More than 30 organizations from across Canada are forming partnerships in a $15.5 million series of initiatives aimed at preventing chronic disease – a challenge that the United States is also tackling. Electronic health records play a critical role in Canada's plan.
Elekta has launched a new corporate Web site that provides healthcare professionals, patients, investors and the public with new ways to interact, navigate and browse information about Elekta's solutions for treating cancer and brain disorders.
The HealthPartners Medical Group is using an electronic medical record and race information to raise awareness of colorectal cancer among African American patients.
Emmi Solutions, LLC, creators of Web-based interactive multimedia patient education programs, has collaborated with the American Cancer Society, the nation’s leading voluntary health organization and the preeminent source of cancer information and service, to expand Emmi Solutions’ existing suite of cancer-related programs.
Superior healthcare technology usually means better care and safety for patients - but the familiar technologies that power today's modern hospitals also have a dark side. From infections to cancer to surgical fires, this list covers the top 10 healthcare technology threats for 2010.
GE Healthcare officials made several announcements Wednesday in New York concerning the company's $6 billion Healthymagination initiative, which aims at investing in technologies that improve healthcare.
In a previous article ("Keys to EHR Team Success," Healthcare IT News; January 12, 2009) we detailed a number of governance structural components which are key to successful electronic health record (EHR) implementation.
In a previous article ("Keys to EHR Team Success," Healthcare IT News; January 12, 2009) we detailed a number of governance structural components which are key to successful electronic health record (EHR) implementation.
InnerWireless, based in Richardson, Texas, has announced that the Virginia Hospital Center will deploy the company’s Horizon Converged Wireless across 1.1 million square feet in three buildings on its Arlington, Va. campus.
IBM is lending its considerable IT expertise to University of North Carolina Health Care to help speed the development of new treatments for diseases like diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer.
iCAD, Inc., an provider of advanced image analysis and workflow solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announces new research presented at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 23rd International Congress and Exhibition being held in Berlin, Germany from June 23-27 2009.
The Heritage Valley Health System, a progressive community-based health system in southwestern Pennsylvania, has selected the Allscripts Enterprise Electronic Health Record to automate and enhance the care provided by 150 of its employed physicians.
CentraState Medical Center, based in Freehold, New Jersey, has purchased two new state-of-the-art Elekta radiation therapy treatment systems, both with Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy.
The University of North Carolina Health Care is partnering with IBM to create a data warehouse designed to help speed the development of new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer.
Clarient, Inc., a premier anatomic pathology and molecular testing services resource for pathologists, oncologists and the pharmaceutical industry, today announced the commercial launch of a new breast cancer test that helps physicians identify the probability of a patient's cancer recurring and assess the need for chemotherapy. The new prognostic test, Clarient Insight Dx Breast Cancer Profile, has been clinically validated for women with early-stage, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer. Unlike other assays used to determine the likelihood of recurrence, the Clarient Insight Dx Breast Cancer Profile uses a combination of pathology risk factors and molecular markers to categorize patients as either high or low risk.
Steven Seltzer, MD, who heads the radiology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital here, sees unlimited opportunity for improving patient care resulting from a new research partnership with GE Healthcare.
The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) is implementing a clinical research management system to track patient data for clinical trials and billing purposes.
Amgen today announced that results from several preclinical studies investigating potential new cancer agents will be presented at the 2009 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Denver between April 18-22, 2009.
