Archive for April, 2008

Global Medication Delivery Company Hospira Acquires Information Technology Subsidiary of St. Clair Hospital Parent … (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Global Medication Delivery Company Hospira Acquires Information Technology Subsidiary of St. Clair Hospital Parent … (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Deal brings Fortune 1000 Hospira to Southpointe and makes St. Clair Hospital a national alpha test site for leading-edge healthcare technology.

Benefit Informatics Selected by Diversified Group Brokerage to Expand Client Data Analysis, Reporting and Communications (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Benefit Informatics Selected by Diversified Group Brokerage to Expand Client Data Analysis, Reporting and Communications (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
TULSA, Okla.—-Diversified Group Brokerage has over 40 years of experience working closely with self-funded health plan clients and offering innovative and customized service and technology solutions to help control health benefit costs.

WebReach, Inc. Releases Mirth 1.7.1 - The ‘Linux of Healthcare’ Now Supports Digital Imaging in Medicine (DiCOM) … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Friday, April 25th, 2008

WebReach, Inc. Releases Mirth 1.7.1 - The ‘Linux of Healthcare’ Now Supports Digital Imaging in Medicine (DiCOM) … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
WebReach, Inc., a leading healthcare IT consultancy and creator of open source Health IT solutions, today announced the open source release of Mirth 1.7.1 includes support for the Digital Imaging in Medicine standard.

Burrill & Company Report Finds Personalized Medicine is Having a Dramatic Effect on Healthcare Delivery (Centre Daily Times)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Burrill & Company Report Finds Personalized Medicine is Having a Dramatic Effect on Healthcare Delivery (Centre Daily Times)
The convergence of genomics, information technology, and nanotechnologies will radically alter every aspect of the healthcare system from the way companies develop and market drugs to the way individuals pay for and receive medical services, according to Biotech 2008 — Life Sciences: A 20/20 Vision for 2020 - the 22nd annual report on the biotechnology industry from Burrill & Company

Transolutions, Inc. Selects M*Modal for Its Innovative Speech Understanding Technology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Transolutions, Inc. Selects M*Modal for Its Innovative Speech Understanding Technology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAKE BLUFF, Ill.—-Transolutions, Inc., a technology-driven healthcare information company and one of the largest domestic medical transcription companies in the United States, and M*Modal, the creator of the industry’s most advanced speech understanding technology, today announced an agreement to offer integrated services to Transolutions’s transcription clients.

Siemens Addresses Cost vs. Value Issues In Healthcare and Technology (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Siemens Addresses Cost vs. Value Issues In Healthcare and Technology (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Siemens Healthcare , in association with U.S. News & World Report, hosted an exclusive panel discussion today titled “Health Care and Technology: Cost vs. Value,” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

bioMerieux Bestowed 2007 Frost & Sullivan European Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Technology Leadership Award (Centre Daily Times)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

bioMerieux Bestowed 2007 Frost & Sullivan European Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Technology Leadership Award (Centre Daily Times)
The 2007 European Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Technology Leadership Award is conferred upon bioMerieux in recognition of its unparalleled leadership and commitment toward healthcare-associated infection control and its pioneering and extensive work in this field.

TechCoire to Host Leading Life Science Investors, Innovators and Industry Executives at LifeScienceFest 2008 (Centre Daily Times)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

TechCoire to Host Leading Life Science Investors, Innovators and Industry Executives at LifeScienceFest 2008 (Centre Daily Times)
More than 250 of the life science industry’s top investors, innovators and executives will be on hand June 3-4 at TechCoire’s LifeScienceFest 2008 in Davis, Calif., at the University of California, Davis’ Mondavi Center. The conference will bring together life science industry experts from medical devices, diagnostics, bio-tech, bio-informatics, healthcare information technology and related …

Employee Benefit Administration & Management Corp. Selects Benefit Informatics for Strategic Data Analysis and Reporting (Centre Daily Times)

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Employee Benefit Administration & Management Corp. Selects Benefit Informatics for Strategic Data Analysis and Reporting (Centre Daily Times)
Employee Benefits Administration & Management Corp. has contracted with Benefit Informatics, a leading healthcare technology partner for self-insured benefit plan administrators, to implement online benefit analysis and reporting technology to enhance communication and distribution to clients and brokers.

Expanded BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008 Seek Out the Best in Healthcare ICT (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Expanded BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008 Seek Out the Best in Healthcare ICT (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
New categories in the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008 launched today will reward excellent work by healthcare information and communications technology professionals in vital areas such as patient safety, security and wireless working.