http://www.prnewsnow.com/News for the world!en-ushttp://www.prnewsnow.com/firebase_images/prnn.jpghttp://www.prnewsnow.com1258963800>>HillRom NYSE: HRC and Encompass Group today announced the formation of a joint venture that will focus on the sale and distribution of a comprehensive range of surface replacement systems that are intended to be sold separate from a bed frame and as replacements for surfaces that are technologically obsolete or at the end of their useful life. HillRom a global leader in patient support systems and...]]>1258791593>>Voalt233 http://www.voalte.com a Sarasotabased software company that provides healthcare communications solutions at the pointofcare recently announced the appointment of four new hires Kristian Kielhofner as Lead VoIP Engineer Robbie Hanson as Lead iPhone Developer Austin Paramore as Project Manager and Caston Thomas as Sales Executive. In his position as Lead VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol Engineer...]]>1258445199>>NeoVista Inc. announced today that the company8217s revolutionary new surgical device is now available in the UK and offers fresh hope to 250000 patients with wet agerelated macular degeneration AMD 8211 a debilitating and aggressive eye condition that can lead to blindness within 3 months if left untreated. Every year 26000 new cases of wet AMD are diagnosed in the UK.The VIDION174 Anti NeoVascular...]]>1258186327>>As part of Marriott International8217s 8220Spirit to Serve Our Communities8221 commitment of corporate social responsibility the Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center is sponsoring and hosting the fourth annual Houston stop of the Children8217s Miracle Network CMN 8220Miles for Miracles Torch Relay8221 this Sunday November 15 starting at 9:00 a.m.The 5k fundraising walk/run will start...]]>1256974315>>TrustBearer Labs an information security software company based in Fort Wayne IN and Washington D.C. partnered with EXTENSION Inc. to develop the EXTENSION174 HealthID8482 patient smart card product. HealthID8482 takes data from various electronic medical systems and securely stores important demographic and clinical data on patient smart cards. As noted in the American Hospital Association's press...]]>1256887655>>Inteck an information technology IT consulting firm for the healthcare industry has launched a social media program to help hospitals communicate interactively with Inteck experts. This program includes a blog Facebook and Twitter pages among other reposting sites. The goal is to provide the healthcare industry with online interaction with IT experts when searching for the most qualified healthcare...]]>1256542112>>NeoVista Inc. today announced the completion of enrollment in its global 450patient randomized controlled study of their revolutionary epimacular brachytherapy procedure for the treatment of neovascular agerelated macular degeneration AMD. The Company will now begin the mandated oneyear data followup before submitting the final clinical module of its PreMarket Approval PMA submission to the FDA. ...]]>1256282784>>In healthcare settings the stress of communicating the risk and benefits of complex medical procedures and medications often creates misunderstanding and confusion among patients and their doctors. The required informed consent procedure is tedious and traditionally filled with complex paperwork often fraught with legalese. International Medical Solutions has introduced a suite of electronic 'smart...]]>1255678264>>Centice Corporation a pioneer in drug verification and safety products announced today that David Brady PhD has been honored with an endowed professorship as the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering. Dr. Brady is also cofounder and on the Board of Directors of Centice Corporation. Dr. Brady cofounded Centice in June 2004 and will maintain his role as Centice's Chief Scientist as well as...]]>1255158606>>Joanna Fowler PhD Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Senior Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory was awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony yesterday. The award presented to nine researchers is the nation8217s highest honor for outstanding achievement in the sciences.8220I am truly honored to receive this award8221 said Dr. Fowler. 8220It...]]>1254901400>>A new book has just been released that guides readers through the painful yet hopeful journey of recovering from severe traumatic brain injury. In 'Realistic Hope Aspirations for Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury' author Mark Palmer offers sober insights through every critical step following traumatic brain injury and gives helpful advice for how to practically handle difficult situations. Palmer's...]]>1254554145>>quotSince price savings are slowly disappearing particularly for large hospital systems and integrated delivery networks IDNs they now need new power tools like our just released Utilizer174 Dashboard Enhanced Enterprise Version to continue to make significant savings happen for their healthcare organizationsquot says Robert T. Yokl President Strategic Value Analysis174 in Healthcare SVAH. It's a little...]]>1254381481>>ReNu Medical Inc. today announced that it is a winner of the Supplier Performance Award presented by Premier Purchasing Partners LP the group purchasing unit of the Premier Healthcare Alliance.Premier contracts with more than 800 suppliers and ReNu Medical Inc. is one of 45 contracted suppliers to receive the Performance Award. Winners are recognized for their outstanding management of Premier agreements...]]>1254381409>>Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Warren Campus http://www.henryfordmacomb.com recently deployed a new communications solution PerfectServe http://www.perfectserve.com to connect its doctors and nurses so they can better coordinate care.A significant problem in healthcare today is the lack of adequate communicationquot said Joanna Pease D.O. vice president of medical affairs at Henry Ford Macomb Warren....]]>1254208473>>William Fuchs was recently named to the advisory board for PerfectServe http://www.perfectserve.com a healthcare communications company. The board provides guidance on innovative ways to leverage PerfectServe's physiciancontact network serving physician practices and hospitals nationwide. Recently retired from Catholic Healthcare West CHW as president of group operations in Arizona Nevada and portions...]]>1253690244>>Dr Richards will be joining the Board of IXICO to help steer it through its next phase of growth as it expands its Imaging CRO services business and prepares to launch a new series of technology products that will transform the way that medical images are managed throughout the healthcare sector. IXICO's technology products include Trial WireTMfree which was launched in April as a tool for sharing...]]>1253604909>>St. Jude Children's Research Hospitals' fitnessbased fundraising effort quotSt. Jude Heroesquot http://www.stjudeheroes.org/ will raise an estimated 200000 this November thanks to skyrocketing enrollment in the program by runners registering in this year's US Half Marathon in San Francisco.We are ecstatic and humbledquot said Christine Larkin mother of Paul Larkin a St. Jude patient from Windsor California....]]>1253530394>>The recent tragic death of Michael Jackson has illustrated publicly the dramatic effects of anesthesia medicines in the hands of individuals who lack training and experience in their utilization. In fact no American would expect to undergo surgery without a skilled anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist keeping them asleep pain free and alive during the experience.However surgical and anesthetic care...]]>1253529396>>Digital Healthcare the Cambridge England and Wake Forest NC based company that is recognized as the leading provider of care management systems for diabetes celebrated their 10 year anniversary this month. From its beginning as an image management and storage solutions provider for the UK Ophthalmology sector the company has extended its product range and expanded into international territories. Digital...]]>1253529371>>Stenum Hospital a world leader in advanced disc replacement surgery announced that it will now be accepting international patients for the breakthrough Spinal Kinetics M6L artificial lumbar disc replacement. The M6L disc replacement represents a breakthrough in nonfusion motion preservation products to treat degenerative diseases of the spine. The M6L lumbar disc is an advanced generation artificial...]]>1253345429>>Swisslog a leader in pharmacy automation technology is proud to announce Middlesex Hospital of Middletown CT will become the latest hospital to add Swisslog's BoxPicker automated storage and retrieval device ATP High Speed Packager and Inventory Management Software IMS. The combination of the BoxPicker ATP Packager and Inventory Management Software will provide a complete solution for pharmacy inventory...]]>1253344970>>Stuart Baker MD president and chief operating officer of Navvis 38 Company was recently named to the advisory board for PerfectServe www.perfectserve.com a healthcare communications company. The board provides guidance on innovative ways to leverage PerfectServe's physiciancontact network serving physician practices and hospitals nationwide. Navvis 38 Company is a management consultancy specializing...]]>time()>>Now that the VA balance scorecard concept has been proven by SVAH to be wildly successful SVAH has added an automated VA balance scorecard module to its Utilizer174 Dashboard 3.3 release. This release will enable any and all healthcare organizations with little or no effort to capitalize on this important improvement tool to move their value analysis teams or committees to the next level of performance.Most...]]>time()>>Superheroes coming together during times of crisis to battle a common foe is a typical theme in comic books. Upper Valley residents got a chance to see fiction turned to reality this past weekend as the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth CHaD set a new Guinness World Record by bringing together 1016 superheroes in conjunction with its recent CHaD Heroes Half Marathon and Relay.Despite a rainy overcast...]]>time()>>Tarascon Publishing http://www.tarascon.com/ a Jones and Bartlett Company announces the publication of The Tarascon Medical Translation Pocketbook edited by Ross I. Donaldson MD and Timothy Horeczko MD.The Tarascon Medical Translation Pocketbook http://www.tarascon.com/product.phpproductid7238cat038page138featured is a concise guide to the most common phrases used in patient interviews with nonEnglish...]]>time()>>The Wall Street Fraud Watchdog has been unyielding in its efforts to call attention to the 330 billion dollar con job better known as auction rate securities. According to the group quotthere is about 220 billion dollars of institutional investor money stuck in this flim flam job on the part of US banks or investment bankers and we think it high time state and federal regulators get off their butts...]]>time()>>LiveProcess www.liveprocess.com the market leader in emergency preparedness and incident management solutions for healthcare today announced it has implemented its industryleading webbased platform in more than 50 hospitals across the state of Florida.The hospitals are located in six of the seven Domestic Security Task Force Regions created after the September 11 terrorist attacks. LiveProcess was...]]>time()>>Corepoint Health enhances its customercentered approach with a newly introduced interactive online user community and expanded coverage to support customers in their daytoday interface development activities.8220Corepoint Health delivers exceptional customer service. With these new offerings we can expand our interaction with their integration support professionals as well as with other Corepoint...]]>time()>>HealthWyse LLC of Wilmington Mass. and Disability Services of the Southwest of San Antonio Texas DSSW announced today the successful implementation of the HealthWyse integrated clinical and financial software solution. Founded in 1991 Disability Services of the Southwest DSSW is one of the largest providers of support services to people with disabilities and the elderly in the State of Texas. DSSW's...]]>time()>>Patients Beyond Borders: Malaysia Edition was formally launched at the APHM Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur on 23 July 2009 to a gratifying display of unity from the Ministry of Health Ministry of Tourism and Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation MATRADE as well as specially invited guests from the US the UK Japan Indonesia Vietnam Cambodia Singapore and Thailand. The ISQua Presidentelect...]]>time()>>Asante Health System http://www.asante.org based in Medford Oregon has selected the Orion Health8482 Rhapsody174 Integration Engine http://www.orionhealth.com/products to help create an integrated clinical record for physician access between its two main facilities. Rhapsody will provide Asante with a new and advanced platform to migrate manage and streamline message exchange from legacy systems and...]]>time()>>peerVue Inc. a provider of niche healthcare software solutions announced that Mike Moore has joined the company as senior vice president and chief operating officer. Mike has over 15 years of business and corporate development experience with technology startups. Most recently he served as VP of Business Development for iPass Inc a global provider of mobility services. Under Mike's leadership the...]]>time()>>HEAD Medical Scrubs Company blue sky scrubs Offers Tips for Bulk Orders of Hospital Uniforms nbspnbsp PMedical Scrubs Company blue sky scrubs Offers Tips for Bulk Orders of Hospital Uniforms/P pAfter receiving a record number of bulk orders since the company opened blue sky scrubs...]]>time()>>Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children TSRHC is proud to announce that Peggy and Dan Meyer M.D. will serve as 2009 Treasure Street event chairs. The Meyers have been involved with TSRHC for many years and their leadership of this year's Treasure Street is a tremendous addition to the hospital's signature event which will be held Oct. 22 at Highland Park Village. quotAn Evening in Parisquot will...]]>time()>>Mr. Jesse A. Salen Online Radiology Medical Group Inc.'s ONRAD http://www.onlineradiology.com Vice President of Sales and Technology announces the creation of competitivelypriced service package. According to Mr. Salen quotIn a tough economy we felt it was necessary to offer our clients a complete costeffective radiology coverage solution that can help them provide the highest level of patient care...]]>time()>>Adena Health System http://www.adena.org a leading regional healthcare facility in South Central Ohio has selected the Orion Health8482 Rhapsody174 Integration Engine http://www.orionhealth.com/products to upgrade and manage message exchanges from their Meditech174 hospital information system. Implementing Rhapsody will allow for faster transparent dataexchange and replace time consuming and complex...]]>time()>>Did you know that according to the Department of Defense DoD since March 18 2003 through February 28 2009 45583 have been wounded in the Global War On TerrorismOperation Iraq Freedom Statistics from DOD Defense Manpower Data Center Juan Pablo Torres a former U.S. Marine and Emergency Room Medical Technician with a great background in healthcare and in dealing with the military and government was...]]>time()>>Coastal Healthcare Consulting Inc. Coastal a premier provider of healthcare information technology HIT consulting services has received overall scores above the market average for its Clinical Implementation Principal Clinical Implementation Supportive and Staff Augmentation services in the MidTerm Performance Review: Software 38 Professional Services recently issued by KLAS Enterprises KLAS. Clinical...]]>time()>>The Safety Line System website has been redesigned to educate Nurses Doctors and Hospitals to learn how Color Coded IV Line sets will save countless lives and billions of dollars.Currently all IV lines used in hospitals are clear and indistinguishable from each other. This makes it difficult to differentiate each line from the next causing precious moments to be lost and mistakes to be made. Our patented...]]>time()>>Several hospitals across the nation have shifted from allowing reusable washable cotton scrub hats to strictly requiring disposable caps in the operating rooms. The change is one that is still under debate: are disposable surgical head coverings more sterile than washable cotton scrub hats Either way nursing scrubs http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/ company blue sky scrubs is not going to disappoint the...]]>time()>>Led by Dr. Sumeer Sathi Long Island Neuroscience Specialists LINS have been confirmed as faculty by the Department of Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. The collaboration which is the first of its kind to be bestowed upon a neurosurgery practice in Nassau and Suffolk counties will facilitate treatment by Weill Cornell for patients of LINS. quotI think that it will provide a gateway for...]]>time()>>Internationallyrecognized and regional leaders in cerebrovascular disease converged on the Melville Marriot hotel last week to participate in the quotStroke Interventionquot symposium hosted by Winthrop University Hospital and led by vascular neurosurgeon Jonathan Brisman of Neurological Surgery P.C. Dr. Brisman one of an elite group of 80 American dualtrained endovascular neurosurgeons has been practicing...]]>time()>>Orion Health http://www.orionhealth.com/ a market leader in providing clinical workflow and integration technology today announced a major milestone for the company and the adoption of its solutions around the world. Nearly 200000 physicians in more than 500 hospitals are using Orion Health Concerto8482 http://www.orionhealth.com/products/concerto/ portal to access critical health data stored in electronic...]]>time()>>The QHR Learning Institute http://www.qhr.com/learning/ has launched an online community for hospitals: www.theQsphere.com. TheQsphere.com provides a central source for gaining insight sharing opinions and finding resources on hospital management issues. The first featured topic within theQsphere.com focuses on The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA quotMeaningful Usequot definitions and what...]]>time()>>Swisslog a leader in hospital logistics automation has released its next generation of Inventory Management Software IMS for the hospital pharmacy. The software controls inventory costs improves workflow efficiency and enhances patient safety.The software optimizes pharmacy inventory and provides a quotperpetual inventoryquot approach specifically designed for hospital medication flow. Swisslog's...]]>time()>>Corepoint Health http://www.corepointhealth.com 8211 the next generation of NeoTool 8211 released a new version of its Corepoint Connections product suite enhancing interface monitoring capabilities and delivering new standards support for radiology workflows http://www.corepointhealth.com/solutions/radiology.Every day we are asked to deliver more. Corepoint Health continues to deliver topquality...]]>time()>>New federal and state regulations that base healthcare payment on quality outcomes are making the clinical documentation process more complex and more critical to the bottom line. To assist hospitals in obtaining complete and accurate documentation 3M Health Information Systems is introducing the new 3M8482 DRG Assurance8482 Program now enhanced to include a leavebehind software tool the 3M8482 Clinical...]]>time()>>For the eighth straight year SourceMedical Solutions has earned a position on the prestigious Healthcare Informatics list of quotTop 100quot healthcare information technology companies. The company ranked 59th among the Top 100 companies maintaining a strong presence in the healthcare software market. The Top 100 list published in the June issue of Healthcare Informatics ranks both public and private...]]>time()>>Jive the Social Business Software http://www.jivesoftware.com leader announced that Fairview Health Services one of the largest notforprofit healthcare systems in Minnesota is using Jive SBS to connect its regional network of employees accelerate growth and improve strategic business decisions.Fairview Health Services looked to Jive to enable a more responsive transparent and efficient decisionmaking...]]>time()>>Akron General Health System has named Hitchcock Fleming 38 Associates Inc. hfa an Akron Ohiobased marketing communications firm as its new agency of record. With the goal of engaging the community in Akron General's brand while promoting choice in healthcare the two collaborated to develop a new marketing campaign which carries the tag line quotThe Choice You Can Believe In.quotAkron General has a...]]>time()>>Orion Health Inc. http://www.orionhealth.com/ is pleased to announce a new platform to implement electronic health reporting for public health authorities. The Rhapsody8482 Public Health Integrator platform was announced today at the 2009 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Conference http://www.cste.org/dnn/ CSTE http://www.cste.org/dnn/ it enables public health authorities to provide...]]>time()>>After two years since application blue sky scrubs http://www.blueskyscrubs.com has successfully landed two patents for their popular pony scrub hat and one patent for their pixie scrub hat. The patents are estimated to expire in May 2026. The patents for the pony hat are D572879 design patent and 7437777 utility patent. The pixie patent number is D547030 design patent. The applications consisted...]]>time()>>the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle Washington. www.mhsinc.com/p PFairfield CT June 2 2009 Management Health Solutions Inc. www.mhsinc.com the leading provider of clinical supply chain solutions to the healthcare industry has announced today that they will be exhibiting at the HFMA Healthcare Financial Management Association ANI: The Healthcare Finance...]]>time()>>St. Croix Systems http://www.stcroixsystems.com an innovative provider of Enterprise Asset Management EAM solutions announces the latest enhancement to its awardwinning asset management software and official introduction of a new report generator that will allow users to create custom reports on the fly. Asset Manager EnterpriseTM 5.0 is the most powerful featurerich and userfriendly webbased asset...]]>time()>>In an effort to eliminate communication breakdowns that contribute to delays in care and clinical decisionmaking Fauquier Hospital http://www.fauquierhospital.org in Warrenton Va. recently deployed the PerfectServe http://www.perfectserve.com physiciancontact network.With PerfectServe we are saving around five minutes per callquot said Karen Gilbert surgical unit nurse. quotWe contact physicians three...]]>time()>>Noble Systems Corporation a global leader in contact center technology solutions recently presented the 'Best Practices Award' to Florida Hospital Adventist Health Systems. The award was announced at the SNUG 2009 Conference a gathering of the Select Noble Users Group held last month in Atlanta Georgia.The 'Best Practices Award' recognizes Florida Hospital Adventist Health Systems for its use of...]]>time()>>HEAD One Year Later: OrthoFlow Improves Workflow at Connecticut Children's Medical Center nbspnbsp POne Year Later: OrthoFlow Improves Workflow at Connecticut Children's Medical Center/P pOrthocrat developed OrthoFlow a workflow solution in response to a challenge from Connecticut...]]>time()>>Healthcare organizations typically struggle to manage output from clinical monitoring devices such as EKG and fetal monitors and glucometers as there has been no easy way to interface the output into document management systems to be incorporated into electronic medical records EMR. As at many facilities staff at Norman Regional's heart stations and in the HIM department found managing EKG reports...]]>time()>>Orion Health Inc. http://www.orionhealth.com a market leader in providing clinical workflow and integration technology for electronic health record EHR solutions today announced its position among the top 100 Healthcare IT companies as ranked by Healthcare Informatics. Listed in the top 100 for the fourth year running the company moved up seven positions since 2008 to 63rd place. Much of Orion Health's...]]>time()>>Avantpage Translations recently released a new white paper One Body Many Voices: Claiming The Fastest Growing Healthcare Market In America. Recent changes in state regulations have forced healthcare providers insurers and managed care organizations to take a hard look at the way they interact with limitedEnglish proficient LEP clients. The question for the healthcare industry now changes. Instead of...]]>time()>>Continuing in its mission to prevent hospital acquired infections HAIs Professional Disposables International Inc. PDI will fund and collaborate with the following industry leaders Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc. APIC and Safe Care Campaign an advocacy group to create quotThe Champion's Kit.quot Focusing on infection prevention the kit is a resource tool to...]]>time()>>t 1:00 P.M Eastern. You will learn the winning strategies tactics and techniques to take your VA teams to the next level of savings performance. To register for this webinar http://www.strategicva.com/webinar.htm./p PSkippack PA May 30 2009 Robert T. Yokl President of Strategic Value Analysis in Healthcare174 SVAH estimates that quot92 of our nation's hospitals systems...]]>time()>>Management Health Solutions Inc. MHS http://www.mhsinc.com a leader in the field of physical inventory solutions today announced that Steven B. Epstein Esq. the founder of Epstein Becker 38 Green P.C. has joined the MHS Board of Directors.Mr. Epstein a graduate of Columbia Law School L '68 and founder of one of the leading law firms in health care law Epstein Becker 38 Green P.C. http://www.ebglaw.com/...]]>time()>>VistaDictation.com is a new niche company specializing in the sale and implementation of TriGram Medical Vocabularies for the Vista Speech voice recognition engine. VistaDictation.com offers affordable solutions for a physician's Medical Transcription needs. In addition to the Medical Vocabularies the company offers an EMR Electronic Medical Records Software MedTemps169 that is fully integrated in...]]>time()>>rom 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Kasych Family Pavilion at Lehigh Valley HospitalCedar Crest in Allentown PA./p PAllentown PA May 21 2009 Patients with the peripheral neuropathy known as CharcotMarieTooth disorder will be able to attend a Patient/Family Conference on Saturday May 30 2009 from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Kasych Family Pavilion at Lehigh Valley HospitalCedar Crest in...]]>time()>>IFMC http://www.ifmc.org/ which provides care quality and information management products and services in the healthcare industry has selected Orion Health Inc. http://www.orionhealth.com/ solutions to automate the collection and transmission of electronic health record EHR information for its national customer base. As part of its health management product suite IFMC creates a clinical data warehouse...]]>time()>>Lahey Clinic shares patient data with physicians using Orion Health Concerto Physicians Portal allowing over 1000 unique users to access the system per day.Who: Lahey Clinic http://www.lahey.org/ a 500 member physicianled multidisciplinary group practice with a 317bed hospital in Burlington Massachusetts found that their clinical data was spread through many disparate legacy systems making reviewing...]]>time()>>Nursing scrubs and medical scrubs company blue sky scrubs has added improvements to both their website and their customer service. blue sky scrubs realizes that the professionals who wear hospital uniforms have dozens of places to purchase their scrubs whether it is online or in retail stores blue sky scrubs wants to make sure they stand out above the rest. Standing out in the sea of nurses scrubs...]]>time()>>Baxa Corporation announces the positive customer satisfaction results for the online and ondemand training program CriticalPoint in a nationwide pharmacy survey. CriticalPoint is in use in 9 of the facilities surveyed by Pharmacy Purchasing and Products in its 2nd annual national survey released in May 2009 versus only 1 a year ago. In addition to market share information a portion of the survey...]]>time()>>Orion Health Inc. http://www.orionhealth.com/ a market leader in providing clinical workflow and integration technology for electronic health record EHR solutions is pleased to announce the appointment of Anna Theriault http://www.orionhealth.com/company/about/northamericanmanagementteam as its Vice President of Alliances for Orion Health North American and Europe Middle East and Africa EMEA. Ms. Theriault...]]>time()>>Management Health Solutions Inc. MHS a leader in the field of clinical supply chain management solutions to the health care industry announced today an offer of free data cleansing for all hospitals and health systems. Skyrocketing operating costs for hospitals and healthcare systems combined with lower operating budgets has created a national problem. Management Health Solutions is taking a step forward...]]>time()>>Corepoint Health's CTO Dave Shaver will be an invited panelist in the second annual SOA in Healthcare conference to be held on June 2 4 in Chicago Illinois. Conference attendees will include a number of knowledgeable IT professionals and thought leaders throughout the healthcare sector including providers vendors payers and public health organizations.Shaver will be a panelist in the discussion titled...]]>time()>>The Certification Board of the American Society for Quality is pleased to announce that several Spectrum Surgical Clinical Instrument Repair http://www.spectrumsurgical.com/dynamic/repairlanding.aspx Consultants have completed the requirements to be named an ASQCertified Quality Inspector ASQ CQI. As such Matt M. Morrison Jeff Menta Patrick Benz Jeff Eland Steve Salvatore and Pat Kane have reached...]]>time()>>SRC www.src.co.uk the leading provider of digital dictation and voice recognition solutions to NHS Trusts today announced that they are deploying a Trust wide digital dictation solution at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust the birthplace of the NHS. The SRC solution based upon WinScribe digital dictation technology is being deployed to more than 200 users to accelerate document creation times.Vincent Doyle...]]>time()>>Swisslog a leader in providing pharmacy automation and material transport solutions for hospitals now offers a compact and affordable highspeed packager with an unmatched capacity for its class. The ATP71 can accommodate up to 71 canisters in a small footprint 31.5 inches wide x 29.6 inches deep while offering 100 bar coding for oral solids through a universal feeder.The packager can handle both unit...]]>time()>>The health service of the Balearic Islands IBSalut awarded the tender for development of the quotLa Historia de Saludquot The History of Health to Fujitsu Services the leading company in IT solutions and services in conjunction with their technology partners Oracle and Orion Health http://www.orionhealth.com.The primary aim of the project is to transform the area's existing model of dispersed health...]]>time()>>Leading national provider of anesthesiology and pain management services Anesthetix Management LLC quotAnesthetixquot recently marked a new milestone expanding operations into its 10th state. With practice locations throughout the Midwest Northeast and Southeastern United States Anesthetix is expanding its reputation for delivering qualityfocused serviceoriented anesthesiology and pain management services....]]>time()>>ZONARE Medical Systems Inc. a developer of premium ultrasound systems today announced it has installed five z.one ultrasound systems at two hospitals within the Henry Ford Health System one of the leading health care providers in the U.S.nbspnbspnbspnbspThe new z.one ultrasound systems are being used for various imaging procedures in the Radiology Department at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital a...]]>time()>>The object of this oneofakind invention is to eliminate the need of being thirsty for those who use canes or crutches. The thirsty crutch comprises of two parts that allows a standard 500ml. water bottle to be securely attached to a cane or crutch. Being two separate parts made of polypropylene that is 100 recyclable it will have some flexibility which allows the user to apply pressure to secure the...]]>time()>>In the health field where professionals are already frequently overworked squandering away hours on a job search is the last thing doctors and nurses want to be doing with their limited free time. Meanwhile healthcare facilities are scratching their heads over how to spread the word about their job openings to the best and brightest medical pros the industry has to offer. The Web site MatrixMJ.com...]]>time()>>Doctors Hospital Nassau Bahamas. a 72bed facility that offers primary specialty acute care and emergency services has activated its HospitalPortal.NET8482 Intranet the first in its history. Doctors Hospital is the first international client of HospitalPortal.NET a leading provider of secure hospitalspecific Intranet sites for electronic information sharing and information publishing. We began a search...]]>time()>>St. Croix Systems an innovative provider of Enterprise Asset Management EAM solutions today announced a partnership with AeroScout Inc. the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for the healthcare industry. The two companies will offer an integrated Asset Management and RealTime Location System solution to help healthcare organizations manage mobile devices and equipment more efficiently while...]]>time()>>Progressive Acute Care LLC a Louisianabased health system announced today they have purchased three hospitals from Rapides Healthcare System LLC. The three facilities all located in Louisiana are: Avoyelles Hospital in Marksville Oakdale Community Hospital in Oakdale and Winn Parish Medical Center in Winnfield. Terms of the purchase agreement were not disclosed.We are very pleased to be able to continue...]]>time()>>Corepoint Health http://www.corepointhealth.com is launching a new product suite Corepoint Decisions http://www.corepointhealth.com/products/corepointdecisions. Corepoint Health's latest product suite offers an innovative approach to leveraging the data flow between various healthcare applications into accessible meaningful operational insights for healthcare decisionmakers which include: department...]]>time()>>Management Health Solutions Inc. MHS has signed a threeyear contract with Mercy Regional Medical Center the largest hospital in southwest Colorado to perform clinical inventory services for their facility in Durango Colorado. MHS will perform this inventory for the 82bed acute care hospital and put into operation a more efficient clinical inventory valuation process. www.MHSInc.comMHS is pleased to...]]>time()>>Orion Health http://www.orionhealth.com a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector congratulates the Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust for being awarded NHS Foundation Trust status recently http://www.wiganleigh.nhs.uk/.Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust WWL is a major acute facility serving the needs of the people of Wigan and Leigh...]]>time()>>Dream Flights Luxury Travel Inc. is honored to become a national corporate partner of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Through the use of the Dream Flights Plus Card8482 members will help St. Jude continue its mission of finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. The card which allows members to purchase flight hours versus owning...]]>time()>>Recognizing only the best of the best HealthLeaders Media http://www.healthleadersmedia.com is pleased to announce it is accepting entries for its sixth annual Top Leadership Teams in Healthcare Awards Program http://www.topleadershipteams.net. Supported by Cejka Search and Waller Lansden Dortch 38 Davis LLP this awards program recognizes excellence in seniorlevel leadership at hospitals health plans...]]>time()>>Female patients who require the removal of a kidney may now be able to have the diseased organ extracted completely through the vagina thanks to a new surgical procedure developed by a team of urologists http://www.clevelandclinic.org/urology at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Jihad Kaouk Director of the Center for Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery and his team performed the first completely transvaginal nephrectomy...]]>time()>>Broadlane announced today through a corporate relationship agreement that Legacy Hospital Partners Inc. LHP based in Plano Texas has selected Broadlane as the exclusive provider of a broad range of supply chain http://www.broadlane.com and procurement services http://www.broadlane.com to help manage spending for all LHPowned and managed hospitals.LHP will access Broadlane's unparalleled national GPO...]]>time()>>Vintage and classic vehicle owners are invited to apply for entry to the First Annual Marin Sonoma Concours d'Elegance held May 17 10:00am4:00pm at the Marin County Fairgrounds Marin Civic Center San Rafael. The proceeds benefit Hospice By The Bay http://www.hospicebythebay.org/ the nonprofit regional Bay Area hospice and palliative care provider. The Concours display will include 180 entrant vehicles...]]>time()>>Rivulet Communications the leading provider of superiorquality realtime HD and SD medical video http://www.rivulet.com/medical.aspx on and off the hospital data networks today announced they were awarded a project to provide interactive highquality medical video to 28 new operating rooms at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center WFUBMC. Wake Forest Baptist which recently was named one of America's...]]>time()>>After nearly 30 years with Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Chief Executive Officer David Mechtenberg recently passed the torch to Jim Suver a California native with a rich history of healthcare leadership in the state. Suver who assumed the chief executive officer role for the hospital on February 17 has spent his entire healthcare leadership career in California.Jim has an indepth understanding of California's...]]>time()>>Quantros http://www.quantros.com a leading provider of safety quality and compliance solutions for the healthcare industry is giving away 1000 free copies of the book quotFatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health Systemquot http://fatalcare.com to recognize the importance of National Patient Safety Awareness Week PSAW. The book written by Quantros President CEO and CMO Dr. Sanjaya Kumar reflects Quantros'...]]>time()>>NorthShore University HealthSystem http://www.northshore.org/ NorthShore is pleased to announce a 1 million commitment to the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center LCHD/CHC for Be WellLake County http://www.northshore.org/ a program dedicated to addressing the steadily growing problem of diabetes in the county. In Lake County nearly 36000 residents have been diagnosed with diabetes....]]>time()>>Norvax University brings its popular insurance agent training conference to Dallas Texas on Thursday March 26 just a month after its quotstanding room onlyquot Chicago conference.The daylong intensive training event is part of the 2009 Marketing Success Tour and features advanced health insurance sales training http://university.norvax.com and marketing education for agents and brokers. This Norvax...]]>time()>>The Florida Patient Safety Corporation FPSC the first organization in the U.S. to be federally certified as a Patient Safety Organization PSO has chosen Quantros http://www.quantros.com software to support data aggregation and submission to the Network of Patient Safety Databases NPSD.Quantros Patient Safety Organization Manager PSOM http://www.quantros.com/psom.htm was designed specifically to help...]]>time()>>Orion Health http://www.orionhealth.com a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for eHealth introduces a new program to ensure highquality service is maintained to improve communication and customerdriven development. The newly formed Client Services team will ensure an additional level of partnership with customers for the speedy resolution of post implementation questions...]]>>>BridgeFront reveals its newest audio and visual interactive online course features. Students now test their knowledge of BridgeFront's course content through visuallyenhanced chapter selfchecks and learn to articulate difficult terms through the new audio pronunciation tool.We are continually leveraging evolving technologies to enrich our healthcare client's learner experiencesquot says Kent Lane cofounder...]]>>>After a series of tests that scanned and evaluated different computer systems the IT staff of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine SIUMed revealed that Cybernet iOne GX31 was by far the most reliable computer model for the university's hospital exam rooms.The Cybernet iOne GX31 has consistently provided uninterrupted and unparalleled service to the hospital's doctors nurses and patients...]]>