streamlining

MAGNET Cooperative and Procurex, Inc. Announce Integration Partnership Streamlining the Healthcare Industry's Purchasing Process

MAGNET Cooperative, one of the largest non-profit cooperative group purchasing and shared services organizations, and Procurex, Inc., a leading provider of strategic sourcing services, announce their integrated partnership today. This partnership was formed to reduce costs in the healthcare indus...

Siemens Releases New Version of INVISION to Aid Customers in Streamlining Clinical Workflow and Improving Quality of Care

Development and release of newest version of INVISION larger than Y2K preparation MALVERN, Pa., Dec. 3, /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens Medical Solutions (http://www.usa.siemens.com/healthcareit ) today announced the general availability of the newest version o...

AMN Healthcare Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

...rn," said Susan R. Nowakowski, President and Chief Executive Officer of AMN Healthcare. "We continue to take an aggressive and disciplined approach in streamlining and right-sizing our infrastructure, enabling us to adjust to short-term volume trends, while operating with an improved cost structure going forward....

Emdeon Closes The Sentinel Group Acquisition, Implements First Customer in Less than 30 Days

...rs. Integrating fraud and abuse detection logic within Emdeon's existing network should make earlier detection possible within the revenue cycle while streamlining delivery of non-affected claims. "Emdeon can now offer a myriad of solutions with a custom fit for each specific client," said Kelli Garvanian...

MedHunters Launches Redesigned Web Platform

...idates can easily reference while they apply for positions. New resume options that include the ability for job seekers to choose a default resume, streamlining applications to open opportunities. Better keyword searches for Web visitors to browse content by healthcare company, job type, preferred location ...

Webcast Alert: HCA Healthcare Announces HCA 2Q09 Earnings Report

...e needs. We seek to integrate various services to deliver patient care with maximum quality and efficiency. Our approach includes focusing on quality; streamlining operations; sharing technology, equipment and personnel where appropriate; and using economies of scale when contracting for medical supplies and admi...

Health Market Science Unveils CompleteView, the Most Comprehensive Master Data Management (MDM) Solution Available in the Healthcare Market

...t with all applicable regulations and facilitating a seamless workflow are our goals; deploying CompleteView is helping us meet these needs as well as streamlining internal processes for Rite Aid." With the HMS professional services team managing the full process from end to end, the customer's only requ...

QLT Announces Second Quarter Results for 2009

... year. Combined, spending of $11.8 million was down 9.5% from the second quarter of last year as operating savings realized from the restructuring and streamlining efforts initiated in 2008 more than offset higher spending related to our punctal plug program. Also of note, in the second quarter, Cost of Sales exp...

Nine CareTech Solutions Client-Hospitals Named 2009 Most Wired Winners

...on is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient care. About CareTech Solutions, Inc. CareTech Solutions, Inc., an inf...

URAC Seeks Public Input on New Uniform External Review Standards for Health Plan and Health Utilization Management Organizations

...ay 20, 2009, Governor Jodi Rell of Connecticut signed Senate Bill 959, the State's version of the Model Act. "As we move toward enhancing and streamlining healthcare in America, standardization of independent medical peer review processes, timeframes, methods, and credentialing requirements across the Un...

streamlining in Medical Technology

DaVita Abstracts Accepted Into National Kidney Foundation's 2009 Spring Symposium

...0 percent drop in one-year mortality in Detroit area, DaVita-managed CKD clinics compared to Renal Network 11 (12.8% vs. 22.6%); Advances in streamlining the Patient Onboarding Process: Data on DaVita's IMPACT(TM) (Incident Management of Patients, Actions Centered on Treatment) program - a pilot proje...

Siemens Introduces New Standard of Care for Breast Ultrasound

... The ACUSON S2000 ABVS system automatically and quickly acquires full-field sonographic volumes for comprehensive review and diagnosis of the breast streamlining workflow and reducing operator dependence and variability. The system also features the intuitive, anatomical coronal plane, not available using conve...

Velos Set to Clear 50 Percent Market Penetration of Large U.S. Clinical Research Sites by Year End

...arch management product line designed specifically for investigators and their research teams. The product line blends easily into existing workflows, streamlining and accelerating the research process and supporting high quality, productive clinical trial fulfillment. Answering the need for a connectivity and da...

BBK Worldwide Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Industry Leadership Through Innovation in Patient Enrollment

...nt cycle. ( http://www.bbkworldwide.com ) About TCN e-Systems, LLC TCN e-Systems, located in Newton, Mass., is an e-recruitment company focused on streamlining patient enrollment for life-sciences companies through Web-based product suites that are designed to respond to the six enrollment risk areas. Founded...

HUYA Bioscience Int'l Announces Pre-IND Outcome for HBI-3000 - Promising Anti-Arrhythmia Compound Sourced From China

...ink of the amount of time and funding that could be saved by optimizing and streamlining the development process." HUYA's innovative co-development model HUYA w...d through a rigorous discovery, selection and development process in China, streamlining and accelerating development in the West, while confirming a compound's saf...

HUYA Bioscience Int'l Announces World-Class Clinical Advisory Team for New Anti-Arrhythmic Compound Sourced From China

...ollaborate with its Chinese partners and is then able to leverage and extend these efforts as the compounds enter the development process in the U.S., streamlining the process and mitigating risk. About HUYA HUYA is the leader in Sino-American pharmaceutical co-development, formed to meet the global need for ...

TorreyPines Therapeutics Announces Strategic Plan with Focus on Clinical Development Activities to Maximize Value of Versatile Lead Compounds

... - Plan Also Calls for Expansion of Business Development, streamlining of Operations - - Company to Host Conferenc...ate partnership opportunities across the company's product pipeline and the streamlining of operations through an expense-reduction program. Specifically, the c...

Image Solutions, Inc. Acquires Zurich Biostatistics, Inc.

... industry is finding much more difficult then it was five years ago," said Palmer. "The health and well-being of millions of people is at stake -- the streamlining of drug development has never been more important." ISI's acquisition of ZBI also bolsters the company's new biometrics' service line. Securing FDA a...

Reata's Synthetic Triterpenoids Profiled in Nature Reviews Cancer

...roach to biotechnology, managing its pipeline as a portfolio of opportunities that can be advanced on a single management and physical infrastructure, streamlining the route to human trials and approval. Founded in 2002, Reata is based in the Dallas area. For more information, visit www.reatapharma.com Contact ...

RTA 402 Shown to Inhibit STAT3 in Animal Model and Holds Significant Promise for Treating Breast Cancer

...roach to biotechnology, managing its pipeline as a portfolio of opportunities that can be advanced on a single management and physical infrastructure, streamlining the route to human trials and approval. Founded in 2002, Reata is based in the Dallas area. For more information, visit www.reatapharma.com. Contact...

streamlining in Medical Products

Horizon Cardiology Hemo Hemodynamic Monitoring System

Description:...sly into one complete cardiac patient record, eliminating repetitive data entry. Both images and information are accessible on a single workstation, streamlining workflow in the cath lab....
Company:McKesson

Velo Automated Refraction Systems

Description:...tients per day. Utilizing the capabilities of the VELO system you can turn a 14-18 patients per day practice into a 20-24 patient per day practice. By streamlining automated test sequences, youll perform accurate refractions in less time. Plus the technology is simple to learn; making it easy to delegate tasks to...
Company:Burton Ophthalmic

Sysmex UF-50™ Fully Automated Urine Cell Analyzer

Description:...cytometry with fully automated urine sample analysis. Continuous sampling or batch processing are easily accommodated by the rack-based autosamplers, streamlining sample processing in high volume laboratories. Fluorescent flow cytometry and cluster analysis provide automatic classification and identification of...
Company:Sysmex America, Inc.

Sysmex UF-100 Fully Automated Urine Cell Analyzer

Description:...cytometry with fully automated urine sample analysis. Continuous sampling or batch processing are easily accommodated by the rack-based autosamplers, streamlining sample processing in high volume laboratories. Fluorescent flow cytometry and cluster analysis provide automatic classification and identification of...
Company:Sysmex America, Inc.

Smart 2100 Plus

Description:... acquired a more strategic role in the urological field. The Holmium laser technology in this sector has certainly contributed towards simplifying and streamlining the treatment of various urological pathologies that are becoming more and more prevalent and having a considerable clinical-social impact, like urina...
Company:DEKA Research & Development Corp.

Mx8000 IDT 16 Multislice CT

Description:... The Mx8000 IDT 16 is Philips premium 16-slice CT scanner. From streamlining the way routine exams are performed to automatically delivering high quality, advanced results, the Mx8000 IDT 16 demonstrates a new direction in a pl...
Company:Philips Medical Systems

Ascent™ Primary Knee System

Features:...umentation that allows reproducible results and offers the ability to choose the level of constraint intraoperatively. Achieves retinacular relief by streamlining the anterior sides of the component. Designed to enhance range of motion. ...
Company:Biomet Orthopedics, Inc

Ascent Primary Knee System - Primary porous femoral components

Features:... and lateral sides of the anterior flange, the Ascent femoral component has the added benefit of retinacular relief. Retinacular relief is achieved by streamlining the anterior sides of the component. The femoral component design enhances range of motion....
Company:Biomet Orthopedics, Inc

Ascent Primary Knee System - Ascent primary interlock femoral components.

Features:... and lateral sides of the anterior flange, the Ascent femoral component has the added benefit of retinacular relief. Retinacular relief is achieved by streamlining the anterior sides of the component. The femoral component design enhances range of motion....
Company:Biomet Orthopedics, Inc

streamlining in Biological News

Using combinatorial libraries to engineer genetic circuits advances synthetic biology

... (Boston) -- streamlining the construction of synthetic gene networks has led a team of Boston University researchers to develop a technique that couples libraries of diversifi...

WCC Smart Search & Match Names Tarvinder Sembhi as VP Sales for the ID Market

...as most recently President of 4G Identity Solutions, where he was responsible for strategic product development, corporate branding and marketing, and streamlining operations. At Iridian Technologies, he was Vice President of Product Management and Business Development and was responsible for the strategic roadma...

Biomagnetics developed for use in new breast cancer tests

...tronomy. Until now, pathologists had to stain tissue samples with brown dyes to help them determine whether they were normal or cancerous. In terms of streamlining the process, the main problem is that all of the results are open to interpretation and each test has to be individually checked by a specialist. ...

HR Initiative Endorses Bill to Create an Effective, Mandatory Federal Employment Verification System

... - an electronic portal they already use to enhance child support enforcement. The new program would be entirely electronic, eliminating paperwork and streamlining verification processes. Work authorization for citizens would be conducted through the Social Security Administration (SSA) and for non-citizens throu...

Image Solutions, Inc. Acquires Zurich Biostatistics, Inc.

... industry is finding much more difficult then it was five years ago," said Palmer. "The health and well-being of millions of people is at stake -- the streamlining of drug development has never been more important." ISI's acquisition of ZBI also bolsters the company's new biometrics' service line. Securing FDA a...

Central targets may hinder wider waste management objectives

...structures and, warn the researchers, can therefore lead to more centralised solutions and work against local governance. Efficiencies associated with streamlining and centralising decision-making needed to be balanced against potential loss of sovereignty and local accountability. ...

Hopkins researchers develop new tool to watch real-time chemical activity in cells

...here in the cell chemicals do their work. Scientists could then design new drugs to go to specific places within cells to work more efficiently. Also, streamlining the one-at-a-time approach offers the chance to study - and rule out or in - many potentially useful chemicals at once. What Zhang's team develop...

streamlining in Biological Technology

Small Tree is streamlining digital video editing

Chippewa Valley-based Small Tree Communications , a supplier of high-performance networking solutions for the Apple Macintosh platform, recently announced a new software protocol called Blaze, expected to ship in the third quarter of 2005, that could streamline the emerging field of High-Definitio...

Quantros ACE Helps East Jefferson General Hospital Achieve Best-in-Class Performance

...s to robust reporting through the use of Quantros ACE," said Janet Davis, PT, MPH, FACHE, Organizational Effectiveness Director at EJGH. "By streamlining our compliance activities, we've realized significant time savings and process improvements with Quantros." Selected results achieved by EJGH...

Virtify, Inc. Delivers Industry's First Enterprise Content Compliance Software Suite for Life Sciences Companies

...orge Skillin, senior director at Wyeth, a Virtify customer. "Virtify's approach to enterprise content compliance makes this possible by automating and streamlining the complex content exchange requirements across the entire product continuum, from scale-up through to full operations. By enabling content structure...

CoreRx, Inc. Announces Plans for Expansions to Meet the Needs of Growing Pharmaceutical Formulation Development Business

...es for the jobs at the facility are projected to be in excess of $65,000.00 per year. About CoreRx, Inc. CoreRx™ focuses on supporting and streamlining the drug development process for biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovators by offering services such as pre-formulation/formulation development, ana...

Nektar Therapeutics Promotes Lorianne Masuoka, M.D. to Chief Medical Officer

...g Nektar, she has been instrumental in building our Drug Development group and assembling an internal Biometrics and Data Management Group, as well as streamlining our clinical operations." Prior to Nektar, Lorianne was Vice President of Clinical Development at Five Prime Therapeutics where she led the adv...

Xceed Meets HTX/CIHR Grant Milestone: Decreasing Sample-Prep Time From Days to Less Than Eight Hours

...le-preparation time from 2.5 days to less than eight hours. According to Xceed President and CEO, David Deems, the company continues its commitment to streamlining and speeding up sample preparation even further. Its ultimate goal is to enable researchers to turnaround results from sample preparation through gene...

Assay Designs(TM), Inc. Announces Release of First Available Product for Multiplex Analysis of Heat Shock Proteins

...and more extensive result reporting with customizable data output. The new software package also allows the user to create experimental templates for streamlining analysis of similar experiments, as well as the ability to save progress at defined points in the analysis so it can be completed or recalculated at a...

Clarient Completes Second Tranche of Private Placement of Convertible Preferred Stock With Oak Investment Partners

... borrowings and bolster working capital. "As we stated in the initial financing announcement, this transaction strengthens Clarient's financials, streamlining our balance sheet and moving us tangibly closer to our goal of sustainable profitability," said Ron Andrews , Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Off...

Event Alert: 'SPL R4 Compliance and its Impact on Regulatory Submission Processes'

...bmissions to SPL R4 submissions Automating the information transfer to SPL XML structure Managing the changes involved with SPL R4 and streamlining submissions planning, preparation and tracking Performing in-depth validation and QC for SPL R4 information Title: "Best Pr...

Caliper Life Sciences Reports First Quarter 2009 Results

...irst quarter of 2008. This reduction included $2.8 million of SG&A expense reduction and $1.0 million of R&D expense reduction resulting from streamlining and cost-reduction initiatives implemented over 2008, including expenses related to divested product lines. Net loss narrowed by $3.3 millio...