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St. Elizabeth Regional Health selects TeleHealth Services as compliance partner in new facility

TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of health care grade televisions and interactive patient education solutions to hospitals, has been selected by St. Elizabeth Regional Health as a compliance partner in their new facility, St. Elizabeth East, located at 1701 S. Creasy Lane in Lafayette. St. Elizabeth East opened on February 25, 2010 and will benefit from TeleHealth's interactive educational solutions in an effort to increase patient satisfaction and create a patient-focused, technologically advanced facility.

19 May 2010

maxIT Healthcare, Ingenuity Solutions Group enter definitive agreement to merge

maxIT Healthcare, LLC and Ingenuity Solutions Group, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined as maxIT Healthcare. The combined company is now better positioned to extend its presence throughout the healthcare IT professional services market, particularly in the area of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system solutions.

19 May 2010

Essen BioScience launches CellPlayer Cell Migration 96-well assay kit

Essen BioScience Inc., a global provider of life science research tools and discovery services, today announced the launch of its CellPlayer™ Cell Migration 96-well assay kit for the IncuCyte™ Live-Cell Imaging System. The expanding line of kinetic CellPlayer assays for the IncuCyte also includes a co-culture assay for Angiogenesis.

From Sartorius 19 May 2010

Boston Scientific announces U.S., European launches of Sterling SL PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the U.S. and European launches of the Sterling® SL PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter, a high-performance balloon dilatation catheter designed for use in peripheral angioplasty procedures below the knee. The Company plans to launch the product immediately in both markets.

19 May 2010

ABBOTT PRISM Chagas test receives FDA approval

Abbott received Biologic License Application (BLA) approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ABBOTT PRISM Chagas test. The test is a fully automated blood screening assay that can detect antibodies to Trypansoma cruzi (T. cruzi), a parasite found only in the Americas and most commonly acquired through contact with the blood-sucking triatomine or "kissing bug."

19 May 2010

PrimeWire PRESTIGE Pressure Guide Wire receives 510(k) clearance, CE Mark approval

Volcano Corporation announced today it received both 510(k) clearance and CE Mark approval for its PrimeWire PRESTIGE Pressure Guide Wire for use with patients who have both single-vessel and multi-vessel disease. This next generation pressure wire is compatible with Volcano's full suite of integrated multi-modality consoles and stand-alone physiology systems as well as various hemodynamic monitoring systems.

19 May 2010

Plastic corneal prosthesis for patients unable to tolerate donor corneas

For many patients who become blind after an accident or illness, a corneal transplantation could restore the ability to see. Each year, 40,000 people in Europe - in Germany, about 7,000 - await the opportunity to be able to see again, thanks to cornea donors. But donor corneas are not common. Dr. Joachim Storsberg of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm developed material and production process for a corneal prosthesis made of plastic.

19 May 2010

Abiomed's Impella revenue for full fiscal year 2010 up 59% to $57.8 million

Abiomed, Inc., a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, today reported fourth quarter fiscal 2010 revenue of $23.0 million, up 17% compared to revenue of $19.6 million for the same period of fiscal 2009.

19 May 2010

Pantai to implement Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management solution

Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that Pantai Holdings Berhad (Pantai) has chosen to implement its InsightCS® Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management solution across a 10-hospital network located in Malaysia.

19 May 2010

Alere announces formation of Collaborative Care Solutions to support physicians, provider groups

With the goal of creating the industry standard for connecting patients and their physician-led care teams, Alere today announced the formation of a new strategic product line, Collaborative Care Solutions. The new product line will be focused on supporting physicians and provider groups wanting to expand their practices via patient-centered medical homes or accountable care organizations -- key care models designed to realize better outcomes and more cost-effective care.

19 May 2010

Promosome signs technology license and partnership agreement with Recopharma AB of Stockholm

Promosome LLC, a biotechnology company uniquely dedicated to the development of technologies related to the regulation of protein synthesis through translation initiation, today announced the signing of a technology license and partnership agreement with Recopharma AB of Stockholm, Sweden. Recopharma is a recognized leader in the research and development of therapeutic recombinant mucin-type fusion proteins.

19 May 2010

Parents interested in electronic methods for interacting with their children's physicians

Health care reform legislation includes promoting electronic health records to improve the efficiency and quality of medical care. Yet, little attention has been paid to understanding whether patients and parents have an interest in, or have access to, electronic methods for interacting with their children's physicians.

19 May 2010

eMedonline telemonitoring system developed to help patients transition from inpatient to outpatient setting

A clinical study is underway at Nyack Hospital to evaluate the use of cellphone-based technology to monitor medication adherence in discharged heart failure patients. The study is using the eMedonline telemonitoring system developed by Leap of Faith Technologies to help patients transition from the inpatient to outpatient setting.

19 May 2010

Gold Standard/Elsevier continues to publish transparent drug pricing information

Gold Standard/Elsevier, publisher of drug information databases and decision support solutions, has announced its commitment to continue publishing transparent drug pricing information, including average wholesale price and all other current and future pricing benchmarks. This announcement comes amidst statements by other drug database suppliers indicating they will discontinue publishing AWP in 2011.

19 May 2010

Study presents new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air

A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet presents a new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air for the first time. By examining people who had received emergency care for an amphetamine overdose, the researchers found that in all cases there were traces of amphetamine and metamphetamine in the exhaled breath.

19 May 2010

New book on history and future of medical technology

Some health care reform advocates complain that physicians rely too much on expensive technology. Published by Telescope Books, The History and Future of Medical Technology shows that today's medical technologies are worth every penny—saving lives, improving patients' quality of life, and helping doctors diagnose diseases during the earliest, most treatable stages.

19 May 2010

Tel Aviv University researcher develops tool to measure tissue damage in bed-ridden, paralyzed patients

There's currently no reliable tool to help prosthetic developers fit artificial limbs without ensuing discomfort or pain, or tell medical personnel when bed-ridden patients need to be moved to avoid bedsores and other problems.

19 May 2010

Neuro Kinetics releases new version of VEST control and analysis software

Neuro Kinetics, Inc., manufacturers of noninvasive medical diagnostic equipment used worldwide to test for neuro-otologic, vestibular and neurological dysfunctions, said today that it has released version 6.8 of its VEST control and analysis software.

19 May 2010

PET scanning provides great insight into immune response

A commonly used probe for Positron Emission Tomography scanning and a new probe developed by researchers at UCLA reveal different functions in diverse cells of the immune system, providing a non-invasive and much clearer picture of an immune response in action.

19 May 2010

CRE launches new Web-based Interactive Public Docket on FDA Tobacco Advisory Committee

The watchdog group Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE) today launched an initiative to bring sunlight and transparency to the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco advisory committee examining the potential regulatory efforts surrounding menthol cigarettes, dissolvable tobacco products and other issues. As to the broader issue of governance, the tobacco advisory committee is an operating arm of FDA, not an ad hoc committee of experts who render advice on select issues assigned by a regulatory agency and as such should be transparent and accountable to the public.

19 May 2010

Device / Technology News

St. Elizabeth Regional Health selects TeleHealth Services as compliance partner in new facility

maxIT Healthcare, Ingenuity Solutions Group enter definitive agreement to merge

Essen BioScience launches CellPlayer Cell Migration 96-well assay kit

Boston Scientific announces U.S., European launches of Sterling SL PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter

ABBOTT PRISM Chagas test receives FDA approval

PrimeWire PRESTIGE Pressure Guide Wire receives 510(k) clearance, CE Mark approval

Plastic corneal prosthesis for patients unable to tolerate donor corneas

Abiomed's Impella revenue for full fiscal year 2010 up 59% to $57.8 million

Pantai to implement Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management solution

Alere announces formation of Collaborative Care Solutions to support physicians, provider groups

Promosome signs technology license and partnership agreement with Recopharma AB of Stockholm

Parents interested in electronic methods for interacting with their children's physicians

eMedonline telemonitoring system developed to help patients transition from inpatient to outpatient setting

Gold Standard/Elsevier continues to publish transparent drug pricing information

Study presents new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air

New book on history and future of medical technology

Tel Aviv University researcher develops tool to measure tissue damage in bed-ridden, paralyzed patients

Neuro Kinetics releases new version of VEST control and analysis software

PET scanning provides great insight into immune response

CRE launches new Web-based Interactive Public Docket on FDA Tobacco Advisory Committee

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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