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Ricoh awarded document management contract by Premier

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced a contract win with one of the nation's top healthcare purchasing networks, Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P. of the Premier healthcare alliance. The document management contract covers a vast range of management needs including document creation, storage and distribution among the healthcare industry nationwide.

18 Oct 2010

Air Techniques' STS-6 Dual Stage Dry Vacuum System named The Dental Advisor's 'Editor's Choice'

Air Techniques, Inc., a leading dental equipment manufacturer, announced today that its STS-6 Dual Stage Dry Vacuum System was named an "Editor's Choice" by The Dental Advisor. The highly regarded science-based publication gave the STS-6 system the maximum possible overall rating of 5 stars as well as a 98% clinical rating.

18 Oct 2010

Retroflexion in right colon increases yield of polyps in proximal colon

Research exploring the progression of colon polyps to colorectal cancer and evaluating techniques to improve polyp detection was among the clinical science presented at the 75th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in San Antonio today.

18 Oct 2010

Cmed debuts Timaeus 5 unified eClinical platform and Timaeus HotSpot regulatory-compliant eClinical suite

Cmed Technology, an eClinical technology provider, today unveiled two product previews at two major pharmaceutical conferences. It debuted Timaeus 5, Cmed's newest version of its unified eClinical platform to manage data from Study Design through Reporting. Timaeus 5 adds enhanced usability, extended operational capabilities, streamlined investigator and monitor interaction, and expanded reporting capabilities.

18 Oct 2010

Lake Health opens Northeast Ohio's first digital hospital

Lake Health made history last October when it opened TriPoint Medical Center, Northeast Ohio's first digital hospital. Now the health system is the first in the United States to deploy the latest generation of a digital wayfinding system featuring a virtual guide -- or avatar -- that helps patients and visitors navigate to their destinations quickly and easily.

18 Oct 2010

PharmaTrust to launch third generation MedCentre remote dispensing system

PharmaTrust is launching the next generation of the MedCentre remote dispensing system with world-class features that redefine and take remote dispensing services to the next level. The MedCentre is a modular, scalable solution designed to meet both patients' need for convenience and counseling and healthcare professionals' responsibility to deliver the highest level of care.

18 Oct 2010

Liquent and eSA enter strategic partnership

Liquent, Inc. today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with eSA, Inc., a leading solutions provider for regulatory information management and regulatory services within Asia. Through an exclusive agreement, eSA will now have the commercial and technical support responsibilities for Liquent's strategic offerings, Liquent InSight and Liquent SmartDesk.

18 Oct 2010

Nanotope enters agreement with Smith & Nephew to develop cartilage regeneration product

Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that its portfolio company, Nanotope, Inc., has entered into an agreement with Smith & Nephew, Inc., a member of the Smith & Nephew plc group to develop a cartilage regeneration product for human healthcare markets using a subset of its proprietary regenerative medicine technology.

18 Oct 2010

OrSense's NBM 200MP non-invasive Hb measurement system more accurate than invasive POC devices

OrSense Ltd., developer of monitors for non-invasive measurements of various blood parameters, presented in an oral presentation at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual meeting in San Diego, results showing that hemoglobin (Hb) measurements obtained by its NBM 200MP, a non-invasive Hb measurement system, showed accurate performance during hemorrhage conditions compared with invasive point of care (POC) devices.

18 Oct 2010

New Trident IWR platform launched at SCDM 2010 Conference

BioClinica, Inc., a leading global provider of clinical trial management services, today announced the launch of its new IVR/IWR (interactive voice response/interactive web response) platform, Trident IWR, at the 2010 Society for Clinical Data Management Annual Conference (SCDM).

From Clario 18 Oct 2010

Integra launches CRW Precision Arc Stereotactic System for neurosurgery

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation announced today the launch of the CRW Precision™ Arc Stereotactic System, a multi-purpose stereotactic system used for localizing intra-cranial targets and precisely directing instruments to the target in cases such as brain biopsy, tumor resection, and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgeries.

18 Oct 2010

ESHRE study shows advantages of CGH technique in IVF procedure

Two women taking part in the world's first controlled study of a comprehensive genetic screening test before IVF have given birth to healthy babies. The babies, twin girls born in Germany in June and a singleton boy born in Italy in September, are the first deliveries in a pilot study of comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) by microarray, a new method of screening oocytes for IVF for a full range of chromosomal disorders.

18 Oct 2010

UCSF professor receives National Medal of Science

UCSF Nobel laureate Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, UCSF professor of neurology and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, today (Oct. 15, 2010) was named to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for science and technology.

18 Oct 2010

Abreu btt 700 System for continuous temperature monitoring launched at ASA Annual Meeting

Conquering the last frontier for monitoring vital signs, Brain Tunnelgenix Technologies Corp. is introducing the Abreu btt™ 700 System for continuous temperature monitoring at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today. The Abreu btt 700 System sensor is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for placement on the skin and to be used during surgical procedures, recovery room, intensive care and general patient monitoring.

18 Oct 2010

ACR Image Metrix hosted Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development event

ACR Image Metrix, a global imaging contract research organization (CRO) with expertise in imaging trial design, techniques and data extraction, hosted the Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development Methods, Technical Issues and Case Studies event, which took place at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, in Cambridge Massachusetts, on September 16, 2010.

18 Oct 2010

Electronic medical records aid reporting of drug problems, study finds

The Wall Street Journal reports that a recent small study finds that reporting of prescription side effects increases when doctors use computerized patient records. "The study, at Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women's hospitals in Boston and sponsored by Pfizer Inc., showed a large increase in reporting of adverse events to the Food and Drug Administration once doctors used an automated tool.

18 Oct 2010

AAO-MEACO Meeting highlights data on glaucoma risk in people with migraine, innovative uses of digital technology

Data on glaucoma risk in people with migraine and on innovative uses of mobile, digital technology are featured in today's Scientific Program, to be presented at the 2010 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) - Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO) Joint Meeting.

18 Oct 2010

Shrink reveals image of StemDisc450 biomedical research tool

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the alternative energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, revealed an image of its first product offering the StemDisc450, a high-yield, low cost, patent-pending cell culturing biomedical research tool.

18 Oct 2010

Neogenix to present NPC-1C antibody data at ASCO Annual Meeting

Neogenix Oncology, Inc. announced today that it will present data from its new serum biomarker ELISA utilizing its NPC-1C antibody for patients with colorectal and pancreatic cancers. Results from the study will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)-NCI-EORTC Annual Meeting on Molecular Makers in Cancer, to be held in Hollywood, Florida from October 18-20, 2010.

18 Oct 2010

Series of pan-endoscopies show unparalleled ability to navigate intestinal tract

Spirus Medical, Inc. a leading developer of diagnostic and therapeutic advancement systems for gastroenterology announces a series of pan-endoscopies in an average time of 60 minutes, using a flexible endoscope with an integral drive to power a single use spiral component. The initial clinical series, which was conducted outside the U.S., showed unparalleled ability to navigate the intestinal tract.

18 Oct 2010

Device / Technology News

Ricoh awarded document management contract by Premier

Air Techniques' STS-6 Dual Stage Dry Vacuum System named The Dental Advisor's 'Editor's Choice'

Retroflexion in right colon increases yield of polyps in proximal colon

Cmed debuts Timaeus 5 unified eClinical platform and Timaeus HotSpot regulatory-compliant eClinical suite

Lake Health opens Northeast Ohio's first digital hospital

PharmaTrust to launch third generation MedCentre remote dispensing system

Liquent and eSA enter strategic partnership

Nanotope enters agreement with Smith & Nephew to develop cartilage regeneration product

OrSense's NBM 200MP non-invasive Hb measurement system more accurate than invasive POC devices

New Trident IWR platform launched at SCDM 2010 Conference

Integra launches CRW Precision Arc Stereotactic System for neurosurgery

ESHRE study shows advantages of CGH technique in IVF procedure

UCSF professor receives National Medal of Science

Abreu btt 700 System for continuous temperature monitoring launched at ASA Annual Meeting

ACR Image Metrix hosted Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development event

Electronic medical records aid reporting of drug problems, study finds

AAO-MEACO Meeting highlights data on glaucoma risk in people with migraine, innovative uses of digital technology

Shrink reveals image of StemDisc450 biomedical research tool

Neogenix to present NPC-1C antibody data at ASCO Annual Meeting

Series of pan-endoscopies show unparalleled ability to navigate intestinal tract

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