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Perot Systems to provide Revenue Cycle services to the West Georgia Health System

West Georgia Health System and Perot Systems today announced that Perot Systems will provide Revenue Cycle services to the LaGrange, Georgia-based hospital organization. The agreement will enable WGHS to utilize Perot Systems' revenue cycle technology and its proven best practices for revenue cycle improvements.

25 Sep 2009

New recommendations for strengthening oversight of laboratory-developed tests

The College of American Pathologists today announced new recommendations for strengthening oversight of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs), proposing a three-tier 'risk-based' system that would protect patients by ensuring every laboratory developed test is reported to an oversight body, and instituting a graduated system of review based on a test's potential risk to patients.

25 Sep 2009

Congressman Culberson's web site invites his constituents to debate the healthcare bill online

Congressman John Culberson, R-Texas, today announced that his office will post the current healthcare bill in the House of Representatives, “H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” on the congressman’s Web site and, using a new technology, invite his constituents to participate in, comment on and debate the pending bill.

25 Sep 2009

SuiteMed EHR package customised to receive patient data from ALR Technologies' Health-E-Connect system

SuiteMed Solutions, a NC Triad healthcare technology company, announces it is customizing their SuiteMed EHR to facilitate receipt of patient data from ALR Technologies' patented Health-E-Connect patient monitoring system. This data can be important for care plan evaluation, monitoring services billing and reimbursement as well as lending to the "meaningful use" criteria for government funding to medical clinics for implementation of EHRs.

25 Sep 2009

Three antibodies dried using EnWave's freezeREV vial dehydration technology

EnWave Corporation ("EnWave" or "the Company") today announced that it has successfully dried three different antibodies in the Company's prototype freezeREV vial dehydration technology.

25 Sep 2009

Free electronic medical records software for physicians

The Obama administration has set aside $19B for physicians to adopt electronic medical record systems. Today, 75% of doctors practice in offices with 10 doctors or fewer. For them, the investment is cost-prohibitive: the technology costs from $25,000 to over $75,000. Not surprisingly, only 17% of physicians use computerized records, according to the New York Journal of Medicine. Yet, one service provider allows physicians to switch to electronic medical records -- free -- and make their practice more profitable.

25 Sep 2009

Cepheid receives approval to market Xpert(R) HemosIL(R) FII & FV test

Cepheid and Instrumentation Laboratory (IL) today announced that Cepheid has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert(R) HemosIL(R) FII & FV test.

25 Sep 2009

Pakistan cardiology institute purchases Positron's Pulse compact digital cardiac camera

Positron Corporation a molecular imaging solutions company focused on Nuclear Cardiology, announces the sale of a Pulse CDCC camera to CPE Institute Of Cardiology in Multan, Pakistan.

25 Sep 2009

Multi-modality imaging to identify plaque

Late-breaking results from the PROSPECT clinical trial shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the ability to identify them through imaging techniques before they occur.

25 Sep 2009

Interim results of a pilot study using BACE cardiac device released

Mardil, Inc. today announced positive interim data from a pilot study investigating the safety and efficacy of its novel cardiac device - BACE (Basal Annuloplasty of the Cardia Externally) -- in treating mitral valve regurgitation. The condition arises when the heart's mitral valve leaks blood backward into the heart, causing a range of severe and debilitating symptoms.

25 Sep 2009

MediciGlobal launches latest version of ADapt patient recruitment system

CROs and Pharmaceutical companies are speeding the process of study launch and accelerating patient recruitment. Such initiatives involve the adoption of new processes, technologies and organisational structure. One such initiative is MediciGlobal's unique and proprietary web-based system called ADapt, focused on launching patient recruitment programmes faster.

24 Sep 2009

NHSSC awards contract to AMS to supply SUI treatment devices in UK

American Medical Systems (AMS), a leading provider of world-class devices and therapies for both male and female pelvic health, announced today that it has been included as part of a multiple-awardees contract by National Healthcare Services (NHS) Supply Chain (NHSSC) to supply three of its clinically-proven female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) treatment devices through the Normanton distribution centre, United Kingdom.

24 Sep 2009

Oxygen Biotherapeutics submits a patent application for its heart attack treatment device

Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. today announced that the company has submitted a patent application for a new invention that uses Oxycyte(R) perfluorocarbon to deliver oxygen as a first aid treatment for victims of heart attacks and strokes. Oxycyte is the Company's perfluorocarbon (PFC) therapeutic oxygen carrier.

24 Sep 2009

InteGreat's browser-based EHR application to be implemented at Sun Life Family Health Center

The InteGreat division of MED3OOO Group, Inc. recently entered into an agreement to implement and deploy InteGreat EHR, a browser-based electronic health record (EHR) application, throughout the offices Sun Life Family Health Center operates in Pinal County, Central Arizona.

24 Sep 2009

Axial Biotech's SCOLISCORE AIS Prognostic Test now available in the U.S.

Axial Biotech, Inc., a company personalizing spine care through the development of molecular diagnostics, announced today that its SCOLISCORE(TM) AIS Prognostic Test is now being made available to spine specialists in the United States. SCOLISCORE is a saliva-based genetic test designed to predict the risk of progression of scoliosis, an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

24 Sep 2009

Direct RNA sequencing performed using Helicos’ True Single Molecule Sequencing technology

Helicos BioSciences Corporation a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Helicos’ True Single Molecule Sequencing (tSMS)™ technology was used to directly sequence individual molecules of RNA. The paper appeared yesterday in the on-line edition of Nature and will appear in an upcoming 2009 print issue of Nature.

24 Sep 2009

U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science to host symposium on accelerators

On Monday, October 26, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science will host a Symposium on Accelerators for America's Future in Washington, DC.

24 Sep 2009

AFC announces the successful installation of three Hastelloy LLC in series

AMPAC Fine Chemicals (AFC), a subsidiary of American Pacific Corporation (Nasdaq: APFC), announced today the successful installation, qualification and validation in a cGMP manufacturing environment of a continuous extraction process consisting of three Hastelloy(TM) Liquid-Liquid Centrifuges (LLC) in series.

24 Sep 2009

Customized prosthesis from Custom-fit

Custom-fit is a European funded project, coordinated by Delcam, which has developed a new and cost effective way to manufacture fully customised products, individually designed starting from body geometries and putting together rapid manufacturing, information technologies and material science.

24 Sep 2009

Unibased Systems Architecture selected as contracted supplier by Amerinet

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) has been selected by Amerinet, Inc. as a contracted supplier of process improvement and workflow enhancement solutions with ForSite2020, a totally integrated comprehensive suite of enterprise solutions for pre-visit access management and business process improvement, dedicated to reducing costs and improving quality of care.

24 Sep 2009