Biohealthmatics.com News Digest - 9/29/2005

Biohealthmatics.com's Daily News Digest The latest health informatics news from Biohealthmatics.com Date: Thursday, September 29, 2005 Biohealtmatics News Editor's Pick of Health Informatics Headlines Syndicated Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News GE Healthcare to Acquire IDX Systems Corporation Thursday, September 29, 2005 Significantly expands GE presence in healthcare information technologies ... more Organizations With EHR's Must Address New Legal Process Issues Thursday, September 29, 2005 When a health record is involved in litigation, the custodian of that record may be asked to testify as to how the record was created, maintained, and whether the complete record had been turned over. ... more NDCHealth Announces Early Termination of HSR Waiting Period Thursday, September 29, 2005 NDCHealth Corporation (NYSE:NDC) today announced it has received notification of early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) with respect to the proposed sale of NDCHealth's information management business to Wolters Kluwer as well as Per-Se Technologies' (NASDAQ:PSTI) proposed acquisition of NDCHealth. ... more Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Humana Developing Multi-Payer Electronic Health Record Thursday, September 29, 2005 Capability Will Be Delivered Via the Existing Availity(R) Health Information Network to Improve Health Care Delivery and Enhance Patient Experience ... more BioSpace and BIOCOM Unveil 2005 Biotech Beach(TM) Life Science Campaign Thursday, September 29, 2005 BioSpace, the leading online information source for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, and BIOCOM, a premiere life science industry association representing more than 450 member companies in San Diego and Southern California, unveiled this morning the Seventh Edition of the Biotech Beach(TM) Hotbed Campaign promoting the life science community of greater San Diego. ... more Click here for more news Back to top

Editor's Pick of Health Informatics Headlines DoD's health record gives providers access to patient's information following Katrina Patuxent River Tester, US - Thursday, September 29, 2005 Following a joint effort between the Department of Defense, including the Military Health System (MHS), the Air Force and multiple government contractors, displaced medical providers from Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss., received immediate access to medical information of TRICARE beneficiaries who were evacuated by Hurricane Katrina through the military electronic health record (EHR). ... Comments (0) Grant for private, secure, electronic medical records search system News-Medical.net, US - Thursday, September 29, 2005 A Boston consortium has been awarded one of two national grants to form a CDC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. ... Comments (0) Medical care system changing in Japan Japan Today, Japan - Thursday, September 29, 2005 Japan's medical care system is undergoing significant change due to the application of advanced information technology. There is a new trend toward the introduction of patient charts in electronic form as a means of increasing the quality of medical care while also improving efficiency. ... Comments (0) Robot Vendor Gets $12.1 Million Mobile Health Data, US - Thursday, September 29, 2005 InTouch Health Inc., a vendor of wireless robotic devices designed for health care organizations, has raised $12.1 million. The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based vendor received the capital from a Series C investment financing round led by Galen Partners, New York. Acacia Venture Partners, San Francisco, and InvestCare Partners, London, also made investments. ... Comments (0) Study Estimates Future EHR Adoption iHealth Beat, US - Thursday, September 29, 2005 A recent IT study in Health Affairs examined the health IT functionality needed for a model of a national health information network and estimated the functionality of the technology in physician offices now and in five years. According to the study, electronic health record functionality for offices with one to four physicians is expected to grow from less than 10% to about 25% in the next five years. ... Comments (0) Click here for more news Back to top

Syndicated Health Informatics News Bioinformatics News It's a bug's life: MIT team tells moving tale Bioinfo Online - Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:56:49 PM MIT mathematicians have discovered how certain insects can climb what to them are steep, slippery slopes in the water's surface without moving their limbs--and do it at high speed. Welcome to the world of the tiny creatures that live on ... more Bioinformatics News Nanoscientists describe electron movement through molecules Bioinfo Online - Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:55:16 PM Molecular electronics is the ultimate miniaturization of electronics. In this area of research, scientists have been studying the movement of electrons through individual molecules in an effort to understand how they might control and use the process ... more Health Informatics News GE to buy IDX for £681 million E-Health-Insider - Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:35:11 PM General Electric Co.'s healthcare unit is to buy US health IT software supplier IDX Systems Corp. in a deal worth $1.2 billion (£681 ... more Health Informatics News GE Buys IDX for $1.2 Billion histalk.blog-city.com - Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:38:00 PM GE Healthcare will acquire HIT vendor IDX for $1.2 billion, it was announced minutes ago. Thanks for those who tipped me off to the news. More to ... more Bioinformatics News Secretion of Bacterial Xenobiotic-Degrading Enzymes from Transgenic Plants by an Apoplastic Expressional Syste Moreover - Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:57:00 PM Secretion of Bacterial Xenobiotic-Degrading Enzymes from Transgenic Plants by an Apoplastic Expressional System: An Applicability for Phytoremediation Environ. Sci. Technol., 39 (19), 7671 -7677, ... more Click here for more news Back to top

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