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BIA announces the long-anticipated release of its enterprise legal software product, Solis

Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. (BIA), today announces the long-anticipated release of its enterprise legal software product, Solis™, which is a complete in-house solution providing a defensible and automated system for legal hold, data collections, and early case assessment.

30 Jan 2010

FMCNA ships dialysis machines and supplies for Haiti relief efforts

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the world's largest integrated provider of products and services for individuals undergoing dialysis because of chronic kidney failure, is donating and delivering dialysis supplies to Haitians, at a time when relief supplies continue to be slow to reach those in need following a devastating earthquake and aftershock.

30 Jan 2010

Cerner to provide AORN SYNTEGRITY SPF for streamlining EHR perioperative documentation

Helping to streamline electronic documentation processes for perioperative care, CSC and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) announced today that Cerner, a global supplier of healthcare solutions, will be the first to provide AORN SYNTEGRITY™ Standardized Perioperative Framework (SPF) within a surgery and anesthesia management clinical information system. With AORN SYNTEGRITYTM, the amount of clinical staff time needed to configure and support electronic health record (EHR) perioperative documentation can be reduced by as much as 80 percent.

30 Jan 2010

ING introduces new business building program for corporate retirement plan market

ING's U.S. Retirement Services business today announced the launch of a new business building program for advisors, consultants and the third party administrator (TPA) community serving the small and mid-sized corporate retirement plan market.

30 Jan 2010

Congressman Rothman secures 1.49M in federal dollars for EHMC's bloodless medicine program

Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ) will be the featured speaker at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center today, 1:00-2:00 pm. Congressman Rothman will announce the latest batch of federal funds, $1.49 million, for the Institute for Patient Blood Management and Bloodless Medicine and Surgery. This brings the total amount of federal funding secured by Congressman Rothman for this institute to $4.69 million in federal resources and to over six million dollars to Hospital programs since 2002.

30 Jan 2010

Salient Surgical Technologies, Exeter Hospital and Moffitt Cancer Center donate medical supplies to Haiti

Salient Surgical Technologies of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has partnered with Exeter Hospital in Exeter, New Hampshire and Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, to donate equipment and supplies for a mission to aid victims of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.

30 Jan 2010

General Availability of accessANYware 5.0 Enterprise Document Workflow Software Suite announced

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced the General Availability of its new accessANYware 5.0 Enterprise Document Workflow Software Suite.

30 Jan 2010

AAPM reassures safety of radiation therapy

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has issued a statement today in the wake of several recent articles in the New York Times yesterday and earlier in the week that discuss a number of rare but tragic events in the last decade involving people undergoing radiation therapy.

30 Jan 2010

Medical equipment could be a key weapon in stopping nuclear waste seeping into environment

Medical equipment used for diagnosis of patients with heart disease and cancer could be a key weapon in stopping nuclear waste seeping into the environment, according to new research.

From The University of Manchester 30 Jan 2010

Mainz University Medical Center and Nagasaki University announce joint research into radiation epidemiology and biology

The University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Nagasaki University in Japan plan to cooperate more closely in the future. At the focus of the partnership funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will be the joint development of a program of research into radiation epidemiology and radiation biology, the establishment of an exchange program for scientists and academics at the two universities, and, over the long term, the creation of a joint multicenter research project.

30 Jan 2010

Research roundup: Raising seniors' co-pays increases costs; The stimulus and safety net providers

New England Journal of Medicine: Increased Ambulatory Care Copayments And Hospitalizations Among The Elderly - This study examines the consequences of increasing copayments for outpatient care of Medicare enrollees in managed-care plans. "As compared with matched control plans in which copayments for ambulatory care were unchanged, Medicare plans that increased these copayments by an average of 95% for primary care and 74% for specialty care had a reduction in the number of outpatient visits but an increase in hospital admissions, in the number of days of hospital care, and in the proportion of enrollees who used hospital care," the authors write.

30 Jan 2010

Secure Cares Infant Protection Systems installed in three major hospitals on Long Island

Parabit Systems Inc. is pleased to announce the successful installation of Secure Cares Infant Protection Systems in three major hospitals on Long Island.

30 Jan 2010

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center honored with HealthGrades' Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center has been identified by HealthGrades as a 2010 recipient of the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence. HealthGrades awards this title to facilities that rank in the top five percent in overall clinical performance.

30 Jan 2010

Rush Memorial Hospital completes implementation of Healthland EMR solution

Healthland, America's market leader of healthcare information solutions for small community and critical access hospitals, announced today that Indiana-based, Rush Memorial Hospital has completed implementation of the Healthland Electronic Medical Records (EMR) solution.

30 Jan 2010

Texas colleges readying students to build, maintain electronic medical records

Three central Texas colleges are applying for a federal grant to train students in the use of electronic medical records, The Texas Tribune reports. "Texas State University in San Marcos and the University of Texas at Austin are partnering with the University of Texas School of Health Information in Houston to apply for a new federal grant in health information that could bring in $6 million across the three campuses.

30 Jan 2010

Rubicon Genomics reaches agreement with ZyGEM to market its PicoPlex single-cell amplification kits

Rubicon Genomics, Inc., a developer of pre-analytical amplification products that enable more comprehensive genetic analysis of clinical and research samples, announced today that it has reached agreement with ZyGEM to non-exclusively market Rubicon's PicoPlex™ single-cell amplification kits in Australia and New Zealand.

30 Jan 2010

Salient Pharmaceuticals receives TETF commercialization award for CASAD therapy commercialization

Houston Technology Center (HTC), announced today that client company Salient Pharmaceuticals received a $2 million commercialization award from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) for the commercialization of their CASAD therapy, an all natural product used to prevent and treat some cancer therapy-induced side effects.

29 Jan 2010

Agent-enhanced CT scan plays a supporting role in diagnosing severe cases of H1N1 flu virus

Published reports on the usefulness of CT scans for complicated H1N1 cases have spurred use of these procedures in U.S. hospitals. According to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information, this opens up a pathway of diagnostics for physicians and overall is a positive sign not only for the technology but also for companies making chemical agents for procedures.

29 Jan 2010

CoActiv Medical introduces new EXAM-PACS touch screen image viewing for Apple iPad

In the forefront of breaking technology, CoActiv Medical announces new EXAM-PACS touch screen image viewing for the recently announced Apple iPad large-screen digital viewing and communications device.

29 Jan 2010

LinkMed’s portfolio company receives order from Siemens AG for DIGNITY Carrier

LinkMed’s portfolio company has received an order from Siemens AG, Health Care Sector, Germany for its patient transportation solution, DIGNITY™ Carrier, for setting up patients for PET/CT imaging for special applications.

29 Jan 2010

Device / Technology News

BIA announces the long-anticipated release of its enterprise legal software product, Solis

FMCNA ships dialysis machines and supplies for Haiti relief efforts

Cerner to provide AORN SYNTEGRITY SPF for streamlining EHR perioperative documentation

ING introduces new business building program for corporate retirement plan market

Congressman Rothman secures 1.49M in federal dollars for EHMC's bloodless medicine program

Salient Surgical Technologies, Exeter Hospital and Moffitt Cancer Center donate medical supplies to Haiti

General Availability of accessANYware 5.0 Enterprise Document Workflow Software Suite announced

AAPM reassures safety of radiation therapy

Medical equipment could be a key weapon in stopping nuclear waste seeping into environment

Mainz University Medical Center and Nagasaki University announce joint research into radiation epidemiology and biology

Research roundup: Raising seniors' co-pays increases costs; The stimulus and safety net providers

Secure Cares Infant Protection Systems installed in three major hospitals on Long Island

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center honored with HealthGrades' Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence

Rush Memorial Hospital completes implementation of Healthland EMR solution

Texas colleges readying students to build, maintain electronic medical records

Rubicon Genomics reaches agreement with ZyGEM to market its PicoPlex single-cell amplification kits

Salient Pharmaceuticals receives TETF commercialization award for CASAD therapy commercialization

Agent-enhanced CT scan plays a supporting role in diagnosing severe cases of H1N1 flu virus

CoActiv Medical introduces new EXAM-PACS touch screen image viewing for Apple iPad

LinkMed’s portfolio company receives order from Siemens AG for DIGNITY Carrier

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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