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Mitchell International Closes Purchase of Ingenix Property & Casualty Medical Bill Review Business

SOURCE: Mitchell International Smooth Leadership and Technology Transition Ensures Successful Integration of Customer Medical Bill Review Operations Into SmartAdvisorTM Medical Bill Review Platform SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - December 7, 2010) - Mitchell International, Inc., a leading provider of information, workflow and performance management solutions to the Property & Casualty (P&C) claims and ...

St. Clair Hospital Replaces Scheduling System With Versus RTLS

SOURCE: Versus Technology, Inc. TRAVERSE CITY, MI--(Marketwire - December 7, 2010) - St. Clair Hospital Outpatient Surgery Center in Pittsburgh, PA has selected the Versus Advantages Real-time Locating System (RTLS) from Versus Technology, Inc. (Versus) (PINKSHEETS: VSTI) to improve nurse-to-patient assignment and continue automated nurse call cancellation functionality throughout the ...

Houston to Deploy an Additional 250 Parking Pay Stations From Digital Payment Technologies

SOURCE: Digital Payment Technologies Attend Webinar on December 8 to Learn How the City Boosted Revenues and Became More Efficient With Multi-Space Parking Pay Stations VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - December 6, 2010) - Digital Payment Technologies (http://www.digitalpaytech.com) (DPT), a leading supplier of parking technology and solutions, today announced that the city of Houston, ...

CONMED Corporation Receives Clearance From FDA for Novel Tissue Fusion System

SOURCE: CONMED Corporation UTICA, NY--(Marketwire - December 3, 2010) - CONMED Corporation (NASDAQ: CNMD), a medical technology company specializing in medical devices for surgical and patient monitoring markets, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given marketing clearance for the Company's thermal energy based tissue fusion system ...

SRSsoft to Attain Government Certification for EMR Delivering Productivity-Focused Meaningful Use

SOURCE: SRSsoft MONTVALE, NJ--(Marketwire - December 2, 2010) - SRS, the leader in productivity-enhancing EMR technology and services for high-performance specialty practices, today announced that it will seek certification of its EMR by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment ...

ALDA Pharmaceuticals Corp.: T36(R) Antiseptic Hand Sanitizer Kills "Superbugs" in 15 Seconds

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 2, 2010) - ALDA Pharmaceuticals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:APH)(OTCQB:APCSF) (the "Company") announces that new tests have shown that T36® Antiseptic Hand Sanitizer is completely effective against two types of new "superbugs" within 15 seconds. The testing was conducted ...

Patient Tracking a Success During BHEPP Emergency Response Drill

SOURCE: Versus Technology, Inc. TRAVERSE CITY, MI--(Marketwire - December 1, 2010) -  Just ten weeks after Versus Technology, Inc. (Versus) (PINKSHEETS: VSTI) was selected to support the Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP) Real-time Locating System (RTLS) initiative, the Versus Advantages™ system was recently utilized during the organization's disaster preparedness drill. ...

LumaMed Adds Cancer Imaging Technology From the Wellman Center for Photomedicine

SOURCE: LumaMed New Technology Could Revolutionize Cancer Surgery ATLANTA, GA and BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - December 1, 2010) - LumaMed LLC has entered into an initial agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital to commercialize an imaging system developed at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine that could revolutionize cancer surgery. ...

MedLink Announces Successful Completion of $2.25 Million Capital Raise

SOURCE: MedLink International, Inc. NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 29, 2010) - MedLink (OTCBB: MLKNA), a leading provider of health information technology solutions, today announced that it has closed an aggregate of $2.25 million in financing. Aegis Capital Corp, sole placement agent and exclusive investment banker to MedLink, placed $1.0 ...

Technology Medical Partners Awarded Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Grant From Federal Government

SOURCE: Technology Medical Partners CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwire - November 22, 2010) - Healthcare information technology solutions and services provider Technology Medical Partners (TMP), today announced that it has been awarded a Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery grant from the Federal government. The $113,000 grant was awarded as part of the Patient Protection and ...

Vangent Wins $3.7 Million Contract From Military Health System to Manage Patient Movement Item Tracking System

SOURCE: Vangent Vangent to Manage Award-Winning MHS System That Ensures Medical Equipment Is Accessible and Available for Wounded Warriors ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwire - October 28, 2010) -  Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process solutions, today announced it was awarded the Patient Movement Item Tracking System (PMITS) ...

Chubb Establishes a Healthcare Information Technology Program

SOURCE: Chubb Group of Insurance Companies WARREN, NJ--(Marketwire - October 28, 2010) -  Health care reform has spawned a host of privacy, information security and other liability exposures for the emerging healthcare information technology industry. In response, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has established a program to address the industry's specialized ...

Visionary HealthWare’s Alteer Office Solution Receives 2011 CCHIT(R) Certification

SOURCE: Visionary HealthWare Topic: CCHIT Certification Alteer Office Solution Issuing Entity: CompuGroup Medical US, Visionary HealthWare TAMPA, FL--(Marketwire - October 28, 2010) -  The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) today announced that Visionary HealthWare's Alteer Office 8.0 is a pre-market CCHIT Certified®  2011 Ambulatory EHR. Ambulatory EHRs are designed for physician ...

St. Paul Heart Clinic First in Upper Midwest to Implant New Early-Stage Heart Failure Device

SOURCE: St. Paul Heart Clinic Two Patients Successfully Treated With the C-Pulse® Heart Assist System From Eden Prairie-Based Sunshine Heart ST PAUL, MN--(Marketwire - October 26, 2010) -  St. Paul Heart Clinic announced today that the first patients in Minnesota have been implanted with the world's first known non-blood contacting mechanical heart ...

MIT Sets Webinar Date to Discuss the Technology and Operation of the MIT 1000 System

SOURCE: Micro Imaging Technology, Inc. SAN CLEMENTE, CA--(Marketwire - October 25, 2010) -  Micro Identification Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MMTC) (MIT) announces that on October 27, 2010 at 1:00 PM (PDT) it will conduct a Webinar on the operation of the MIT 1000 Rapid Microbial Identification System. The objective of the Webinar ...

Vangent Wins $15.6 Million Contract With Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

SOURCE: Vangent Ensures Continued Support of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Program Management Office (PMO); FHA's CONNECT Solution Also Named a Wall Street Journal "Technology Innovator" ARLINGTON, VA--(Marketwire - October 21, 2010) -  Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process solutions, announced today it was awarded ...

Helix BioPharma Corp. Reports Positive Efficacy and Safety Findings From Phase II Study of Its Topical Interferon Alpha-2b in Patients With Low-Grade…

SOURCE: Helix BioPharma Corp. After Treatment, 71.4% of the Women No Longer Had Potentially Pre-Cancerous Low-Grade CIN 1 or CIN 2 Cervical Lesions AURORA, ON--(Marketwire - October 21, 2010) -  Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX: HBP) (NYSE Amex: HBP) (FRANKFURT: HBP), a biopharmaceutical company developing drug candidates for the prevention and treatment of ...

SANYO Introduces Industry’s First Stand-Alone Cell Processing Work Station Transforming the Biomedical Cleanroom

SOURCE: SANYO Introduction Makes SANYO a Leading Player in Equipping the Stem Cell Therapy Industry WOOD DALE, IL--(Marketwire - October 20, 2010) -  SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) announces that its Biomedical Solutions Division is moving to the forefront of the stem cell and cell therapy market with the introduction of the ...

Breakthrough on the American Market: The Canadian Solution Extenway Is Put Into Service at an Outpatient Facility of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer…

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Oct. 19, 2010) - Editors note: A photo will be included with this press release on Marketwire's website. Just weeks after its solution was ...

Bright Colors for Better Women’s Health

SOURCE: Nutrilite MISSION, KS--(Marketwire - October 18, 2010) - (Family Features) Only about a third of American women are meeting their fruit and vegetable intake recommendations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And that means they are likely missing out on potentially important breast and ovarian health benefits. ...

February 2nd 2012
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mHealth Users of Remote Health Monitoring to Reach 3 million by 2016: Smartphones Play Leading Role

A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016, finds Juniper Research’s latest report on the mHealth sector. Remote patient monitoring, using the smartphone as a hub, will also lower ...
February 2nd 2012
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Centra Health and TeleHealth Services Partner to Launch Enterprise Interactive Patient Education for Patient Satisfaction and Safety

The TIGR system was recently named one of the top 10 technologies of 2011 for empowering patients and their families through the recovery process. With “meaningful use” and patient satisfaction policies changing hospital reimbursements, hospitals have begun expanding the use of these systems to address other challenges such as readmissions, ...
January 31st 2012
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Is Heart Disease Or Stroke A Part Of Your Family History?

How many people do you know who have been affected by heart disease or stroke? How many have been your family members? Fifty-five-year-old Gail had lost nearly everyone in her family to cardiovascular disease and when she lost her father, too, she fell into poor eating habits that made her ...
January 26th 2012
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Brain Tumor Test Could Revolutionize Care of Patients with Low-grade Gliomas

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed what they believe to be the first clinical application of a new imaging technique to diagnose brain tumors. The unique test could preclude the need for surgery in patients whose tumors are located in areas of the brain too dangerous to biopsy. This ...
November 4th 2011
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Piedmont Healthcare and TeleHealth Services Collaborate to Improve Patient Health Initiatives

TeleHealth Services, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare-grade televisions and interactive patient engagement solutions, is partnering with Piedmont Healthcare (PHC) in implementing a comprehensive, customized patient-centered environment designed to improve patient education and provide interactive communication. These technological and process enhancements will help speed patient recovery, reduce readmissions and length ...

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