Can pen and paper help make electronic medical records better?
INDIANAPOLIS The results of a new study of the pen and paper workarounds employed by healthcare providers who use an electronic medical record system may help make electronic medical records even more useful to health-care providers and the patients they serve. "Exploring the Persistence of Pa...AtriCure's Coolrail(TM) Linear Ablation Pen Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance
First Case Performed Using Coolrail(TM) Pen in Combination with AtriCure's ORLab(TM) System - Expands Minimally Invasive Ablation Procedure WEST CHESTER, Ohio, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AtriCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRC ), a medical device company and leader in cardiac surgical ablation...Acesis Point-of-Care, The Physician's Ultimate Replacement for Pen and Paper, Unveiled at DEMO 08
PALM DESERT, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Demo 08 -- Today, at DEMO 08, Acesis Inc. held its inaugural public launch of Acesis Point-of-Care(TM), a revolutionary on-demand electronic health record software solution. Acesis Point-of-Care simplifies the complexity of medical data capture for healthca...Health Care Company Donates $60,000 to Keep Community Pool Open
Keystone Mercy Health Plan to Host Christy Pool's Summer Opening Ceremony Philadelphia, Pa. (Vocus) June 24, 2009 -- Keystone Mercy Health Plan, the largest Medical Assistance managed care organization in Pennsylvania, has donated $60,000 to Christy Recreation Center, a...The World's First Digital Insulin Pen With a Memory Launched
The pharmaceutical corporation, Eli Lilly and Co., launched ‘The HumaPen Memoir’ the world's first digital insulin pen with a memory, on Thursday. // The HumaPen Memoir simplifies the management of diabetic patients who require timely insulin injections. The manufacturer said, “ the pen ...Eli Lilly Releases Digital Insulin Pen
Eli Lilly is set on releasing a new line of digital insulin pens for the US market. Currently available in Europe, Huma-Pen Memoir is thought //to help patients manage their insulin dosages and avoid dangerous overdoses. The injector, which hides a hypodermic needle, was unveiled today at Batte...Amylin and Lilly Announce Plans to Develop Pen Device for Exenatide Once Weekly
Companies Committed to Investing in New Product Presentations for Patients SAN DIEGO and INDIANAPOLIS, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN ) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) today announced that the companies have agreed in principle to the ...New Study Confirms Dose-Accuracy of SoloSTAR(R) Prefilled Insulin Pen
100% of Insulin Doses Administered Were Delivered Within Pre-Determined Guidelines and Standard Dosing Limitations BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new study examining the dose accuracy of the SoloSTAR(R) disposable insulin pen, prefilled with Lantus(R) (insul...Positive Results Published Using AtriCure Minimally Invasive Products
...diac tissue and for temporary pacing, sensing, stimulating and recording during the evaluation of cardiac arrhythmias, but the multifunctional bipolar pen has not been approved for the treatment of AF. AtriCure's left atrial appendage clip system has not been approved for commercial use. It is currently ...FORTEO(R) Increased Spine Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
...nd dizziness (2.6 and 8 percent, respectively), compared with placebo (1.3 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively). FORTEO is supplied in a disposable pen device that can be used for up to 28 days to give once-daily self-administered injections. FORTEO is available in a 20-mcg dose and should be taken fo...President Bush Ignores America's Plea for Support of Stem Cell Research
...n for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR): "In the face of spiraling health care costs, President Bush once again used the stroke of his veto pen deliberately to hamper the progress of scientific and medical research, as well as endanger the future health and well being of the American people. H...HumaPen® MEMOIR Insulin Pen with Memory
Description: HumaPen MEMOIR is the first and only insulin pen with a memory. HumaPen MEMOIR records the date, time, and amount of your last 16 doses (including priming doses). You can see exactly when and how much insulin you last took. With HumaPen MEMOIR, you simply "dial" your dose by turning the dose knob i...Antigen-Antibody Pen For Hamster Primary antibodies
Description: Advantages of using the Antigen-Antibody Pens-Using a proprietary and patented technology, ADI has designed and developed specialized fountain pens, called Antigen-Antibody pens-TM, that will allow researchers to deliver or write/mark the blotting membranes in any form or shape or size. A specially...Antigen-Antibody Pen For Rabbit Primary antibodies
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Description: Advantages of using the Antigen-Antibody Pens-Using a proprietary and patented technology, ADI has designed and developed specialized fountain pens, called Antigen-Antibody pens-TM, that will allow researchers to deliver or write/mark the blotting membranes in any form or shape or size. A specially...Antigen-Antibody Pen For Biotin-tagged antibodies (all species)
Description: Advantages of using the Antigen-Antibody Pens-Using a proprietary and patented technology, ADI has designed and developed specialized fountain pens, called Antigen-Antibody pens-TM, that will allow researchers to deliver or write/mark the blotting membranes in any form or shape or size. A specially...FDLI, PEN co-sponsor major conference on nanotechnology
Nanotechnology was incorporated into more than $50 billion in manufactured goods last year, according to Lux Research. By 2014, the market will grow to $2.6 trillion. By 2011, over $15 billion in nano-enabled drugs and therapeutics will be soldup from more than $3 billion in 2006. And industry exp...Contaminated site remediation: Are nanomaterials the answer?
...ound in a slurry which provide a reducing environment that enables the breakdown of contaminants. To coincide with the release of the EHP article, pen has for the first time made publicly available an interactive, online map of global nanoremediation sites. The map (available at: http://www.nanotec...Making a point: Picoscale stability in a room-temperature AFM
... to move the probe away and return to exactly the same spot (potentially useful for nanoscale manufacturing). At this scale, its like trying to hold a pen and draw on a sheet of paper while riding in a jeep, observes NIST physicist Thomas Perkins. A few instruments in specialized labs, including some at ...After a few drinks, older adults more impaired than they think
...pants were given tests that required them to draw lines connecting numbered and lettered dots on a paper, in chronological order, without lifting the pen from the paper. They were timed and evaluated for how many errors they made. The first test involved numbers, while the second involved alternating be...UT Southwestern researchers identify molecule that helps the sleep-deprived to mentally rebound
... equivalent of the attention and working memory needed to multitask or build on tasks already done, such as being given a phone number, reaching for a pen to write it down and recalling the number, said Dr. Greene. Linking the lack of functioning adenosine receptors to depressed normal SWA rebound res...When fish farms are built along the coast, where does the waste go?
... take out the garbage they might unfortunately deliver it to a mangrove ecosystem or a public beach. On the other hand, insufficient flow through the pen can create a "dead zone" on the ocean floor as the fecal matter and uneaten food pile up beneath the fish. Fringer is designing his software so that...MIT: Safe storage of greenhouse-gas carbon dioxide
...subsurface. This requires thinking at the basin scale." "Despite the fact that our model applies at the basin scale, it is very simple. Using only pen and paper, you take geological parameters such as porosity, temperature and pressure to calculate storage capacity," Szulczewski said. "Other methods ...Nanotech and synbio: Americans don't know what's coming
...he results from the first U.S. telephone poll about synthetic biology show that most adults have heard just a little or nothing at all about it," says pen Director David Rejeski. The poll findings are contained a report published today, The American Public's Awareness Of And Perceptions About Potential R...Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision
...trating our X-ray ability is fairly simple: hold a pen vertically and look at something far beyond it. If...d then the other, you'll see that in each case the pen blocks your view. If you open both eyes, however, you can see through the pen to the world behind it. To demonstrate how our...NCI grant launches clinical trials for colon cancer screening
... under a microscope, and even before polyps form. The extraordinarily sensitive technique involves a simple fiber optic probe roughly the size of a pen being inserted into the rectum. Light shines on the tissue at the base of the colon, scatters and some of that light bounces back to sensors in the pr...Researchers write protein nanoarrays using a fountain pen and electric fields
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Nanotechnology offers unique opportunities to advance the life sciences by facilitating the delivery, manipulation and observation of biological materials with unprecedented resolution. The ability to pattern nanoscale arrays of biological material assists studies of genomics, p...FDA Approves Apidra(R) SoloSTAR(R) - a Prefilled Disposable Insulin Pen
- Apidra(R) SoloSTAR(R) is a Convenient Insulin Delivery Device to Help Patients with Diabetes Improve Glycemic Control BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanofi-aventis announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Apidra(R) SoloSTAR(R) (insulin ...Following a Record Year in 2008 Gerresheimer Again Sets its Sights on Substantial Growth in 2009
...ms and new projects such as, for example, the construction of a third facility for RTF(R) syringe production and the build-up of production of insulin pen systems. Investments in capital assets (including intangible assets) during the past financial year totaled EUR107.8m (prior year: EUR98.9m). C...World's first mandatory national nanotech rule pending
...rnered and says the agency will consider how best to use the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to gather more risk data. Previous studies by pen experts have concluded that TSCA is "extremely deficient," and that EPA has not effectively used the tools it has under that law to address nanotechno...Panel blasts federal nanotech risk research strategy
...ing that the Bush administration did not listen to pen experts and repeated calls from nanotech industry...a highly regarded team of top U.S. experts, echoes pen experts' statements, analysis and research since 2...research projects to evaluate research needs." pen experts have repeatedly stated that the risk-relev...Nanotech: To know it is not necessarily to love it
...sage framing and to take an informed, multi-audience approach, according to pen experts. "The message matters. How information about nanotechnology is pre...ial to society's realization of the full benefits of nanotechnology itself, pen experts believe that every major funding initiative directed at the develop...The frontiers of nanotechnology
...rom industry and government are searching for new technologies that will foster more efficient and less-polluting energy sources, according to the new pen Nanofrontiers publication, Nanotechnology: Energizing the Future . From nanotech-enabled solar panels to long-lasting automobile batteries that conta...