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Sonova Holding to acquire Advanced Bionics

Advanced Bionics (AB), the only U.S.-based manufacturer of cochlear implants (or “bionic ears”), announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Sonova Holding AG, the world’s leading provider of hearing systems.

9 Nov 2009

Awareness campaign for Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation wins GCG Marketing honors

GCG Marketing today announces its award of Best Corporate Advertisement/Campaign at the 2009 Medical Marketing & Media Awards honoring the agency’s development of an awareness campaign for the Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation.

9 Nov 2009

TRICARE South Region beneficiaries urged to get H1N1 influenza vaccinations

Humana Military Healthcare Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), encourages TRICARE South Region beneficiaries to get their H1N1 influenza vaccinations in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus. Anticipating a greater need for the shots, the Department of Defense (DoD) is encouraging all military personnel to obtain the vaccines.

9 Nov 2009

Geisinger launches RRVI for rural veterans and their families

Veteran's Day has a new meaning for a Geisinger team of clinicians and researchers who recently launched the Reaching Rural Veterans Initiative (RRVI). Utilizing financial grants from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Health Resources and Services Administration, the team is focused on developing a model to improve the way healthcare providers identify and care for combat stress-related injuries in returning veterans and their families.

9 Nov 2009

Netezza's TwinFin appliance to address Marshfield Clinic's research database and computation needs

Netezza Corporation, the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced that Marshfield Clinic, one of the largest private, multispecialty medical systems in the United States, has selected the Netezza® TwinFin™ appliance to address the research database and computation needs of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation.

9 Nov 2009

Press Ganey Associates selects RAVEN to improve their requirements definition process

Press Ganey Associates, Inc. today announced it has selected RAVEN to improve their requirements definition process.

9 Nov 2009

Access MediQuip relocates its corporate headquarters to Lake Mary, Florida

Access MediQuip, LLC, the nation's first and largest provider of outsourced implantable medical device management solutions to the healthcare industry, announced today that it is relocating its corporate headquarters to Lake Mary, Florida. The move, prompted by the firm's continued rapid growth, includes a major expansion of the Primera Blvd, Lake Mary office space that will open in January 2010 and relocation and expansion of the Houston facilities to the new, LEED® certified, One & Two Oak Park complex in the Westchase District.

9 Nov 2009

Covisint and Carefx partner to market an integrated workflow solution for health information exchange

Addressing the burgeoning demand for health information exchange (HIE) to coordinate and better leverage patient information, two health IT industry leaders - Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware Corporation, and Carefx - have partnered to market an integrated workflow solution that ties together the full spectrum of care, from physician offices to labs and pharmacies, to multiple information systems within hospitals.

9 Nov 2009

Covidien contraindicates use of its Optimark gadoversetamide injection

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that it will voluntarily contraindicate the use of its Optimark™ gadoversetamide injection, a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA), in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures involving patients with severe renal impairment.

9 Nov 2009

Arcadia Resources receives commitments from institutional investors to purchase $11.1 million of securities

Arcadia Resources, Inc., a leading provider of innovative consumer health care services under the Arcadia HealthCare(SM) brand, today announced that it has received commitments from institutional investors to purchase $11.1 million of securities in a registered direct offering.

9 Nov 2009

Thomson Reuters releases CareFocus 2.0 clinical surveillance solution

Thomson Reuters today announced the newest release of Clinical Xpert(TM) CareFocus, a leading clinical surveillance solution that enables hospitals to identify at-risk patients in real-time and respond immediately to improve clinical quality and reduce total cost of treatment.

9 Nov 2009

Decision Resources forecasts sales of HER2-targeting agents to grow by 3.3% per year

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, in 2008, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) targeting therapies -- which include Roche/Chugai's Herceptin and GlaxoSmithKline/Nippon Kayaku's Tykerb/Tyverb -- were the highest-selling drug class in breast cancer treatment.

9 Nov 2009

ZeOmega announces alliance with Eldorado Computing to offer integrated care management solution

ZeOmega, a premier provider of care management software solutions and services, today announced its strategic alliance with Eldorado Computing Inc. (ELDORADO), an MphasiS Company and a leading provider of health benefit and claims management platforms, to offer an integrated care and benefits management solution.

9 Nov 2009

Single reimbursement code for NPWT devices: Smith & Nephew endorses decision

The Advanced Wound Management division of Smith & Nephew, Inc., a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew plc, applauded the federal government's decision last week to maintain the current, single reimbursement code for negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) devices.

9 Nov 2009

Merge Healthcare signs distribution agreement with PANGAEA Technology

Merge Healthcare, a leading medical imaging solutions provider, today announced that its Merge China business unit has signed a Distribution Agreement with PANGAEA Technology Limited, a distributor of CCD detectors, which are an economical alternative to digital detectors, for DR systems in the Greater China area.

9 Nov 2009

First Edition: November 9, 2009

Two mornings after, the headlines are still focused on the landmark House passage of the Democratic-backed health overhaul bill and what might happen next... in the Senate.

9 Nov 2009

Chindex International reports fiscal 2010 second-quarter results

Chindex International, Inc., a leading independent American provider of Western healthcare products and services in the People's Republic of China, today announced results for the second quarter and first half of fiscal 2010, which ended September 30, 2009.

9 Nov 2009

RehabCare Group commences public offering of 4,350,000 shares of its common stock

RehabCare Group, Inc. announced today it has commenced an underwritten public offering of 4,350,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

9 Nov 2009

Tethys Bioscience completes $25 million Series D financing

Tethys Bioscience, a privately held company, announced today that it has closed a $25 million Series D round of financing led by aeris CAPITAL AG and including Wasatch Advisors as a new investor. All current investors, including MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and Intel Capital participated in the round. Tethys also announced that it has appointed George Rehm, Managing Partner of aeris CAPITAL, to the Tethys Board of Directors.

9 Nov 2009

SEED Competition launched in China

Roche, OrbiMed, and McKinsey officially launched the SEED Competition at the Beijing International Healthcare Industry Forum today. This is one of the first life sciences business plan competitions in Greater China.

9 Nov 2009

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Sonova Holding to acquire Advanced Bionics

Awareness campaign for Children’s Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation wins GCG Marketing honors

TRICARE South Region beneficiaries urged to get H1N1 influenza vaccinations

Geisinger launches RRVI for rural veterans and their families

Netezza's TwinFin appliance to address Marshfield Clinic's research database and computation needs

Press Ganey Associates selects RAVEN to improve their requirements definition process

Access MediQuip relocates its corporate headquarters to Lake Mary, Florida

Covisint and Carefx partner to market an integrated workflow solution for health information exchange

Covidien contraindicates use of its Optimark gadoversetamide injection

Arcadia Resources receives commitments from institutional investors to purchase $11.1 million of securities

Thomson Reuters releases CareFocus 2.0 clinical surveillance solution

Decision Resources forecasts sales of HER2-targeting agents to grow by 3.3% per year

ZeOmega announces alliance with Eldorado Computing to offer integrated care management solution

Single reimbursement code for NPWT devices: Smith & Nephew endorses decision

Merge Healthcare signs distribution agreement with PANGAEA Technology

First Edition: November 9, 2009

Chindex International reports fiscal 2010 second-quarter results

RehabCare Group commences public offering of 4,350,000 shares of its common stock

Tethys Bioscience completes $25 million Series D financing

SEED Competition launched in China

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