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Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

Hartford Hospital, one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals, is collaborating with NextGate in a Health Information Exchange (HIE) implementation and a separate work-flow integration project. With an aim to improve patient care, both initiatives rely on NextGate's MatchMetrix indexing solution to uniquely identify a patient across multiple encounters and locations within the Hartford healthcare system and beyond.

28 Feb 2010

BancTec to highlight professional services for medical industry at HIMSS10

BancTec Inc., a global provider of advanced, high-volume, document and payment processing solutions and services, will highlight its professional services for the medical industry at HIMSS®10, the annual conference for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), which is being held March 1-4, 2010 in Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center. Specifically, BancTec will focus on its business process outsourcing (BPO) practice, financial and risk management services, and other healthcare-related solutions, including EOB processing and revenue cycle management.

27 Feb 2010

ADMET tester Absorption Systems joins Society of Toxicology as Affiliate

Absorption Systems, a leader in testing drugs for ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion and Toxicity), has joined the Society of Toxicology, the premier global professional association of toxicologists, as an SOT Affiliate. The firm, a contract research organization, has more than a decade of experience assisting pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in determining which compounds in development should be advanced into clinical testing.

27 Feb 2010

TripleTree and WLSA extend I Award nomination deadline

Due to the high levels of interest in the I Award program, TripleTree and the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) announced today that the application deadline has been extended to March 8th. This prestigious award recognizes innovation, insight, and initiative within wireless-life sciences and mobile health industry sectors. Applications will be accepted now through March 8, 2010.

27 Feb 2010

Cotton thread as core material in 'lab-on-chip' devices to detect kidney failure and diabetes

A discovery by Monash University scientists could see humble cotton thread emerge as a core material in low-cost 'lab-on-chip' devices capable of detecting diseases such as kidney failure and diabetes.

27 Feb 2010

Electronic prescribing decreases prescription errors

Should doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven times less likely to make errors than those writing their prescriptions by hand. The study appears today in the online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

27 Feb 2010

Aetna.com: Most visited health insurance website

The recently redesigned Aetna.com is a hit with web surfers, who made it the most visited website among health insurers in the fourth quarter of 2009. In fact, 20 percent of Americans who visited a health insurance website during the quarter visited an Aetna site, according to “The Online Health Insurance Landscape,” an independent online audience measurement of health insurance websites recently released by comScore.

27 Feb 2010

Greenway Medical Technologies donates leading edge Health IT solutions to NKU

Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is providing its integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®; clinical trials and research analytics solution PrimeResearch™; and revenue cycle management solution PrimeRCM® to Northern Kentucky University.

27 Feb 2010

Ensure radiation therapy from certified technologists with ongoing qualifications

Every day in the United States, tens of thousands of patients are exposed to ionizing radiation through radiation therapy, CT scans, x rays, mammograms, and other medical imaging and therapeutic procedures. Patients need to have confidence that the technologists caring for them have the credentials and qualifications to safely administer radiation, and that the equipment they are using is properly calibrated and maintained to deliver radiation safely and within the proper dose parameters.

27 Feb 2010

Researchers develop noninvasive infrared scanning system to diagnose melanomas

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a noninvasive infrared scanning system to help doctors determine whether pigmented skin growths are benign moles or melanoma, a lethal form of cancer.

27 Feb 2010

CPR instructions through cell phone: Potential critical, life-saving tool

People who received detailed audio instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) demonstrated better compression rate, hand placement and compression depth than those who did not receive recorded instructions by cell phone. The results of the study are published today online in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Cell Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Audio Instructions When Needed by Lay Rescuers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial").

27 Feb 2010

MSKIC accomplishes Obama's challenge by leveraging technology to health information sharing

Musculoskeletal Imaging Consultants announces release of “Inside Business with Fred Thompson” documentary. MSKIC accomplishes Obama challenge of “more for less” by leveraging technology and bypassing obstructions to health information sharing.

27 Feb 2010

3M and PCTS to globally market innovative automated hand hygiene compliance solution

3M and Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc., today announced that they have signed an agreement to bring a state-of-the-art automated hand hygiene compliance solution to healthcare customers globally.

27 Feb 2010

"Smart Hip": Non-evasive method to regenerate bone tissue

To monitor the real-time performance of bone implants is the challenge of "Smart Hip", an innovative medical device that aims to reduce the number of surgical interventions in the hip area and regenerate bone tissue by using non-evasive methods. The concept's validation - unique in the world and developed by a PHD from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto -, has already been successfully tested on animals.

27 Feb 2010

COBRA administration: THA endorses COBRAGuard to offer solutions

COBRAGuard Inc. has been endorsed by the Texas Hospital Association (THA) to offer Texas hospitals an affordable and efficient COBRA administration solution. The endorsement gives Texas hospitals access to COBRAGuard's proprietary pricing, products and services designed to streamline COBRA processes, improve compliance and minimize the risk of costly litigation.

27 Feb 2010

dbMotion chosen to create interoperable electronic patient record for Northwest Hospital & Medical Center

dbMotion, a provider of health interoperability solutions, has been chosen by Northwest Hospital & Medical Center in Seattle, Washington to create a single interoperable electronic patient record across numerous information technology environments for both in-hospital and ambulatory care providers.

27 Feb 2010

OTN to demonstrate combined solutions: Polycom's PC-based CMA with its telemedicine tools

As one of the world's largest and most active telemedicine networks, the Ontario Telemedicine Network will faciliate more than 100,000 clinical encounters and distance education opportunities for more than 300,000 people across nearly one thousand sites this year. Secure, reliable and responsive, OTN enables improved access to a variety of clinical programs and services for patients and educational opportunities for health care providers.

27 Feb 2010

Phadia AB plans to provide access for specialists to peanut allergen components

Today, at the 2010 Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Phadia, the world leader in in vitro allergy diagnostics, announced plans to provide access for specialists to peanut allergen components. These plans support Phadia’s goal to expand collaboration with allergy and immunology specialists in order to advance the understanding of the clinical utility of allergen component test results.

27 Feb 2010

RES Software to demonstrate RES PowerFuse desktop transformation solution at HIMSS 2010

RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, will feature a series of product demonstrations and interactive presentations with a special emphasis on its desktop transformation solution, RES PowerFuse, during the 2010 HIMSS conference in Atlanta, GA, March 1-4.

27 Feb 2010

Acculis' new device for destroying unwanted tissues receives European CE Mark clearance

Acculis Limited today announced the regulatory clearance of its revolutionary new device for destroying unwanted tissues, such as liver tumours. The clearance under the European CE Mark system allows the company to begin deliveries for treating patients throughout Europe and elsewhere where the CE Mark system is recognised. The device is a single high power high frequency 2.45GHz microwave needle that burns a 5cm sphere of tissue in just 5 minutes which is between 3 to 10 times faster than old school radiofrequency based systems or lower frequency 915MHz microwave systems.

27 Feb 2010

Device / Technology News

Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

BancTec to highlight professional services for medical industry at HIMSS10

ADMET tester Absorption Systems joins Society of Toxicology as Affiliate

TripleTree and WLSA extend I Award nomination deadline

Cotton thread as core material in 'lab-on-chip' devices to detect kidney failure and diabetes

Electronic prescribing decreases prescription errors

Aetna.com: Most visited health insurance website

Greenway Medical Technologies donates leading edge Health IT solutions to NKU

Ensure radiation therapy from certified technologists with ongoing qualifications

Researchers develop noninvasive infrared scanning system to diagnose melanomas

CPR instructions through cell phone: Potential critical, life-saving tool

MSKIC accomplishes Obama's challenge by leveraging technology to health information sharing

3M and PCTS to globally market innovative automated hand hygiene compliance solution

"Smart Hip": Non-evasive method to regenerate bone tissue

COBRA administration: THA endorses COBRAGuard to offer solutions

dbMotion chosen to create interoperable electronic patient record for Northwest Hospital & Medical Center

OTN to demonstrate combined solutions: Polycom's PC-based CMA with its telemedicine tools

Phadia AB plans to provide access for specialists to peanut allergen components

RES Software to demonstrate RES PowerFuse desktop transformation solution at HIMSS 2010

Acculis' new device for destroying unwanted tissues receives European CE Mark clearance

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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