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HCA/HealthONE's The Medical Center of Aurora and Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital Name New Associate Chief Nursing Officer

HCA/HealthONE’s The Medical Center of Aurora (TMCA) and Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital announced that Stacy Black, RN, MSN, RNC-NIC, NE-BC, will be joining the organization as Associate Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO). Black comes to Aurora from Swedish Medical Center, a 408-bed Level I Trauma Center in Englewood, Colorado. Her new role is effective July 29th. - July 27, 2018 - The Medical Center of Aurora

Shared Health Services Names New Executive Vice-President

Shared Health Services, a Tennessee-based wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy management company, has named Mr. Daniel Greenlee, MBA as its Executive Vice-President. In announcing the appointment of Mr. Greelee, the company's President and CEO, David Davis stated, "Dan brings a wealth of... - July 25, 2018 - Shared Health Services

Luffoliate, the Hands-Free Shower Luffa for the Back, Launches This Week on Their Website – www.luffoliate.com

Luffoliate launches for the first time on their website for the hands-free back exfoliating Luffa, which attaches to any shower wall. Luffoliate is unlike any other bathroom Luffa in the sense that is does not require hands to help wash and exfoliate, making it simple for anyone to clean and exfoliate their entire back. www.luffoliate.com. - July 24, 2018 - Luffoliate

GeBBS Healthcare Announces Appointment of Karl Johnson as Senior Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management

GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a leading technology-enabled provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, announced recently the appointment of Karl Johnson as Senior Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management. Karl brings over 30 years of healthcare industry experience to the... - July 24, 2018 - GeBBS Healthcare Solutions

Rush University Medical Center Selects MediNav to Solve Wayfinding Challenges and Enhance Patient Experience

Indoor GPS Helps Patients and Visitors Find Their Way Through Rush’s Large Academic Medical Center. - July 18, 2018 - Connexient

Charleston Area Medical Center Selects Meperia's Strategic Sourcing Solution

Improving efficiencies and driving savings in the supply chain & revenue cycle. - July 13, 2018 - Meperia

South Nassau Communities Hospital's CMO Named to Becker's Hospital Review List of CMOs

The list is based on individuals' experience in overseeing medical and quality affairs at their respective organizations. - July 13, 2018 - Mount Sinai South Nassau

Michael S. Firstenberg, MD, FACC Named Chair of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at HCA/HealthONE’s The Medical Center of Aurora

HCA/HealthONE’s The Medical Center of Aurora (TMCA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Firstenberg has accepted the role of Chair of Cardiothoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery effective July 1, 2018. - July 12, 2018 - The Medical Center of Aurora

International Hospital Federation Awards Finalists Revealed

The 27 finalists of the 2018 International Hospital Federation (IHF) Awards have been announced. - July 12, 2018 - International Hospital Federation

Panacea Hosting Complimentary Webinar on Healthcare Pricing Transparency

On July 18 Panacea will be hosting a webinar for hospital and health system management to address preparation for the 2019 CMS proposed rule on pricing transparency. - July 11, 2018 - Career Step

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Joins the Fight Against Sarcoma by Sponsoring Upcoming “Rock the Cause” Event

The Institute for Limb Preservation (ILP), in partnership with Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute (Sarah Cannon) at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center (P/SL), is proud to sponsor “Rock the Cause Sarcoma Awareness,” an event geared to raise funds and awareness for the Sarcoma... - July 04, 2018 - Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

HCA/HealthONE's The Medical Center of Aurora: Pioneering Spine Surgery

The Medical Center of Aurora (TMCA) is among the first hospitals in Colorado to begin using a new bone graft tool to achieve better patient outcomes in spinal fusions. TMCA spine surgeon, Stephen Pehler, MD, is conducting minimally invasive spinal fusion procedures using the new device and in the process increasing patient success rates for spinal fusions from the national average of 75% to 92%. - July 03, 2018 - The Medical Center of Aurora

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center Performs Cutting Edge Minimally Invasive Bone Cancer Surgery

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center (P/SL) is pleased to have performed the 3rd percutaneous (minimally invasive) acetabular reconstruction in the U.S. to treat metastatic bone cancer of the pelvis. There are approximately 250,000 people in the U.S. with metastatic bone cancer (cancer... - June 28, 2018 - Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

Perimeter Medical Imaging Inc Appoints Charles S. Carignan, MD as New CEO

Perimeter Medical Imaging Inc., a developer of real time imaging systems for in-surgery tissue assessment, is pleased to announce the appointment of Charles S. Carignan, MD as CEO. Dr. Carignan has more than 20 years of experience in key leadership positions spanning the medical imaging,... - June 26, 2018 - Perimeter Medical Imaging Inc

Health Gorilla, Inc. Solves a Major Healthcare Challenge and Closes $8.2M Series A Round of Funding to Accelerate Growth of Its Clinical Network

New capital will allow for further rapid expansion of company’s Clinical Network adoption that solves the challenge of clinical data interoperability, securely connecting healthcare organizations, regardless of EHR being used. - June 25, 2018 - Health Gorilla

NERETA Summit Focusing on Future of Healthcare in the US

Focusing on the future of healthcare in the US will help to create good quality jobs while at the same time improving individuals lives and create a better quality of life for all. But the future of healthcare encompasses so much more than was traditionally referred to as "healthcare." Today, healthcare includes integrative health, mental health, alternative health, public health, nutrition, exercise and so much more. - June 22, 2018 - North East Regional Employment and Training Assoc

Avant Healthcare Professionals Announces New Vice President of Clinical Operations

Avant Healthcare Professionals, the premier staffing provider of internationally experienced nursing and allied health professionals, is pleased to announce and welcome Adam Kless as the Vice President of Clinical Operations effective June 11, 2018. Kless is an experienced healthcare executive... - June 18, 2018 - Avant Healthcare Professionals

TransacXion Offers a New Trade Financing Program Where Hospitals Can Take Six Months to Pay Vendor’s Bills

New trade finance program for the healthcare market. New trade financing program where hospital get six months to pay their bills at no cost to the hospital. The vendors receive payment in few days to help with their cash flow. - June 16, 2018 - TransacXion Technologies

BÜHLMANN Laboratories AG Receives FDA Clearance for Its fCAL® ELISA Calprotectin Test

BÜHLMANN fCAL® ELISA, an in vitro diagnostic assay intended for the quantitation of calprotectin in human stool, has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is now commercially available in the US. - June 14, 2018 - BUHLMANN Diagnostics Corp

Georgianna L. Bridgers Honored as a VIP Member for 2018 by the Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized

Georgianna L. Bridgers of Bronx, New York has been honored as a VIP Member for 2018 by P.O.W.E.R. (Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized) for her outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of healthcare. VIP Members exemplify tenacity. They realize that in order... - June 12, 2018 - P.O.W.E.R. Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized

Sky Ridge Medical Center Named Women’s Choice Award® Recipient in Four Specialties

Sky Ridge Medical Center is proud to have earned the 2018 Women’s Choice Award® as one of America’s best hospitals for stroke care, obstetrics, cancer care and one of the country’s best Breast Centers. This recognition means that Sky Ridge is among the top 9% of hospitals in... - June 07, 2018 - Sky Ridge Medical Center

GeBBS Plants 5,000 Trees to Celebrate 5,000 Employee Milestone

GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, a leading national provider of innovative revenue cycle management (RCM) and HIM solutions announced recently that the company is planting 5,000 trees in the U.S., Philippines and India to celebrate crossing 5,000 worldwide employees. GeBBS provides end-to-end RCM... - June 05, 2018 - GeBBS Healthcare Solutions

The United Physicians of San Antonio (UPSA) Tap Stratus Interoperable to Design and Build a Data Management and BI Platform for ACOs

SI and UPSA ACO will kick off initiative to deliver data management and business intelligence capabilities to ACOs nationally. - June 04, 2018 - Stratus Interoperable

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center to Offer Unique, State-of-the-Art MRI Technology Suite

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center is pleased to offer the latest in MRI technology starting June 2018. The new General Electric Optima MR450w 1.5T with GEM Suite coil technology provides quiet technology, unique lighting including high resolution LED screens, a table surface designed to increase comfort, advanced imaging capabilities and wide-bore architecture to add space around patients who struggle with confined spaces. This suite is truly one-of-a-kind in Colorado. - June 01, 2018 - Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

Perthera to Exhibit at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2018 Annual Meeting

Perthera, Inc., the leading Therapeutics Intelligence Company™, is attending the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, June 1-5, 2018. Perthera science and clinical results will be represented in a Podium Presentation, 2 Poster Presentations and a Symposium Breakfast. - May 30, 2018 - Perthera, Inc.

Origin Wireless Turns Popular Mesh Routers Into Smart Sensing Stations

Origin Wireless™ today announced its collaboration with ASUS® to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) enabled Wi-Fi by porting its patented Time Reversal Machine™ (TRM) to the popular ASUS Lyra wireless mesh routers based on the Qualcomm® Mesh Networking Platform, as to be demonstrated at COMPUTEX 2018. - May 30, 2018 - Origin Wireless

HealthAware® and Blood Centers of America Partner to Engage Blood Donors with Innovative Chatbot Behavioral Change Technology

HealthAware® and Blood Centers of America Inc., (BCA) entered into an agreement to provide HealthAware’s Kare-N® blood donor engagement and recruitment programs to all BCA member centers. Based on a proprietary evidence-based behavior change framework, Kare-N interacts with blood... - May 30, 2018 - HealthAware LLC

Avant Healthcare Professionals Awarded Gold in Best Healthcare Social Media Campaign by the 2018 Aster Awards

Avant Healthcare Professionals, the premier staffing provider of internationally educated, experienced registered nurses, was awarded Gold in best healthcare social media campaign by the 2018 Aster Awards. The gold award recognizes the top 5% of healthcare social media campaigns in the... - May 24, 2018 - Avant Healthcare Professionals

HFMA Awards Panacea “Peer Reviewed” Designation for 2018

Panacea has earned the "Peer Reviewed by HFMA" designation for the last six years. - May 24, 2018 - Career Step

Rose Medical Center Receives the 2018 Women’s Choice Award® as One of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience

Rose Medical Center has been named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience by the Women’s Choice Award®, America’s trusted referral source for the best in healthcare. The award signifies that Rose Medical Center has been ranked within the top 100 hospitals... - May 23, 2018 - Rose Medical Center

GeBBS Announces Opening of Second Delivery Center in Manila

GeBBS Healthcare Solutions announced recently the opening of their second state-of-the-art Delivery Center in Manila, Philippines. GeBBS’ expansion in Manila has been driven by a significant increase in the demand for the company’s Patient Contact solutions. The new center is expected... - May 22, 2018 - GeBBS Healthcare Solutions

Daradia Pain Hospital, the Exclusive Pain Management Hospital, Not Only Treats Pain, But Also Organizes Pain Management Courses to Train Physicians

Daradia Pain Hospital, a unique 50 bed hospital for chronic pain management treats all kinds of chronic and incurable pain. But it also organizes workshops, short pain management courses and pain management fellowships for specialist physicians. Neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, anesthetists from all over the world have joined different pain management courses. - May 21, 2018 - Daradia

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center & Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children Recognized by Healthgrades for Outstanding Patient Experience

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center (P/SL) and Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC) have been recognized by Healthgrades for achieving the 2018 Outstanding Patient Experience Award™. This distinction recognizes P/SL and RMHC among the top 15 percent of hospitals nationwide,... - May 19, 2018 - Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

IHF World Hospital Congress Keynote Speakers Announced

Keynote speakers will share insights on how healthcare organizations can harness the benefits and overcome the obstacles of transitioning health systems at the 42nd World Hospital Congress. - May 19, 2018 - International Hospital Federation

Rose Medical Center Honored by Healthgrades for Outstanding Patient Experience for Fourth Year in a Row, Top 10% Performance Nationwide

Rose Medical Center in Denver Named by Healthgrades for Outstanding Patient Experience for Fourth Year in a Row, Top 10% Performance Nationwide - May 18, 2018 - Rose Medical Center

Voicebrook Revolutionizes Pathology Reporting with VoiceOver PRO

VoiceOver PRO, Pathology Reporting Optimized, is the game changing reporting solution from Voicebrook, makers of the only speech-based reporting solutions built specifically for Pathology. - May 17, 2018 - Voicebrook, Inc.

CloudWave and Upson Regional Medical Center Win Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2018 Service Provider Award for Customer Excellence

CloudWave, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Service Provider and Preferred Healthcare Provider, is proud to announce that their success story with Upson Regional Medical Center has been recognized by HPE as the Grand Prize Winner of their 2018 Awards for Customer Excellence. CloudWave partnered... - May 15, 2018 - CloudWave

P3 Healthcare Solutions Offers Free Demo of Its Medical Billing Service

P3 Healthcare Solution Offers Free Demo of its value-added medical billing service to the providers. Get to know more about a provider-focused medical billing service. - May 12, 2018 - P3 Healthcare Solutions

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Successfully Completes 4,000th Blood & Marrow Transplant Since Inception of Program

The Colorado Blood Cancer Institute (CBCI), in partnership with Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute (Sarah Cannon) at HealthONE’s Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center (P/SL), successfully completed its 4,000th blood and marrow, or stem cell, transplant since the inception of the program in... - May 11, 2018 - Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

Panacea Responds to CMS FY19 IPPS Proposed Rules Requiring Hospitals to Publish Their Chargemaster Prices Online

Panacea’s Hospital Zero-Base Pricing will help hospitals develop rational and defensible prices. - May 11, 2018 - Career Step

New Self-Navigated Personalized Patient Experience Launches at Hackensack Meridian Health Pascack Valley Medical Center

Discharge Concierge™ Empowers Patients While Increasing Nurse’s Joy in Practice - May 11, 2018 - GoMo Health

UAB Medicine Wayfinding App by Connexient Takes You from Parking Spot to Doctor’s Office, and Everything in Between

University of Alabama Medicine launches a New Mobile App in the hospital to help patients, visitors and staff find their way from the parking lot to the Doctor's office. MediNav by Connexient is the leading digital wayfinding solution for hospitals. - May 10, 2018 - Connexient

Stratus Interoperable Signs Five-Year Deal with Geriatric Innovator - The New Jewish Home

The deal adds fifth and final AJAS member to Early Adopter Program focused on Long-Term Post-Acute Care Providers (LTPACs) and designed to provide early access to advanced data management and business intelligence technology at an affordable price to this underserved market. - May 07, 2018 - Stratus Interoperable

The Nurses Learning Center Announces the Launch of the Largest Tutorial Database for Student Nurses and Aspiring Nurses in the U.S.

Where can students go when they have failed the nursing entrance tests such as the HESI, HESI A2, TEAS A5 or the TEAS, even the NCLEX Boards? A graduate nurse who fails their boards, cannot reinvest thousands of dollars to re-enter nursing school and spend another 3 years of their life in school. The Nurses Learning Center team of nurses have stated that they are ready and waiting to help. - April 27, 2018 - Nurses Learning Center

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Successfully Completes First Colorectal Surgery in Mountain West with Flexible Robotic System

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center (P/SL), led by colorectal surgeon Dr. Warren Strutt, successfully completed the first transanal surgery in the Mountain West with the Flex® Robotic System and its new 3D high-definition camera. With this advanced robotic system, Presbyterian/St. - April 26, 2018 - Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

Clinical Trial Published in the International Journal of Oral Maxillofacial Implants Demonstrates Less Pain and Higher Quality Bone with Snoasis Medical's BioXclude®

Snoasis Medical, the market leader in placental tissue allografts for tissue repair and regeneration in dental-oral maxillofacial surgery, announced today the publication of the first peer-reviewed randomized controlled clinical trial of its Purion® processed de-epithelized amnion-chorion allograft membrane (BioXclude®) in the International Journal of Oral Maxillofacial Implants. - April 19, 2018 - Snoasis Medical

HealthCare Associates Credit Union Launches iGrad’s Enrich Financial Literacy Platform