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Allscripts Integrates Electronic Health Records with Innovative Patient Kiosk

Kiosk Incorporates State-of-the-Art Fujitsu PalmSecure(TM) Biometric Authentication, Self-Service Check In, Credit Card Scanning and Patient Information Updating to Revolutionize Patient Registration Process for Physician Practices CHICAGO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Alls...

TECNALIA uses artificial vision to improve recycling of electronic scrap metal

This release is available in Spanish . TECNALIA Technological Corporation is studying an innovative method based on multispectral artificial vision systems to enhance the value of electronic scrap which currently represent 4% of urban waste in Europe. The aim of this project, known as...

CIC to Host Webinar Featuring Independent Research Firm: 'Enabling Straight Through Processing - Why the Insurance Industry Needs Electronic Signature Technology'

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI) (" CIC "), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry* and the recognized leader** in biometric signature ...

CIC Teams With Industry Leader iPipeline to Provide Electronic Signature Platform to the Nation's Top Insurance Carriers

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., and EXTON, Pa., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry and the recognized leader in biome...

PharMEDium Announces National Rollout of Electronic 222 Ordering Initiative

HUNDREDS OF CUSTOMER HOSPITALS USING ELECTRONIC 222 TO ORDER CLASS II CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES SEATTLE, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- PharMEDium Services, LLC, the leading provider of outsourced hospital pharmacy I.V. compounded solutions, has expanded its first-in-the-industry ...

Missouri Police Department Introduces Electronic Traffic Citations

- E-Ticketing Solution from BIO-key and Advanced Public Safety Minimizes Officer Risk, Reduces Cost and Increases Accuracy - WALL, N.J., and DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biomet...

EMD Serono launches easypod, new electronic growth hormone injection device

Rockland, Massachusetts, December 6, 2007 - EMD Serono, Inc. announced today the availability of easypod, the first of its kind automated device in the growth hormone therapeutic area. easypod was developed for the administration of Saizen [somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection], the companys tr...

Great potential to improve collection, recycling of Europe's electronic waste, says UN report

Only about 25% of Europes medium sized household appliances and 40% of larger appliances are collected for salvage and recycling, leaving substantial room for improvement, according to a study for the European Commission by a United Nations University-led consortium. Small appliances, with a few e...

Model for the assembly of advanced, single-molecule-based electronic components developed at Pitt

PITTSBURGH-Researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh have created the best method so far of assembling wire-like structures only a single molecule wide, a significant step in science's increasing attempts to reduce the circuitry size of electronic devices to the single molecule scale and p...

UC Davis researchers move biotechnology closer to replacing electronic pacemakers

UC Davis researchers have successfully used a custom designed protein and gene delivery system to restore normal heart rhythms in pigs with electronic pacemakers, reducing their dependence on implanted devices. This work suggests that scientists are one step closer to making bioengineering a realit...

Researchers make long DNA 'wires' for future medical and electronic devices

Ohio State University researchers have invented a process for uncoiling long strands of DNA and forming them into precise patterns. Ultimately, these DNA strands could act as wires in biologically based electronics and medical devices, said L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular eng...

Nanogen Issued Patent for Electronic Microarray With Memory

Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN), developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 6,867,048, "Multiplexed Active Biologic Array" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The '048 patent relates to a method of addressing one or more electrodes (or "test site...

Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

...glasses to explore the outer edges of the universe Race the robot in a molecular biology speed challenge Test your sense of smell against an electronic nose View a chain reaction Calculate your environmental footprint Have fun with extreme cold and cryogenics Witness how ice slurry...

E-Noses: Testing their mettle against fly noses

...chmarking approaches such as this could also be applied to other classes of electronic nose sensors. The CSIRO research team is looking to collaborate with develo...es. This research is part of a much larger project developing an improved electronic nose, the Cybernose, for use in the wine industry. Using insect receptors, ...

Nanophysics: Serving up Buckyballs on a silver platter

...l, the molecule consists of 20 carbon hexagons and 12 carbon pentagons. The electronic properties of C60 are very unusual, and there is a massive research effort toward integrating it into molecular scale electronic devices like transistors and logic gates. To do this, researchers need t...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...an be used to extend dramatically the lifetimes of electronic systems aboard satellites and in space payloads. T...o another and reduces the size and volume of power electronic systems. Applications are being examined for hybri...imes the bandwidth density compared to traditional electronic approaches. Catamount N-Way (CNW) Lightweight...

Avoiding hysterectomy: Major interventional radiology E-collection info available

... FAIRFAX, Va.For the first time, the Society of Interventional Radiology has assembled a major electronic collection of professional articles about uterine artery embolization, a treatment directed toward a number of conditions involving the uterusmost oft...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Awards Lockheed Martin Biometric Card Scanning Service Contract

...ivision's Card Scanning Service (CSS) program. The contract covers the conversion of paper fingerprint, palm print and photo records into high-quality electronic records for the FBI. Records processed through this program are submitted by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies and used to popu...

University of Leicester researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles

...ce properties. The method is extremely versatile and produces the fluorescent suspensions in one go. The findings may revolutionise the performance of electronic chips while satisfying the increasing demand for higher integration densities." The nanoparticles contain just a few hundred silicon atoms and the...

Reading the brain without poking it

...ontrol arm movements. The two epilepsy patients sat up in their hospital beds and used one arm to move a wireless computer "mouse" over a high-quality electronic draftsman's tablet in front of them. The patients were told to reach their arm to one of two targets: one was forward to the left and the other was fo...

'Canadian excellence' strengthened by extensive adoption of open access

...blish Laurier IR. Laurier IR embraces the 'open access' movement by allowing authors to submit their original research directly to the repository. electronic documents, including articles, pre-prints, monographs, reports, movies and databases can all be archived in the repository. The service ensures th...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Awards Lockheed Martin Biometric Card Scanning Service Contract

...ivision's Card Scanning Service (CSS) program. The contract covers the conversion of paper fingerprint, palm print and photo records into high-quality electronic records for the FBI. Records processed through this program are submitted by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies and used to popu...

American Journal of Botany named a top 10 most influential journal of the century

...y, The Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) of the SLA convened an international panel of 9 eminent subject experts to compile a ballot for an electronic poll of their membership to determine the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine over the 100 years of the association's existence. Th...

IUPUI study finds living near fast food outlet not a weighty problem for kids

...resident of Indiana University. The IUPUI research, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Economic Aspects of Obesity , utilized electronic medical records of visits over 11 years to pediatric clinics in inner city Indianapolis to determine the effects on body mass of environmental changes...

Design input accelerates new technologies' route to market

...mbined heart and breathing rate monitor currently in development by Dr Barrie Hayes-Gill and Professor John Crowe, of the Department of Electrical and electronic Engineering, and their teams. The platform sensor technology, which can be used on any part of the body, will potentially lead to new or improved moni...

SRI International announces findings from new upper atmospheric radar system for scientific research

...e spectacular displays of the aurora borealis, with lower atmospheric phenomena such as tropospheric storms and weather patterns. Remote operation and electronic beam steering allows researchers to operate and position the radar beam instantaneously to accurately measure rapidly changing space weather events. ...

A quicker, cheaper SARS virus detector -- one easily customizable for other targets

... Members of a USC-led research team say they've made a big improvement in a new breed of electronic detectors for viruses and other biological materials one that may be a valuable addition to the battle against epidemics. It consists of a piece o...

Striata and CIC Launch Integrated eSignature, eDelivery, and eBilling for the Financial Services Industry

... (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automatio...he agreement, CIC will provide its industry proven electronic signature technology for Striata secure electronic document delivery and email bill payment. The join...

Minnesota Counties Secure New Criminal Charging System With BIO-key(R) Fingerprint Biometrics

...e wouldn't dream of going back to paper. "It takes a little while to get used to it; once you do, it works beautifully," says Waldron. Leaders say the electronic filing system significantly reduces the time it takes for a criminal complaint to move through the justice system. What used to take days could now ta...

Validus and HierStar Form Strategic Alliance to Offer the First Complete Range of Authentication Products

...ing, China, manufactures both OTP powered card products in its Dongguan, China manufacturing facilities. HierStar provides turnkey manufacturing from electronic assembly, card molding, printing personalization and fulfillment. In addition to HierStar's turnkey manufacturing capabilities, it owns significant i...

Pediatric carbon monoxide poisoning linked to video games after Hurricane Ike

...ing in the emergency department with carbon monoxide poisoning because they tried to keep food fresh, run a fan or home air conditioner, but not power electronic gadgets," said Caroline Fife, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the UT Health Science Center at Houston. "We were also targeting messages about...

Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics

... based on arraying pixels of individual red, green, and blue LEDs on top of electronic circuitry fabricated on flexible plastic substrates. A number of laboratori...bits the Earth and focuses its powerful lens on the surface below, snapping electronic images that can resolve objects on the ground as small as 41 cm across (16 ...

Genetic testing for breast or ovarian cancer risk may be greatly underutilized

...more routine to collect, update and interpret family history information, which could come through the availability of decision support tools based on electronic medical records. "Right now we can stress that women should be aware of their family history of breast and ovarian cancer on both sides of the fa...

Development of an artificial simulator of the nervous system to do research into diseases

...ikeFORCE and SENSOPAC, initiatives of the European Commission through which research groups of different fields such as neuroscience, biocomputing and electronic engineers have been working since the year 2002 in order to get that robots have similar movement skills to those of the animals, and can also perceiv...

Striata and CIC Launch Integrated eSignature, eDelivery, and eBilling for the Financial Services Industry

... (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automatio...he agreement, CIC will provide its industry proven electronic signature technology for Striata secure electronic document delivery and email bill payment. The join...

Athletes with asthma need more help from their team trainers

... specialist and associate director of the Asthma Center at the Ohio State University Medical Center. Pulmonary and sports medicine researchers sent electronic surveys, with questions related to the diagnosis and management of exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB), to 3,200 athletic trainers in NCAA sports medi...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 22, 2009

...he first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards, electrical insulation, and other electronics products that now wind up on society's growing heaps of electronic waste. Their study appears in ACS' Macromolecules , a bi-weekly journal. Antonius Broekhuis and colleagues note in the new study that so-called ...

Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes

...and girders connected by bolts. They tap the structure with a hammer, causing it to vibrate. The sounds made by the vibrating bolts are recorded by an electronic stethoscope, similar in design to the stethoscopes used by doctors. Then the engineers unscrew the bolts a bit, tap the structure again, and listen fo...

Blood testing, mosquito style

...ient and time-consuming. Electrical engineers at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary have patented a device called the electronic Mosquito. The patch is approximately the size of a deck of cards and contains four micro-needles that "bite" sequentially at programmed intervals. The...

BIO-key(R) International Showcasing Biometric Identification Technology at 2009 RSA Conference

...f the more notable recent BIO-key deployments include: The US Federal Court electronic Reporting Kiosks, point-of-sale offerings from Radiant Systems, the Banglad...ntialing, FFIEC compliance, HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, Visa PCI, and the E-Sign electronic Signatures Act. BIO-key solutions enable IT professionals, vertical so...