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BioVigil's second generation hand hygiene monitoring system released

BioVigil LLC has released the second generation of the BioVigil hand hygiene monitoring system. The innovative system enables hospitals to more effectively combat Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) by dramatically increasing hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers.

16 Mar 2010

National, state efforts seek to reduce medical errors

The Wall Street Journal: "Errors made by doctors, nurses and other medical caregivers cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths a year. Hospital infections, many considered preventable, take another 100,000 lives. ... Hospitals are taking what might seem like a surprising approach to confronting the problem: Not only are they trying to improve safety and reduce malpractice claims, they're also coming up with procedures for handling—and even consoling—staffers who make inadvertent mistakes."

16 Mar 2010

Seatac Digital Resources provides $1.5M bridge financing commitment to AMHN

AMHN, Inc., parent company of America's Minority Health Network, Inc., announced bridge financing commitments in the aggregate of $1.5 million provided by one of its majority shareholders and vendors, Seatac Digital Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

16 Mar 2010

CareTech Solutions signs five-year infrastructure outsourcing contract with Sibley Memorial Hospital

CareTech Solutions, Inc., (www.caretech.com) an information technology (IT) and Web products and services company servicing U.S. hospitals and health systems, announced today that it has signed a five-year, comprehensive infrastructure outsourcing contract with Sibley Memorial Hospital, a full-service, 328 bed nonprofit acute care community hospital serving the Washington, D.C. area.

16 Mar 2010

The Beryl Institute joins with Sodexo to release white paper focusing patient-centered environment

The Beryl Institute, an organization dedicated to improving customer service in healthcare, has combined efforts with Sodexo, Inc., a leading integrated food and facilities management services company in North America, to release its latest white paper, “Perspectives on a Patient-Centered Environment.”

16 Mar 2010

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems executes agreement with WSUPG to deploy NextGen Practice Solutions

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced it has executed an agreement with Wayne State University Physician Group to deploy NextGenSM Practice Solutions, a line of business devoted to providing healthcare organizations with cost-effective revenue cycle management (RCM) services.

16 Mar 2010

Patient enrollment in Spinal Restoration' Phase III study of Biostat System now underway

Spinal Restoration, Inc. announced today that patient enrollment in the company’s Phase III study of the Biostat System for the treatment of discogenic chronic low back pain is now underway. The study, which will be conducted at 15 U.S. clinical sites, is one of only a few multi-center, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trials of a nonsurgical treatment for discogenic low back pain ever to be conducted.

16 Mar 2010

MD Pathways, TIPAAA announce five-year partnership

MD Pathways, LLC announced today a five-year partnership with The IPA Association of America (TIPAAA), the nation’s largest independent physicians association with over 700 IPA members representing more than 300,000 MDs nationwide.

16 Mar 2010

HCSC offers CareProfile tool to assist physicians, healthcare facilities identify health risks

Health Care Service Corporation is offering physicians and healthcare facilities access to a new tool that will assist them in identifying health risks for 9 million patients across the country. The CareProfile® is an electronic health record (EHR) created with the collaborative input of MEDecision, Availity and HCSC’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

16 Mar 2010

AssistMed, Definitive Homecare Solutions enter into strategic alliance

AssistMed, Inc. today announced it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Definitive Homecare Solutions, Ltd. to develop and offer an interface between AssistMed's Patient Adherence Solutions and Definitive Homecare Solutions' CPR+ patient and business management software designed for specialty pharmacy customer applications.

16 Mar 2010

Promedior raises $12M in Series C financing

Promedior, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapies to treat inflammatory and fibrotic diseases, today announced that it has raised $12 million in a Series C financing round. Forbion Capital Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors Morgenthaler Ventures, HealthCare Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners, and Easton Capital. The Series C financing brings the total capital raised by Promedior over the past year to $27 million.

16 Mar 2010

First Edition: March 16, 2010

In today's headlines, ongoing efforts by President Obama and Democratic leaders to press and persuade wavering votes in support of health reform take center stage.

16 Mar 2010

Sectra’s operating profit for nine-month period increases 37.3%

IT and medical technology company Sectra’s operating profit for the nine-month period rose by 37.3% to SEK 14.0 million (10.2), corresponding to an operating margin of 2.4% (1.7). Net sales for the period amounted to SEK 592.9 million (599.5).

16 Mar 2010

MRSA Survivors Network urges CDC to declare MRSA an epidemic

MRSA Survivors Network, the nonprofit organization, along with other advocates, urgently plead with the CDC – (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), along with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to finally acknowledge the public health crisis to the public and take action.

16 Mar 2010

COSE statement on health care reform

While a popular target, beating up on health insurance companies will do little to provide changes in insurance costs. Insurance profits and overhead are just a small part of the insurance bill. It's the underlying medical services, technology, tests and drugs that drive cost.

16 Mar 2010

Stage IV colorectal cancer: Therapy that improves overall survival over IFL/bevacizumab will earn 60% patient share

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that a therapy that would improve median overall survival over IFL (bolus 5-fluorouracil, generics/leucovorin, generics/irinotecan*) plus bevacizumab (Roche/Genentech/Chugai's Avastin), would earn a 60 percent patient share in stage IV colorectal cancer, according to surveyed U.S. oncologists. In Europe, such an agent would earn a 50 percent patient share, according to surveyed European oncologists.

16 Mar 2010

EHR Association submits responses on two regulations that implement healthcare IT incentive provisions of ARRA

The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association has submitted its detailed responses on two major regulations that implement healthcare IT incentive provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

16 Mar 2010

RE-LY study: Dabigatran etexilate shows greater reductions in stroke compared to warfarin

Data presented today at the 59th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology have shown greater reductions in stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) for dabigatran etexilate compared to the current standard of care, warfarin, irrespective of a patient’s risk profile for stroke.

16 Mar 2010

AAH Pharmaceuticals deploys Ingres Database

Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, today announced that AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the UK’s leading distributor of pharmaceutical and healthcare products and services to pharmacies, hospitals, and doctors, has significantly reduced operating costs with Ingres Database.

16 Mar 2010

Concurrent use of proton-pump inhibitor and clopidogrel does not elevate cardiovascular risk

Heart patients who took a stomach acid-suppressing proton-pump inhibitor along with clopidogrel - a drug that prevents blood clots - were only half as likely to be hospitalized for upper digestive tract bleeding than those who used clopidogrel alone, according to a new study supported by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

16 Mar 2010

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

BioVigil's second generation hand hygiene monitoring system released

National, state efforts seek to reduce medical errors

Seatac Digital Resources provides $1.5M bridge financing commitment to AMHN

CareTech Solutions signs five-year infrastructure outsourcing contract with Sibley Memorial Hospital

The Beryl Institute joins with Sodexo to release white paper focusing patient-centered environment

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems executes agreement with WSUPG to deploy NextGen Practice Solutions

Patient enrollment in Spinal Restoration' Phase III study of Biostat System now underway

MD Pathways, TIPAAA announce five-year partnership

HCSC offers CareProfile tool to assist physicians, healthcare facilities identify health risks

AssistMed, Definitive Homecare Solutions enter into strategic alliance

Promedior raises $12M in Series C financing

First Edition: March 16, 2010

Sectra’s operating profit for nine-month period increases 37.3%

MRSA Survivors Network urges CDC to declare MRSA an epidemic

COSE statement on health care reform

Stage IV colorectal cancer: Therapy that improves overall survival over IFL/bevacizumab will earn 60% patient share

EHR Association submits responses on two regulations that implement healthcare IT incentive provisions of ARRA

RE-LY study: Dabigatran etexilate shows greater reductions in stroke compared to warfarin

AAH Pharmaceuticals deploys Ingres Database

Concurrent use of proton-pump inhibitor and clopidogrel does not elevate cardiovascular risk

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