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Webmedx releases its latest physician documentation technology and service platform

Webmedx, the fourth largest medical transcription service provider in the U.S. and the only leading company to employ a 100% domestic workforce, today announced the release of their latest physician documentation technology and service platform, Enterprise5. Sean Carroll, company CEO, announced the availability of Enterprise5 to a select group of customers and guests during a private reception at the American Health Information Management Association's 81st Annual Convention and Exhibition in Grapevine, Texas.

7 Oct 2009

Solos Endoscopy to showcase its MammoView line of surgical endoscopy instruments at the 95th Clinical Congress

Solos Endoscopy, Inc. is pleased to announce that its MammoView(TM) line of surgical endoscopy instruments will be demonstrated at the 95th Annual American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, held October 11th-15th in Chicago, Illinois. During the Breast Ductoscopy for the General Surgeon course, postgraduate surgeons will be given lectures and access to hands-on skill stations that will provide the core knowledge base required to perform breast duct endoscopy (ductoscopy) in the practice setting.

7 Oct 2009

DBMS Consulting completes deployment of OHSA Suite and EBS for SIRO Clinpharm

DBMS Consulting announced that it has successfully completed deployment of Oracle Life Sciences Applications (OHSA) Suite and Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for SIRO Clinpharm, one of the leading global CROs headquartered in Thane, India. OHSA offers fully automated capabilities in management of clinical trial process, clinical trial data and global adverse event reporting.

7 Oct 2009

NHGRI awards Geospiza a SBIR grant to develop software systems for detecting rare mutations

Geospiza, Inc., the market leading developer of genetic analysis software, today announced the receipt of a Phase I SBIR grant for “Software Systems for Detecting Rare Mutations” from the National Human Genome Research Institute (1R43HG005297-01).

7 Oct 2009

LiveData awarded a SBIR grant for integrating medical technologies

LiveData, Inc., a leader in real-time data integration and display, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC). LiveData will use the $730,000 grant to develop an integrated clinical environment with CIMIT’s Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) team.

7 Oct 2009

NCI awards BioMarker Strategies a SBIR contract to develop its SnapPath live-tumor-cell testing system

BioMarker Strategies, LLC announced today that it has been awarded a Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute to develop the SnapPath™ live-tumor-cell testing system. BioMarker Strategies is developing the SnapPath™ system to enable oncologists to determine the most effective drug treatment for their cancer patients.

7 Oct 2009

Microsoft launches a new online H1N1 Flu Response Center

With the current H1N1 flu (swine flu) pandemic under way, many public health officials are concerned that critical healthcare resources could be stretched thin as people flood hospital emergency departments and physicians' offices to determine whether they have the illness.

7 Oct 2009

New lung cancer pathways discovered using computer modeling

Using computer modeling, the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Scottsdale Healthcare have discovered lung cancer 'pathways' that could become targets for new drugs, according to a scientific paper published online today by the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

7 Oct 2009

Diabetech and Cinterion Wireless Modules announce their collaboration on fourth generation GlucoMON platform

Cinterion Wireless Modules, the global leader in cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communication modules, and Diabetech, the leader in patient-centric health care programs, today announced their collaboration on the fourth generation GlucoMON® platform, the world’s easiest-to-use wireless diabetes management system designed to help the over 220 million people worldwide struggling to manage the global diabetes and pre-diabetes pandemic.

7 Oct 2009

Researchers validate a technique capable of quick TB diagnosis

The team headed by Doctor Manuel Casal, head of Microbiology at Reina Sofia Hospital in Cordoba has validated in patients a technique, originally produced by a German company, capable of diagnosing tuberculosis in only one day and determining whether or not it is resistant to two of the drugs used to treat this disease.

7 Oct 2009

Roche and Genentech obtain license to use SurModics’ drug delivery system

SurModics, Inc., a leading provider of drug delivery and surface modification technologies to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has signed a License and Development Agreement with Roche and Genentech, Inc., a wholly-owned member of the Roche Group.

7 Oct 2009

Researchers tune Diffuse Optical Tomography for early detection of breast cancer

Clemson University researchers in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bremen, Germany, are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of the past, while allowing for diagnostic imaging eventually to be done in a home setting.

7 Oct 2009

Electrostimulation techniques for osteoarthritis still unclear

Despite twenty years of research on the use of electrostimulation techniques (TENS) for treatment of osteoarthritis in the knee, researchers still cannot say whether it reduces pain or physical disability. This is the conclusion of a Cochrane Systematic Review of electrostimulation trials in osteoarthritis

7 Oct 2009

The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010 announced at Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit

Cleveland Clinic's Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010 list features a wide range of new techniques and therapies that are being developed to treat everything from deafness and Parkinson's disease to pneumonia and sleep disorders.

7 Oct 2009

Transenterix raises $55 million to manufacture and market its revolutionary laparoscopic surgical platform

TransEnterix Inc. has secured $55 million in a second round of institutional financing, paving the way for the company to manufacture and market its revolutionary laparoscopic surgical platform.

7 Oct 2009

Patients and surgeons drive demand for elective orthopedic procedures despite economic slowdown

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, patients and surgeons are driving demand for elective orthopedic procedures.

7 Oct 2009

Advanced Diamond Technologies unveils UNCD Horizon vapor-deposited diamond

Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. (ADT), announces the introduction of UNCD Horizon, the world’s smoothest vapor-deposited diamond, to its family of award-winning diamond products.

7 Oct 2009

HMS bags a three-year utilization review contract from University of Massachusetts Medical School

HMS today announced that the University of Massachusetts Medical School on behalf of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EHS) Office of Medicaid has awarded a contract to Permedion, Inc., HMS's wholly owned subsidiary, to provide utilization management of inpatient and outpatient services rendered to members of MassHealth. MassHealth is the Massachusetts Medicaid program.

7 Oct 2009

UnitedHealthcare launches new interactive website

UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, opened Health Care LaneSM, a new interactive Web site where “townspeople” explain and teach health insurance topics.

7 Oct 2009

Unomedical announces the voluntary recall of certain units of the single-patient use MPR

Unomedical Inc., a manufacturer of medical devices, today announced that it is conducting a voluntary recall of certain units of the single-patient use Manual Pulmonary Resuscitator (MPR).

7 Oct 2009

Device / Technology News

Webmedx releases its latest physician documentation technology and service platform

Solos Endoscopy to showcase its MammoView line of surgical endoscopy instruments at the 95th Clinical Congress

DBMS Consulting completes deployment of OHSA Suite and EBS for SIRO Clinpharm

NHGRI awards Geospiza a SBIR grant to develop software systems for detecting rare mutations

LiveData awarded a SBIR grant for integrating medical technologies

NCI awards BioMarker Strategies a SBIR contract to develop its SnapPath live-tumor-cell testing system

Microsoft launches a new online H1N1 Flu Response Center

New lung cancer pathways discovered using computer modeling

Diabetech and Cinterion Wireless Modules announce their collaboration on fourth generation GlucoMON platform

Researchers validate a technique capable of quick TB diagnosis

Roche and Genentech obtain license to use SurModics’ drug delivery system

Researchers tune Diffuse Optical Tomography for early detection of breast cancer

Electrostimulation techniques for osteoarthritis still unclear

The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010 announced at Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit

Transenterix raises $55 million to manufacture and market its revolutionary laparoscopic surgical platform

Patients and surgeons drive demand for elective orthopedic procedures despite economic slowdown

Advanced Diamond Technologies unveils UNCD Horizon vapor-deposited diamond

HMS bags a three-year utilization review contract from University of Massachusetts Medical School

UnitedHealthcare launches new interactive website

Unomedical announces the voluntary recall of certain units of the single-patient use MPR

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