Cognoptix disclosed at the ‘Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease’ (CTAD) scientific meeting the strong results of a multi-site clinical trial of its SAPPHIRE II eye test, which is designed to identify Alzheimer’s ...
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CareFusion has unveiled new products and highlighted the patient safety benefits of its ventilation and respiratory technology portfolio at the 59th International Respiratory Convention and Exhibition of the American Association for ...
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Treating the elderly didn't drive the U.S. increase in healthcare cost from 2000; 91 percent was from professional services, drugs and devices, researchers say. Dr. Hamilton Moses III of the Alerion Institute in North Garden, Va., and the ...
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US-based Health Systems International has completed the acquisition of The Reclaim Group (TRG) effective October 15, 2013. The agreement marks the ninth tuck-in acquisition Health Systems International has completed in a five year period, ...
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Bridgestone Americas Inc. announced that its Bandag retreading facility in Oxford, N.C., has been recognized by the North Carolina Department of Labor as a Carolina Star Worksite. This is the state's highest health and safety honor, awarded ...
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A multiple-sclerosis drug that was at the center of Sanofi SA's SAN.FR +1.12% $20 billion takeover battle for Genzyme Corp. three years ago was approved for sale in Europe on Tuesday, the drug's first regulatory approval world-wide. The ...
Truven Health Analytics has upgraded its Health Unify population health management solution with healthcare data warehousing, analytic methodologies and decision-support capabilities to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs for clinical ...
The Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems in collaboration with the College of Medicine in the US has developed a small ultrasound device that could speed up the process of healing chronic wounds. ...
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The NHS has announced that, from 2014, all NHS Trusts and providers must use patient NHS numbers as the primary identifier. The move - which seems simple, but could save a huge amount of unnecessary paperwork - means medical records can ...
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Superstorm Sandy devastated not just homes and property, but people's ability to get needed health care, too. A quarter of the people in our survey of online subscribers in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York said Sandy caused medical ...
FUJIFILM SonoSite has introduced AxoTrack needle guidance technology for use with select SonoSite M-Turbo ultrasound systems for ultrasound-guided procedures. The AxoTrack System is designed to have ultrasound transducer from SonoSite and ...
The U.S. healthcare industry is facing an even more significant IT worker shortage than previously thought, and that shortage is slowing efforts to roll out electronic health systems. A new analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) 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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Under pressure from federal regulators to implement electronic health systems, healthcare providers are struggling to find and keep a technology staff in what is the fastest growing IT sector in the U.S. A Healthcare Information and ...
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US-based healthcare company Aetna has introduced a new business unit brand called Healthagen, which advances its provider collaboration and consumer empowerment strategy. Healthagen, which tackles the fundamental needs of greater value, ...
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