Savient Provides Further Information On Top Line Phase 3 Trials Results For Puricase(R) (pegloticase)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVNT) announced further information related to infusion reactions and deaths for their Phase 3 clinical trials for Puricase(R) (pegloticase) being developed for treatment failure gout patients. Severe and Serious Infusion Reactions Our preliminary analysis indicated that 19 patients or 11% of pegloticase treated patients experienced an infusion reaction ...

GE Healthcare Announces Participation By Centricity Health Information Exchange Services At 2008 IHE Connectathon

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

GE Healthcare IT announced that many of its Centricity(R) solutions, including Centricity Health Information Exchange (HIE) Services, passed important integration profiles established by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE). The IHE testing process is a critical step in achieving systems interoperability to enhance the quality of patient care. Many of these ...

RemedyMD And Dell Team To Deliver Solutions For Information Based Medicine And Research

Monday, February 25th, 2008

RemedyMD®, Inc., a pioneer in the field of predictive informatics, announced collaboration with Dell Inc. to deliver integrated solutions to physicians, researchers, and institutions involved in Information Based Medicine. RemedyMD's Investigate™, a software suite specifically designed to enable clinical and translational research institutions to capture, integrate, and aggregate all the data ...

Information And Communication Technologies In Teaching

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

The thesis, defended by researcher Sergio Monge Benito at the University of the Basque Country, analyses the process of the introduction of ICTs in secondary education in the Basque Autonomous Community over the period 1999 to 2004. The school institution has hardly changed during the last century, despite television, radio and ...

States Advancing Common Approaches To Protecting Electronic Health Information, Report Finds

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Most states have made substantial progress in defining their privacy and security approaches for electronic health information exchange, according to a report released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), both part of the U.S. Department ...

Health Information Technology Experts Say National Standardized Electronic Health Record System Could Save U.S. Millions Of Dollars, Prevent Errors

Monday, February 18th, 2008

The implementation of a national health care information technology system would reduce costs and help prevent medical errors, lawmakers and experts said during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Thursday, CongressDaily reports (Povich, CongressDaily, 2/14). Such a system would include electronic prescribing, electronic health records and billing, and integrated communication ...

Utah Imaging Associates, Inc. Selects Zotec Partners As Exclusive Billing And Radiology Information Services Provider

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Zotec Partners, a solutions firm providing state-of-the-art proprietary medical billing services and licensed software to hospital-based physician specialty practices across the U.S., is announcing that Utah Imaging Associates, Inc. (UIA) has selected them as their exclusive partner for their outsourced accounts receivable management. In addition, UIA will also utilize Zotec ...

How Consumers Accept New Information Depends On Prior Knowledge

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Over time, consumers develop a set of cues that we then use to make inferences about products, such as "all French restaurants have great service" or "more expensive candles smell better." However, this set of predictable beliefs can make it difficult for us to learn and recognize other real, positive ...

How Consumers Accept New Information Depends On Prior Knowledge

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Over time, consumers develop a set of cues that we then use to make inferences about products, such as "all French restaurants have great service" or "more expensive candles smell better." However, this set of predictable beliefs can make it difficult for us to learn and recognize other real, positive ...