by its medical division for the growth market of Fractional Flow Reserve for coronary lesion assessment.

20 Dec 2010

Spartan RX CYP2C19 DNA testing system receives European CE Mark certification

Spartan Bioscience Inc., a privately held molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets DNA testing systems for on-demand applications, today announced its Spartan RX CYP2C19 received a CE IVD Mark under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The CE Mark certification allows commercial distribution in Europe as well as in all countries recognizing the CE Mark in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific regions.

20 Dec 2010

Itamar Medical, Roche enter development agreement for EndoPAT device

Itamar Medical, the leader in non-invasive vascular health diagnostics, announced today that an agreement has been signed with Roche by which Itamar will develop an EndoPAT device designated for use with animal models, enabling pre-clinical studies examining the efficacy of various compounds in the early stage of drug development essential for later stage development in humans.

20 Dec 2010

Exosomes derived from lymphoma, colorectal cancer patients circulated through Aethlon's Hemopurifier

Aethlon Medical, Inc., the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease and cancer, announced today that it has demonstrated the ability to capture immunosuppressive exosomes derived from individuals with lymphoma and colorectal cancer.

20 Dec 2010

U.K. decision to close operations at Forensic Science Service could contribute to Orchid Cellmark's growth

Orchid Cellmark Inc., a leading international provider of identity DNA testing services, said today the decision by the United Kingdom government to wind-down operations at the Forensic Science Service (FSS) could contribute to Orchid Cellmark's ongoing growth.

20 Dec 2010

Response Biomedical strengthens patent protection for RAMP technology

Response Biomedical Corporation today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued an official Notice of Allowance on one of the Company's patent applications regarding the RAMP® technology. The patent entitled "Comparative Multiple Analyte Immunoassay" is expected to issue in the first quarter of 2011.

20 Dec 2010

NAFC forms council to establish independent quality standards for incontinence products

The National Association For Continence (NAFC) is heading a newly formed council with the objective of establishing national, independent quality standards for disposable adult absorbent products provided by states to Medicaid waiver recipients cared for in their private homes rather than as residents of a state-funded nursing home.

20 Dec 2010

Phadia to market diagnostic products in India

Import, sales and distribution of Phadia's allergy, asthma and autoimmunity diagnostics products, including ImmunoCAP and EliA, have been commercially approved by the Indian authorities.

20 Dec 2010

CNA Warranty, MVP to provide cost-effective equipment maintenance coverage for hospitals

CNA recently announced an expansion of its current offerings to include equipment maintenance coverage. Through a collaboration between CNA Warranty and Maintenance Value Plan, this program will provide an alternative solution for the maintenance of complex medical/healthcare equipment - commonly used within hospitals and allied healthcare facilities.

20 Dec 2010

MDI adds McKesson's CareEnhance Disease Monitor software to Viewpoint Analytics solutions portfolio

MDI announced today that it has added McKesson's CareEnhance® Disease Monitor software to the Viewpoint Analytics solutions portfolio. Integrating one of the industry's leading disease management products increases the breadth of solutions available from Viewpoint Analytics.

20 Dec 2010

$FDA approves Medtronic's Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system for drug refractory PAF$

FDA approves Medtronic's Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system for drug refractory PAF

Medtronic, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its Arctic Front® Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system, the first and only Cryoballoon in the United States indicated for the treatment of drug refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). The Cryoballoon treatment involves a minimally-invasive procedure that efficiently creates circumferential lesions around the pulmonary vein, which is the source of erratic electrical signals that cause the irregular heartbeat.

20 Dec 2010

Nanosphere's Verisens cTnI assay measures low levels of troponin I in patients with heart failure

A clinical study released online by the European Journal of Heart Failure, a publication of the European Society of Cardiology, demonstrates the value of using Nanosphere's Verisens cTnI assay to detect very low levels of troponin I in hospitalized patients with heart failure.

20 Dec 2010

Arthrosurface conducts first knee procedure based on HemiCAP platform technology

Arthrosurface, Inc., the developer of less-invasive joint resurfacing systems, announced that it has performed its first biological knee procedure based on the company's proven HemiCAP® platform technology.

19 Dec 2010

Device / Technology News

Veeva announces seamless integration of CRM solution with Mederi

Health-care coverage program for kids ends in Ariz.; Florida Medicaid patient information may be at risk

Tryton initiates enrollment in Side Branch Stent System trial for coronary artery disease

OSI Systems receives $1.2M UK hospital order for patient monitoring systems

Criterions EHR earns ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification

HistoRx grants Metamark worldwide license to AQUA technology for commercialization of Prognostic Assays

Mind Technologies to sell Emotiv EEG headset

Opsens unveils EasyWire for growth market of Fractional Flow Reserve for coronary lesion assessment

Spartan RX CYP2C19 DNA testing system receives European CE Mark certification

Itamar Medical, Roche enter development agreement for EndoPAT device

Exosomes derived from lymphoma, colorectal cancer patients circulated through Aethlon's Hemopurifier

U.K. decision to close operations at Forensic Science Service could contribute to Orchid Cellmark's growth

Response Biomedical strengthens patent protection for RAMP technology

NAFC forms council to establish independent quality standards for incontinence products

Phadia to market diagnostic products in India

CNA Warranty, MVP to provide cost-effective equipment maintenance coverage for hospitals

MDI adds McKesson's CareEnhance Disease Monitor software to Viewpoint Analytics solutions portfolio

FDA approves Medtronic's Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system for drug refractory PAF

Nanosphere's Verisens cTnI assay measures low levels of troponin I in patients with heart failure

Arthrosurface conducts first knee procedure based on HemiCAP platform technology

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