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ARAMARK Healthcare Canada earns RCO's Waste Minimization Gold Award in Communications

ARAMARK Healthcare Canada’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative has earned a Waste Minimization Gold Award in Communications from the Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) for the second straight year, further endorsement of ARAMARK’s effort to promote sustainability at nearly 200 healthcare facilities throughout Canada.

23 Nov 2009

Walgreens re-launches its website with expanded shopping tools and services

Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain and a leading destination for health and wellness services, today announced the re-launch of Walgreens.com (www.walgreens.com), offering users a variety of new healthy living and product resources, along with expanded yet simplified shopping tools and services.

23 Nov 2009

Urodynamix Technologies announces the publication of AMA's 2010 Current Procedural Terminology

Urodynamix Technologies Ltd. today announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) has published its 2010 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes with additions, changes and deletions of billing codes for all medical specialities including urology.

23 Nov 2009

Horizon Health International, Exmovere Holdings enter into a marketing and distribution agreement

HORIZON HEALTH INTERNATIONAL CORP. is pleased to announce that it has executed a Definitive Agreement with Exmovere Holdings Inc. of McLean, Virginia USA (Exmovere). Under the terms of the Agreement Horizon will pay Exmovere a total of two million dollars over a one year period for the exclusive rights to market and distribute their products in Canada for a 15 year term.

23 Nov 2009

Cerner connects to its associates, clients globally through AT&T Telepresence Solution

Connecting associates around the world and collaborating with clients is now a quicker, more interactive process for global healthcare solutions provider Cerner ( CERN). Cerner began using the AT&T* Telepresence Solution, an immersive video technology that connects remote participants, earlier this year to help respond to client service requests in a timely manner and to conduct virtual business meetings with its associates, clients and business partners around the world.

23 Nov 2009

Visage 7 PACS solution to be installed at all Lake Imaging sites

Visage Imaging® Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd. announced today a signed deal to provide Lake Imaging, one of Australia's largest independent diagnostic imaging groups, with Visage 7 - its next generation, thin client streaming digital imaging technology (PACS) solution.

23 Nov 2009

Cook Medical unveils its uterine manipulator/injectors at 38th Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Laparoscopic surgeons received their first glimpse of Cook Medical’s uterine manipulator/injectors (UMI) last week at the 38th Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, sponsored by the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL).

23 Nov 2009

CDEX' ValiMed MVS and ID2 Meth Scanner placed on ABMI GSA Contract Schedule

CDEX Inc. and All Business Machines, Inc. announce that the ValiMed™ MVS (Medication Validation System) and ID2 Meth Scanner™ product lines by CDEX have been placed on the ABMI GSA Contract Schedule. ValiMed MVS puts a technological safety net between the patient and errors made in the compounding of high risk medications and guards against narcotic diversion. Both are now available to the Government markets through the ABMI GSA Schedule.

23 Nov 2009

Digital divide appears between hospitals that treat the rich and poor

"Hospitals that disproportionately care for poor patients are less likely than other hospitals to have adopted health information technology," according to an October study published in Health Affairs, American Medical News reports. The economic stimulus legislation in February directed $19 billion in federal investments to help all types of hospitals adopt electronic records, but some researchers are concerned the money may not close that divide.

23 Nov 2009

Eclipsys reaches milestone: 50 millionth order entered into its EHR system

Eclipsys Corporation®, The Outcomes Company®, continues to strengthen its position as a leader in computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with the announcement today that long-standing client Sarasota Memorial Health Care System (Sarasota Memorial), located in Sarasota, FL, recently entered its 50 millionth order into its electronic health record (EHR) system. The notable physician order was entered by emergency medicine specialist Bill Colgate, MD.

23 Nov 2009

GI Dynamics to present interim data on its EndoBarrier Gastrointestinal Liner study

GI Dynamics, a leader in non-surgical, endoscopic treatments for type 2 diabetes and obesity, today announced that interim data from its ongoing clinical study of the EndoBarrier™ Gastrointestinal Liner in obese patients with type 2 diabetes will be presented by Eduardo G. Moura, M.D., Ph.D., director of endoscopy, digestive surgery department, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo, on Monday, November 23, 2009 at GASTRO 2009.

23 Nov 2009

InteGreat to implement its InteGreat EHR application at Golden Valley Medical Clinics in Clinton, Missouri

InteGreat, a MED3OOO Company, recently entered into an agreement to implement and deploy InteGreat EHR(TM), a browser-based electronic health record (EHR) application, for the Golden Valley Medical Clinics in Clinton, Missouri.

23 Nov 2009

AMD LASERS announces new collaboration to continue its dental education

AMD LASERS announced this week that it continues with an ongoing commitment to dental education by partnering with prestigious industry-leader Dr. Larry Rosenthal and Aesthetic Advantage. Picasso, by AMD LASERS, will be the exclusive soft tissue diode laser used during all international educational activities, which are targeted to the top 2% of dentists.

From AMD Lasers 23 Nov 2009

Masimo announces the renewal of multi-year agreement by Advocate Health Care

Masimo, the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) and Measure-Through Motion and Low-Perfusion pulse oximetry, announced today that Advocate Health Care--Illinois' largest health care provider--has renewed its multi-year, system-wide contract for Masimo SET pulse oximetry technology.

23 Nov 2009

AdnaTest BreastCancer Select & Detect kit now available in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

OncoVista Innovative Therapies, Inc., reported that the AdnaTest BreastCancer Select & Detect kit, manufactured by AdnaGen AG (Langenhagen, Germany), is now available for research as well as for pay-out-of-pocket patients in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

23 Nov 2009

Zynx Health partners with Healthcare Solutions Division of Keane for EHR integration

Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions, today announced its partnership with the Healthcare Solutions Division of Keane, Inc., allowing the integration of Zynx Health solutions with Keane’s OptimumTM electronic health records (EHR) system.

23 Nov 2009

Nevada Cancer Institute selects Sprint as its wireless communications provider at its new Las Vegas facility

Nevada Cancer Institute has selected Sprint as its wireless communications provider of choice at its new, state-of-the-art facility near Las Vegas. This is the first Sprint in-building coverage and capacity agreement involving a large healthcare institution in the Las Vegas market.

23 Nov 2009

AppDetectivePro solution from Application Security awarded Certificate of Networthiness by U.S. Army

Application Security, Inc., the leading provider of database security, risk and compliance solutions (SRC) for the enterprise, today announced that its has received a Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) for its AppDetectivePro™ solution. With over one hundred thousand databases protected, AppDetectivePro is the defacto standard tool for database auditing.

23 Nov 2009

MMR Information Systems to add new feature in its personal health record website

MMR Information Systems, Inc. announced today it will add a clinical trials information service to its MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record site, www.mymedicalrecords.com.

23 Nov 2009

Nightingale Informatix announces financial results for the quarter and six months ended September 30, 2009

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services announces its financial results for the quarter and six months ended September 30, 2009. All results are reported in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated.

23 Nov 2009

Device / Technology News

ARAMARK Healthcare Canada earns RCO's Waste Minimization Gold Award in Communications

Walgreens re-launches its website with expanded shopping tools and services

Urodynamix Technologies announces the publication of AMA's 2010 Current Procedural Terminology

Horizon Health International, Exmovere Holdings enter into a marketing and distribution agreement

Cerner connects to its associates, clients globally through AT&T Telepresence Solution

Visage 7 PACS solution to be installed at all Lake Imaging sites

Cook Medical unveils its uterine manipulator/injectors at 38th Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

CDEX' ValiMed MVS and ID2 Meth Scanner placed on ABMI GSA Contract Schedule

Digital divide appears between hospitals that treat the rich and poor

Eclipsys reaches milestone: 50 millionth order entered into its EHR system

GI Dynamics to present interim data on its EndoBarrier Gastrointestinal Liner study

InteGreat to implement its InteGreat EHR application at Golden Valley Medical Clinics in Clinton, Missouri

AMD LASERS announces new collaboration to continue its dental education

Masimo announces the renewal of multi-year agreement by Advocate Health Care

AdnaTest BreastCancer Select & Detect kit now available in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Zynx Health partners with Healthcare Solutions Division of Keane for EHR integration

Nevada Cancer Institute selects Sprint as its wireless communications provider at its new Las Vegas facility

AppDetectivePro solution from Application Security awarded Certificate of Networthiness by U.S. Army

MMR Information Systems to add new feature in its personal health record website

Nightingale Informatix announces financial results for the quarter and six months ended September 30, 2009

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