Doctors Care opens Myrtle Beach location

Doctors Care (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) opened its sixth healthcare center in the Grand Strand area Nov. 1. The new center is located inside the Carolina Forest Community at 200 Middleburg Dr., Myrtle Beach. The center is designed to provide convenient urgent care, family care, and occupational medicine, with or without an appointment.

Ronald Reynolds, MD, Grand Strand Regional Medical Director for Doctors Care, said, “We’re excited about the opportunity to serve more individuals, families, and businesses in the area. The Carolina Forest Doctors Care center will help meet the needs of the growing Grand Strand community.”

Doctors Care is a division of UCI Medical Affiliates. UCI provides non-medical management and administrative services for a network of 59 freestanding medical centers.

Zynex Medical leases more office space

Zynex Medical Holdings (Littleton, Colorado), a provider of pain management systems and electrotherapy products for medical patients with functional disability, said that it has leased additional office space in close proximity to its existing location. Thomas Sandgaard, CEO, said: “Our recent growth has made it necessary for us to lease office and warehouse space to accommodate not only a higher level of activity as well as anticipated future growth. We continue to outsource many functions, such as electronic assembly, in an effort to have as much flexibility in our growth as possible. We expect to move into the new space immediately. We will be filing a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will contain additional information concerning the lease.”

NuVasive to move into new HQ

NuVasive (San Diego), a company focused on developing products for minimally disruptive surgical treatments for the spine, reported plans to relocate to a new campus style headquarters in San Diego during the first half of 2008.

The new campus environment provides NuVasive with increased infrastructure to accommodate its rapidly growing workforce, support enhanced training and testing facilities, and provide a foundation for expanded clinical use of XLIF, broadened product offerings, and other strategic growth initiatives.

NuVasive’s long-term plan is to occupy three buildings on the campus. One existing building will be dedicated to research, product development, marketing and surgeon training activities. The second building will house the administrative functions as well as sales and corporate training. The anticipated third building will provide expansion space for NuVasive’s growth and would bring the total campus square footage to approximately 300,000.

Helicos joins personalized medicine group

Helicos BioSciences (Cambridge, Massachusetts) said it has joined the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), an advocacy group advancing the adoption of personalized medicine.

Helicos is focused on genetic analysis technologies for the research, drug discovery and diagnostic markets. Helicos’ tSMS technology allows direct measurement of billions of strands of DNA enabling scientists to perform experiments and ask questions never before possible.

“We believe that Helicos’ technology will enable personalized medicine to become a reality and feel it’s crucial for us to have a strong public policy voice. Living in an era where patients will have the opportunity to have their genome sequenced, it’s essential for us to join the discussion on how society will deal with this scientific breakthrough,” said Patrice Milos, PhD, VP and chief scientific officer. “Having watched the PMC since its formation, I have admired the strong policy voice that the PMC has demonstrated.”

Boston Sci, GE report patient data integration

Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) and GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin) reported what it said is the industry’s first patient data integration between a cardiac rhythm management remote monitoring system and a physician’s electronic medical record, currently installed at Seattle Cardiology and Cardiology Consultants (Philadelphia).

The integration uses Boston Scientific’s Latitude patient management system to allow clinicians to access information from a patient’s implanted cardiac device and store within the GE Centricity electronic medical record (EMR) system in the form of lab results.

GE’s Centricity EMR is an electronic medical record system that enables ambulatory care physicians and clinical staff to document patient encounters, streamline clinical workflow and securely exchange clinical data with other providers, patients and information systems.

CPSI gains CCHIT certification

Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI; Mobile, Alabama), a provider of healthcare information solutions, reported receipt of certification from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) for its inpatient electronic medical record (EMR) product. CPSI is now CCHIT-certified for the CPSI system, Version 15, for CCHIT Inpatient EMR 2007.

CCHIT is the recognized certification authority for EHRs. Its mission is to accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable healthcare information technology throughout the U.S. by creating an efficient, credible, sustainable mechanism for the certification of healthcare IT products.