The Commerce Department’s National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), United States, plans to develop standards to help evaluate the ease-of-use of Healthcare IT systems. In a notice on a federal contracting…
HOSPIRA EXTENDS ITS COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Innovative, forward thinking technology to enhance quality of care and operational efficiency from the pharmacy to the bedside – DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 26, 2010 – Hospira (NYSE: HSP), a global specialty pharmaceutical…
ECRI Institute Guides Hospitals on Electronic Health Record Implementation
Emphasizes Need to Report Problems Electronic health records (EHRs) are the future of medical record keeping. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) includes incentive payments for hospitals that adopt an EHR,…
HIMSS Analytics Looking to go International with its EMR Adoption Model
HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model is gaining interest internationally, according to Dave Garets, the company’s CEO and president. HIMSS Analytics, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society,…
The Hamilton healthcare system began to execute the HMS suite
Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. is a Nashville-based healthcare company that provides an information technology system that integrates clinical and financial applications on a single IBM platform to over 600 community hospitals nationwide. Currently, Healthcare…
Neuroimaging technique PET to detect Alzheimer’s disease very early
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of nuclear medicine procedure that measures metabolic activity of the cells of body tissues. PET is actually a combination of nuclear medicine and biochemical analysis. …
GE Healthcare and Gulf Capital join hands to provide healthcare financing
Press Release GE Healthcare and Gulf Capital join hands to create MENA region’s largest chain of medical diagnostic and healthcare service centers • Strategic alliance will design, develop and implement a regional…
Family Physicians share EHR success stories
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is one of the largest national medical organizations, representing more than 94,600 family physicians, family medicine residents and medical students nationwide. Founded in 1947, its…
Computer Aided Drug Discovery offers effective inhibitors for specific cancer targets
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is the rate limiting enzyme in tryptophan (Trp) catabolism. It catalyzes the oxidative degradation of L-tryptophan to Nformylkynurenine. Because of this catabolic activity it has been postulated that one possible…
Outrage Against Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
Radiologists who reacted with shock and outrage to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s (USPSTF) revised guidelines recommending that women under age 50 not undergo annual mammography say the controversy shows no…
Health Level 7 – Basics to Latest
What is HL7? HL7 is a standard concerned with the exchange of messages between two or more computers in the health care organization. It is also concerned with the interoperability within the…
Computed Tomographic Colonography offers Effective Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and second leading cause of cancer death in men and women in the United States. Each year nearly 50,000 Americans die from colorectal…
Practicing Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) in Healthcare Delivery
Health care managers are under constant pressure to improve care delivery, render quality services at reduced costs at par with international standards. In order to do so, there is a need to…
Crux Biomedical, Inc. – Medical Equipment – Deals and Alliances Profile Aarkstore Enterprise
Crux Biomedical Inc. (Crus Biomedical) provides clinicians with improved medical treatments for potentially life threatening conditions of the human vascular system. The company was formed by physicians Tom Fogarty and Frank Arko…
CRi Biomedical Imaging Systems Used by World’s Top Pharmaceutical Companies
WOBURN, Mass. – (Business Wire) Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi), a leader in biomedical imaging, announced that 18 out of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies worldwide are using CRi’s optical imaging…