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Vocera to buy PatientSafe Solutions, with eye toward small and mid-sized hospitals

Vocera to buy PatientSafe Solutions, with eye toward small and mid-sized hospitals Its addition will boost its ability to combine secure messages, nurse calls, checklists and other notifications within the electronic  health record at the point of care. Vocera Communications on Thursday announced its acquisition of San Diego-based PatientSafe Solutions. Terms of the deal were… Read More »

Human Sperm Stem Cells Grown in Lab, an Early Step Toward Infertility Treatment

Infertility affects one in seven men of reproductive age worldwide. One idea for treating male sterility is spermatogonial stem cell (SSC) therapy. In this approach, sperm stem cells in the testis are transferred to a test tube, cultured and nudged into becoming fully fledged sperm. However, a key bottleneck has been identifying just the right… Read More »

Health IT advisory group targets price transparency, data security with eye toward 2020

Dive Brief: A key HHS advisory committee unanimously passed a slate of recommendations Wednesday for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, including a model linking the inclusion of data elements in a national health dataset to milestones and not a timeline as previously proposed, and ranking interoperability standards priorities. The Health IT… Read More »