NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tennessee, US, has chosen Allscripts’s Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM), an acute care electronic health record (EHR) solution, to help boost the facility….

Meadville Medical Center in the US state of Pennsylvania has selected Authentidate’s Electronic House Call (EHC) remote vital signs monitoring solution for its chronic disease management programme….

The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and Nebraska Medical Center in the US have unveiled plans to set up a new cancer care and research facility. The new project is expected to include a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic, a 98-lab research tower and a hospital tower with 108 beds for oncology patients. The project plans also call for construction of a fourth building, an ambulatory care...

West Virginia University (WVU) Hospitals in the US, is to build a ten-storey tower to address the increasing capacity challenges and improve the healthcare needs of patients in the state. The $280m project is expected to add 139 new beds and be fully operational by 2016. As part of the development, the WVU Children’s Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, the emergency department and...

Quincy Medical Center in Massachusetts, US, is re-establishing its maternity ward as part of a $30m hospital renovation programme. The $12.8m project, which is awaiting the state’s Department of Public Health approval, is expected begin in late 2012. The 22,000ft2 maternity suite will occupy the hospital’s sixth floor, and is expected to deliver approximately 2,000 babies a year. Quincy...

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Hackensack University Medical Center in the US has selected the SurgiCount Safety-Sponge system to improve patient safety and reduce error rates in its operating rooms….

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam (the Netherlands) have signed an agreement to install one of Philips’ highly innovative Ingenuity TF PET/MR (Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance) scanners at the center. This advanced imaging modality will help researchers at the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam to investigate...

Hackensack University Medical Center is set to reopen an acute care hospital at the site of the former Pascack Valley facility in New Jersey, US….

Quanterix has entered into a collaboration agreement with the Botulinum Research Center to develop and validate an assay to measure low levels of the botulinum toxin within complex environmental samples….