Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has announced an agreement with HP, allowing the enterprise services provider to implement an electronic patient records (EPR) system eHospital programme aimed at improving services. Worth over ...
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Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in New England, US, has signed an agreement to upgrade and extend their use of Streamline Health's enterprise content management solutions for five more years. Saint Francis has extended their ...
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has announced the FDA approval of first drug, diphenhydramine hydrochloride injection, USP, to be offered in BD Simplist line of prefilled generic injectables. Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride Injection, ...
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Threshold Pharmaceuticals has signed a global agreement with Siemens Healthcare to purchase its investigational radiolabeled hypoxia positron emission tomography (PET) tracer, [18F]HX4 [flortanidazole (18F)]. The US-based biotechnology ...
Genewiz, a US-based provider of genomics services, has obtained accreditation from the College of American Pathologists ( CAP). The accreditation process comprised CAP inspector examination of Genewiz laboratory safety program and ...
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US-based HealthTrust Purchasing Group has awarded a contract to Excelsior Medical to provide its prefilled saline and heparin flush syringes and SwabCap disinfection cap line of products. SwabCap disinfection cap line of products include ...
Quantel Medical, a France-based provider of technologies for the treatment of ocular diseases, has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Vitra Multispot laser system. The device, which features ...
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Commonwealth Orthopaedic Centers, a US-based provider of orthopaedic care treatment services, has chosen SRS' electronic health record (EHR) and patient management (PM) to provide to its 17 physicians, 10 physician extenders and two ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Navidea Biopharmaceuticals' Lymphoseek (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) injection, a novel product indicated for use in lymphatic mapping procedure. The lymphatic mapping procedure ...
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Spacelabs Healthcare, a division of OSI Systems, has received $2m contract to supply its patient monitoring and connectivity systems to a prominent hospital in the Western US region. Spacelabs' solutions include modular, configured ...
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Wipro's global information technology, consulting and outsourcing business Wipro Technologies in collaboration with Microsoft has introduced Wipro AssureHealth platform to offer healthcare providers with new solutions for remote fetal ...
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Massachusetts-based Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health have chosen InterSystems HealthShare as their strategic informatics platform for new regional health information exchange (HIE). Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health ...
While electronic medical records (EMR) may contain your health information, most physicians think you should only be able to add information to them, not get access to all of their contents. A survey released this week at the HIMSS ...
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US-based medical device company Sotera Wireless has announced that it is showcasing its new wireless patient monitoring solution at Intermountain Healthcare's HIMSS 2013 annual conference and exhibition. The FDA-approved ViSi Mobile ...
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Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3-D ...
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