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Benefits of health overhaul won't be immediate

Mechanisms to make health insurance more affordable for families and low- and middle-income households won't start until 2013 if health care reform passes.

12 Oct 2009

Today's selection of opeds: Cutting health costs

Many commentators have treated the Senate Finance bill as the likely template for any final legislation because it may be more palatable to conservative Democrats, and deficit hawks, in both houses.

12 Oct 2009

Young 'invincibles,' small businesses worry about proposed mandates

Newspapers report on how young adults and small businesses might be affected by the mandates proposed in the health care bills pending in Congress.

12 Oct 2009

Sage Practice Analytics system from Sage Software Healthcare

Physicians in ambulatory practice and their administrative leaders can have unsurpassed visibility into their business and clinical data with the Sage Practice Analytics v 5.5 business and clinical intelligence system, released today by Sage.

12 Oct 2009

Horizon BCBSNJ to use NaviNet’s Web-based portal for secure information exchange with providers

NaviNet, America’s largest real-time health care communications network, and New Jersey’s largest health insurer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), announced today an agreement in which Horizon BCBSNJ will use NaviNet’s multi-payer, Web-based portal as its exclusive secure information exchange with providers.

12 Oct 2009

Res-Q point-of-care cell processing system from Celling Technologies

Celling Technologies, an innovator in stem cell therapy, launched its latest technology for the isolation of adult stem cells. The Res-Q device was developed by ThermoGenesis Corporation to provide an easy to use, point-of-care system to compliment their MXP system currently being marketed in the United States and several international markets.

12 Oct 2009

Itamar-Medical’s WatchPAT technology chosen as one of The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010

Itamar-Medical’s WatchPAT technology has been selected to The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010 at the seventh annual Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit. In developing the Top 10, Cleveland Clinic enlisted the expertise of AlixPartners, LLP, an independent international management advisory firm in order to develop a consensus perspective on the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010.

12 Oct 2009

Imprivata conducts joint webinar with Carefx on healthcare management

Imprivata®, Inc., the employee access management company and largest provider of healthcare single sign-on (SSO), today announced that it will be conducting a joint webinar with Carefx, a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions.

12 Oct 2009

eGistics Digital Medical Practice solution for hospitals and healthcare providers

eGistics, Inc. today announced the availability of a hosted solution that helps physician groups, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers to electronically manage administrative documents such as those for patient registration, A/R management (appeal letters, EOP’s (Explanation of Payment)), contracts, human resources, and credentialing.

12 Oct 2009

RelayHealth networks 50 health systems and hospitals to facilitate health information exchange

RelayHealth, a leading provider of healthcare connectivity services, today announced that 50 health systems and hospitals are now contracted for its solutions to facilitate health information exchange (HIE) and care coordination.

12 Oct 2009

Grid technology enables accurate healthcare data exchange between physician EHRs and hospitals

Medicity, Inc., leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) technology, announced today that Craig Bakken, CEO of Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology Associates (RMGA), will co-present with Medicity Vice President Doug Arent at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) annual conference on Monday, October 12th, from 3:15-4:30 p.m. Mountain Time at the Colorado Convention Center.

12 Oct 2009

FDA grants marketing approval for CSL Behring's Berinert C1-Esterase Inhibitor

CSL Behring announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Berinert® C1-Esterase Inhibitor, Human for the treatment of acute abdominal or facial attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE), a rare and serious genetic disorder, in adult and adolescent patients. Berinert is the first and only therapy approved for this indication in the U.S.

12 Oct 2009

VirtualHealth Technologies, Wound Care Innovations enter licensing agreement to use Cifra healthcare platform

VirtualHealth Technologies, Inc., a provider of secure technology for electronic health records and connectivity for web-based healthcare solutions, announced today that its subsidiary Secure eHealth has entered into an agreement with Wound Care Innovations, LLC, a subsidiary of Wound Management Technologies Inc., to use its Cifra secure healthcare platform.

12 Oct 2009

Cifra healthcare platform from Wound Management Technologies

Wound Management Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WNDM) a rapidly growing provider of specialty medical products, announced today that its subsidiary Wound Care Innovations, LLC has launched the Cifra(TM) healthcare platform to securely exchange and store information for ongoing evidence based case studies on its patented collagen CellerateRx® products in managing all types of wound care.

12 Oct 2009

Communications technology for students and employees to manage their healthcare relationships

Allviant Corporation today announced the launch of its CarePass™ pilot program with Arizona State University to add another tool to the university’s health and wellness communications and services while empowering its employees and students with tools to manage their healthcare relationships.

12 Oct 2009

Study on Lumalier's automated UV device for decontaminating hospital rooms presented at the ICAAC

In a study presented at the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), researchers used a mobile, automated UV device to decontaminate hospital rooms at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Ohio and analyzed its ability to remove troublesome bacteria, including C. difficile spores.

12 Oct 2009

XTend Medical provides update regarding the BioHarp market potential

XTend Medical, a company specializing in manufacturing and distributing the latest in telemedicine and diagnostic devices, released the following information regarding the BioHarp market potential.

12 Oct 2009

Rice consumption improves overall diet and reduces obesity and Type II diabetes

According to recent research published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (JADA), eating rice helps improve overall diet and potentially reduces the risk for many chronic diseases, including obesity, cardiovascular disease and Type II diabetes.

12 Oct 2009

Orion Genomics enters collaboration and license agreement with Novartis Pharma

Orion Genomics today announced that it has entered into a multi-year collaboration and license agreement with the molecular diagnostics unit of Novartis Pharma AG. Under the collaboration, the parties seek to discover novel epigenetic biomarkers, and both parties have rights to independently develop and commercialize diagnostic products in their respective fields.

12 Oct 2009

OSI Systems receives $1.3 million order from Thomas Memorial Hospital for its patient monitoring products

OSI Systems, Inc., a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its Healthcare division, Spacelabs Healthcare, has received a contract from Thomas Memorial Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia for a broad range of patient monitoring products.

12 Oct 2009

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Benefits of health overhaul won't be immediate

Today's selection of opeds: Cutting health costs

Young 'invincibles,' small businesses worry about proposed mandates

Sage Practice Analytics system from Sage Software Healthcare

Horizon BCBSNJ to use NaviNet’s Web-based portal for secure information exchange with providers

Res-Q point-of-care cell processing system from Celling Technologies

Itamar-Medical’s WatchPAT technology chosen as one of The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010

Imprivata conducts joint webinar with Carefx on healthcare management

eGistics Digital Medical Practice solution for hospitals and healthcare providers

RelayHealth networks 50 health systems and hospitals to facilitate health information exchange

Grid technology enables accurate healthcare data exchange between physician EHRs and hospitals

FDA grants marketing approval for CSL Behring's Berinert C1-Esterase Inhibitor

VirtualHealth Technologies, Wound Care Innovations enter licensing agreement to use Cifra healthcare platform

Cifra healthcare platform from Wound Management Technologies

Communications technology for students and employees to manage their healthcare relationships

Study on Lumalier's automated UV device for decontaminating hospital rooms presented at the ICAAC

XTend Medical provides update regarding the BioHarp market potential

Rice consumption improves overall diet and reduces obesity and Type II diabetes

Orion Genomics enters collaboration and license agreement with Novartis Pharma

OSI Systems receives $1.3 million order from Thomas Memorial Hospital for its patient monitoring products

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