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Merge Healthcare, MGH sign agreement to build testing environment for new mobile healthcare applications

Based on their respective expertise in imaging IT and clinical workflow, Merge Healthcare and Massachusetts General Hospital have signed a partnership agreement to build a testing environment for new mobile healthcare applications.

3 Mar 2010

Greenway Medical Technologies to demonstrate data transfer solution from its EHR into Microsoft HealthVault

Greenway Medical Technologies, provider of the fully-integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®, is demonstrating a seamless data transfer solution from its flagship EHR into Microsoft HealthVault, an online personal health management platform.

3 Mar 2010

Accenture: 58% of U.S. physicians intend to purchase EMR system within next two years

Fifty-eight percent of U.S. physicians who don’t use electronic medical records (EMRs) intend to purchase an EMR system within the next two years, according to a new report from Accenture.

3 Mar 2010

SIS to offer AORN SYNTEGRITY SPF within perioperative management solutions suite

Helping to streamline electronic documentation processes for perioperative care, CSC and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced today that Surgical Information Systems (SIS), the perioperative IT specialist, will offer the AORN SYNTEGRITYTM Standardized Perioperative Framework (SPF) within its nationally recognized suite of perioperative management solutions.

3 Mar 2010

Diabetics at risk: Nova Scotia limits pharmacare coverage of blood glucose test strips

The Nova Scotia government's decision to limit Pharmacare coverage of blood glucose test strips for some diabetes patients places a significant financial and health burden on these Nova Scotians and violates the fundamental principle that patients and their healthcare professionals should be able to determine how to manage treatment.

3 Mar 2010

Blocks to successful implementation of electronic medical records in physician practices introduced

How will the typical American physician practice be transformed years after federal stimulus funds for health information technology are spent? The potential scope of change that electronic health information exchange can bring to modern medical practice is the focus of a presentation that John Blair III, MD, president of Taconic IPA, will bring at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition March 2 in Atlanta.

3 Mar 2010

Inovio Biomedical introduces new CELLECTRA-SP series of hand-held, cordless electroporation devices

Inovio Biomedical Corporation, a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, has unveiled its new CELLECTRA®-SP series of hand-held, cordless electroporation devices at the DNA Vaccines 2010 conference being held in New Orleans, LA.

3 Mar 2010

ASPEX to display game-changing PSEM eXpress analyzer at Pittcon 2010

ASPEX Corporation has been advancing the novel Personal Scanning Electron Microscope (PSEM) platform since its first product generation was released in 1992. Since then, it has been "shifting" where SEMs are traditionally installed, "shifting" when SEMs are utilized in industrial processes, and fundamentally "shifting" how SEMs are identified. Come experience the shift at Pittcon 2010, in Orlando, FL from March 1-4.

3 Mar 2010

Stanford University Medical Center buys ASTI's Ecotones Duet Adaptive Sleep Sound Machines

Adaptive Sound Technologies, Inc. (ASTI) announced today that the Stanford University Medical Center has purchased Ecotones Duet Adaptive Sleep Sound Machines. "It is well known that noise in hospitals affects patient comfort and recovery, as well as staff performance. ASTI's adaptive technology can help with these problems," stated Sam Nicolino, President and CEO of ASTI.

3 Mar 2010

Acuo Technologies granted patent covering technology implemented in DSG software suite

Acuo Technologies, the market leading Vendor Neutral Archive supplier, was granted US patent number 7,640,171 by the USPTO which covers technology implemented in its DICOM Services Grid™ software suite.

3 Mar 2010

Royal Philips Electronics, Microsoft collaborate to improve Philips Healthcare's efficiency and productivity

Royal Philips Electronics today announced collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to build on Philips Healthcare's foundation of healthcare informatics and advanced clinical decision support offerings that drive efficiency and effectiveness at the point of care.

From Philips Healthcare 3 Mar 2010

SCLL signs agreement to provide research and assay services in support of Agennix's talactoferrin program

Stem Cell Innovations announced today that the Company has signed a Master Services Agreement to provide research and assay services in support of Agennix's talactoferrin program. The assay utilizes SCLL's C3A human liver cell line.

3 Mar 2010

Physician experts to help provide perspective on many options for colorectal cancer screening

Recent reports of President Obama's CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, as a screening test for colorectal cancer and coverage by the Associated Press of an NIH State-of-the-Science conference heralding stool blood tests as an inexpensive alternative to colonoscopy may leave many consumers wondering which colorectal cancer test is best for them.

3 Mar 2010

UHSM uses Aruba Networks’ VBN solution to increase quality of antenatal services

Aruba Networks, Inc., a global leader in 802.11n wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced that the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom is using Aruba’s Virtual Branch Networking (VBN) solution to increase the quality of antenatal services delivered to the local community.

3 Mar 2010

Robotic surgery does not compromise clinical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery

Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the sensation of touch, even as they operate from a remote console. A new study describes the phenomenon, called intersensory integration, and reports that surgical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery using minimally invasive robotic technology compare favorably with traditional invasive surgery.

3 Mar 2010

Harvard Professor urges medical community to use ultrasound for diagnosing acute female pelvic conditions

In a bold, eye-opening editorial in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Harvard Professor, Beryl Benacerraf, MD, urges the medical community to use ultrasound instead of Computed Tomography (CT) as the first-line imaging test for better diagnosis capability in the evaluation of acute female pelvic and lower abdominal conditions.

3 Mar 2010

Solos Endoscopy signs agreement with ER for CE Mark Technical File development consulting services

Solos Endoscopy, Inc. is pleased to announce the Company has signed an agreement with Expert Resource (ER) to provide consulting services in support of the Company's CE Mark Technical File development. Before Solos can place the CE Marking on their medical devices and legally sell within the European Union (EU) and Canada, the Company must prepare a Technical File with evidence of compliance to the EU Medical Device Directive.

3 Mar 2010

Instacare announces filing of patent application for MD@Hand technologies

Instacare Corp., a leading provider of prescription drugs, home testing products for the chronically ill, a leading fulfillment provider of direct to patient diabetes programs, and a leading developer of revolutionary cell phone centric e-health products and technologies, today announced that on Friday, February 26, 2010, the Company filed a Provisional Patent Application to secure its MD@Hand technologies.

3 Mar 2010

Baxter Healthcare's IIPV product recall of HomeChoice peritoneal dialysis cyclers classified as Class I recall

Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified Baxter’s recent Urgent Product Recall regarding Increased Intraperitoneal Volume (IIPV), or overfill of the abdominal cavity, associated with HomeChoice and HomeChoice Pro peritoneal dialysis cyclers as a Class I recall.

From Baxter International Inc. 3 Mar 2010

Miami-based company introduces ER Texting services for national hospital chain

ER Texting, Inc., a Miami-based healthcare technology company today announced the launch of its ER Texting services for hospitals nationwide.

3 Mar 2010

Device / Technology News

Merge Healthcare, MGH sign agreement to build testing environment for new mobile healthcare applications

Greenway Medical Technologies to demonstrate data transfer solution from its EHR into Microsoft HealthVault

Accenture: 58% of U.S. physicians intend to purchase EMR system within next two years

SIS to offer AORN SYNTEGRITY SPF within perioperative management solutions suite

Diabetics at risk: Nova Scotia limits pharmacare coverage of blood glucose test strips

Blocks to successful implementation of electronic medical records in physician practices introduced

Inovio Biomedical introduces new CELLECTRA-SP series of hand-held, cordless electroporation devices

ASPEX to display game-changing PSEM eXpress analyzer at Pittcon 2010

Stanford University Medical Center buys ASTI's Ecotones Duet Adaptive Sleep Sound Machines

Acuo Technologies granted patent covering technology implemented in DSG software suite

Royal Philips Electronics, Microsoft collaborate to improve Philips Healthcare's efficiency and productivity

SCLL signs agreement to provide research and assay services in support of Agennix's talactoferrin program

Physician experts to help provide perspective on many options for colorectal cancer screening

UHSM uses Aruba Networks’ VBN solution to increase quality of antenatal services

Robotic surgery does not compromise clinical outcomes for prostate cancer surgery

Harvard Professor urges medical community to use ultrasound for diagnosing acute female pelvic conditions

Solos Endoscopy signs agreement with ER for CE Mark Technical File development consulting services

Instacare announces filing of patent application for MD@Hand technologies

Baxter Healthcare's IIPV product recall of HomeChoice peritoneal dialysis cyclers classified as Class I recall

Miami-based company introduces ER Texting services for national hospital chain

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

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