‘Health Care’ Archives
Technology Drives 2010 National Scout Jamboree
FORT A.P. HILL, Va., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- When the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910, the latest advancement in communication was the manual telephone switchboard. Now, as the BSA celebrates its 100th Anniversary this week at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, modern technology is helping assure this week's event is fun and [...]
State of Florida Selects Upp Technology’s IRMS for Statewide Pharmaceutical Management
DOWNERS GROVE IL & TALLAHASSEE, FL - UPP Technology, a leader in emergency preparedness and response solutions, announced Tuesday that the state of Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Statewide Pharmaceutical Services has selected the IRMS 360 Enterprise solution suite in a hosted environment to manage the state's pharmaceutical [...]
Goverment entities finally start working together to promote wireless medical technology
According to a story in "The Hill", a Washington D.C. based blog, the FCC and the FDA are joining forces to promote the use of wireless technology within the health care arena. According to the article "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg signed a memorandum of understanding and released a joint statement of [...]
New Louisiana State Health Secretary
Gov. Bobby Jindal's office said Friday that Bruce Greenstein will replace Alan Levine, who has resigned from his post as the Louisiana State Health Secretary, and is returning to the private sector. His last official day is Aug. 1. Greenstein is expected to start the new post Sept. 13. Greenstein has a reputation in health policy and [...]
Monday Briefs!
It's official: the IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet standard has been ratified by the IEEE! Orlando Florida - Orlando Health has just signed an agreement with HCD to build the organization's Enterprise Data Warehouse which will be the primary repository for clinical, financial, operational and research data. Official approval [...]
UA team wins Gates’ Grand Challenges grant!!!
A University of Alabama research team, lead by Joe Brown, an assistant professor in biological sciences, was awarded grant of $100,000by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant was one of 78 awarded for their project to develop an improved method for detecting and tracking water contamination. Other team members included the group [...]
Vanderbilt Team Develop Peptide Synthesis That Promises to Lower Drug Cost!
According to a Press Release from Vanderbilt University. A team of Vanderbilt chemists has developed a novel method for chemically synthesizing peptides that promises to lower the cost and increase the availability of drugs based on natural compounds. The new synthesis technique is described in a paper published in the June 24 issue of the [...]
Allscripts and Eclipsys to Merge
CHICAGO & ATLANTA, Jun 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, information and connectivity solutions for physicians, and Eclipsys (NASDAQ: ECLP), a leading enterprise provider of solutions and services for hospitals and clinicians, today announced a definitive [...]
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis TN, was named the number 1!
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis TN, was named the number 1 U.S. News Best Children's Hospitals 2010-11 for treating Children with cancer. While Children's Medical Center-Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children of Dallas, TX is considered the #2 hospital in the nation for Juvenile Orthopedics. Also, Texas Children's [...]
Intuit buying Medfusion for $91M
Intuit will acquire Medfusion for $91 million in cash, to expand its software-as-a-service offering. Medfusion, based in Cary, North Carolina, has historically focused on patient-provider communication solutions and works with more than 30,000 healthcare providers. Many of these providers are small businesses, which should allow for an easy [...]
Intuit aquires Medfusion
Word on the street is that Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) is purchasing privately held Medfusion, a Cary, N.C. based company. Medfusion provides online solutions that enable health care providers to offer self service options for customers such as billpay, data, etc.... The cash transaction is valued at approximately $91 million.
Georgia Tech Students Sweep Health IT Coding Challenge
Congratulations to the team Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students who call themselves, the Georgia Tech Flatliners, the group finished first, second and third at the NHIN CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge, held April 28-29 at Florida International University in Miami. The event challenged teams to develop innovative and creative [...]
Ky. Health Info. Exchange Launches
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Steve Beshear joined federal officials Tuesday to announce that Kentucky has achieved a major milestone in its health information exchange efforts with the official launch of the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE). Six pilot hospitals and one clinic are participating in the exchange. "Kentucky is on the [...]
USF prepares to hire workers for electronic medical records initiative
By Letitia Stein, Times Staff Writer (Tampabay.com) University of South Florida leaders said Tuesday they are ready to use $6 million from the federal stimulus bill to hire "e-ambassadors" to help doctors convert to using electronic medical records. Within about three months, USF hopes to make the first of about 100 hires for its [...]
onFocus Healthcare Secures $3 Million in Series B Financing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 14, 2010) – onFocus Healthcare, Inc. (www.onfocushealthcare.com), the leading provider of web-based enterprise performance management solutions for the healthcare services marketplace, today announced it has secured $3 million in Series B financing led by Clayton Associates’ FCA Venture Partners IV. Limestone Fund, [...]
