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Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said that there is a second competition for the 21st Century Jobs Fund awards, which are designed to commercialize technologies in the state.
Applicants will be competing for up to $30 million to grow businesses in the areas of alternative energy, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, and homeland security and defense. This is the 2nd round of a $2 billion fund competition for commercialization in Michigan.
Proposals will be scored and ranked based on commercialization merit, scientific and technical merit, management team strengths, and the ability to leverage additional funding.
The peer review service provider, to be reported this month, will manage applications, assign reviewers to specific proposals, score proposals through the Michigan Economic Development Corp.'s electronic award management system, and make recommendations to the Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization board for funding decisions.
In contracts news:
• CompuMed (Los Angeles) reported that it has won a statewide contract in conjunction with Wexford Health Sources (Pittsburgh) to provide electrocardiogram (ECG) remote interpretation systems and cardiologist overread services to the West Virginia Division of Corrections.
CompuMed's CardioGram system will be used to perform remote cardiac screening for detainees in the state's correctional facilities. Cardiologists will perform overreads on all abnormal tests. CompuMed is a value-added partner of Wexford.
CompuMed's traditional core business is providing remote ECG interpretation services to medical facilities that may not have access to trained physicians qualified to interpret ECG results. Customers for the company's CardioGram system are typically correctional facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, occupational health clinics, rural health facilities and physicians' offices.
The system reduces healthcare costs significantly by providing remote cardiac screening at the point of care. The company said one of the CardioGram's advantages is an optional feature that automatically sends ECG results to a trained cardiologist for an overread when the results are abnormal.
CompuMed develops offerings that use advanced imaging and medical informatics to provide analysis and remote monitoring in connection with cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases.
• To achieve its goal of enterprise-wide seamless integration to enhance patient care delivery and business office processes, Florida Cardiology (Miami), a multi-site medical practice with 18 cardiologists, has selected Sage Software's Intergy EHR by Sage Electronic Health Records and Intergy by Sage Practice Management System (both Tampa, Florida).
Florida Cardiology will deploy these web-based integrated solutions at eight office locations equipped with full diagnostic facilities and a freestanding cardiac catheterization laboratory and two satellite offices in the greater Orlando area.
Florida Cardiology's roughly 120 clinicians and clinical support staff provide comprehensive adult cardiology services that include noninvasive/invasive diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions.
Intergy HER's robust set of cardiology-specific templates — including content for general cardiology, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, and vascular subspecialties — will enable improved care as well as timely, accurate coding and billing to facilitate reimbursement, the company said.
Sage Software's Healthcare unit provides integrated electronic health records, EDI applications and practice management systems to thousands of ambulatory care practices throughout North America.