Agreement with City of Changsha to Facilitate Digital Platform that can be Deployed Countrywide
Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) (www.perotsystems.com) announced today that it has signed a healthcare information technology agreement with the Changsha Municipal Government in the Hunan Province of China. The agreement calls for Perot Systems to develop a plan for a city-wide Regional [...]

October 21, 2009: Kelly Services (NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB), a world leader in human resources solutions, today announced the appointment of Kamal Karanth as Managing Director for India with immediate effect. Karanth will be responsible for growing and expanding Kelly’s business and investment opportunities across nine locations in India.
Karanth has over 14 years of experience in [...]

Five Senior Professionals Join in London, Mumbai and Hong Kong
Jefferies today announced the expansion of its global Healthcare Investment Banking Group with the hiring of five senior professionals. Henry Elphick, Tommy Erdei and Probir Rao join as Managing Directors, Gil Bar-Nahum as a Senior Vice President, and Andrew Clayton as a Vice President. Henry Elphick, [...]

01 October 2009 – Healthcare IT specialist Clinical Solutions has appointed Xavier Flinois as Chief Executive Officer to extend its market leadership and spearhead its ambitious and dynamic growth plans for decision support solutions.
Xavier will be joining Clinical Solutions after heading up consulting and investment boutique Houat Partners. Previously Xavier was the CEO of SchlumbergerSema [...]

An Easy-to-Use Web Site Designed to Drive Awareness, Understanding and Participation in Clinical Research around the World
Patients who want to play an active role in bringing new, safer drugs to market faster now have access to a global Web site that makes it easier than ever before to identify clinical trials to participate in – [...]

DeviceAnywhere Gives Developers Peace-of-Mind that Mobile Applications Meet the Rigorous Standards of Reliability and Security Required for mHealth
(San Mateo, CA) – September 29, 2009 – As the Senate Finance Committee writes incentive bonuses for IT into the new “America’s Healthy Future Act” reform bill, there already exists a fast-growing roster of vendors and healthcare [...]

Comprehensive local payment by results solution simplifies activity and income monitoring to support improved financial management
29 September, 2009 – Ardentia has launched its Service Level Agreement (SLA) module, a solution designed to simplify monitoring and reporting on income and activity for NHS Trusts and to support improved financial management.
The SLA module provides a single information [...]

Covidien plc (NYSE: COV) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a 12.5% increase in the quarterly dividend rate, from $0.16 per ordinary share to $0.18 per ordinary share.
“Given our good operational performance thus far in 2009, our strong cash flow, and the further growth we expect in 2010, the Board has [...]

Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that it had completed the previously announced sale of its Sleep Diagnostics assets to Embla Systems. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The sale of the Sleep Diagnostics product line, which includes several products sold under the Sandman™ brand, was made [...]

Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, held a meeting for the investment community where it highlighted the strengths, strategies and innovations that are expected to drive the Company’s growth in 2010 and beyond. In addition, the meeting included two interactive physician panels discussing the latest developments in several of the Company’s [...]