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Recover High Yields of Total Nucleic Acid from Formalin-fixed, Paraffin-embedded (FFPE) Tissue

...lf was fixed and embedded using a standard hospital protocol. RNA was isolated from one 20 m slice fro...r (20 m section, fixed and embedded using standard hospital protocol) using the RecoverAll Total Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit. Three equal amounts ...

Web-based reporting credited with state's top healthcare ranking

... surgery, giving a beta-blocker within 24 hours of hospital admission for a heart attack, the number of diabet...ing to its recent focus on measuring and reporting hospital quality. In 2004, WHA launched CheckPoint , a voluntary hospital quality reporting website. This r...

IRS ruling could speed healthcare technology adoption

...ains to impermissible private benefits provided to hospital staff, including non-affiliated physicians, in vio...orandum that the IRS will not treat the benefits a hospital provides to its medical staff physicians as an "impermissible private benefit or inurement" in viola...

Cardinal Health likes growth potential of Viasys NeuroCare Group

...and clinical services. Viasys has more than 7,000 hospital customers in 100 countries, and generates 40 percent of its revenue from customers outside the U.S. Nearly 70 percent of Viasys' $610 million in annual revenue comes from its core respiratory segment, and Cardinal Health believes Viasys complements i...

DHC 2007: Controlling health IT costs the key to capturing value

...3 to 6 percent of the costs of Aurora's new Summit hospital are devoted to information technology systems, but only if it doesn't have a PACS. In that case, factor in another 3 to 6 percent. It adds a cost that is equal to all other traditional IT systems, Loftus said. PACs is not used simply to store image...

Olympics of biotechnology has international flavor

...oston, not just the companies, but the surrounding hospital network (Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, Dana Farber Cancer Center, and others), and university research network (Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and many others) is so attractive, that pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Nova...

Abbott vs. Thailand has implications for innovation and access

...linic when they are ill. The famed Johns Hopkins hospital is building an affiliated hospital in Dubai, the government of Ukraine has reached out to GE Healthcare to help build its Children's ...

CIO Leadership Series: Deb Rislow, Gundersen Lutheran

... have to travel one or two hours to reach the main hospital and clinic in La Crosse, many will opt for a regio...EMRs, and the desktop PCs to view them in exam and hospital rooms. Paper charts had a lot to do with the transition to EMRs. In a perfect world, when a patient...

Privacy, trust still the biggest barriers to electronic record sharing

...t allow the group to establish a model for smaller hospital or medical groups with which they interact. The structure lends itself to synergy between smaller and larger practices, and Killoran said the expense of implementing EMRs might be the incentive independent physicians need to join larger health system...

Georgia healthcare system to install GE's radio frequency ID

... Emory initially will install tracking tags in all hospital infusion pumps. The organization now rents additional pumps to meet any fluctuating demand, and hopes to eliminate the need for rentals. Emory also wants to reduce the time it takes to deliver a pump from a high of 30 minutes to 10 minutes....

Software company enters health space with RFID solutions on hold

...ceware is one of three vendors that is helping the hospital upgrade the bar code identification system used on...sounds. With patients ranging in size and age, the hospital needs to produce a variety of wristbands, with readable bar codes, at any one time. Children's Hospi...

Portal to e-records boosts care at Children's Hospital

...to be followed anytime a patient is moved within a hospital - from the operating room to the intensive care un...nstalling new applications, it did not require the hospital to revise long-standing clinical processes. Going live The implementation, said Anthony DiCristo...

CIO Leadership Series: Tanya Townsend, Saint Clare's Hospital

...et the technological foundation for an all-digital hospital that would hit the ground running with electronic ... The decisions, which were made before much of the hospital staff was hired, were supported by a feasibility study conducted by a multi-disciplinary team compri...

Hospital named for Madame Curie installs TomoTherapy system

...red its first sale in France, and the sale is to a hospital that bears the name of European scientific royalty. The Madison-based medical imaging and device manufacturer has sold its Hi-Art system to the Institute Curie Hospital , founded in 1909 by Nobel prize winning physicist and chemist Marie Curie , ...

TeraMedica to install software at Marshfield Clinic

...d a holistic view of the patient across the entire hospital network, he said in a release. Marshfield Clinic has more than 700 physicians in 41 centers throughout northern, central, and western Wisconsin. Within the context of its electronic medical record system, Carl Christensen, CIO of Marshfield Clinic,...

And the winners in medical design are

...ary. As many people are aware, the result has been hospital equipment that is, frankly, ugly and often unfriendly to users. While hospital and clinic architecture has advanced and we can describe some medical buildings as beautiful, the "i...

CIO Leadership Series: Mike Sauk, UW Hospital and Clinics

... care. That, of course, is the core mission of any hospital and clinic system, and Sauk knows the mission is p...s to what fits and what doesn't fit. All-digital hospital At the moment, the organization's most important initiative is the opening of the new American Fam...

The deconstruction of Big Pharma

...Abbott Labs has recently sold off its lower-margin hospital products division (now Hospira) and diagnostics business (to GE Healthcare ). The fourth stage of Big Pharma deconstruction, stimulated by generic competition and the loss of high-profit, patented drugs, represents a second wave of intense chopping...

It's not Y2K, but changes to Daylight Saving Time could cause tech problems

... two-thirds of which have a date component. As the hospital prepares for the change, it has been contacted by ...t Saving Time issue. Microsoft has informed the hospital that it will cost $4,000 for a date-and-time patch for its exchange server and Windows 2000 operat...

The 10 biggest events shaping biotech in 2006

...t a few years after jettisoning off its low margin hospital products, Hospira , 2006 saw an aggressive winning bid not only for a significant piece of Guidant's cardiovascular device business, but also an equity piece of Boston Scientific - all in the same deal. Abbott topped off the year with another ag...

CIO Leadership Series: Peter Strombom, Meriter Hospital

...on technology installations to come. From then on, hospital technical staff would work closely with user group... away. That could pay dividends this year when the hospital conducts a pilot project for computerized physician order entry . There has been a great acceptanc...

2006: A mixed blessing for Midwest life science companies

... gaining significant new business from a number of hospital groups. Abraxis Bioscience suffered, in spite of the successful launch of its new cancer drug Abraxane, as a result of the merger of the publicly-traded American Pharmaceutical Partners into the privately-held company for what many investors de...

Medical College part of $5M cancer study

...nts with advanced cancer. In contrasting standard hospital care with the services of palliative care consultation teams, the study will seek to find the specific conditions and activities that lead to better pain treatment, patient and family goal-setting, and satisfaction with care. The National Cancer In...

Kyron appoints former AMA chairman to board

... in Neenah, Wis., where he is the director of the hospital foundation, Flaherty serves as a clinical professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin Health Science Center and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Flaherty also has served as a director of the Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp. ,...

TomoTherapy's 100th radiology system reaches public sector

...he Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany, N.Y., a hospital under the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs , now is treating patients with TomoTherapy's cancer-targeting system, the company announced. The TomoTherapy Hi-Art System combines CT imaging with what the company calls conformal radiation therapy th...

Power services firm JT Packard isn't through growing

..." Cason said. Information systems, phone systems, hospital life support systems, and 911 centers all depend on UPS to operate with continuous power. "UPS is a unique animal," Cason said. "We never have to explain to customers why they should buy the service. It's a foregone conclusion because of its critical...

Tommy Thompson says capital needed for electronic health records

...he World War II era law that launched a nationwide hospital building program. To help fund it, he would take the $2 billion in penalties collected by the U.S. Department of Justice for fraud and abuse, use it for medical technology, and seek matching funds. "The big question is that doctors and hospitals s...

CEO of healthcare group still hopeful IT will save employers money

...er physician. "The investment that a physician or hospital makes is an investment on something that won't give immediate payback," Lieber said. "They can't charge for that type of activity, and that's causing a lot of physicians, who are basically small businesses, to hold up on this because they don't see t...

GE partner allows real-time access to patient data

...Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio will become the first hospital to adopt a GE Healthcare technology that, when c...o check on patients while making rounds at another hospital or while on call. Jeff Leimgruber, chief administrative officer of Fairview, a 478-bed acute care h...

GE Healthcare to distribute stem cell harvester

...lops technologies for the blood processing and the hospital and wound-care markets. The company expects to earn $50 million over the life of the worldwide distribution agreement. The Cord Blood Registry, which is based in San Bruno, Calif., offers parents an opportunity to cryogenically store stem cells deri...

Pedlar the latest executive to leave Merge

...ngineered software for the medical imaging OEM and hospital markets. The company did say that Robert J. White will serve as its interim president and CEO, and as president of Merge eMed , a medical imaging subsidiary operating in the radiology and specialty practice spaces. White also will continue to repo...

NovaScan decides against tax credits

...tests could begin as early as September at a local hospital that Wells declined to identify until their collaboration has been confirmed. The length of the trial could be determined by the availability of willing patients, but NovaScan is looking at a 6- to 9-month window. "We will need samples of both cance...

Aurora ranks among most wired systems

...ts online; provide digital radiology images in the hospital inpatient setting and offer digital medical record...ety. The remaining 40 percent of the points target hospital operational goals for workforce and business processes. The 2006 survey was made possible through a...

Midwest shines among best hospitals in U.S.

...rsing Index (nurse-to-patient ratio) Nurse magnet hospital Technology (# of technologies available) Patient... 14 hospitals in the U.S. Note that the number one hospital is Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, which has maintained its number one ranking for more than th...

Healthcare software addresses "90 million" misclassified Americans

...wo primary-care physicians within 10 miles and one hospital within 20 miles. Qualitative Access Standard - T... physicians within 10 miles and one "high-quality" hospital within 20 miles. "Where the healthcare market is heading is toward that qualitative access standard...

Penn State medical center installs MediaSite

... Educators at a Pennsylvania teaching and research hospital are integrating Sonic Foundry's MediaSite product into their instruction to distribute information about diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other medical topics. The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently purchased the Web-based ...

CIO Leadership Series: Kim Pemble, SynergyHealth

...s scheduled to "go live" with the opening of a new hospital in August of 2005, but Pemble, in consultation wit...home on Tuesday afternoon," Pemble said. Now, the hospital has electronic information on workflow compliance that previously was buried on paper charts, and it...

Kalla: Have patience with electronic health records

...iness of customized software development. It is in hospital settings writing interfaces so that systems can talk to one another, and it has acquired Strategic Health Corp ., a cost containment and disease management consulting firm. "We're completing the circle," Kalla said. "We are more of a one-stop shop...

Cash-rich TomoTherapy has no plans for IPO

...rates 24 hours every day, serving some 70 customer hospital client centers in 15 countries around the world. R...oyees saying, "It's a shame that you're not in the hospital every day to see the fruits of your labor because what you are doing here is truly revolutionary wor...

Kyron wins FDA approval for brain imaging technology

... its business base. Kyron markets the software to hospital systems and healthcare providers, and also offers it on a service basis to smaller institutions for outpatient imaging. An example is Kyron's current pilot service with the Center for Diagnostic Imaging in Milwaukee. Given the uniqueness of its pr...

No word on NASDAQ extension for Merge

...ill deploy Cedara's aXigate technology, a clinical hospital information software product, to complement its existing administrative hospital information system. "I think it shows the ability of our business to expand worldwide," Pedlar said...

GE introduces remotely hosted health services

...ment. These functions could conceivably facilitate hospital operations in numerous institutions. However, prov...lection process," Wenzlow said, "for an integrated hospital system that would be shared from a single data center by multiple participants." No matter what mod...

TeraMedica signs agreement with ThedaCare

...es Web-enabled, so they are accessible through the hospital network. "Historically, you had a viewer for every tool you used." said Keith Livingstone, chief information officer of ThedaCare. "Now, the provider will be able to use one tool to look at all these images."...

RFID system aids hospital in tracking assets

...even more difficult by the labyrinthine process of hospital organization. In hospitals that have only one cent...logies has come up with a new option for tracking hospital equipment with the Seeker Mobile Locating Solution . Using radio frequency identification (RFID) te...

Midwest retains dominant role in 2005 world medical device market

...ses. All of this while setting free its low margin hospital products business, now called Hospira, which has prospered since gaining its independence from Abbott. The above list doesn't reflect a whole group of smaller medical device companies headquartered in the Midwest which are also flourishing. Chicag...

Medical software may be a retention tool

...ft pay and the higher pay rate of an agency. "The hospital is able to determine how high they will go and how low they will pay, and then nurses can bid for shifts," said api's Samantha Hagen. "All of this plays into recruitment and retention because it's giving employees more control over their schedule." ...

Manufacturers advised to redesign customer relations

...or industry or the chip industry, are cleaner than hospital operating rooms."...

Managing the nightmare of identity theft

...a disgruntled employee who stole a laptop from the hospital and gained unauthorized access to its computer sys... The owner of the laptop immediately notified the hospital of both the theft and the security breach, but in its anxiety to find the perpetrator and recover th...

Doyle asks health professionals to overcome barriers

...e companies, health maintenance organizations, and hospital systems, many of which have already invested heavily in information technology. They also include two of the world's leading developers of electronic health records software, Epic Systems and GE Medical . Doyle has declared May 1-7 Healthcare Inf...

Healthcare leaders tell how they rally stakeholders around IT

...he would explain to a new CIO that in 10 years the hospital has gotten 400 of 550 physicians to use computeriz... at MD Anderson , where she was vice president of hospital and clinics. While reinstalling a scheduling system, they put a design document on large sheets of p...

Wheaton to implement electronic health records

...tient information for medical professionals on the hospital campus, in their private offices, or at home. The project will require broad-scale deployment of McKesson's ambulatory EHR system, plus the vendor's document imaging, bar-coded medication administration, and clinical decision support products. "By ...

Interview: Dr. William Yasnoff on health records, part 2

...how do I know that will be useful if I end up in a hospital somewhere else? Yasnoff: Exactly. That's a ver... data build interoperability? I could imaging each hospital having their own system for giving patients their records in human-readable format, but that doesn't...

Preparing for avian flu with information technology

...s casualty units to supplement currently available hospital services. All hospitals have formulated prepared...staff and resources. Web-Based Solutions Most hospital disaster plans assume a stable, accessible workforce and basic services including regular delivery o...

EraGen diagnostic passes UW tests, could quickly detect bird flu

...onahue said. "Our initial customers would be large hospital laboratories skilled in molecular diagnostics." Gern said the technology that UW Hospital and Clinics is working with picks up "in the range of 200 different viruses." While not exactly the same as the product EraGen eventually will bring to market,...

Interview: Dr. Barry Chaiken on healthcare IT

... medical officer of BearingPoint. WTN: If I'm a hospital executive, what questions should I be asking about... addressing safety and quality to differentiate my hospital in that space, which is very important in the consumer market? WTN: Is healthcare behind when it c...

IT outsourcing according to Tom Koulopoulos, part 1

...s to those records more frequently than some other hospital might. So I've got to ask very tough questions about those areas where there is questionable performance or coreness to the activity. It is something that I should be doing or that I should partner on, because you might find a partner who has done th...

Tommy Thompson joins Picis board of directors

...are installed in more than 900 medical centers and hospital networks worldwide, automating more surgical procedures, emergency visits and intensive care stays than any other system in the world....

Promega spins off RFID 'smart appliance' company

...echnologies , RFID and related technologies in the hospital area are expected to make up $8.8 billion of that ... enterprise-related software, and $4.8 million for hospital connectivity. Tripathi and the Terso team are confident the technology will be able to claim a part...

Stunden to retire as UW-Madison CIO

...niversity work, Stunden worked in IT positions for hospital and health care organizations. "Technology is always a moving target, and Annie has assembled the best team we've ever had in terms of anticipating and responding to the next challenge," said UW-Madison Interim Provost Virginia Sapiro." Read mor...

The use of e-prescribing and electronic health records is accelerating

...ormation. CMS believes the exception would allow a hospital to provide a physician with a hand-held device capable of transmitting electronic prescribing information, even though the physician may already have a desktop computer that could also be used to send the same information. However, the proposed rule ...