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DebMed signs contract with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for Group Monitoring System

DebMed today announced a three-year agreement with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for the use of its Group Monitoring System, the only electronic hand hygiene monitoring system that complies with the World Health Organization's Five Moments for Hand Hygiene and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

3 Dec 2014

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions announces partnership with Visante healthcare consulting

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, a leading supplier of automation solutions for materials transport and medication management, announces its partnership with Visante healthcare consulting at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, California - December 7 – 11, 2014.

3 Dec 2014

Frost & Sullivan announces winners of 2015 CIO Impact Awards

Frost & Sullivan has announced 44 world-class companies as winners of the 2015 CIO Impact Awards. The recipients are comprised of enterprise teams, individuals, and technology partners enabling breakthrough new business models and strategies through the innovative use of transformative technologies.

3 Dec 2014

Garmatex, Diagnomics partner to develop healthcare products to prevent hospital-acquired infections

Garmatex Technologies, Inc., a leading inventor of performance fabric and apparel solution-focused technologies, has signed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") for a five year term with Diagnomics Inc., a biotech company that provides next-generation healthcare solutions from personal genomics.

3 Dec 2014

WLT agrees to make MediClaims software available to Advanzeon

Advanzeon Solutions, Inc., which provides behavioral health, substance abuse and pharmacy management services, as well as sleep apnea programs, to employers, Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, and managed care companies throughout the U.S. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Agreement with WLT Software Enterprises, Inc.

3 Dec 2014

Gonzaga, UW to engage in community-focused exploration of medical education and research

Gonzaga University has announced its intention to engage in a community-focused exploration of a medical education and research partnership with the University of Washington School of Medicine in Spokane. This announcement follows an invitation, made to Gonzaga by the University of Washington, to consider forming a new partnership to sustain and potentially expand UW Spokane's medical school and create opportunities to grow biomedical research in Spokane.

3 Dec 2014

New WHO guidance provides cervical cancer control and prevention approach

New guidance from WHO aims to help countries better prevent and control cervical cancer. The disease is one of the world's deadliest - but most easily preventable - forms of cancer for women, responsible for more than 270 000 deaths annually, 85% of which occur in developing countries.

3 Dec 2014

Northwestern Medicine neurosurgeons use new adaptive hybrid surgery technology to treat brain tumor

It started with numbness on the left side of his face. A few months later, Steve Mores couldn't feel his tongue or chew on the left side of his mouth. TV commercials featuring food or even being in a grocery store made him nauseous. A long time drummer in a popular band, Mores lost 30 pounds and had to find a replacement.

3 Dec 2014

FSMB receives NCQA certification for second time

The Federation of State Medical Boards announced that it has recently been certified for a second time by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The FSMB, which received its initial NCQA Certification in 2012, is certified under NCQA's Credentials Verification Organization Certification Program for the following credentials elements: Education and Training, Ongoing Monitoring of Sanctions, Medicare/Medicaid Sanctions, and Medical Board Sanctions.

3 Dec 2014

St. Mary's Medical Center adds Mazor Renaissance robot-assisted system to Spine Center

Dignity Health St. Mary's Medical Center has added the Mazor Robotics Renaissance computer-generated guidance system to its multidisciplinary Spine Center. St. Mary's is the only hospital in the Bay Area to exclusively offer this state-of-the-art technology for spine surgery.

3 Dec 2014

TDF wins William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement

Tufts Dental Facilities Serving Individuals with Disabilities, a network of clinics that provides comprehensive oral health care to adults and children with intellectual, developmental, or acquired disabilities, has been announced as the winner of the William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Academic Dental Institution, part of the William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement.

3 Dec 2014

Online sourcing tool tealbook helps healthcare companies streamline RFP process

Matchbook, Inc., a company dedicated to connecting healthcare companies with service providers that best fit their needs, today announced the launch of tealbook, an online sourcing tool that helps healthcare companies streamline their search, evaluation and selection of service partners.

3 Dec 2014

Elegant Medical to receive patent for groundbreaking Stethos electronic stethoscope

Elegant Medical LLC today announced it will receive an issued patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for its groundbreaking Stethos electronic stethoscope, the most significant advancement to the stethoscope in half a century.

3 Dec 2014

Myriad Genetics to highlight clinical data from three Prolaris studies at SUO 2014

Myriad Genetics, Inc. today announced that clinical data from three studies with Prolaris in prostate cancer patients will be highlighted at the 2014 Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting being held tomorrow in Rockville, Md. The new data show that the Prolaris test could save the healthcare system $6 billion over 10 years and that physicians are using the test appropriately to personalize treatment options for their patients.

3 Dec 2014

Many pediatric chest X-rays unnecessary, offer no clinical benefit

Researchers at Mayo Clinic found that some children are receiving chest X-rays that may be unnecessary and offer no clinical benefit to the patient, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

3 Dec 2014

Experts report three key topics that may make difference in the battle against Alzheimer's disease

Detection, prevention, and preclinical treatment are three key areas that may make a difference in the battle to reduce the rapid rise of new Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases every year. These three topics are the focus of an important new supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

3 Dec 2014

U-M startup company Imbio gets FDA approval to market Lung Density Analysis for COPD

A technology that started in a University of Michigan Medical School lab may soon help lung disease patients around the world breathe a little easier, by helping their doctors make a clearer diagnosis and more individualized treatment plan.

3 Dec 2014

Elevated anxious temperament associated with neuropeptide Y receptors

Persistent anxiety is one of the most common and distressing symptoms compromising mental health. Most of the research on the neurobiology of anxiety has focused on the generation of increased anxiety, i.e., the processes that "turn on" anxiety.

3 Dec 2014

Frontal lesions predict better improvement in people with spatial neglect after prism therapy

Stroke researchers have found that the presence of frontal lesions predicts better functional improvement in individuals with spatial neglect who received prism adaptation therapy. "Integrity of medial temporal structures may predict better improvement of spatial neglect with prism adaptation treatment" was published in September in the Neuroimaging and Rehabilitation Special Issue of Brain Imaging & Behavior.

3 Dec 2014

BWH researchers identify cells responsible for fibrosis

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital have identified what they believe to be the cells responsible for fibrosis, the buildup of scar tissue. Fibrotic diseases, such as chronic kidney disease and failure, lung disease, heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver, are estimated to be responsible for up to 45 percent of deaths in the developed world.

2 Dec 2014

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

DebMed signs contract with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for Group Monitoring System

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions announces partnership with Visante healthcare consulting

Frost & Sullivan announces winners of 2015 CIO Impact Awards

Garmatex, Diagnomics partner to develop healthcare products to prevent hospital-acquired infections

WLT agrees to make MediClaims software available to Advanzeon

Gonzaga, UW to engage in community-focused exploration of medical education and research

New WHO guidance provides cervical cancer control and prevention approach

Northwestern Medicine neurosurgeons use new adaptive hybrid surgery technology to treat brain tumor

FSMB receives NCQA certification for second time

St. Mary's Medical Center adds Mazor Renaissance robot-assisted system to Spine Center

TDF wins William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement

Online sourcing tool tealbook helps healthcare companies streamline RFP process

Elegant Medical to receive patent for groundbreaking Stethos electronic stethoscope

Myriad Genetics to highlight clinical data from three Prolaris studies at SUO 2014

Many pediatric chest X-rays unnecessary, offer no clinical benefit

Experts report three key topics that may make difference in the battle against Alzheimer's disease

U-M startup company Imbio gets FDA approval to market Lung Density Analysis for COPD

Elevated anxious temperament associated with neuropeptide Y receptors

Frontal lesions predict better improvement in people with spatial neglect after prism therapy

BWH researchers identify cells responsible for fibrosis

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