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ZirMed One to lower costs and improve revenue efficiency for smaller healthcare businesses

ZirMed®, a leading national provider of revenue cycle management solutions for healthcare providers, announced today the debut of ZirMed One, an innovative bundling of ZirMed's three most popular insurance claims reimbursement services into one solution that can lower costs and improve revenue efficiency for smaller healthcare businesses.

1 Sep 2009

Reperfusion therapy proves beneficial for patients with heart attacks

The wider use of reperfusion therapy in patients with heart attack (AMI) can save millions of lives in Europe. Effective reperfusion therapy in an AMI patient can cut the individual risk of dying by half.

1 Sep 2009

Ascent's remanufacturing programs help hospital partners save $82 million

Ascent Healthcare Solutions, a leader in delivering healthcare resource sustainability, today announced that its hospital partners saved an astounding $82 million in unnecessary supply chain costs in the first six months of 2009 with Ascent’s reprocessing and remanufacturing programs.

1 Sep 2009

BioClinica offers streamlined electronic transport solutions with the acquisition of CardioNow

BioClinica, Inc., (NASDAQ: BIOC), a global provider of clinical trial services, today announced that it has acquired the CardioNow unit of Agfa HealthCare.

From Clario 1 Sep 2009

Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals updates license agreement covering antimicrobial technology use

Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ceragenix" or the “Company”), a medical device company focused on infectious disease and dermatology, today provided an update to a previously announced exclusive evaluation and option to license agreement (the "Agreement”) with a global, multi-billion dollar healthcare company covering the use of the Company's CeraShield antimicrobial technology for a specific medical device associated with a high incidence of hospital acquired infections.

1 Sep 2009

Statement updating details on testing of IDenta-Alert explosive detectors released

International drug & explosives detection firm IDenta Corp. (PINKSHEETS: IDTA) releases statement updating details about US Department of Defense testing of the IDenta-Alert explosive detectors.

1 Sep 2009

Demand for Imprivata's OneSign Platform solution growing

Imprivata®, Inc., the employee access management company and largest provider of healthcare single sign-on (SSO), today announced that it continues to see strong demand for its OneSign Platform solution from the healthcare industry's leading organizations.

1 Sep 2009

CompAnalyst helps healthcare providers gain insight into competitive salary data

Salary.com, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand compensation, payroll and talent management solutions, is providing several healthcare providers with on-demand market pricing software to help them gain insight into competitive salary data.

1 Sep 2009

MultiGEN Diagnostics launches new technology for clinical testing in molecular diagnostics

San Diego-based MultiGEN Diagnostics Inc. has launched a novel multi-target DNA sequencing technology (MultiGEN) for a wide range of clinical testing in molecular diagnostics.

1 Sep 2009

Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to help healthcare HR for effective talent management

Salary.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLRY), a leading provider of on-demand compensation, payroll and talent management solutions, announced today that it has added the Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to its growing Job Model and Competency Library of more than 1,200 job models and 1,300 functional competencies, which provide data and structure for typical jobs at all levels of an organization. The framework will enable healthcare HR professionals to create job roles easily, deliver job models quickly, and power their talent management systems.

1 Sep 2009

Seeplex FluA ACE subtyping test enables simultaneous detection of four major influenza A subtypes

Seegene today released a new influenza A sub-type screening test, Seeplex FluA ACE Subtyping, that enables simultaneous detection of pandemic novel influenza A (H1N1), seasonal human influenza A H1, seasonal human influenza A H3 and avian influenza A H5 in a single reaction.

1 Sep 2009

VBI researcher receives grant from NIGMS for developing network-based models of infectious diseases

A researcher from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support ongoing work to develop high-performance computer models for the study of very large networks.

1 Sep 2009

New gene therapy vector developed for transferring therapeutic DNA to a cell's nucleus

A research report featured on the cover of the September 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal describes how Australian scientists developed a new gene therapy vector that uses the same machinery that viruses use to transport their cargo into our cells. As a result of this achievement, therapeutic DNA can be transferred to a cell's nucleus far more efficiently than in the past, raising hopes for more effective treatment of genetic disorders and some types of cancers.

1 Sep 2009

Medsphere secures $12 million to support its development and expansion efforts in the health IT sector

Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare enterprise solutions, today announced that the company has secured $12 million in financing to support ongoing development and expansion efforts in the health IT sector.

1 Sep 2009

MyMedicalRecords Pro EMR system launched by MMR Information Systems

MMR Information Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (the "Company"), which through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR"), provides consumer-controlled Personal Health Records ("PHRs") (www.mymedicalrecords.com) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions (www.myesafedepositbox.com), announced that it has launched its MyMedicalRecords Pro ("MMRPro") product which is designed to help doctors take the first steps towards an EMR system by digitizing medical records and making them available to patients through a patient portal that incorporates the MyMedicalRecords.com Personal Health Record.

1 Sep 2009

GenoCAD project receives financial support from NSF

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year $1,421,725 grant to Jean Peccoud, associate professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, to develop GenoCAD - a web-based Computer Assisted Design environment for synthetic biology.

1 Sep 2009

Tel Aviv University researcher devises mathematical formula for protecting the genetic privacy

Last year, after a published paper found serious security holes in the way DNA data is made publicly available, health institutes in the United States and across the world removed all genetic data from public access.

1 Sep 2009

ChromoCure releases development plan for CS300 Chromosomal Scanner

ChromoCure, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: KKUR) released today its development plan for its next generation of chromosomal scanners. The new system has been given the name "CS300" as the next iteration of its current CS200 Chromosomal Scanner design.

1 Sep 2009

New vaccine technology may prove beneficial for treating IGF-1 responsive disorders

Braasch Biotech LLC announces its lead vaccine for Obesity, Growth Hormone Deficiencies may have beneficial use for numerous IGF-1 responsive disorders such as diabetes, heart disease and Rett Syndrome based on initial preclinical testing in a mouse model.

1 Sep 2009

Edwards Lifesciences completes patient enrollment for transcatheter heart valve study

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW), the world leader in the science of heart valves, today announced completion of enrollment in its 1,040-patient randomized controlled Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) study of the Edwards SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve.

1 Sep 2009

Device / Technology News

ZirMed One to lower costs and improve revenue efficiency for smaller healthcare businesses

Reperfusion therapy proves beneficial for patients with heart attacks

Ascent's remanufacturing programs help hospital partners save $82 million

BioClinica offers streamlined electronic transport solutions with the acquisition of CardioNow

Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals updates license agreement covering antimicrobial technology use

Statement updating details on testing of IDenta-Alert explosive detectors released

Demand for Imprivata's OneSign Platform solution growing

CompAnalyst helps healthcare providers gain insight into competitive salary data

MultiGEN Diagnostics launches new technology for clinical testing in molecular diagnostics

Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to help healthcare HR for effective talent management

Seeplex FluA ACE subtyping test enables simultaneous detection of four major influenza A subtypes

VBI researcher receives grant from NIGMS for developing network-based models of infectious diseases

New gene therapy vector developed for transferring therapeutic DNA to a cell's nucleus

Medsphere secures $12 million to support its development and expansion efforts in the health IT sector

MyMedicalRecords Pro EMR system launched by MMR Information Systems

GenoCAD project receives financial support from NSF

Tel Aviv University researcher devises mathematical formula for protecting the genetic privacy

ChromoCure releases development plan for CS300 Chromosomal Scanner

New vaccine technology may prove beneficial for treating IGF-1 responsive disorders

Edwards Lifesciences completes patient enrollment for transcatheter heart valve study

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