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New Technology: PROPELLER MRI 26 Jun 2006 | 10:00 pm
Obtaining clear diagnostic images during MRI scanning is essential for diagnosing certain medical conditions, and critical for surgeons who use imaging during surgical procedures. However, motion can ...
Epic Systems Wins $40 Million Contract at WVU Hospitals 26 Jun 2006 | 09:50 pm
Epic Systems Corporation of Madison Wisconsin has won a $40 million contract to consolidate data from multiple software programs across the West Virginia University (WVU) Hospitals and University Heal...
IBM Wins $10 Million Deal to Digitize Canadian Health Records 23 Jun 2006 | 10:21 pm
In an effort to reduce medical errors and to promote workplace efficiency, IBM and the Canadian province of Alberta have signed a $10-million deal to digitize patient health records. Over a two-year ...
New Jersey to Create Online Rx Registry 23 Jun 2006 | 10:18 pm
As long as Governor Corzine signs the bill, the state of New Jersey will soon have a state Web site listing pharmacy prices for 150 frequently prescribed drugs. The state Assembly passed the bill earl...
Kidney Transplant Program Records Stolen 22 Jun 2006 | 10:39 pm
The records of nearly 10,000 patients at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have been stolen. The records were on a computer and the information taken included Social Security numbers and m...
Kaiser to Create DNA Database 22 Jun 2006 | 10:16 pm
Kaiser Permanente is one of a number of healthcare organizations across the nation that are planning to conduct research that would require the creation of large DNA databases. The research will buil...
FDA Plans Web-based Safety Reporting System 22 Jun 2006 | 10:11 pm
The Food and Drug Administration intends to consolidate the numerous individual and labor-intensive systems it uses to collect safety reports about drugs and medical devices. Currently, the various c...
FDA: Rx RFID Adoption by Big Pharma Too Sluggish 22 Jun 2006 | 10:00 pm
Just a couple of years ago the FDA expected that the adoption of radio-frequency identification technology for prescription drug tracking would take off. Although a few pharmaceutical companies have i...
Senator Clinton Champions Electronic Medical Records 20 Jun 2006 | 09:59 pm
At a healthcare symposium yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton told the audience that making all medical records paperless would be one way to fix the healthcare system by reducing inefficiency, ...
Bill Would Require Online Access to NIH Research 20 Jun 2006 | 09:48 pm
Thanks to a measure passed in last week's House Appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services, research funded by public tax dollars will soon be available to the public. Scient...
