Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) announces a new partnership with the University of South Florida (USF) to provide simulation training and education services for USF Health hospital partners and for local and national health professionals seeking continuing medical education. The MSC SimSuite Education Center is located at Tampa General Hospital, a major teaching affiliate of USF [...]

Compuware Corporation today announced that its Covisint subsidiary will electronically connect hospitals in Michigan’s “thumb” region, now called Michigan Thumb Health Information System (THIS). The Covisint solution will enable the secure sharing of patient information electronically, demonstrating how critical-care access hospitals–and the hospitals to which they transfer patients–use technology to deliver better care.
Participating THIS [...]

Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated today announced its common stock cash dividend for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. This dividend, in the amount of $0.385 per share, is payable on December 3, 2008 to shareholders of record on November 19, 2008.
Healthcare Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust that integrates owning, managing and developing [...]

MEDSEEK, the leading provider of enterprise portal connectivity solutions, announced today that Oklahoma University (OU) Medicine has gone live in record time with MEDSEEK’s consumer portal, in conjunction with a website strategy and design from MEDSEEK’s e-Marketing Solutions team.
“Since we launched the OU Medicine umbrella brand earlier this year, which encompasses OU Physicians, OU College [...]

Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN - News) today announced its participation in a significant healthcare event in the Middle East. In conjunction with its regional channel partner, Dubai-based E3, Lawson is taking part in the event entitled “Middle East Healthcare at a Crossroads.” This event will feature Harry Debes, president and CEO for Lawson, and Bill Hill, [...]

Name: Rebecca McClanahan
Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Truman State University (1975); Master of Science in Nursing, with a Clinical Nurse Specialty in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, MU (1982). Completed doctoral coursework (all but dissertation) toward a PhD in Nursing, University of Kansas.
Work Experience: State Representative, House District 2, elected in 2006; Serve on the [...]

Healthation, Inc. announced today that Scott & White Health Plan, a not-for-profit HMO, completed its migration to the AboveHealth Self Service Portal, version 3.23. Version 3.23 offers state-of-the-art functions to handle member eligibility, claims review, EOBs, EOPs, application management, invoicing, and employer management.
Scott & White, the latest Healthation customer to migrate to version 3.23, has [...]

BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, L.P., a corporate venture fund that is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, and Sandbox Industries announced today a $5-million investment in Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) solutions for health information exchange.
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners is a newly formed $116-million fund [...]

Star Hospitals , a North American medical tourism service, is helping millions worldwide gain access to high quality, timely, and affordable medical treatment overseas with the launch of its new Web site: www.starhospitals.net
The Web site goes a step beyond the company’s present call center, which is operated by doctors, physician assistants, paramedics, physiotherapists, and other [...]

Nonin Medical, Inc., a leading innovator of physiological monitoring solutions, successfully demonstrated the first Continua pre-certified pulse oximeter at the 5th Annual Connected Health Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts. By meeting Continua’s comprehensive Version One guidelines, Nonin Medical’s innovative pulse oximeters along with products from over 170 companies worldwide, will enable a simple “plug and play” [...]