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ORTHOReBIRTH USA Attending National Spine Meeting

ORTHOReBIRTH USA of Georgetown, Texas, is attending the North American Spine Society meeting for 2016. The meeting starts on October 26 and ends on October 29 in Boston, Massachusetts. The premier spine meeting in North America, NASS 2016, has hundreds of companies from around the globe coming... - October 14, 2016 - ORTHOReBIRTH USA

Japanese Biologics Company Expands to Texas

ORTHOReBIRTH Co Ltd., a leading manufacturer of novel biologic products, announced the formation of ORTHOReBIRTH USA, previously Siena Biologics (Austin). The U.S. introduction of ORTHOReBIRTH’s products signals a new high-quality resource for doctors and patients throughout the... - October 14, 2016 - ORTHOReBIRTH USA

The Consortium of Sterile Sciences

As complex surgical instruments replace simpler surgical instruments for minimally invasive surgery and faster recovery time for patients, advanced education is required to insure the sterile processing of these complex surgical instruments. Sadly, 290,000 patients suffer surgical site infections mostly from the use of contaminated surgical instruments every year. From a layman’s perspective, 800 Americans will suffer surgical site infections today - some will not make it. - October 14, 2016 - The Consortium of Sterile Sciences

Operative Experience to Deliver First Commercial Sale of World's Only "Hands-In-The-Body" Emergency Obstetric Simulator, C-Celia

Operative Experience, Inc., a fast rising developer of high-fidelity human simulators for surgical and pre-hospital education, today announced the first commercial sale of its state-of-the-art emergency obstetrics skills simulator, C-Celia™ to Manatee Technical College (MTC), a... - October 12, 2016 - Operative Experience, Inc.

Advanced Patient Advocacy Leader to Speak at the South Carolina HFMA Fall Institute

Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC (APA) announced today that Abby Birch, Vice President of Client Development, will speak at the South Carolina Healthcare Financial Management’s (HFMA) Fall Institute on October 12th, 2016. Join Millennial, Abby Birch, and Baby Boomer, Patty Gentile of... - October 12, 2016 - Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC

Avant Healthcare Professionals Names New Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing in Response to Rapid Growth

Avant Healthcare Professionals, the premier staffing provider of internationally experienced Nursing and Allied Health professionals has named Brian Hudson as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing to lead their industry-leading growth. - October 12, 2016 - Avant Healthcare Professionals

Avant Healthcare Professionals Awarded Recertification from The Joint Commission

Avant Healthcare Professionals has achieved the Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care staffing services certification from The Joint Commission. Avant Healthcare underwent an on-site review of its compliance with national standards that assess how staffing firms determine the qualifications... - October 07, 2016 - Avant Healthcare Professionals

Bioscience Americas Sponsors "Solutions for a Healthier World Foundation"

Independent not-for-profit will provide stem cell therapies for the less fortunate. - October 06, 2016 - Bioscience Americas

SHAPE Congratulates Dr. MacRae and Team for Winning the $75 Million "One Brave Idea" Award to End Coronary Heart Disease

SHAPE congratulates Dr. Calum MacRae and his team at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for winning “One Brave Idea” competition held by American Heart Association, Google’s Life Science (Verily) and Astra-Zeneca. The winner is funded $75 Million for one brave idea that could lead to the development of a cure for coronary heart disease. - October 06, 2016 - SHAPE (Society for Heart Attack Prevention and Eradication)

Advanced Patient Advocacy Announces Acquisition of ParrishShaw

Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC (APA) announced the acquisition of ParrishShaw, an industry leader in insurance recovery, denial management, and other revenue cycle support solutions. The acquisition further enhances Advanced Patient Advocacy’s ability to offer a premium revenue cycle service... - October 05, 2016 - Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC

Documentary Film Sheds Light on Postpartum Depression for National Depression Awareness Month

The film that is striking a chord with mothers and health professionals nationwide takes the next step with a special illness screening options and tips for Depression Awareness Month this October. Produced by Fura Films. - October 05, 2016 - Fura Films

Turning Point Announces Annual Fall Banquet

The Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center (TPPRC), a non-profit pregnancy medical clinic in San Diego, recently announced the details for their upcoming annual fall banquet. The theme for this year’s banquet is “Following the Light to Expand our Territory,” and will focus on... - September 30, 2016 - Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center

Voicebrook to Display Fast and Accurate Reporting Solution at the College of American Pathologists Annual Meeting

Voicebrook will attend the CAP annual meeting for the 11th year in a row and demonstrate the only speech recognition based reporting solution tailored specifically to Pathology - September 23, 2016 - Voicebrook, Inc.

Bioscience Americas Announces New Cellular Immunotherapy Treatment

The treatment represents a breakthrough therapy that incorporates advanced stem cell protocols. - September 20, 2016 - Bioscience Americas

Organizations Team with Local Milk Bank to Support Preterm Baby Health

Mednax, Moda Health, and The Randall Foundation have each made significant financial donations to enable Northwest Mothers Milk Bank (NWMMB) to obtain a milk analyzer. Human milk donated by local mothers, who have passed the rigorous screening process, will be analyzed to determine its nutritional... - September 14, 2016 - Northwest Mothers Milk Bank

Optimize Your Hospital's IT Budget with VIE Healthcare’s H-IT INSIGHT Expense Reduction Services

As healthcare technology continues to evolve, optimizing your IT budget is more crucial than ever. VIE Healthcare’s mission is to achieve non-labor cost savings for hospitals, which can then be reallocated to fund new technology. - September 14, 2016 - VIE Healthcare

Texas Hospital Association Goes Live with NextGate EMPI Solution

NextGate Manages 12 Million Unique Patient Records for the Texas Hospital Association through NextGate's Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) solution that correlates patient identifiers across a pilot of 250 THA-member hospitals. - September 10, 2016 - NextGate

Tabula Rasa HealthCare to Present Medication Therapy Management Innovations at MTM Summit September 15-16, 2016

Tabula Rasa HealthCare's (TRHC) Medication Risk Mitigation Matrix(R) brings to Enhanced Medication Therapy Management (EMTM) the ability to identify those Medicare beneficiaries at the highest risk of an adverse drug event and mitigates that risk through personalized interventions. - September 07, 2016 - Tabula Rasa HealthCare

Matrix IT Releases First Ever White Paper on Sterile Field Scanning

With the looming UDI deadline of September 24th, 2016, manufacturers are scrambling to reach solutions for their medical implants. In response, Matrix IT, Medical Tracking Systems, Inc. has released a white paper on sterile field scanning. - September 01, 2016 - Matrix Medical Tracking Systems

Cynthia Bledsoe Awarded Medical Reiki™ Certification and Announces Practice Areas

Cynthia Bledsoe, a Mid-Atlantic based Reiki and wellness practitioner and teacher, announced completion of her certification as a Medical Reiki™ Master by Raven Keyes Medical Reiki International. Medical Reiki™ Masters do not diagnose conditions or perform medical treatments but support... - September 01, 2016 - Cynthia Bledsoe Reiki & Wellness

Advanced Patient Advocacy Leader to Speak at AAHAM ANI

Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC (APA) announced today that Scott Noel, Director of Learning Management and Development, will speak at the 2016 American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management (AAHAM) Annual National Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada October 5-7, 2016. Mr. Noel will share... - August 22, 2016 - Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC

Voicebrook Announces 400th VoiceOver Site

The Brooklyn Hospital Center to increase efficiency with VoiceOver®, becoming the 400th site to acquire the only speech recognition based reporting solution tailored specifically to Pathology. - August 16, 2016 - Voicebrook, Inc.

Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute Announces That It Has Been Awarded an R01 Research Grant by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute, Inc. (MTPPI) announces that it has been awarded an R01 research grant by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The grant will be used to investigate the impact of the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System (ESRD PPS) reform that was enacted by Congress in 2011. - August 11, 2016 - Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute

Tabula Rasa HealthCare's Jack Russell Software Innovation Center Kick Off First JRS Coding School Boot Camp September 19

The Jack Russell Software Innovation Center (JRS IC) announced today its first Coding School Boot Camp will be held September 19, - December 6, 2016. Applications must be submitted between August 1 – September 1, 2016. The JRS IC was launched this year by TRHC to develop technology that will solve real health care problems while providing leading-edge value to software innovation. In celebration, a 50% discount off of the tuition is being offered to students. - August 05, 2016 - Tabula Rasa HealthCare

Vaidam Health Helps a Paralyzed Young Nigerian Woman to Get on Her Feet Again

In July 2016, Vaidam Health, a medical travel assistant company in India, helped a young paralyzed woman from Nigeria regain her life. She was operated for Spine Tumor in India and recovered miraculously very fast. Its the story about her experience and similar such patients who are assisted by Vaidam Health. - August 05, 2016 - Vaidam Health Pvt Ltd

Operative Experience Expands Team to Drive Growth in the Government Sector

To prepare for growth and increasing market demand for their high-fidelity human patient simulators for surgical and pre-hospital education, Operative Experience, Inc. (OEI) has expanded its government business development team by adding Jared Akers as Executive Sales Manager, Government &... - August 04, 2016 - Operative Experience, Inc.

U.S. News & World Report Names Hoag Among Best Hospitals

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has been recognized as one of the best hospitals for 2016-17 according to U.S. News & World Report. Hoag was ranked the 6th best hospital in the Los Angeles metro area and tied for 11th best hospital in California. “We are honored to be recognized as... - August 04, 2016 - Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

Z5 Health Expands Product Suite with Z5 Cycle

Z5 Cycle greatly improves the way hospitals take regularly scheduled cycle counts. Z5 brings modern, mobile technology to the clinical supply chain. Say goodbye to legacy count methods like paper and handhelds and say hello to taking counts using Z5's innovative iPad app and web based portal. - August 02, 2016 - Z5 Health

New Name, New Logo, the Same Standard for Quality United Recovery Systems and Its Family of Companies Becomes Alltran

Alltran, a solutions provider of advanced revenue cycle, accounts receivable management and contact center solutions, announced this week that United Recovery Systems has officially changed its name to Alltran. - August 01, 2016 - Alltran

HospitalPortal.net Announces New Client: Women’s Care Florida

Women’s Care Florida plans to go live in one month. - July 29, 2016 - HospitalPortal.net

Van Dyk Montclair Hires Christina Vassallo as Part of Ongoing Expansion of Services and Programs

Nurse practitioner joins award-winning staff in Montclair as company prepares for inaugural Van Dyk Memory Care Center in Hawthorne - July 27, 2016 - Van Dyk Health Care

Chi Solutions, an Accumen Company, and Baystate Health System Executives to Present at Becker’s CIO/HIT Revenue Cycle Conference

Jeffrey Myers, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Financial Services at Chi Solutions, an Accumen company, and Denise Irons, Director of Laboratory Information Systems at Baystate Health System, will speak at Becker’s CIO/HIT + Revenue Cycle Conference to be held July 27-28, 2016... - July 21, 2016 - Chi Solutions, Inc., an Accumen company

Reilly H. Stewart Honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication

Reilly H. Stewart of Indio, California has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of healthcare. This award is presented to those individuals who have made a difference in the... - July 19, 2016 - Strathmore Worldwide

World Congress Announces Agenda for the 3rd Annual Patient Engagement and Experience Summit

World Congress Announces Agenda for the 3rd Annual Patient Engagement and Experience Summit featuring speakers from Geisinger Health System, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Kaiser Permanente and more. - July 15, 2016 - World Congress

Top U.S. Hospital to Share Tactics for Targeting High-Risk and Rising-Risk Patients During August 1, 2016 Webinar

Massachusetts General Hospital, ranked number one in the nation by U.S. News & World Report®, will outline its population health approach to targeting high-risk and risking-risk patients during an August 1, 2016 webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network. - July 06, 2016 - Healthcare Intelligence Network

Carl W. McGee Recognized as a VIP by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication

Carl W. McGee of Dallas, Texas has been recognized as a VIP for 2016 by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of healthcare. About Carl W. McGee Mr. McGee has over 17 years experience in the healthcare field. He is the Lab... - July 02, 2016 - Strathmore Worldwide

Baebies Appoints Former Medtronic CEO and Illumina Ventures Founding Partner to Its Board of Directors

Baebies, Inc., a company focused on advancing newborn screening and pediatric testing, today announced that William A. Hawkins and Nicholas Naclerio, PhD have joined the company’s Board of Directors effective immediately. Mr. Hawkins is the retired Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, a... - June 30, 2016 - Baebies, Inc.

CloudWave Named by Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a Preferred Healthcare Network Partner

CloudWave recognized as a premier provider of HPE technology solutions for MEDITECH hospitals and healthcare organizations - June 30, 2016 - CloudWave

Cass County Health System and Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital Receive Digital Health Awards

HospitalPortal.net clients win Spring 2016 certificates for Intranets. - June 30, 2016 - HospitalPortal.net

Operative Experience Completes $1 Million Financing

Operative Experience, Inc., a company that has pioneered a new biofidelic emulation technology that is revolutionizing surgical and pre-hospital skills training, today announced it has raised $1 million from private investors. The funding will be used to expand production and accelerate new... - June 27, 2016 - Operative Experience, Inc.

INTEGRIS Grove Hospital Opens Outpatient Wound Healing Center

INTEGRIS Grove Hospital partnered with Wound Care Specialists to open an advanced wound healing and limb preservation center. - June 18, 2016 - Wound Care Specialists

HFMA’s Georgia Chapter Announces New Officers

The Georgia Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is unveiling its 2016/2017 slate of officers, with terms beginning June 1, 2016. The new board members include: Jonathan Skaggs, President Todd Cox, President Elect Laurence Harris, Secretary Bridget Cutchen,... - June 17, 2016 - Georgia HFMA

MemorialCare Breast Center at Saddleback Opens New Breast Center in Irvine

The Center Offers the Latest Technology, Expert Staff and Patient Convenience - June 16, 2016 - Saddleback Memorial Medical Center

Advanced Patient Advocacy Leader Appointed to Florida HFMA Board Position

Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC (APA) announced today that Abby Birch, Vice President of Client Development, has been installed as the Director of Innovation for the Florida Healthcare Financial Management (HFMA) Board. Ms. Birch was installed on May 16th, 2016. Florida HFMA is focusing on four... - June 16, 2016 - Advanced Patient Advocacy, LLC

Executives Slated to Present "The Executive Blueprint for Hospital Laboratory Outreach Growth" at Upcoming OHA Event

Jeffrey H. Myers, CFO and VP of Financial Services for Chi Solutions, an Accumen company, and Sean McKibben, President of Mount Carmel West, are slated to speak at the 2016 Ohio Hospital Association Annual Meeting and Education Summit. - June 09, 2016 - Chi Solutions, Inc., an Accumen company

The MCS Group, Inc. Announces Partnership with Inspired Review

The MCS Group, Inc., a national provider of outsourcing solutions, announced today their strategic partnership with Inspired Review, a Managed Review firm providing document review to the eDiscovery community. “We care about our client’s ability to take eDiscovery from collections... - June 08, 2016 - The MCS Group, Inc.

Barlow Respiratory Hospital Designated as Center of Excellence

Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles has earned the Passy Muir designation as a Center of Excellence by demonstrating a high standard of care for patients with tracheostomies, on and off the ventilator. Presentation of the designation award will be at a reception at Barlow Respiratory Hospital, on Tuesday June 7, 2016 at 10:00 am in the hospital’s historic main campus library. Barlow’s Medical Director, Dr. David R. Nelson, will speak at the presentation. - June 07, 2016 - Barlow Respiratory Hospital

Launch of New Job Board Dedicated to Long Term Care Promises Staffing Challenge Relief