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UC Davis Medical Center to implement LUMEDX Apollo interoperability solutions for cardiovascular information management

LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of vendor-neutral, integrated medical imaging and information systems, today announced that UC Davis Medical Center purchased LUMEDX Apollo structured reporting, analytic and interoperability solutions for their Heart and Vascular Centers. Prior to these purchases, UC Davis Medical Center used the Apollo clinical data repository solely to support cardiac registry participation.

2 Mar 2010

Children with cancer experiencing extreme pain: 13% of parents consider "hastening death"

A survey of parents who had a child die of cancer found that one in eight considered hastening their child's death, a deliberation influenced by the amount of pain the child experienced during the last month of life, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

2 Mar 2010

California's dirty air costs more than $193M in hospital-based medical care, finds RAND study

California's dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such as asthma and pneumonia that are triggered by elevated pollution levels, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

2 Mar 2010

Fluorescence method predicts the efficacy of PDT for Port Wine Stains: Study

It is known that fluctuations in the treatment outcome of photodynamic therapy (PDT) between patients are related to the concentration of photosensitizer in target tissue. The purpose of a study, by Wang et al, published in the February 2010 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine was to establish a fluorescence method not only providing a semi-quantitative measurement of photosensitizer concentration but also predicting the efficacy of PDT for Port Wine Stains (PWS).

2 Mar 2010

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services and Rochester RHIO, the regional health information organization connecting medical providers across nine counties in New York today announced that fifty area eldercare agencies are joining the health information exchange. For the first time anywhere, health care providers are now able to view medical and social supports that human service agencies provide senior patients, alongside their clinical information.

2 Mar 2010

Thomson Reuters introduces new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals

Thomson Reuters announced today the launch of its new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals.

2 Mar 2010

Intercell AG's revenues for full year 2009 increase 10.6%

Today, the biotech-vaccine company Intercell AG announced its financial results for Q4 and the preliminary results for the full financial year 2009, and presented an update on the Company's development programs.

2 Mar 2010

Future work may uncover links between insulin use and cancer risk, say researchers

The benefits of using insulin to treat diabetes far outweigh the risks, but a review just published online by IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice, suggests that commonly used diabetes therapies may differ from each other when it comes to their influence on cancer risk.

2 Mar 2010

GE Healthcare introduces Qualibria platform to improve performance of healthcare delivery organizations

GE Healthcare today is announcing Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.

2 Mar 2010

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

Lexmark International, Inc. will showcase Lexmark Downtime Reports, the first printer-based healthcare downtime solution, at the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference being held in Atlanta.

2 Mar 2010

APC Group reports HD Mini C-ARM agreement with Orthoscan

APC Group, Inc.'s reports that terms have been reached with Orthoscan of Scottsdale Arizona to provide MedReel's OEM with their new HD Mini C-ARM. APC Group, Inc. estimates sales over four to five years at $350,000 globally.

2 Mar 2010

Xerox's DocuShare platform allows doctors to access patient records in seconds

Healthcare organizations making the switch to digital can take the lead from White Memorial Medical Center. Administrators at the Los Angeles-based hospital say Xerox Corporation’s DocuShare Enterprise Content Management Platform allows doctors to access records in seconds – not hours – to efficiently monitor and serve the more than 17,000 patients the hospital sees annually.

2 Mar 2010

Archimedes Pharma raises GBP65 million in new funding

Archimedes Pharma, the leading specialty pharma company, today announced that it has raised GBP65 million (approx US$100 million) in new funding. The round was led by new investor Novo Growth Equity, the growth equity fund of Novo A/S, and included participation by major current investor, Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm. Archimedes also announced the appointment of a new President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey H. Buchalter, formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of US-based Enzon.

2 Mar 2010

Rush University Medical Center completes phase one of InterSystems Ensemble platform

InterSystems Corporation, the global leader in software for connected healthcare, today announced that Rush University Medical Center has completed phase one of an organization-wide move to the InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration and development platform.

2 Mar 2010

News outlets examine development of low-cost diagnostic tool, infectious disease surveillance

CNN examines the work of a Harvard University chemistry professor to "shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that's the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny." According to George Whitesides, who created a prototype of the inexpensive paper "chip," the technology could be used to diagnose such diseases as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries.

2 Mar 2010

New class of breast cancer: Overexpression of LRP6 gene could be a potential marker

A newly identified cancer biomarker could define a new subtype of breast cancer as well as offer a potential way to treat it, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Their findings will be published in the March 1 online early edition issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2 Mar 2010

Pennsylvania to use nearly $10M in federal grant funds to improve quality of health care for children

Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced Pennsylvania will use nearly $10 million in federal grant funds to improve the quality of health care for children while reducing the cost of services through the use of pediatric electronic health records.

2 Mar 2010

Kronos closes 41 major contracts with healthcare organizations

Solidifying its leadership as the premier provider of workforce management solutions to the healthcare industry, Kronos® Incorporated today announced that it closed 41 major contracts with healthcare organizations in the past 12 months.

2 Mar 2010

$28M grant to examine neural and behavioral profiles of healthy cognitive aging

The Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging, a public-private effort to promote the study of brain function with age, will award up to $28 million over five years to 17 research grants to examine the neural and behavioral profiles of healthy cognitive aging and explore interventions that may prevent, reduce or reverse cognitive decline in older people.

2 Mar 2010

Canyon Pharmaceuticals announces the availability of Iprivask inhibitor for prevention of DVT

Canyon PharmaceuticalsTM (www.canyonpharma.com) today announced the availability of Iprivask (desirudin for injection), the first direct thrombin inhibitor (DTI) approved in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which may lead to pulmonary embolism in patients undergoing elective hip replacement surgery.

2 Mar 2010

Hospital News and Research

UC Davis Medical Center to implement LUMEDX Apollo interoperability solutions for cardiovascular information management

Children with cancer experiencing extreme pain: 13% of parents consider "hastening death"

California's dirty air costs more than $193M in hospital-based medical care, finds RAND study

Fluorescence method predicts the efficacy of PDT for Port Wine Stains: Study

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

Thomson Reuters introduces new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals

Intercell AG's revenues for full year 2009 increase 10.6%

Future work may uncover links between insulin use and cancer risk, say researchers

GE Healthcare introduces Qualibria platform to improve performance of healthcare delivery organizations

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

APC Group reports HD Mini C-ARM agreement with Orthoscan

Xerox's DocuShare platform allows doctors to access patient records in seconds

Archimedes Pharma raises GBP65 million in new funding

Rush University Medical Center completes phase one of InterSystems Ensemble platform

News outlets examine development of low-cost diagnostic tool, infectious disease surveillance

New class of breast cancer: Overexpression of LRP6 gene could be a potential marker

Pennsylvania to use nearly $10M in federal grant funds to improve quality of health care for children

Kronos closes 41 major contracts with healthcare organizations

$28M grant to examine neural and behavioral profiles of healthy cognitive aging

Canyon Pharmaceuticals announces the availability of Iprivask inhibitor for prevention of DVT

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