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MedeAnalytics 10 software platform released

MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, today announced its summer 2010 software platform release, MedeAnalytics 10, which offers performance-packed features for proactive alerting and outlier analysis. The release incorporates client input and reflects the company's ongoing investment in its analytic platform. New releases are provided to clients on a semi-annual basis and typically require no upgrades or installations.

20 Jul 2010

Inergetics receives CPR to market Resurgex Select product as nutritional supplement

Inergetics, Inc., a leader in targeted product development for the Clinical Nutrition and Sports Supplement Markets, today announced that the Company has received a Certificate of Product Registration from the FDA Philippines, certifying that its Resurgex Select product can now be marketed as a nutritional supplement for cancer patients and other immune-compromised individuals throughout the country.

20 Jul 2010

ARUP enters partnership to offer deCODE's DNA-based prostate cancer risk assessment test

deCODE genetics and ARUP Laboratories today announced a partnership through which ARUP will offer deCODE's DNA-based prostate cancer risk assessment test to its clients nationwide.

20 Jul 2010

Johnson & Johnson second-quarter sales increase 0.6% to $15.3 billion

Johnson & Johnson today announced sales of $15.3 billion for the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 0.6% as compared to the second quarter of 2009. Operational results increased 0.1% and the positive impact of currency was 0.5%. Domestic sales declined 2.8%, while international sales increased 4.1%, reflecting operational growth of 3.0% and a positive currency impact of 1.1%.

20 Jul 2010

Failure to seek help for ED could prevent detection of underlying cardiovascular disease

Research carried out by a visiting professor at the University of Hertfordshire has found that up to six million European men fail to seek help for Erectile Dysfunction (ED) which could result in underlying cardiovascular disease going undetected.

20 Jul 2010

SHFL to upgrade to latest version of NetSol's LeaseSoft asset management solution

NetSol Technologies, Inc., a U.S. corporation providing global business services and enterprise application solutions to private and public sector organizations worldwide, today announced that the Company has signed a LeaseSoft license upgrade agreement with Singers Healthcare Finance Limited, one of the UK's leading providers of leasing solutions to the healthcare industry.

20 Jul 2010

Rockport announces network partner alliance agreement with Evolutions Healthcare Systems

Rockport Healthcare Group, a national preferred provider organization (PPO) focused exclusively on workers' compensation, has announced a network partner alliance agreement with Florida-based Evolutions Healthcare Systems, one of the largest independently owned PPO networks serving employers, carriers and third party administrators nationwide.

20 Jul 2010

Tradeline's 4th Annual Academic Medical & Health Science Centers Conference to be held on Nov 15-16th

Planning and operational management teams from medical schools, university affiliated hospitals, and academic health science centers across the country will meet at Tradeline's 4th Annual Academic Medical & Health Science Centers Conference November 15-16th at the Hyatt Regency in Scottsdale, Arizona, to chart out strategies for the changing health care model. A special pre-conference tour of the new Phoenix Biomedical Campus, including a unique demonstration of telemedicine, will be conducted on November 14th.

20 Jul 2010

Ohio Pharmacy Board approves GE Healthcare's Advanced ePrescribing solution

Marking another significant milestone for GE Healthcare's information technology business, the Ohio Pharmacy Board has approved the company's advanced ePrescribing solution for use by the state's physicians. Ohio is the only state today requiring two-factor authentication.

20 Jul 2010

Dyax launches newly enhanced product website featuring comprehensive financial assistance program

Dyax Corp. today announced that it has launched its newly enhanced product website, www.KALBITOR.com, featuring its comprehensive financial assistance program. KALBITOR (ecallantide) is approved for the treatment of acute attacks of hereditary angioedema in patients 16 years of age and older.

20 Jul 2010

New report compares efficacy of Plavix, Effient in treating patients with ACS

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome, 56 percent of surveyed interventional cardiologists who prescribe Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi-Aventis' Plavix in high doses, consider it to be comparable in efficacy to Daiichi Sankyo/Eli Lilly's recently-launched Effient.

20 Jul 2010

Proactive Patient Outreach system, patient registry to improve care coordination, population health outcomes

Under the HITECH Act's final rules for meaningful use issued last week by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, physicians are required to demonstrate the ability to effectively report quality data, manage care coordination, engage patients and families, and improve population health in order to qualify for federal financial incentives.

20 Jul 2010

Obesity, chronic pain linked to family history, mood disorders: Study

Though it is well known obese individuals have a high incidence of persistent pain problems, a new study in The Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society, reports that comorbid obesity and pain also are linked to family history and mood disorders.

20 Jul 2010

AHF calls upon US to honor commitment to PEPFAR

Doctors and AIDS advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which provides AIDS medical care to more than 138,000 individuals in 23 countries worldwide, will host a press conference at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Monday, July 19th at 12 noon (Media Center, Room PCR #3) to reiterate their call on the United States to honor the its landmark commitment to PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the successful US global AIDS program.

20 Jul 2010

LRGHealthcare deploys Aruba's application-aware 802.11n Wi-Fi networks for clinical mobility needs

Aruba Networks, Inc., a global leader in distributed enterprise network solutions, today announced that LRGHealthcare (LRGH), a healthcare charitable trust based in New Hampshire, has deployed Aruba's application-aware 802.11n Wi-Fi networks to address growing clinical mobility needs throughout the Lakes Region General Hospital, Franklin Regional Hospital, and associated clinics in the cities of Lanconia, Franklin, Gilford, and Meredith.

20 Jul 2010

AIDS 2010 studies, releases: Treating HIV-positive patients with ARVs drove down number of new HIV infections, study finds

"Treating HIV patients with cocktails of AIDS drugs helps to stop them spreading the infection further and more than halved the number of new HIV diagnoses in a study in Canada, scientists said on Sunday," Reuters reports.

20 Jul 2010

Sec. of State Clinton announces $500M health, development projects for Pakistan

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday announced several new development- and health-related aid projects for Pakistan worth more than $500 million, Reuters reports (Quinn, 7/19).

20 Jul 2010

Hospital jobs hurt in some places, expand in others, as recession pinches

Although some hospitals are feeling the pinch of the recession on their budgets, 400 low-income and unemployed residents are receiving job-training and placement at local hospitals to tap into the need for workers. "The Youth Policy Institute, a local nonprofit managing the program, opened its doors to applicants in March and has already enrolled about 400 trainees.

20 Jul 2010

Abortion fight again heats up over high-risk pools, other health reform news

Anti-abortion activists have "scored a victory" after a decision last week by the Obama administration to not allow the new high-risk pools in America to cover most abortions, The Associated Press reports.

20 Jul 2010

Unidine, Xanitos enter strategic partnership

Unidine Corporation, a leading provider of food service management to healthcare and businesses, and Xanitos, Inc., an innovator in EVS management systems for hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership to offer combined food and dining service management and EVS management for hospitals that desire superior quality, personalized attention and the convenience of two industry leaders that share a common philosophy.

19 Jul 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

MedeAnalytics 10 software platform released

Inergetics receives CPR to market Resurgex Select product as nutritional supplement

ARUP enters partnership to offer deCODE's DNA-based prostate cancer risk assessment test

Johnson & Johnson second-quarter sales increase 0.6% to $15.3 billion

Failure to seek help for ED could prevent detection of underlying cardiovascular disease

SHFL to upgrade to latest version of NetSol's LeaseSoft asset management solution

Rockport announces network partner alliance agreement with Evolutions Healthcare Systems

Tradeline's 4th Annual Academic Medical & Health Science Centers Conference to be held on Nov 15-16th

Ohio Pharmacy Board approves GE Healthcare's Advanced ePrescribing solution

Dyax launches newly enhanced product website featuring comprehensive financial assistance program

New report compares efficacy of Plavix, Effient in treating patients with ACS

Proactive Patient Outreach system, patient registry to improve care coordination, population health outcomes

Obesity, chronic pain linked to family history, mood disorders: Study

AHF calls upon US to honor commitment to PEPFAR

LRGHealthcare deploys Aruba's application-aware 802.11n Wi-Fi networks for clinical mobility needs

AIDS 2010 studies, releases: Treating HIV-positive patients with ARVs drove down number of new HIV infections, study finds

Sec. of State Clinton announces $500M health, development projects for Pakistan

Hospital jobs hurt in some places, expand in others, as recession pinches

Abortion fight again heats up over high-risk pools, other health reform news

Unidine, Xanitos enter strategic partnership

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