Health Technology

Prodesse Inc. said it has applied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell its ProParaflu+ diagnostic product in the United States. It is used as an in vitro diagnostic tool for rapid detection and differentiation of parainfluenza viruses 1, 2 and 3. ProParaflu+...

Merge Healthcare announced that it has expanded its distribution agreement with Eklin Medical Systems to sell its medical imaging software to the veterinary market. Since 2002, the companies have worked to distribute Merge's eFilm Workstation, which was customized to the intricacies of imaging animals of...

The number of filers for first-time unemployment claims fell last week, though they remain at very high levels. Tom Koulopoulos, author of "The Innovation Zone," tells Kelsey Hubbard historical periods of high unemployment proceed periods of extremely high innovation....

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital launched a new electronic personal health record, myNYP.org, which gives its patients free access to their medical information. The record uses Microsoft’s HealthVault and Amalga technologies to offer patients the ability to select and store personal medical information generated during their doctor and...

MedRed LLC has developed a technology that will bring emergency responders medical information at the point of care in "real time and on the go," the company announced this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference. EFR MedCom partners with the National...

IBM and InSite today announced a $15 million deal to that will help hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical companies to use a cloud computing based medical imaging database system. This service will support new ways to use cloud computing to manage anticipated increases in medical...

Scripps Health, a hospital system in San Diego, has gone live with the newest version of GE Healthcare's Centricity Enterprise, GE announced. The integrated clinical, financial and administrative product offers computerized physician order entry, clinical decision support and expert rules, and documents all aspects of...

GE Healthcre unveiled a number of products Tuesday aimed to help hospitals speed adoption of electronic health records at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. Dubbed the GE Digital Day One program and based on the GE Centricity Enterprise portfolio, the...

Several agencies in the federal government plan this year to launch pilots of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Agencies will use Harris Corp.'s CONNECT, according to the company, a product developed to allow agencies and healthcare providers to exchange patient information electronically on...