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Northrop Grumman introduces mobile application for veterans to access personal EHRs

Northrop Grumman Corporation has introduced a mobile application available to U.S. military veterans that enables secure access to health information and records from a mobile device.

21 Feb 2011

Best Medical Belgium to purchase Nordion's Belgian operations

Nordion Inc., a leading provider of products and services to the global health science market, today announced it has signed a share purchase agreement (SPA) with Best Medical Belgium (Best Medical) for the divestiture of the Company's Belgian operations, MDS Nordion S.A. Pursuant to the SPA, Best Medical will acquire all of Nordion's Belgian operations with the exception of the TheraSphere® business.

21 Feb 2011

Passport introduces eCare NEXT intelligent revenue cycle platform

Passport Health Communications Inc., the Patient Access Experts, has introduced eCare® NEXT, an intelligent revenue cycle platform that automates the typically inefficient and often incomplete patient and payer data verification workflow within hospitals. The software can be implemented at any point in the access management workflow (e.g., scheduling, pre-registration or admission).

21 Feb 2011

TMS moves its headquarters to Primera Office Park in Lake Mary, Fla

Total Medical Solutions has moved its headquarters into a 10,000-square-foot space in the Primera Office Park in Lake Mary, Fla.

21 Feb 2011

New study indicates that personality disturbances can be treated

A new study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by a group of Dutch investigators headed by Paul Emmelkamp indicates that also personality disturbances can be treated.

21 Feb 2011

Sarasota Memorial selects Meru for pervasive wireless coverage to healthcare industry

Meru Networks, Inc., the leader in virtualized 802.11n enterprise wireless networking, today announced that Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, the second-largest acute care public medical center in Florida, selected Meru for pervasive wireless coverage throughout their 806-bed facility.

21 Feb 2011

Scientists present new data on role of treatment preferences in depression outcomes

This study demonstrates that patients' relative preference for medication versus psychotherapy should be considered when offering a treatment to depressed patients because receiving the preferred treatment conveys an additional and clinically relevant benefit in outcome.

21 Feb 2011

Sheffield Bio-Science forms strategic alliance with Wockhardt to strengthen cell culture media portfolio

Sheffield Bio-Science, a Kerry Group Business, has formed a strategic global sales, marketing and development alliance with Wockhardt Ltd. Under this partnership, Sheffield Bio-Science will be the Exclusive Global Sales and Distribution Partner for recombinant insulin manufactured by global Indian biotech Wockhardt. According to estimates, the potential in cell culture markets is around US$ 50 million.

21 Feb 2011

$Tip sheets provide details on hip and knee fracture treatment$

Tip sheets provide details on hip and knee fracture treatment

Patients who wait more than 36 hours for surgery to correct a hip fracture have a 39 percent rate of medical complication and those who wait 48 hours have a 46 percent complication rate. Patients who receive surgical treatment within 24 hours have a lower complication rate of 25 percent and a shorter hospital stay. Each day the surgery was delayed added an additional two days to hospital stay.

21 Feb 2011

'Experience station' program offers rheumatologists to gain insight into patients' everyday challenges

Pharmaceutical companies are focusing on more unique approaches in the development of educational and experiential solutions for their health care customers at medical conferences, according to Joe Scrocco, chief executive officer of OneWorld, Inc., a leading pharmaceutical consulting firm.

21 Feb 2011

NextGen Healthcare unveils new innovations to enhance providers' performance at HIMSS conference

At the 2011 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today unveiled several new innovations to help providers advance collaborative care and clinical integration across the continuum.

21 Feb 2011

Elsevier, CJC publish 2011 issue of Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Elsevier and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society announce the publication of the January/February 2011 issue of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, the first in their partnership. This theme issue focused on atrial fibrillation includes the long-awaited Canadian Cardiovascular Society Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines.

21 Feb 2011

Elsevier acquires Shanghai Datong Medical Information Technology

Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of Shanghai Datong Medical Information Technology Co., Ltd., a leading drug decision support provider in China.

21 Feb 2011

Mouse model could help develop new classes of antidepressant drugs

The most widely prescribed antidepressants - medicines such as Prozac, Lexapro and Paxil - work by blocking the serotonin transporter, a brain protein that normally clears away the mood-regulating chemical serotonin. Or so the current thinking goes.

21 Feb 2011

NCPA, NACDS explain importance of pharmacies in Medicaid program

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the National Community Pharmacists Association have sent a joint letter to every Governor and State Medicaid Director, explaining the importance of pharmacies in Medicaid, offering recommendations, and expressing a desire to work together to cut costs without endangering Medicaid beneficiaries' access to pharmacy prescription drug services.

21 Feb 2011

EUFIC, University of Surrey publish European nutrition labelling consumer research results

The European Food Information Council, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Surrey, UK, has published the results of its latest European nutrition labelling consumer research - now focusing on portion information.

21 Feb 2011

Logicworks, Orion partner to provide highest standard of security for organizations using HIE SaaS model

Orion Health, Inc., global leaders in Health Information Exchange solutions, announces today its partnership with Logicworks, a leading provider of high availability and private cloud hosting solutions, to provide the highest standard of security for organizations using the Orion Health Health Information Exchange SaaS model.

21 Feb 2011

ESMO creates new Community Oncology Working Group to ensure best standards of care

Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a devastating experience. Still under the shock of the bad news, patients must make many choices including who to turn to for advice and treatment, with the possibility to choose among a comprehensive cancer center, a university hospital or a community oncology hospital.

21 Feb 2011

Synexus creates specialist vaccines team to help pharma and biotech companies

Synexus has created a specialist vaccines team to help pharma and biotech companies find the thousands of patients they need for their late phase trials. The company has a well-established reputation for delivering results in the vaccine field following successes in late phase vaccine trials including most recently, studies for cancer prevention, influenza and rotavirus where it has delivered in excess of three thousand randomised patients in all three areas.

From AES - Accelerated Enrollment Solutions 21 Feb 2011

Role of hybrid Brain Computer Interface in people with paraplegia

"Brain Computer Interface" pursues the objective to extract information from human brain waves in order to provide persons suffering from severe disabilities with a communication system.

21 Feb 2011

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Northrop Grumman introduces mobile application for veterans to access personal EHRs

Best Medical Belgium to purchase Nordion's Belgian operations

Passport introduces eCare NEXT intelligent revenue cycle platform

TMS moves its headquarters to Primera Office Park in Lake Mary, Fla

New study indicates that personality disturbances can be treated

Sarasota Memorial selects Meru for pervasive wireless coverage to healthcare industry

Scientists present new data on role of treatment preferences in depression outcomes

Sheffield Bio-Science forms strategic alliance with Wockhardt to strengthen cell culture media portfolio

Tip sheets provide details on hip and knee fracture treatment

'Experience station' program offers rheumatologists to gain insight into patients' everyday challenges

NextGen Healthcare unveils new innovations to enhance providers' performance at HIMSS conference

Elsevier, CJC publish 2011 issue of Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Elsevier acquires Shanghai Datong Medical Information Technology

Mouse model could help develop new classes of antidepressant drugs

NCPA, NACDS explain importance of pharmacies in Medicaid program

EUFIC, University of Surrey publish European nutrition labelling consumer research results

Logicworks, Orion partner to provide highest standard of security for organizations using HIE SaaS model

ESMO creates new Community Oncology Working Group to ensure best standards of care

Synexus creates specialist vaccines team to help pharma and biotech companies

Role of hybrid Brain Computer Interface in people with paraplegia

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Automation in cell-based workflows

Data management challenges in scientific research

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