Clinical decision support (CDS) has the power to take a clinicians toolbox to the next levelprovided it is immediate, accurate and in-depth. Atrius Health stepped up to the CDS plate a year and a half ago by integrating Wolters Kluwer Healths UpToDate into its EMR. Sponsored by an educational grant from UpToDate.

The Intel-GE Care Innovations partnership has launched Connect, a new portal and social networking application aimed at bolstering seniors mental health by pre-empting isolation and inactivity.

Philips and Masimo will partner to integrate rainbow SET technology to Philips patient monitoring solutions, according to a statement from Philips.

A new defibrillation technique that delivers five sequential low-energy pulses to a fibrillating heart reduces energy use by an average of 84 percent compared to standard defibrillation, according to study findings published July 13 in Nature.

Canon U.S. Life Sciences and the University of Maryland have launched a new research collaboration to develop an automated system providing rapid infectious disease diagnosis.

Sodexo has selected Xenex Healthcare Services as its preferred partner for the disinfection of Sodexo client facilities.

Medical market research firm Kalorama predicted double-digit growth in the orthopedic biomaterials market through 2016, and estimated that the market represented 14 percent of 2010 global orthopedics sales, or about $5.8 billion, according to its recently published report Orthopedic Biomaterials, the World Market.

A pair of recent studies that harness sophisticated imaging technology reinforce the promise that advanced visualization holds for solving some of the mysteries of Alzheimers disease and dementia.