Biohealthmatics.com News Digest - 8/11/2005

Biohealthmatics.com's Daily News Digest The latest health informatics news from Biohealthmatics.com Date: Thursday, August 11, 2005 Biohealtmatics News Editor's Pick of Health Informatics Headlines Syndicated Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News Provena Health Benefits From McKesson Solutions Thursday, August 11, 2005 OPTYX and Horizon Radiology Systems Help Lower Costs and Improve Patient Care ... more Harvard Medical School and GE Healthcare Collaborate to Fight Neurodegenerative Disease Thursday, August 11, 2005 GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced a collaboration with the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair (HCNR) to use GE Healthcare's state-of-the-art cellular imaging system, the IN Cell Analyzer, to enhance research of the human central nervous system and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.... more Daou Systems, Inc., to be Acquired by Proxicom, Inc. Thursday, August 11, 2005 Deal to Fuel Future Growth for Healthcare IT Consulting Firm ... more NDCHealth and InstantDx Announce OnCallData(TM) Integration Thursday, August 11, 2005 NDCHealth Corporation (NYSE:NDC) , a leading provider of healthcare technology and information solutions and InstantDx, L.L.C., a pioneer in electronic prescribing (e-prescribing), today announced their joint initiative to disseminate the next generation of e-prescribing services to physician practices nationwide. ... more Source Medical Solutions Adds Nine New Imaging Centers to Its SourceRad Radiology Information System - RIS; SourceRad Helps New Sites to Streamline Workflow and Maximize Reimbursement While Enhancing the Quality of Patie Thursday, August 11, 2005 Source Medical Solutions, a leading provider of outpatient information management solutions, today announced that the company has received nine new orders for its SourceRad(TM) Web-based radiology information system (RIS). ... more Click here for more news Back to top

Editor's Pick of Health Informatics Headlines Radiology streamlines online Post-Crescent, US - Thursday, August 11, 2005 Five years ago, if a hospital needed a radiologist in the middle of the night, the staff would check a schedule to see who was on call. Then they'd have to track down the radiologist, who was probably at home asleep. Today, when eight area hospitals need a radiologist, they can call one central location around the clock - Radiology Associates of the Fox Valley S.C. ... Comments (0) Military medical records go paperless Patuxent River Tester, US - Thursday, August 11, 2005 A Defense Department initiative to transition patient records from paper to a new digital health care database is scheduled to begin at the National Naval Medical Center Sept. 18. ... Comments (0) New Prescription for Practice Management Mobile Health Data, US - Thursday, August 11, 2005 Gaithersburg, Md.-based InstantDX LLC has integrated its electronic prescribing system into practice management applications from NDCHealth Corp., Atlanta. The combined technology is designed to offer physicians a single application and login for access to patient data and electronic prescribing. ... Comments (0) Kodak Targets Imaging Centers Health Data Management, US - Thursday, August 11, 2005 Eastman Kodak Co. has introduced a new radiology information system for imaging centers. The Rochester, N.Y.-based company already sells a radiology system for other facilities. ... Comments (0) Federal advisory group moves closer to healthcare IT recommendations Healthcare IT News, US - Thursday, August 11, 2005 The government should eliminate regulations that prevent hospitals from sharing information technology tools with physicians, give healthcare entities incentives to adopt IT and encourage adoption of standards to help disparate information systems communicate, a federal advisory body said Wednesday. ... Comments (0) Click here for more news Back to top

Syndicated Health Informatics News Bioinformatics News News: GM crop giant wants to patent super-pig Moreover - Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:34:00 AM GM crop giant wants to patent super-pig by STEPHANIE CONDRON, Daily Mail The firm at the centre of the genetically-modified crops controversy is now trying to patent the pig, it has been ... more Bioinformatics News Genzyme, Biogen Settle Lawsuit with Columbia Bio-IT World - Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:26:11 AM The Boston Globe | Biotechnology giants Genzyme Corp. and Biogen Idec Inc. yesterday said they settled a lawsuit they brought against Columbia University, ending a closely watched legal fight over how far the school could go in claiming royalties on its research. ... more Bioinformatics News TurboWorx Ties On-Demand and In-House Workflows Bio-IT World - Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:26:11 AM | TurboWorx, in a partnership with IBM, has extended its workflow and distributed computing software to include IBM's On Demand computational services. ... more Bioinformatics News NEWS - InforSense Strengthens Supervisory Board With Two Industry Leaders UK Bioinformatics Forum - Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:25:48 AM Dr Tidu Maini and Mr John O'Connell join the InforSense Supervisory ... more Bioinformatics News Kosan Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering LifeSciencesWorld.com - Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:25:25 AM HAYWARD, Calif., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kosan Biosciences Incorporated (NASDAQ:KOSN) today announced the pricing of its public offering of 4,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $8.75 per share. All of the shares are being offered by Kosan. The underwriters have an option to ... more Click here for more news Back to top

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