IBM researchers and a team of doctors are building a database of digital images that they hope will enable oncologists to diagnose and treat cancer patients faster and with more success.

Researchers at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey have digitized CAT scans, MRIs and other images using a high-performance Power6 570 Series system and computational time on the World Community Grid, also known as the world's largest public computing grid. IBM donated the hardware and computational time to the center.

We are not getting any younger. As Europe’s population grows older, the need for care is growing and we are spending more and more money to get it. A new mobile video assistance technology promises to put off the need for carers, improve the life of older people and cut the cost of assistance. Cardiovascular aerobics, package cruises in the Greek islands and high calcium diets. Today’s silver brigade may well be the most active in history, but there comes a time when even ‘super gran’ must retire.

European and Turkish doctors and technicians are perfecting a medical support system that can track patients’ real-time vital signs, link those to patient medical history, and, crucially, provide the latest clinical guidelines for patient care. Better yet, it can alert doctors when necessary. It’s not a digital doctor, but it’s getting there.
It is called Saphire, and it is an Intelligent Clinical Decision Support System (ICDSS) offering a range of services that combines scattered information stored in different systems into a new, more powerful application.

IBQ Systems is an application service provider (ASP) focused on increasing productivity in the insurance industry via the internet. IBQ's products concentrate on the exchange of data between insurance companies and agents. By moving the industry away from paper based transactions, IBQ increases the efficiency of the insurance sales and maintenance process, while also reducing the cost per transaction.

This CD-ROM covers coronary artery disease with emphasis on cineangiography and valvular heart disease with emphasis on echocardiography. This CD-ROM contains a complete description of one of the most common cardiovascular disorders in the US - Coronary Artery Disease. There are numerous examples of cath lab views from actual patient showing narrowed and occluded coronary arteries. There is a complete clinical discussion and rationale for the diagnosis.

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SoftAid provides comprehensive medical management and billing software for home care professionals and providers of medical products, supplies, equipment and devices. Our software can electronically process claims to all DMERC regions, as well as Medicaid, BC/BS, clearinghouses and directly to insurance carriers. SoftAid systems also manage serialized inventory, purchase orders, order processing, CMN tracking, customizable reporting, A/R administration and more.

CINCINNATI, OH - January 25, 2006 -- Cincom's new healthcare software solution, Intelligent Guided Registration (IGR), complements and enhances existing patient registration systems, automating the information gathering process. It enables the registration staff to navigate with a simplified, consistent and customized process.

Cincom IGR lowers costs by reducing:

EMR Experts provides Electronic Medical Record & Practice Management solutions to 1-25 provider healthcare offices of all specialties. Featuring both client/server and ASP solutions our technologies are flexible, affordable and easy-to-use. With such features as E/M level coding, lab integration, e-prescribing, billing integration and patient portals. Our EMR software can be purchased as a stand-alone system to integrate with an existing Billing/Practice Management system or can be purchased as an integrated package already including our practice management system.

DocuXplorer is state-of-the-art document management software designed to secure and manage documents, images, email, faxes, and any other type of paper or electronic files from a single desktop screen. The key to DocuXplorer's great success is how easy it is to use for any size business.

With powerful security and audit tracking capabilities DocuXplorer is used extensively in financial services, healthcare, and other industries that require compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, NASD, and HIPAA regulations.

The healthcare services company moved 50 of its 70 applications to Linux over the last two years and will complete the process with the remaining 20 within a year or two.

Three years ago, McKesson's Acute Care Solutions offered its hospital and doctors' office applications to run under IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s mainframe AIX or other larger server Unix. But customers were bringing smaller Intel (NSDQ: INTC)-based servers into their hospitals and doctors offices. A small doctor's group had little use for an eight or 12-way Unix server, but a two-way Intel or AMD server was about right.