Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced today that Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, and Director of the Initiative on Value and Innovation in Health Care, Brookings Institution, will join the Board of ...
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US-based Net Health has introduced WoundExpert IRIS module, an integrated wound image calibration solution that is now available exclusively in the WoundExpert software. WoundExpert IRIS module incorporates technology developed by ...
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US regulatory authorities have allowed the marketing of a brain wave test, which can diagnose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents aged between six and 17 years. This device, called Neuropsychiatric ...
Tangent Medical, a manufacturer of IV therapy products, has commercially launched its NovaCath Integrated IV Catheter System and commenced its clinical evaluations in several US healthcare centres. Considered to be the first safety IV ...
With nightmarish superbugs threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers, hospitals are taking considerable precautions to track who is and who isn't washing their hands. For example, Summerville Medical Center, a 94-bed ...
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US-based medical diagnostic device company Welch Allyn has completed the installation of Connex Electronic Vitals Documentation System (EVDS) at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Florida, US. Connex EVDS includes patient data ...
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CardioDx has unveiled the study results of a clinical utility study of the Corus CAD gene expression test in the real-world primary care setting for evaluating patients with signs and symptoms suggestive of obstructive coronary artery ...
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Smiths Medical, a medical device manufacturer, has secured a contract with the US Department of Veterans Affairs to supply Jelco brand ViaValve Safety IV Catheters to the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center, New Mexico, US. Built on the ...
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Fisher-Titus Medical Center, a non-profit community hospital, has chosen Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Order Sets as its electronic order set solution. ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily ...
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Germany-based medical technology solutions supplier Carl Zeiss Meditec has introduced a new Forum Viewer App in US. The App, which is released for iPads, will allow doctors to access images and reports from the broad range of Zeiss and ...
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GE Healthcare has initiated a nationwide voluntary field corrective action of the Giraffe Incubator with a Servo Control Oxygen System and Giraffe OmniBed that were produced between 1 August 2012 and 20 December 2012. The company said ...
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Cook Medical has introduced a new fully-retractable .035 inch embolization coil for use in nonsurgical, minimally invasive embolization procedures. Designed to provide physicians with more controlled delivery of embolization coils, the ...
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International Technidyne (ITC) has announced the European launch of an in vitro diagnostic (IVD) device for the quantitative measurement of prothrombin time international normalized ratio (PT/INR). Using a proprietary multi-channel ...
MetroHealth, an academic healthcare system in Northeast Ohio, has chosen Wolters Kluwer Health's customizable order set authoring and management solution - ProVation Order Sets - as its evidence-based order set solution. Powered by ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tenaxis Medical's ArterX Surgical Sealant, designed for use in vasculature reconstruction in various surgical procedures. ArterX Surgical Sealant is a two-part liquid system that will ...