Healthcare Technology and Informatics

XDx to Present at the Third Annual JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference (Centre Daily Times)
XDx, a molecular diagnostics company, today announced that Pierre Cassigneul, president and chief executive officer, is scheduled to present at the Third Annual JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference on Monday, October 6, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. (ET) at the Le Parker Meridien in New York City.

Emerald Software Announces Outreach Program: HR Technology Gift-in-Kind for Children’s Healthcare (PR.com)
Emerald Software Group of Alpharetta, Georgia announces today its Emerald Outreach program, offering gift-in-kind donations of its workforce management technology to nonprofit organizations in children’s healthcare and wellness. [PR.com - September 30, 2008]

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-10-01 17:10 UPDATE 1-Agfa not seeking to sell healthcare unit - CEO (Interactive Investor)
MORTSEL, Belgium, Oct 1 (Reuters ) - Belgian imaging technology group Agfa-Gevaert is not seeking to sell its healthcare unit and will concentrate instead on existing plans to improve performance, its chief executive said. “This is not a good moment to try to do any (divestment) operation. In the next year or two years we will be focusing on executing the plans we have,” Jo Cornu told a news …

Stephanie ‘Stevie’ Davidson of Health Informatics Consulting Named to New Jersey Health Information Technology … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Stephanie “Stevie” Davidson, president and CEO of Health Informatics Consulting, www.hi-consulting.net has been appointed by New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine to serve on the state Health Information Technology Commission, a new body created to jump-start the much-needed conversion to computerized patient records by doctors.

MidSouth eHealth Alliance to Transition to Commercial Software Solution from Informatics Corporation of America (wallstreet:online AG)
Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), formed three years ago to take technology developed by physicians

Stephanie ‘Stevie’ Davidson of Health Informatics Consulting Named to New Jersey Health Information Technology … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Stephanie “Stevie” Davidson, president and CEO of Health Informatics Consulting, www.hi-consulting.net has been appointed by New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine to serve on the state Health Information Technology Commission, a new body created to jump-start the much-needed conversion to computerized patient records by doctors.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals to Present at the JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference on October 6, 2008 (Centre Daily Times)
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq:ACAD), a biopharmaceutical company utilizing innovative technology to fuel drug discovery and clinical development of novel treatments for central nervous system disorders, today announced that it will present at the JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference on Monday, October 6, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City.

A.D.A.M., Inc. to Present at JMP Securities’ Third Annual Healthcare Focus Conference on October 6, 2008 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ATLANTA—-A.D.A.M., Inc. , a leading provider of health information and benefits technology solutions, today announced that it will present at the Third Annual JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference on October 6, 2008 at 8:30 a.m.

GE Healthcare Forms Strategic Relationship with Living Independently Group (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHALFONT ST. GILES, England & NEW YORK—-GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company , announced today that it has entered into a distribution and technology collaboration agreement with Living Independently Group, Inc. a leading provider of telecare and passive monitoring systems used to assist in the care of seniors.

Mount Kisco Medical Group, PC, Uses NEC to Bring a Personal Touch to its Growing Healthcare Business (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
IRVING, Texas—-NEC Unified Solutions, Inc., a leader in enterprise business communications, today announced that a unique deployment of voice over IP and Automatic Call Distribution technology at 15 Mount Kisco Medical Group, PC, locations is enabling medical staff to provide patients with quality and timely healthcare.