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Applied Spine Technologies: Two Stabilimax surgeries performed in South Africa

Applied Spine Technologies announced today the first two Stabilimax surgeries performed outside of the United States. The surgeries were performed in Johannesburg, South Africa, by Ajay Maharaj, MD, at Sunninghill Hospital. The Stabilimax Dynamic Spine System is currently part of an IDE multi-center, randomized, controlled clinical trial in the U.S.

8 Dec 2009

Consumer reports details the screening tests that may be unneccesary

Consumer Reports/The Washington Post: "Many Americans -- and their doctors -- seem to think that better health means more health care, including as many screening tests as possible. But many researchers are questioning that notion, saying that some common screening tests are unproven and can not only waste your time and money but also cause more harm than good."

8 Dec 2009

Summa Health System to implement Agilysys' software solution suite

Agilysys, Inc., a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, announced today that Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio has implemented a comprehensive suite of software solutions to streamline efficiency and control costs in its food outlets and gift shops.

8 Dec 2009

Veran Medical Technologies' SPiN Drive System receives FDA marketing clearance

Veran Medical Technologies announced today that it received clearance (K091934) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market a product for the delivery of instruments through the pulmonary tract. "Veran is excited about this clearance as it allows the company to address a huge unmet clinical need in lung cancer diagnosis and treatment," said Jerome R. Edwards, Veran president and chief executive officer.

8 Dec 2009

QuantRx Biomedical launches its new flagship POC diagnostic reader device at MEDICA 2009

QuantRx® Biomedical Corporation, a broad-based diagnostic company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative diagnostic products, announced today the successful debut of its new flagship point-of-care (POC) diagnostic reader device, Q-Reader™, at MEDICA 2009 on November 18-21, 2009, in Düsseldorf, Germany.

8 Dec 2009

FDA probes excessive radiation dose cases

The Associated Press/Wall Street Journal: "Federal health regulators are investigating reports of dangerous radiation levels at two more California hospitals, following earlier unsafe medical scans at a Los Angeles facility. The Food and Drug Administration is probing the use of CT scans at Glendale Adventist Medical Center and Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif. The brain scans are used to diagnose strokes.

8 Dec 2009

BHR Pharma files an IND for its BHR-100 intravenous progesterone infusion product

BHR Pharma, LLC (BHR) announced today that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its proprietary BHR-100 intravenous progesterone infusion product.

8 Dec 2009

Francisco Partners to acquire QuadraMed

QuadraMed® Corporation, a leading provider of healthcare information technologies and services that help turn quality care into positive financial outcomes, announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Francisco Partners, one of the world’s largest technology-focused private equity firms.

8 Dec 2009

Moses Cone Health System to implement Streamline Health Solutions' enterprise technology

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. a leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced that Moses Cone Health System has selected the Company's enterprise technology to improve quality and operating efficiency by providing their physicians with one view of the patient medical record across their healthcare enterprise.

8 Dec 2009

Nightingale Informatix to provide its EMR system to Uptown Health Centre

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services, announced today that it has been selected to provide its electronic medical record (EMR) system hosted at eHealth Ontario to all three Uptown Health Centre locations.

8 Dec 2009

New room temperature-based liquid formulation for storage of tissues and cells

Biomatrica, the leader in room temperature biological sample stabilization, today announced the release of DNAgard(TM), the first room temperature-based liquid formulation for stabilization and storage of tissues and cells. The new DNAgard product adds to Biomatrica's portfolio of solutions for room-temperature storage, archiving, stabilization and transportation of biological samples.

8 Dec 2009

New iPhone application to help find the top doctor

Have no fear during holiday travel this year — if you’re in a strange city, feel flu-like symptoms coming on and want to find a doctor, there’s a new iPhone App that will find one for you. The i Need a Doctor™ (www.ineedadoc.net) app is a joint venture between The Paladin Group LLC, the app developer, and two of the most respected doctor-rating services in the United States — the health care research organization Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. (www.castleconnolly.com) and the physician rating site DrScore (www.drscore.com).

8 Dec 2009

Eidogen-Sertanty licenses its TIP technology for FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research

Eidogen-Sertanty, Inc., a San Diego-based computational drug discovery solutions provider, announced today they have licensed their Target Informatics Platform (TIP) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR).

8 Dec 2009

TSO3 files medical device amendment for the addition of STERIZONE 125L+ Sterilizer

TSO3 Inc. ("TSO3"), an innovator in low temperature sterilization technology for medical devices in healthcare settings through the use of ozone, today announced that it has filed with Health Canada, a medical device amendment for the addition of the STERIZONE(R) 125L+ Sterilizer to the list of already cleared product for sale in Canada.

8 Dec 2009

ISST researchers develop software for physicians to have weekly 'Wound Conference'

Wounds suffered by patients with diabetes tend to heal poorly. For treatment to work, the patient's physician must discuss the situation with specialists and nursing staff to decide on the best approach. However, e-mailing the files containing the diagnosis and discussing them on the telephone is a time-consuming process.

8 Dec 2009

TAFP and RemitDATA team up to improve revenue and reimbursement trends

RemitDATA, Inc., a leading provider of web-based productivity tools and benchmarking to the outpatient healthcare market, today announced that Texas Academy of Family Physicians (TAFP), the largest medical specialty organization, serving over 5,500 family physicians in Texas, has joined forces with RemitDATA to aggregate members' reimbursement data and provide real-time payer benchmarking to help TAFP identify problematic payers and troubling reimbursement trends before they turn into cash-flow pitfalls.

8 Dec 2009

VisionShare to enable connectivity to the NHIN and HIEs from its secure exchange platform

VisionShare, one of the nation’s largest and most secure health information exchanges for administrative transactions, today announced plans to expand support for the exchange of clinical transactions on its platform and making connectivity to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and state and community-based Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) available to its customers.

8 Dec 2009

Opportunity for wireless technologies in Western Europe's e-healthcare market

Healthcare in Europe is facing major challenges in both structural reform and unavailability of resources as the region's working population is far lower in comparison to those of 'non-working' age. This calls for the introduction of new schemes in healthcare that would enable Europe to deal with issues pertaining to the growing ageing population.

8 Dec 2009

EPO grants patent for AbSorber's transplantation cross match-test

LinkMed’s subsidiary AbSorber has received patent protection for its transplantation cross match-test XM-ONE® in the European countries. The patent was previously approved in New Zealand which was the first country to approve a patent for AbSorbers product. The European countries are highly prioritized markets for AbSorber and the patent approval is an important milestone in Absorbers intellectual property strategy.

8 Dec 2009

Excess radiation exposure during CT perfusion imaging: FDA issues interim recommendations

As part of an ongoing investigation into cases of excess radiation during CT perfusion imaging of the brain, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today provided imaging facilities and practitioners with interim recommendations to help prevent additional problems.

8 Dec 2009

Device / Technology News

Applied Spine Technologies: Two Stabilimax surgeries performed in South Africa

Consumer reports details the screening tests that may be unneccesary

Summa Health System to implement Agilysys' software solution suite

Veran Medical Technologies' SPiN Drive System receives FDA marketing clearance

QuantRx Biomedical launches its new flagship POC diagnostic reader device at MEDICA 2009

FDA probes excessive radiation dose cases

BHR Pharma files an IND for its BHR-100 intravenous progesterone infusion product

Francisco Partners to acquire QuadraMed

Moses Cone Health System to implement Streamline Health Solutions' enterprise technology

Nightingale Informatix to provide its EMR system to Uptown Health Centre

New room temperature-based liquid formulation for storage of tissues and cells

New iPhone application to help find the top doctor

Eidogen-Sertanty licenses its TIP technology for FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research

TSO3 files medical device amendment for the addition of STERIZONE 125L+ Sterilizer

ISST researchers develop software for physicians to have weekly 'Wound Conference'

TAFP and RemitDATA team up to improve revenue and reimbursement trends

VisionShare to enable connectivity to the NHIN and HIEs from its secure exchange platform

Opportunity for wireless technologies in Western Europe's e-healthcare market

EPO grants patent for AbSorber's transplantation cross match-test

Excess radiation exposure during CT perfusion imaging: FDA issues interim recommendations

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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