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VA Pittsburgh selects SmartSponge System to prevent retained surgical sponge incidents

ClearCount Medical Solutions and Medline Industries, Inc. today announced that its newest customer, the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare system will help prevent retained surgical sponge incidents with the use of the SmartSponge System®. The SmartSponge System is part of ClearCount's radio-frequency identification -based platform that uniquely identifies each sponge so that they can be easily counted and detected.

11 Aug 2010

Molina Healthcare prices common stock public offering at $27.00 per share

Molina Healthcare, Inc. announced today the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 4,000,000 shares of common stock by the Company at a public offering price of $27.00 per share. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to reduce its borrowings under its $200 million senior secured credit facility, which credit facility had an outstanding balance of $105.0 million as of July 30, 2010.

11 Aug 2010

Motion tracking technology provides interactive feedback while patients exercise

Exercise is an important part of recovering from an injury, illness or surgery, but many older adults lack the knowledge and guidance needed to properly perform exercises. University of Missouri researchers from the Sinclair School of Nursing and the College of Engineering have developed technology to track motions while people exercise. The technology provides feedback to patients as they recover from injuries or illnesses in order to reduce the chances of future injuries and re-hospitalization.

11 Aug 2010

Stanford Hospital & Clinics establishes Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Clinic at Salinas Valley Memorial

The partnership between Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System and Stanford Hospital & Clinics has added another facet of care, bringing world-class organ transplant care to patients on the Central Coast. Stanford's Adult Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program will begin seeing patients at Salinas Valley Memorial's Ryan Ranch facility.

11 Aug 2010

Omnicell announces co-marketing partnership agreement for Sentinel RCM application

Omnicell, Inc., a leading provider of system solutions to acute healthcare facilities, today announced a partnership agreement to co-market Sentry Data Systems' Sentinel RCM™ application, which has a sophisticated 340B solution component. Sentry specializes in providing solutions to address a variety of financial challenges found within hospitals and pharmacies while Omnicell's WorkflowRx™ software offers a complete inventory management system for hospital pharmacies.

From Omnicell, Inc. 11 Aug 2010

China Nepstar Chain Drugstore second-quarter revenue increases 5.8% to RMB565 million

China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd., the largest retail drugstore chain in China based on the number of directly operated stores, today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.

11 Aug 2010

Cogent Healthcare announces new hospital medicine affiliation with Allegiance Health

Cogent Healthcare today announced a new hospital medicine affiliation with Allegiance Health, a 411-bed health system located in Jackson, Mich.

11 Aug 2010

Dems continue push to sell health reform's benefits, GOP pushes back

The administration has struggled to sell senior citizens on the new health law, Politico reports. Here's why: "They know little about the early benefits the law has offered but remember last year's heated town halls, replete with death panels and rationing. And anti-health-reform rhetoric is generally proving to have considerable staying power."

11 Aug 2010

iMedX acquires MedTech Transcriptions

iMedX Inc., a leading healthcare software and services company, announced today that it has acquired the assets of MedTech Transcriptions Inc., a medical transcription company serving medical clinics in Louisiana for over 15 years. With the acquisition of MedTech, iMedX extends its customer base into Louisiana. MedTech's production and customer service teams will augment iMedX's staff to continue to provide superior services to clients across the United States.

11 Aug 2010

Georgia Institute receives EUREKA grant to design brain tumor treatment

The Georgia Institute of Technology has received a EUREKA grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design a new way to treat invasive brain tumors by capturing the migrating cells that spread the disease. The EUREKA -- Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration -- program helps scientists test new, unconventional ideas or tackle major methodological or technical challenges.

11 Aug 2010

TetraLogic raises $32 million in Series C financing to advance clinical development of TL32711 cancer drug

TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule drugs to treat cancer, today announced it has completed a $32 million Series C financing with new investor Clarus Ventures leading the round.

11 Aug 2010

Telephone monitoring can save heart failure patients: Study

Chronic heart failure needs constant care and regular monitoring. Now research says remote monitoring, either over the phone or using wireless technology, helps people with heart failure live longer and stay out of hospital.

10 Aug 2010

FDA clears RyMed's InVision-Plus CS needleless IV connector

RyMed Technologies announced today that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its newest IV connector, InVision-Plus® CS™ with Chlorhexidine-Silver Ion Engineering.

10 Aug 2010

Atrium awarded 3-year national contract from Premier for surgical mesh products

Atrium Medical Corporation, pioneering advancements in biological, mechanical and therapeutic solutions for soft tissue reinforcement, is proud to announce that the company was awarded a three-year national contract from Premier Purchasing Partners L.P., the group purchasing organization of Premier, Inc. (Charlotte, NC).

10 Aug 2010

Water Pik sets up online community to support portfolio of oral health, shower head and sinus health products

In an effort to educate and inform consumers, Water Pik, Inc., a global leader in personal healthcare products, today announced the launch of its new online community on Waterpik.com. Powered by Lithium Technologies, the online destination supports Water Pik's entire portfolio of oral health, shower head and sinus health products and brings the company's experts, consumers and industry experts together in one digital space.

10 Aug 2010

Graymark Healthcare second-quarter consolidated net revenues increase 12% to $28.3 million

Graymark Healthcare, Inc. today announced financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2010 including $1.1MM of EBITDA on $28.3MM in sales.

10 Aug 2010

Language Line University offers new scalable online training tool for medical interpreters

Language Line(R) University, the interpreter assessment and training division of Language Line Services, an over-the-phone and video interpretation services provider, is offering a new scalable online training tool for medical interpreters. LLU Web Advanced Medical Training for Interpreters, the first of its kind in the industry, combines 15 hours of self-paced Web activities with 10 hours of live over-the-phone instructor-led sessions. Completion of the course qualifies participants to receive 10 continuing education points from the American Translators Association.

10 Aug 2010

Theragenics reports consolidated revenue of $20.8M for second-quarter 2010

Theragenics Corporation, a medical device company serving the surgical products and prostate cancer treatment markets, today announced consolidated financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

10 Aug 2010

Analytics helps solve critical cardiovascular service line problems

Do you know if your labs are providing the appropriate evidence-based care? Can you uncover root causes beneath changes in volume and outcome patterns? Can you track whether your heart program is slowing or growing, profitable or not? LUMEDX healthcare analytics can help.

10 Aug 2010

Sharps Compliance reports revenue of $4.2M for fourth-quarter fiscal 2010

Sharps Compliance Corp., a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated outside the hospital and large healthcare facility setting, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2010.

10 Aug 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

VA Pittsburgh selects SmartSponge System to prevent retained surgical sponge incidents

Molina Healthcare prices common stock public offering at $27.00 per share

Motion tracking technology provides interactive feedback while patients exercise

Stanford Hospital & Clinics establishes Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Clinic at Salinas Valley Memorial

Omnicell announces co-marketing partnership agreement for Sentinel RCM application

China Nepstar Chain Drugstore second-quarter revenue increases 5.8% to RMB565 million

Cogent Healthcare announces new hospital medicine affiliation with Allegiance Health

Dems continue push to sell health reform's benefits, GOP pushes back

iMedX acquires MedTech Transcriptions

Georgia Institute receives EUREKA grant to design brain tumor treatment

TetraLogic raises $32 million in Series C financing to advance clinical development of TL32711 cancer drug

Telephone monitoring can save heart failure patients: Study

FDA clears RyMed's InVision-Plus CS needleless IV connector

Atrium awarded 3-year national contract from Premier for surgical mesh products

Water Pik sets up online community to support portfolio of oral health, shower head and sinus health products

Graymark Healthcare second-quarter consolidated net revenues increase 12% to $28.3 million

Language Line University offers new scalable online training tool for medical interpreters

Theragenics reports consolidated revenue of $20.8M for second-quarter 2010

Analytics helps solve critical cardiovascular service line problems

Sharps Compliance reports revenue of $4.2M for fourth-quarter fiscal 2010

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