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AirStrip Technologies to provide HIT solution to Premier healthcare alliance

The Premier healthcare alliance has contracted with AirStrip Technologies™, L.P. to offer its 2,200 hospitals members a mobile healthcare information technology (HIT) solution to improve obstetrical (OB) care, patient safety and communication among healthcare providers.

14 Sep 2009

Tenet announces revisions to its outlook for 2009

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced revisions to its outlook for 2009 Adjusted EBITDA to a new range of $900 million to $950 million. The prior outlook range was $810 million to $875 million. This new range corresponds to an outlook for net income attributable to shareholders in a range of $76 million to $141 million. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP term defined and reconciled to GAAP net income below.

14 Sep 2009

Digital Pathology Association has another Gold Sponsor: Sunquest Information Systems

Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., a market leader in laboratory and diagnostic information systems, today announced that it is a Founding Gold Sponsor of the Digital Pathology Association (DPA), a non-profit organization committed to the advancement of digital pathology applications in healthcare. The goals of the DPA include supporting digital pathology education initiatives, defining best practices, influencing standards and interfaces, organizing an annual conference that addresses diverse needs within the industry, and more.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 14 Sep 2009

Men and healthcare professionals urged to take proactive approach to prostate cancer

As prostate cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in European men with more than 300,000 men being diagnosed every year, society needs to commit to changing the way the disease is viewed. Therefore a mini-symposium and lunch meeting are organized on 18 September 2009 in Antwerp on the occasion of the European launch of the Proactive Prostates Initiative, organized as part of Urology Week.

14 Sep 2009

Gen-Probe to merge industrial testing assets into an independent company

Gen-Probe Incorporated announced today that it is spinning off its industrial testing assets into a new, independent company focused on developing rapid, highly accurate molecular assays for biopharmaceutical production, water and food safety testing, and other applications.

14 Sep 2009

Patient enrollment for Phase 3 clinical trials of VEGF Trap-Eye completed

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) today announced the completion of patient enrollment in two randomized, double-masked, Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating VEGF Trap-Eye in the treatment of the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).

14 Sep 2009

First Edition: September 14, 2009

Today's headlines indicate that the momentum behind including a public option in health reform may be losing steam.

14 Sep 2009

Blog emphasizes the importance of healthcare goals

The following blog post was published September 4, 2009, by Shafeen Charania, author of the synthesis blog, winner of the 2008 Weblog award for best new blog, and Time.com's 25 best blogs of 2009.

14 Sep 2009

Metric Applications Packages from ClearPoint Metrics

ClearPoint Metrics today announced a major expansion to its product offering with the delivery of four new Compliance oriented Metrics Application Packages (MAPS) and the integration of the ClearPoint Security Performance Manager (TM) and its compliance offering into a single solution - The ClearPoint Unified Security Performance and Compliance Manager.

14 Sep 2009

Sleep deprivation is a major factor for clinical errors

A study of clinical errors made by resident physicians in a teaching hospital reveals that the more tired they are the more mistakes they make. The study published in the International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research puts figures to this seemingly obvious conclusion and shows that fewer errors are made if clinical practices are standardised.

14 Sep 2009

National Conference on Latinos and AIDS

To educate healthcare professionals on how to improve the Latino community's access to HIV/AIDS treatment and care, Minority Health Care Communications (MHCC) will hold the National Conference on Latinos and AIDS, September 14-15th, 2009, at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York.

14 Sep 2009

Natus Medical to purchase Alpine Biomed Holdings

Natus Medical Incorporated today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Alpine Biomed Holdings Corp in a transaction that is expected to close today.

14 Sep 2009

Novant to use MEDai's Pinpoint Review patient-specific early-warning system

MEDai, Inc., an Elsevier company and leading provider of advanced solutions for healthcare that utilize award-winning predictive analytics, announced today that Novant Health, a not-for-profit integrated group of hospitals and physician practices, will roll out MEDai's Pinpoint Review(TM) to its nine hospitals in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina.

14 Sep 2009

SunCrest Healthcare buys three home health businesses from SunLink Health Systems

SunLink Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: SSY) today announced that it sold three of its home health businesses to subsidiaries of SunCrest Healthcare, Inc. for approximately $3,300,000.

14 Sep 2009

AIDS Healthcare Foundation calls on CA Governor to sign Assembly Bill 221 without delay

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the operator of the largest non-government HIV testing program in California, today praised the California Legislature for its passage of Assembly Bill 221, which cleared the Assembly on final concurrence (61-0) today and moves on to the Governor’s desk. AB 221 updates and streamlines the training of counselors for rapid HIV testing by exempting persons administering finger stick rapid HIV tests from the requirement for certification as a limited phlebotomy technician (LPT). It is widely expected that Schwarzenegger will sign the bill.

14 Sep 2009

Medicare-funded nursing homes will be affected by the pending health reform bill: Maine Health Care Association

As Congress reconvened this week in the wake of polls finding the public strongly against slashing Medicare-funded nursing home care to pay for health care reform, local opposition to proposed $32 billion ten year Medicare cuts is garnering a rising level of local press coverage.

14 Sep 2009

IFG urges small business owners to concentrate on accounts receivable factoring

The Interface Financial Group (IFG), North America's largest alternative funding source for small business, suggests that until the nation's health care reform has been resolved, small business owners look to accounts receivable factoring. Small businesses are the engine of the economy, creating at least seventy percent of all new jobs, In the United States small businesses employ more than half of all private sector employees, pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll and have generated 64 percent of net new jobs over the past 15 years.

14 Sep 2009

Bangkok Hospital Group and IBM to provide quality healthcare in Thailand

Bangkok Hospital Group is working with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to enhance its patient care services to provide smarter healthcare in Thailand. Delivering on its commitment to provide the highest quality, internationally-accepted standards of medical services, Bangkok Hospital Group continues to invest in best-in-class information technology.

14 Sep 2009

Dresner Partners advises CCHHS in its partnership with HHG

Dresner Partners, a FINRA-registered, middle-market investment bank, and IMAP member firm, announced today that it advised Care Collaborative Home Health Services, Inc. (CCHHS) in its recent strategic partnership with Home Health Group, LLC (HHG), a holding company focused on investments in the home health industry.

14 Sep 2009

TCAD therapy shows potency against seasonal and novel H1N1 influenza viruses

Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held company, announced today that a multi-center in vitro study of its proprietary triple combination antiviral drug (TCAD) therapy showed substantially greater potency against seasonal and novel H1N1 influenza viruses than currently recommended single or double therapy and that the triple combination is active against drug-resistant flu strains.

14 Sep 2009