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Healthagen announces international agreement with Asklepios

Healthagen - U.S. developer of the iTriage consumer healthcare platform, today announced an international agreement with Asklepios - the largest privately-held hospital system operating in Germany. Asklepios and Healthagen partnered to private label Healthagen's content, and decision support software, introducing Meine Klinik - a German language consumer-based medical technology.

24 Apr 2010

New hopes to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment for children

Motivated clinicians and an Internet connection combined with computers and e-mail access have the power to transform pediatric cancer treatment in the most remote corners of earth, according to a St. Jude investigator writing in a recent issue of The Lancet Oncology.

24 Apr 2010

IBM, athenahealth sign business process services agreement

IBM today announced that it has signed a business process services agreement with athenahealth, Inc. a leading provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices. The engagement will enable athenahealth to focus its resources on simplifying and improving administrative and reimbursement processes while reducing staff workload, allowing physicians to focus on delivering higher quality care to their patients.

24 Apr 2010

Continuous flow mechanical circulatory support devices improve outcomes in patients awaiting heart transplants

New data show improved outcomes, better survival rates and lower costs with the use of continuous flow mechanical circulatory support devices in patients awaiting heart transplants. Research will be presented this week during symposia at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 30th Annual Meeting and Scientific Session at the Hilton Chicago.

24 Apr 2010

SuperSonic Imagine reports results of largest worldwide multicenter clinical breast study in ultrasound imaging

SuperSonic Imagine, the innovative medical imaging company based in Aix-en-Provence, France has unveiled some of the results of the largest clinical breast study ever undertaken in ultrasound imaging. The worldwide multicenter study, involving top clinicians in the breast radiology community, is assessing the clinical benefits of ShearWave™ Elastography in the ultrasonic evaluation of breast lesions.

24 Apr 2010

OrthoAccel Technologies' AcceleDent System receives award for excellence in design

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. announced this week that it received a Bronze Award at the 23rd Annual Excellence in Design competition. The AcceleDent System, which is an acceleration device to enhance orthodontics, was recognized by Appliance Design magazine in the Medical, Laboratory, & Test Equipment category.

24 Apr 2010

Moffitt Cancer Center reports increasing interest in ERCC1 Analysis test for selecting chemotherapy for NSCLC

Moffitt Cancer Center announces steadily growing interest in the ERCC1 Analysis, the first test developed for selecting chemotherapy for Non Small Lung Cancer patients. Each year, more than 200,000 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer.

24 Apr 2010

Cardiola's m.pulse MCP based system improves cardiac function in stable CHF patients

Cardiola AG announced today that the Company's CE-Marked m.pulse® Muscular CounterPulsation ("MCP")-based system demonstrated "an immediate improvement of cardiac output with non-invasive means" in a patient population of advanced yet stable chronic heart failure. The effects could be shown in 22 patients over three consecutive days.

24 Apr 2010

Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria

A new evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic tests will help health workers quickly identify which patients have the disease and need immediate treatment, putting into action recent World Health Organization recommendations to confirm diagnosis of malaria before treatment.

24 Apr 2010

Health IT policy group calls for patient safety oversight program

Modern Healthcare: The federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee is calling for the development of a national program that would monitor patient safety problems in health care IT systems. "The first among the work group's recommendations was a proposal to create 'a national transparent oversight process and information system,' similar to a patient-safety organization, that could receive reports from various sources about patient-safety issues linked to the use of healthcare IT systems."

24 Apr 2010

OSI Systems: Spacelabs Healthcare expands patient monitoring portfolio with Spacelabs Ultraview 2900

OSI Systems, Inc., a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications, announced that its Healthcare Division, Spacelabs Healthcare, has expanded its patient monitoring portfolio with the introduction of the Spacelabs Ultraview 2900.

24 Apr 2010

NDSsi's ZeroWire Duo wireless Full HD video solution receives FDA clearance

NDS Surgical Imaging today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for ZeroWire Duo, a Class II medical-grade wireless Full HD video solution for minimally-invasive surgery, GI and interventional suites.

24 Apr 2010

Misonix signs exclusive distribution agreement with Suministros Medicos Multimedicas

Misonix, Inc., a developer of minimally invasive ultrasonic medical device technology, which in Europe is used for the ablation of tumors and worldwide for other acute health conditions, has entered into a new, three year, exclusive distribution agreement with Suministros Medicos Multimedicas, based in Caracas, Venezuela, for the distribution of the SonaStar Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator, the BoneScalpel Ultrasonic Bone Cutter, and the SonicOne Ultrasonic Wound Debrider.

24 Apr 2010

Karolinska University Hospital acquires Elekta's fifth generation radiosurgery system

Prof. Lars Leksell (1907-1986), inventor of the radiosurgical instrument that bears his name and a faculty member of Karolinska University Hospital (Solna, Sweden), performed the world's first Gamma Knife surgery at nearby Sophiahemmet Hospital, the location of the first Leksell Gamma Knife. Karolinska University Hospital recently acquired Elekta's fifth generation radiosurgery system, Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion.

24 Apr 2010

Today's Opinions: Government power grab on health; A doctor's interface with computers; A focus on wellness

Following the passage of Democratic health-care reform legislation, President Obama assured the country that it was a 'middle-of-the-road, centrist approach' instead of an intrusive, government power grab. But the government seems incapable of resisting the nannying impulse that undermines this claim (Michael Gerson, 4/23).

24 Apr 2010

JET Health Solutions introduces JET InsureFuse V3.0 for healthcare agents, underwriters and insurers

JET Health Solutions, the healthcare product and solutions division of AAJ Technologies, is premiering JET InsureFuse V3.0, an automated medical underwriting process system at LOMA's Health Underwriters Study Group Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

24 Apr 2010

New initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps, which are devices that deliver fluids, including nutrients and medications, into a patient's body in a controlled manner.

24 Apr 2010

Baptist Hospital East adopts CardiacAssist's TandemHeart System

CardiacAssist Inc. announced today that Baptist Hospital East has adopted the company's TandemHeart System.

23 Apr 2010

IQPC announces 13th Annual Software Design for Medical Devices conference at San Diego

IQPC announces the 13th Annual Software Design for Medical Devices conference taking place May 24th-26th at the The Westgate Hotel, San Diego, California.

From IQPC Ltd 23 Apr 2010

Coronary CTA can be alternative, non-invasive diagnostic imaging test to triage CAD patients: Study

Non-invasive coronary computed tomography angiography is a cost-effective alternative to invasive cardiac catheterization in the care of patients who have positive stress test results but a less than 50 percent chance of actually having significant coronary artery disease, according to a study in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

23 Apr 2010

Device / Technology News

Healthagen announces international agreement with Asklepios

New hopes to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment for children

IBM, athenahealth sign business process services agreement

Continuous flow mechanical circulatory support devices improve outcomes in patients awaiting heart transplants

SuperSonic Imagine reports results of largest worldwide multicenter clinical breast study in ultrasound imaging

OrthoAccel Technologies' AcceleDent System receives award for excellence in design

Moffitt Cancer Center reports increasing interest in ERCC1 Analysis test for selecting chemotherapy for NSCLC

Cardiola's m.pulse MCP based system improves cardiac function in stable CHF patients

Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria

Health IT policy group calls for patient safety oversight program

OSI Systems: Spacelabs Healthcare expands patient monitoring portfolio with Spacelabs Ultraview 2900

NDSsi's ZeroWire Duo wireless Full HD video solution receives FDA clearance

Misonix signs exclusive distribution agreement with Suministros Medicos Multimedicas

Karolinska University Hospital acquires Elekta's fifth generation radiosurgery system

Today's Opinions: Government power grab on health; A doctor's interface with computers; A focus on wellness

JET Health Solutions introduces JET InsureFuse V3.0 for healthcare agents, underwriters and insurers

New initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps

Baptist Hospital East adopts CardiacAssist's TandemHeart System

IQPC announces 13th Annual Software Design for Medical Devices conference at San Diego

Coronary CTA can be alternative, non-invasive diagnostic imaging test to triage CAD patients: Study

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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