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Rhode Island launches new system for tracking swine flu

At a press conference featuring healthcare leaders from throughout the state, Governor Donald L. Carcieri will announce that Rhode Island has launched a new system for tracking swine flu. Unprecedented in its approach, the system makes use of prescribing data provided by pharmacies throughout the state via a secure electronic link. In yet another first for the state and the nation, Rhode Island will also announce that it has now connected 100 percent of its retail pharmacies for e-prescribing.

27 Oct 2009

Health & Human Services awards Lockheed Martin new information technology contracts

Lockheed Martin has been awarded $170 million in new Health & Human Services (HHS) information technology contracts, all geared toward improving efficiency in our nation's health systems.

27 Oct 2009

New Pandemic Influenza Stress Vaccine course for health-care workers

Experts know that a pandemic can increase stress-related absenteeism among health-care workers. To help prevent this, a team of Mount Sinai Hospital psychiatrists and nurses have developed The Pandemic Influenza Stress Vaccine, a computerized course for health-care workers worldwide to build their resilience during a pandemic.

27 Oct 2009

Ziehm NaviPort interface and BrainLAB Fluoro 3D surgical navigation software improves surgical procedures

Ziehm Imaging and BrainLAB have extended their cooperation to assist surgeons in the intra-operative guidance of pedicle screw and hardware placement during surgical trauma and spinal instrumentation procedures.

27 Oct 2009

Status of the pending FDA submission of Lifeline Biotechnologies' First Warning System reported

Lifeline Biotechnologies, Inc. today reported on the status of the pending FDA submission of its First Warning System™, filed in late July 2009.

27 Oct 2009

Mobile Aspects to supply RFID inventory management systems for health care organizations

Mobile Aspects, a leader in RFID enabled clinical process improvement systems, announced today that Novation, the health care contracting services company for VHA Inc., the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), and Provista, has awarded Mobile Aspects a three-year contract to supply radio frequency identification (RFID) inventory management systems to its member organizations.

27 Oct 2009

eBioscience acquires privately held immunoassay technology pioneer Bender MedSystems

eBioscience Corporation today announced that it has acquired privately held immunoassay technology pioneer Bender MedSystems GmbH in an all cash transaction. The acquisition will provide eBioscience with over 1,000 high profile immunology and oncology products including the Instant ELISA® and FlowCytomix(TM) brands that target the life sciences and diagnostics markets.

27 Oct 2009

Zip-Outs, cutting-edge line of hearing protection solutions released

StreamWorks Products Group, Inc. (SPG), renowned for developing innovative consumer products across several industries, has announced the release of Zip-Outs™ – the foremost product under its new PlugsSafety division, a cutting-edge line of hearing protection solutions.

27 Oct 2009

Mechanisms to control protein organization and cell-cell interaction in the immune system discovered

In a process essential to the immune system's response to infection, dendritic cells responsible for identifying pathogens communicate with the T-cells that destroy the infectious agents. To achieve this, the dendritic cells must be correctly activated and migrate to the lymph nodes where they must adhere firmly to T-cells.

27 Oct 2009

Resonant Medical to display the next generation of software for its Clarity System

Resonant Medical, an innovator in 3D soft tissue planning, image-guidance and adaptive radiotherapy products, headquartered in Montreal, Canada, today announced that the Company is exhibiting the next generation of software for its Clarity System at the 51st annual American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting taking place November 1-5, 2009 in Chicago.

27 Oct 2009

GeckoSystems to discuss its advanced mobile robot controller, the GeckoSPIO

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (http://www.geckosystems.com/) -- announced today that during their first annual "Mobile Robots in Motion" conference November 4-5, 2009 attendees will be able to observe and discuss GeckoSystems' advanced mobile robot controller, the GeckoSPIO™.

27 Oct 2009

New significant tool to improve the quality of care for patients with brain tumors released

While the nation is debating how best to reform healthcare, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) announce a new significant tool to improve the quality of care for patients who suffer from brain tumors.

27 Oct 2009

Champions Biotechnology expands collaboration to accelerate oncology drug development

Champions Biotechnology, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CSBR), a company with a predictive preclinical platform aimed at accelerating the development and enhancing the value of oncology drugs, has established an agreement with Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development, a Division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, for the evaluation of a novel preclinical oncology therapeutic in Champions' Biomerk Tumorgraft(TM) platform.

27 Oct 2009

Study proves patients with implantable cardiac devices undergo safe capsule endoscopy

A study of patients with implantable cardiac devices such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators or left ventricular assist devices found that performing capsule endoscopy in these patients is safe and that the devices in general do not interfere with images captured by the capsule.

27 Oct 2009

Transcatheter valve may eliminate repeat surgeries in children with heart defects; multicenter study shows good outcomes

Children born with certain heart defects have impaired blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs, requiring implanted devices (known as right-ventricular outflow tract conduits) to maintain the flow. However, these conduits fail over time, and children typically face multiple open-heart operations during their lives to reopen the passage.

27 Oct 2009

AdherenceRx announces the development and integration of Patient Adherence Index

AdherenceRx (www.adherencerx.com) is pleased to announce the development & integration of the Patient Adherence Index™ (PAI™). This new index brings together evidence-based patient behavior mapping scores associated with Positive Psychology & Behavior Change… and the Patient Activation Measure™ (PAM™) developed by Judith Hibbard, Ph.D., and her colleagues at the University of Oregon.

27 Oct 2009

Cantor Fitzgerald teams up with Healthcare Interactive to introduce new healthcare software management tool

Cantor Insurance Group, a unit of Cantor Fitzgerald LP, has joined with Healthcare Interactive to introduce Cantor Health Interactive, a new healthcare software management tool to help businesses monitor and reduce their healthcare costs.

26 Oct 2009

Biospace med expands U.S. market with its ultra-low-dose ‘EOS’ x-ray imager

Biospace med announced today that it continues to penetrate the U.S. market with its FDA-cleared ‘EOS’ x-ray imager—the world’s first ultra-low-dose x-ray technology—recently adding new customers in the Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States. In addition, Professor Georges Charpak, inventor of the EOS technology, has received the ‘Centenary Medal’ from the French Radiological Society (SFR), the esteemed organization’s highest honor.

26 Oct 2009

St. Rose Hospital Cardiologists implements CVIS from McKesson

St. Rose Hospital of Hayward, Calif., is accelerating report turnaround times and providing cardiologists with secure remote access to echocardiogram and EKG reports, thanks to a new cardiovascular information solution (CVIS) from McKesson.

26 Oct 2009

Carroll Hospital Center implements Lawson core applications

Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Maryland, recently completed an organization wide deployment of multiple enterprise software applications from Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN). The healthcare provider implemented Lawson Enterprise Financial Management and Asset Management suites as well as Lawson Business Intelligence.

26 Oct 2009

Device / Technology News

Rhode Island launches new system for tracking swine flu

Health & Human Services awards Lockheed Martin new information technology contracts

New Pandemic Influenza Stress Vaccine course for health-care workers

Ziehm NaviPort interface and BrainLAB Fluoro 3D surgical navigation software improves surgical procedures

Status of the pending FDA submission of Lifeline Biotechnologies' First Warning System reported

Mobile Aspects to supply RFID inventory management systems for health care organizations

eBioscience acquires privately held immunoassay technology pioneer Bender MedSystems

Zip-Outs, cutting-edge line of hearing protection solutions released

Mechanisms to control protein organization and cell-cell interaction in the immune system discovered

Resonant Medical to display the next generation of software for its Clarity System

GeckoSystems to discuss its advanced mobile robot controller, the GeckoSPIO

New significant tool to improve the quality of care for patients with brain tumors released

Champions Biotechnology expands collaboration to accelerate oncology drug development

Study proves patients with implantable cardiac devices undergo safe capsule endoscopy

Transcatheter valve may eliminate repeat surgeries in children with heart defects; multicenter study shows good outcomes

AdherenceRx announces the development and integration of Patient Adherence Index

Cantor Fitzgerald teams up with Healthcare Interactive to introduce new healthcare software management tool

Biospace med expands U.S. market with its ultra-low-dose ‘EOS’ x-ray imager

St. Rose Hospital Cardiologists implements CVIS from McKesson

Carroll Hospital Center implements Lawson core applications

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