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Bluegiga Technologies introduces Bluegiga eHealth Access Point for health and medical applications

Bluegiga Technologies announced today the availability of their new Bluegiga eHealth Access Point based on Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP). The new technology can be utilised in various health and medical applications.

17 Feb 2010

Thomson Reuters, Ingenious Med announce unified billing solution for hospitals and physician practices

Thomson Reuters and Ingenious Med, Inc. have combined their clinical workflow offerings into a unified billing solution for hospitals and physician practices.

17 Feb 2010

Picis launches LYNX CareBridge software to help hospitals address medical necessity challenges

To admit or not to admit? That’s the question being asked by many emergency department (ED) physicians and hospital administrators hundreds of times a day. Hospitals often place patients into observation who might otherwise be admitted, because intensity of service and medical necessity for these patients are not clearly defined or documented.

17 Feb 2010

MBF to invest nearly $50M of equity capital to support Florida HMO

MBF Healthcare Partners, L.P. (“MBF”), a healthcare services focused private equity firm, announced its plans to invest up to $50 million of equity capital to support Simply Healthcare Plans of Florida, Inc. (“SHP”), an HMO based in Coral Gables, Florida. The equity investment will be used to fund expansion and acquisition efforts in Medicare and Medicaid. SHP is a licensed HMO in Florida that has been approved by the State to expand into the Medicare and Medicaid markets.

17 Feb 2010

Shared Health partners with MEDai to provide HIE platform to the state of Tennessee

Shared Health, Inc., Tennessee's largest public/private health information exchange (HIE) has partnered with MEDai, an Elsevier company, to provide a rich, interoperable, clinically relevant HIE platform to the state of Tennessee. This partnership delivers best in class solutions and technologies that support clinical excellence and operating efficiencies.

17 Feb 2010

AZ&Me Prescription Savings programs help 13% more patients in 2009

AstraZeneca announced today that it provided $769.6 million in savings to 507,475 patients in the United States last year through its AZ&Me™ Prescription Savings programs.

17 Feb 2010

4 Senate Democrats ask Reid to go back to public option

Four Senate Democrats are asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to revisit a plan for a government run health plan, or public option, in the health care overhaul legislation.

17 Feb 2010

WebMD Health introduces new enhancements for Medscape Mobile for physicians

WebMD Health Corp., the leading source of health information, today announced a set of new enhancements for Medscape Mobile to assist physicians in diagnosis and treatment at the point-of-care. Medscape Mobile, WebMD's free medical application for physicians, now provides access to thousands of in-depth clinical reference articles on diseases, conditions, and procedures, in addition to complete reference information on over 7,000 brand name, generic and OTC medications.

17 Feb 2010

CMS study predicts healthcare spending may double by 2019

Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc.. Unlike other industries, spending on healthcare showed no signs of slowing down and the sector made its biggest one-year jump ever according to a new study by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

17 Feb 2010

Scienta Health signs agreement with Partners HealthCare to provide advanced acute care to its clients

Scienta Health today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Boston-based Partners HealthCare, the leading academic medical network in the U.S. Partners HealthCare includes major teaching hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School: the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, McLean Hospital, a treatment and research leader in mental illness, chemical dependency and learning disabilities; and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a top-ranked rehabilitation facility.

17 Feb 2010

Cincinnati-based Secure Content Technologies joins Palisade Systems' VIP Reseller Program

Palisade Systems, the leader In Data Loss Prevention solutions for the small- and medium-sized enterprise, today announces that Cincinnati-based Secure Content Technologies has joined its VIP Reseller Program. As a reseller, Secure Content Technologies will market Palisade Systems PacketSure solution to the small and medium enterprise market seeking a full data loss prevention solution for the various markets including the healthcare, educational and financial sectors.

17 Feb 2010

Generx clinical development opportunities: bioRASI to assist Cardium

Cardium Therapeutics today announced that it has entered into an agreement with bioRASI, an international contract research organization, to assist Cardium in the evaluation of Generx clinical development opportunities within major newly-industrializing markets in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, for patients with chronic coronary artery disease who are either not optimal candidates for or do not have access to costly angioplasty/stenting or cardiac bypass surgery procedures.

17 Feb 2010

Adding daclizumab to standard treatment reduces enlarged brain lesions in patients with relapsing MS

An international team of researchers has found that adding a humanized monoclonal antibody called daclizumab to standard treatment reduces the number of new or enlarged brain lesions in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis. This new study was published online Feb. 16, 2010, and in the March edition of the Lancet Neurology.

17 Feb 2010

Poll says most Americans want to start over on health reform

In a new poll from Zogby International and the University of Texas Health Science Center, more than half of respondents said Congress should start over on health care reforms, The Hill reports.

17 Feb 2010

Study shows value-based plans can improve adherence for diabetes medicines

A study by CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), published this week in the American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits, finds that insurance benefit designs that reduce the cost of medications for plan participants result in patients being more likely to start and stay on their medication therapy.

17 Feb 2010

Amgen and Centocor Ortho Biotech Products: FDA approves REMS for Aranesp, EPOGEN and PROCRIT ESAs

Amgen Inc. and Centocor Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), which include Aranesp® (darbepoetin alfa), EPOGEN® (Epoetin alfa) and PROCRIT® (Epoetin alfa).

17 Feb 2010

Healthcare Trust of America completes 13 acquisitions

Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. ("HTA"), a self-managed, non-traded, real estate investment trust, announced that in 2009, HTA completed 13 acquisitions comprised of 54 medical office buildings totaling 2,257,634 square feet and one real estate-related asset. The total purchase price of these acquisitions was approximately $494,259,000.

16 Feb 2010

Oncolytics Biotech receives U.K. MHRA approval for REOLYSIN combination Phase 3 trial

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. today announced that it has received a letter of approval from the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to conduct its Phase 3 trial examining REOLYSIN in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with platinum-refractory head and neck cancers. This is the same trial that the Company previously reached an agreement on with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) process.

16 Feb 2010

Derycz Scientific reports second-quarter and half-year fiscal 2010 results

Derycz Scientific, a company that is pioneering a fresh way of facilitating the flow of information from content publishers to enterprise customers and their constituents, announced its second quarter and half-year financial results for fiscal year 2010.

16 Feb 2010

EVOLVE WELLNESS CENTER expands to prominent new space in West Hollywood

EVOLVE WELLNESS CENTER, Los Angeles’ premier Acupuncture group for more than 13 years has expanded to a prominent new space in West Hollywood and is planning to celebrate its Grand Re-Opening with a great deal of fanfare.

16 Feb 2010

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Bluegiga Technologies introduces Bluegiga eHealth Access Point for health and medical applications

Thomson Reuters, Ingenious Med announce unified billing solution for hospitals and physician practices

Picis launches LYNX CareBridge software to help hospitals address medical necessity challenges

MBF to invest nearly $50M of equity capital to support Florida HMO

Shared Health partners with MEDai to provide HIE platform to the state of Tennessee

AZ&Me Prescription Savings programs help 13% more patients in 2009

4 Senate Democrats ask Reid to go back to public option

WebMD Health introduces new enhancements for Medscape Mobile for physicians

CMS study predicts healthcare spending may double by 2019

Scienta Health signs agreement with Partners HealthCare to provide advanced acute care to its clients

Cincinnati-based Secure Content Technologies joins Palisade Systems' VIP Reseller Program

Generx clinical development opportunities: bioRASI to assist Cardium

Adding daclizumab to standard treatment reduces enlarged brain lesions in patients with relapsing MS

Poll says most Americans want to start over on health reform

Study shows value-based plans can improve adherence for diabetes medicines

Amgen and Centocor Ortho Biotech Products: FDA approves REMS for Aranesp, EPOGEN and PROCRIT ESAs

Healthcare Trust of America completes 13 acquisitions

Oncolytics Biotech receives U.K. MHRA approval for REOLYSIN combination Phase 3 trial

Derycz Scientific reports second-quarter and half-year fiscal 2010 results

EVOLVE WELLNESS CENTER expands to prominent new space in West Hollywood

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