Governor Rick Perry signs state budget and Texas A&M Health Science Center secures additional $16 Million for continued expansion of its College of Medicine over the next two years.
The Interactive Comparison Tool now includes House Tri-Committee, Senate HELP Bills.
Parkland is one of the first hospitals to go completely wireless.
APTA officers were elected at PT 2009 held June 10-13 in Baltimore.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says that Health Net, Inc. has agreed to stop using the controversial Ingenix database to set out-of-network reimbursement rates.
Texas Children's is also named one of the top 10 children's hospitals nationwide.
DOTmed Business News examines the workhorse technology.
The SCCT 2009 4th Annual Scientific Meeting will be held July 16-19, 2009
The 17th Annual International Congress of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology will be held June 28 - July 2 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
AHRMM09 Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held July 19-22, 2009 at the Tampa Convention Center, in Tampa, Florida. Visit DOTmed if you attend.
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that the three most common treatments for localized prostate cancer have significant impacts on patients' quality of life.
CareFusion Corporation is the company that will become public from the planned spinoff of Cardinal Health's clinical and medical products businesses.
A major clinical trial has begun in Africa for the world's first vaccine against malaria.
YouTube will educate the public and physicians about the risks of exposure to CT-generated ionizing radiation and ways to address them at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Small business owners say relief is needed from spiraling costs that are forcing them to drop health care coverage.
Hatch Medical sells EN Snare assets to Merit Medical Systems, Inc. for $21 million.
Medical display specialist Barco has enhanced its existing surgical display portfolio with the introduction of a new 42-inch LCD display for use in the digital operating room.
Martin M. Coyne II, former Kodak EVP has been appointed Senior Business Advisor for Urovalve, Inc., maker of the Surinate(R) Bladder Management System.
Innovative Spinal Technologies, a Mansfield, Mass.-based developer of minimally invasive treatments for spinal disorders, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
The Health Forum and the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit 2009 will be held July 23-25, 2009 at the San Francisco Marriott.
Accumetrics, Inc. announces it has signed new exclusive distribution agreements for its VerifyNow® System in several European countries.
Diagnostic Devices Inc. will move much of its manufacturing business from China and Taiwan to North Carolina -- adding about 100 jobs in the next two years.
If there is no reform, uninsured Americans could number 66 million or more by 2019, crippling the U.S. health care system.
Those who work a few years to postpone retirement could delay the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.
Fridley-based Medtronic in Minnesota may eliminate about 600 positions as part of its broader restructuring program.
Newly renovated, the Tomorrow Fund Clinic at Hasbro Children's Hospital has opened its doors in Rhode Island.
Ethox International's Surgi-Cuf® SOFT family of disposable BP cuffs are now available at a new low price.
According to IMV's recent census of cath labs in the U.S., an estimated 3.75 million patient cases were performed at 2,020 cardiac cath lab sites in 2008, including both cardiac and non-cardiac patient cases.
A new contraceptive device may also block transmission of the HIV virus, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College.
Medtronic said it will cut 1,500 to 1,800 employees after posting a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that dropped 69% on slipping sales, restructuring and other charges.
Like every industry, health care is facing tough times and the continuing education sector of the field is affected as well. An exclusive report from DOTmed Business News.
Technology that is deemed medically obsolete in other places is still much more advanced than anything available in many Third World nations around the world. Machines like an ultrasound can elevate the quality of care given to impoverished villagers.
GE showcases product integration and technology at the 2009 Heart Rhythm Society Annual Meeting
XTENT, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has determined, after consideration of potential strategic alternatives, that it is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders to liquidate the Company's assets and to dissolve the Company.
Pfizer said unemployed people who have been taking its branded products could receive them free for up to a year in a new program -- with some exceptions.
Boston Scientific Corporation will donate cardiac rhythm management devices to Heartbeat International for patients who need implants.
Nanogen, Inc. developer of molecular and rapid diagnostic products, has executed an asset purchase agreement with The Elitech Group ("Elitech"), a privately held diagnostics company, to acquire substantially all of the assets of Nanogen.
Nuance Communications, Inc., Forms Electronic Health Record Stimulus Alliance with Allscripts, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel, Intuit and Microsoft.
Reporting warning of shortages could lead to too many physicians in some specialties, misallocation of funds for training, and lack of improvement in areas of need.
Summit Medical Group's new orthopedic facility in Morristown, NJ has just finished an installation of Quantum's Q-RAD-DQ DR System with a single CXDI 50G Canon Portable DR Panel.
Rafael Medical Technologies, Inc. Receives Marketing Clearance from the FDA for its SafeFlow(R) Vena Cava Filter.
Surgi-Cuf® Standardization System can help facilities save money, reduce inventory and promote compatibility facility-wide.
CREST Services and CHRISTUS Health, announced the signing of a 10-year outsourcing agreement effective July 1, 2009.
He was appointed by the Dallas County Commissioners Court to fill the vacancy when Allan Shulkin, M.D. stepped down.
The Cleveland Clinic and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland agree to research medical devices.
A less invasive approach to hysterectomy.
Del Global to partner with Beacon Funding to offer lease options.
Eliminating FDA's preemption protection would decrease patients' access to life-enhancing medical devices, increase health care costs and reduce medical device industry employment.
It is expected that the market growth for reprocessed medical devices will exceed 12 percent through 2013, according to Millennium Research. Reprocessed devices are seen as a way to reduce spending in a poor economy.
