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Ubiquitous health monitoring system can cut hospital visits and save lives

A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers writing in the International Journal of Web and Grid Services.

10 Dec 2009

AHA approves RAConciliation as RACTrac compatible product

RAConciliation, the RAC Tracking and Denials Management system, exclusively available through RACauditor.com in partnership with H.I.M. ON CALL, has been approved by the American Hospital Association (AHA) as a RACTrac compatible product.

10 Dec 2009

Patients' urine may provide rapid diagnosis of pneumonia

Doctors may soon be able to quickly and accurately diagnose the cause of pneumonia-like symptoms by examining the chemicals found in a patient's urine, suggests a new study led by UC Davis biochemist Carolyn Slupsky.

10 Dec 2009

Order Online Drugs announces the launch of OrderOnlineDrugs.com

Order Online Drugs Inc. is proud to announce the launch of OrderOnlineDrugs.com (www.orderonlinedrugs.com), a next generation online Canadian pharmacy that offers brand name prescription drugs at significantly lower prices compared to local drug stores.

10 Dec 2009

Mobile Aspects' technologies to be incorporated in NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Mobile Aspects announced today that the Department of Perioperative Services at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center will broaden their use of Mobile Aspects technologies to incorporate additional solutions for tissue tracking and endoscope tracking.

10 Dec 2009

IBM announces C$22.5 million project with the Government of Manitoba to create EHR system

IBM ( IBM) today announced a C$22.5 million project with the Government of Manitoba to enhance healthcare throughout the province with the creation of an electronic healthcare records (EHR) system.

10 Dec 2009

Ovu-Trac kit for successful family planning

A recent British study revealed that over a third of the female test subjects could not recognize their own signs of fertility. Accurately identifying the signs of ovulation and how they relate to a woman's fertile phase is the key to successful family planning. However, just like anything else, it takes time to learn.

10 Dec 2009

Nano Mask signs a three year agreement to distribute Wein Products respirators

Nano Mask, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a three year agreement with Wein Products, a manufacturer of disposable respirators, to distribute that company's products as it continues to complete the development of its own proprietary disposable NanoMask respirator and to obtain regulatory approval for the NanoMask.

10 Dec 2009

Arrayit Diagnostics signs exclusive License Agreement with Wayne State University

Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrayit Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ARYC), today announced that it has signed an exclusive License Agreement with Wayne State University to key intellectual property covering discoveries of biomarkers of ovarian cancer.

10 Dec 2009

BioSystem Development announces the release of AssayMAP MAb Titer Assay

BioSystem Development, LLC., a privately held life science analytics company, announces the release of the AssayMAP MAb Titer Assay for measuring antibody product concentrations (or titers) in bioprocess samples.

9 Dec 2009

St. Luke's Hospital acquires computer-assisted surgery system from BrainLAB

BrainLAB, a manufacturer of software-driven systems for targeted, less-invasive medical treatments, announced today that St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has acquired VectorVision® flex, a powerful computer-assisted surgery (CAS) system featuring Digital Lightbox© with TraumaCad(TM), a pre-operative planning and digital templating software solution.

9 Dec 2009

Community Memorial Health System selects Allscripts EHR and PM solution to enhance patient experience

Allscripts announced today that Community Memorial Health System has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution, with Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management, to enhance the quality of care, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery.

9 Dec 2009

Alternative, fast and safe process for producing large quantities of effective flu vaccines

A shortage of flu vaccines may soon become a problem of the past. Researcher Manon Cox has developed an alternative process for producing large quantities of safe and effective vaccines at twice to four times the usual speed. The process is based on using cells in bioreactors instead of fertilised chicken's eggs, which have a limited availability.

9 Dec 2009

Waters begins shipping its ground-breaking SYNAPT G2 Mass Spectrometer

Waters Corporation announced today that it has shipped the first units of its ground-breaking SYNAPT(TM) G2 Mass Spectrometer, first introduced at the 2009 American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) annual conference in Philadelphia in June.

9 Dec 2009

Varian Medical Systems receives IDG's InfoWorld 100 Award for innovative use of IT

Zenprise, Inc., a provider of mobile management software, today announced its customer, Varian Medical Systems Inc., received IDG's InfoWorld 100 Award based on its deployment of the Zenprise MobileManager platform. The InfoWorld 100 Awards recognizes the top 100 most innovative uses of IT initiatives to further business goals.

9 Dec 2009

UnitedHealthcare improves access to health care with DocGPS App of Apple’s iPhone

UnitedHealthcare is helping improve access to health care by putting its vast network of doctors, clinics, hospitals and other health care services on a new app just introduced on Apple’s iPhone.

9 Dec 2009

BCBSNC to implement Callidus Software's Monaco Suite

Callidus Software Inc., the leader in Sales Performance Management (SPM), today announced that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), has selected the Callidus Monaco Suite to manage sales performance and incentive compensation programs. Under the enterprise class SaaS agreement, signed in the third quarter of 2009, BCBSNC will use the Callidus Monaco Suite for its 4,000 brokers.

9 Dec 2009

TRYTON-LM clinical study enrolls first two patients

Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced the enrollment of the first two patients in TRYTON-LM, a prospective, single-arm study evaluating the feasibility of the Tryton stent in conjunction with Abbott’s XIENCE PRIME Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System to treat stable patients with complex de novo bifurcation lesions involving the left main coronary artery.

9 Dec 2009

SC Magazine names BIO-key International as 2009 Innovator of the Year in Biometrics

BIO-key International, Inc., a leader in finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced that SC Magazine, one of the world's most respected security publications, named BIO-key International the 2009 Innovator of the Year in the Access Control sub-category Biometrics.

9 Dec 2009

Novartis presents 6-month results from its EVEREST study for PCV

QLT Inc. welcomed the 6-month results from the Novartis-sponsored EVEREST study which were presented during a scientific review today by Novartis in Basel, Switzerland.

9 Dec 2009

Device / Technology News

Ubiquitous health monitoring system can cut hospital visits and save lives

AHA approves RAConciliation as RACTrac compatible product

Patients' urine may provide rapid diagnosis of pneumonia

Order Online Drugs announces the launch of OrderOnlineDrugs.com

Mobile Aspects' technologies to be incorporated in NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

IBM announces C$22.5 million project with the Government of Manitoba to create EHR system

Ovu-Trac kit for successful family planning

Nano Mask signs a three year agreement to distribute Wein Products respirators

Arrayit Diagnostics signs exclusive License Agreement with Wayne State University

BioSystem Development announces the release of AssayMAP MAb Titer Assay

St. Luke's Hospital acquires computer-assisted surgery system from BrainLAB

Community Memorial Health System selects Allscripts EHR and PM solution to enhance patient experience

Alternative, fast and safe process for producing large quantities of effective flu vaccines

Waters begins shipping its ground-breaking SYNAPT G2 Mass Spectrometer

Varian Medical Systems receives IDG's InfoWorld 100 Award for innovative use of IT

UnitedHealthcare improves access to health care with DocGPS App of Apple’s iPhone

BCBSNC to implement Callidus Software's Monaco Suite

TRYTON-LM clinical study enrolls first two patients

SC Magazine names BIO-key International as 2009 Innovator of the Year in Biometrics

Novartis presents 6-month results from its EVEREST study for PCV

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