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JumpStart announces investment commitment of $250,000 in Checkpoint Surgical

JumpStart Inc., the Northeast Ohio venture development organization that accelerates the progress of high growth early-stage businesses, announced a JumpStart Ventures investment commitment of $250,000 in Checkpoint Surgical, LLC. A spinout of NDI Medical, the Highland Hills, OH medical device company is developing and commercializing a surgical handheld disposable nerve stimulator.

10 Nov 2009

Tailwind Capital announces the completion of investment in SDI Health

Tailwind Capital, a private equity firm focused on growing companies in the healthcare, business services, and media/communications sectors of the middle market, announced today that it has completed an investment in SDI Health (“SDI”). SDI is a leading healthcare analytics provider based in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Tailwind joins founder Andrew Kress and Philadelphia-based LLR Partners as investors in the Company.

10 Nov 2009

Landauer announces GPS acquisition

Landauer, Inc. (NYSE: LDR), a recognized leader in personal and environmental radiation monitoring services, today announced the completion of two acquisitions in accordance with its long-term strategic priorities.

10 Nov 2009

Obama applauds House health bill passage, urges quick Senate action

President Obama is pressing the Senate to pass health care legislation as soon as possible. "The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action, with President Obama appearing Sunday in the Rose Garden to call on senators to 'take up the baton and bring this effort to the finish line,'" The New York Times reports.

10 Nov 2009

University of Michigan to develop novel therapy for neuropathic pain

Researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Neurology have received a $1.8 million dollar grant to develop a novel therapy for neuropathic pain, a difficult to treat condition in which patients experience pain because of damage to nerve without obvious tissue injury.

10 Nov 2009

European Union funds a three-year project to establish a research network for complementary medicine study

A three-year project called CAMbrella will receive nearly 1.5 million euros of European Union funding to establish a research network for the study of complementary medicine. The Center for Naturopathic Research at "Rechts der Isar," the university hospital of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen will coordinate the project for the winning applicant group, which includes 16 scientific organizations from 12 European countries.

10 Nov 2009

Employees face rising health care costs during open enrollment season

Employees are facing rising health care costs during this open enrollment season.

10 Nov 2009

House healthcare bill is radically off the mark: Cinergy Health

Cinergy Health, a nationwide provider of guaranteed issue health insurance benefit programs for the consumer market, expressed its concern for the house healthcare bill that passed Saturday, November 7th.

9 Nov 2009

Amerinet selects 1SYNC for accessing product information in the GDSN

Amerinet Inc., a national healthcare group purchasing organization, today continued its leadership in helping to standardize the healthcare supply chain by choosing 1SYNC™ as its data pool for accessing product information in the Global Data Synchronization Network® (GDSN®).

9 Nov 2009

OSHPD selects Accela Automation software to track hospital construction projects across the state

Accela, Inc. today announced that the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) has selected Accela Automation software as the nexus of a comprehensive online environment that will track hospital and skilled nursing facility construction projects across the state. OSHPD's Facilities Development Division (FDD) will utilize Accela solutions to replace an existing database system, which is used to track health-facility plan review and construction; facilitate inspections and certifications; and ensure compliance with state-mandated seismic safety standards.

9 Nov 2009

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