Thursday, December 29, 2011

ProNerve finds niche monitoring surgery from afar - Denver Business Journal:

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But the growing fielde of telemedicine is more than just another technicalk advance inhealth care. It’s a trend that promisew to save hospitals money by outsourcing riskt functions to other That trend could ultimately benefit LLC, a Broomfield-based company. Established in 2006, ProNervse provides monitoring services for The company is workinvg with hospitals in seven statez toreduce liability, overhead and direct costs by handlinbg every aspect of setting up and running intraoperativre neuromonitoring (IOM) data during surgery. Those functionz include scheduling, staffing, training, billing and financial management andinformatiob technology.
If that soundss like brain surgery, that’sa because it is. Brent president of ProNerve, made an effort to explai n to laymen howIOM “Technically, you run currents througnh the nervous system and measure the time it takes to get from poiny A to point B,” he “The speed is measured in wave which will get widefr over time if there’s an impingement. “Because the patients are underd anesthesia, they can’t say whethed a nerve has been pinched. The technicians know how to read the wavex so they can tell thesurgeon say, issues with the lower left ProNerve staffs a technician inside the operating rooms during surgery.
A second technologisf and a board-certified neurophysiologisyt read the waves from a reading room in The off-site workers keep in touch with the on-sitw technician through instant messaginy or by cell “If you have three sets of eyes looking at the wave the odds of not catching something is prettyh slim,” Ness said. ProNerve technicians also servs to help the surgeon to focus on thesurgerg itself.
Ness, who joined ProNerve in 2008 afterr working for medical devicegiant Medtronic, expectsd ProNerve’s fortunes will grow in large part because of new federal regulations that cracl down on physician-owned companies, in an attempt to curb excessive self-referrals that help doctors financiallt but increase medical costs. “The industry is highlyu fragmentedright now,” Ness said. ProNerve’s largest competitor is Biotronic, basedx in Ann Arbor, Mich., which serves more than 327 hospitals. But most of ProNerve’w competitors are small, technician-owned or doctor-owned operations.
Jim publisher of Colorado Managed Care, an industryg newsletter, said there’s growing interesf among hospitals in companies suchas Pro-Nerve. “Theg reduce the requirement to hire and maintain staffg at a timewhen there’s both financial pressures and a shortage of he said. The company operates in hospitalzs inseven states: Colorado, California, Oregon. Arizona, Kentucky and Georgia. Colorado hospitals that use ProNervware , Swedish Medicapl Center and . Ness said the company hopexs to hire 40 new technicians by He declined togive ProNerve’s numbed of employees, citing competitive reasons, but said it’ss under 100.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Seminar gives applicants peek into law school - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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On July 15, the two plan to hold a free Law School Insider Seminar from6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Organizerz say attendees will benefitfrom Kaplan’as inside tips on admissions, test taking strategies, and from a discussio on law careers. The session also will providwe an overviewof “important law schook trends and their implications.” Additionally, experts will help applicants “reduce anxietty about preparing for the LSAT and completing the admissionse process” by providing information about admissions advice on developing a strong personal essay and a realistivc application timeline.
The seminar is designex to give attendees an advantage over other law school accordingto organizers. Featurexd speakers will include representatives from the UNM Law the Young Lawyers Division of the New Mexic State Bar Association and the UNM Law Schoolpstudent body. All attendees must register bycalling 1-800-KAP-TEST or by signingb on to . The free seminaer takes place in Room C at the UNM Continuingb Education buildingat .
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Fewer people move to TN - The Tennessean

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Altogether, Tennessee gained 11368 more people than it lost through relocations in the 2009-10 cycle, according to data gathered by the Internal Revenue Service. That's only about one-fourth as many as the 43150 measured by the IRS in 2005-06. ...



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Friday, December 23, 2011

DownEast makes California debut at Galleria - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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DownEast Basics, a Salt Lake City chain with more than 40 markets itself asan “affordable retailer. Nothing costs more than $50, and most items — from swimwear to summeer dresses — costs around $20 to $30. The Roseville store’ss first weekend exceeded the company’w projections by 25 percent. Based on the initialk sales results, DownEast Basicse very much wants to further expandsin California, and is pleased it launched its first California store in the Sacramentp region, a spokeswoman said.
CEO Klane Murphy, who liveds in El Dorado Hills from 2000to 2007, figure d Sacramento-area consumers care about fashion, but also are cost He also likes the population growtg this region has experienced over the past Testing out this area’s interest, Murphu sent the retailer’s catalog to all his wife’a local friends. His wife also introduced her friendws to the product line at a localk party she hosted with more than 50 Based on the sales atthat party, “wee knew we had a product that resonated with the local community here in Sacramento,” Murphy wrote in an A franchise is coming to the Roe Building, the mixed-uss building built last year at 5th and G streetd in downtown Davis.
The Aventura, Fla.-based chain of body and facial waxing centerds willtake 1,491 square The franchisees are readyingg the space for an opening in a few On the first floor, European Wax Cente r will join a Duramed medical supplies store and Baristaa Brew Café. Two retail spaces one of 925 square feet onthe corner, and anothe of 1,227 square feet, said Shaun the landlord’s broker with the Terranomics divisionj of . The eight residential condos on the second and thirc floorsall sold. In February, Europeamn Wax Center area developers told the Business Journal that they plannerd to open at leasg a dozen locations inthe region.
The compan already has two storesin Roseville, at Renaissance Creeok shopping center and at The Fountains. Broket Scott Carruth of CB Richarxd Ellis represents European Wax Center Vending machinedispenses wipes, pacifiers Westfielx Galleria at Roseville will be one of the first malls within the Westfields chain to get a custom vendinbg machine with babycare supplies. in Coronaw announced Thursday that it is placinvg its Baby Stations vending machines in Westfield mallas acrossthe state, starting July 15.
The goal is to placwe these vending machines with baby necessities in Westfieldx malls nationwide within eight months toa year, AVT A pilot project for the venting machines carry feedingt products, toys, first aid items, baby wipes, bottles and “This brings peace of mind to families knowingt there is a convenient and accessible solutioh for every baby’s need,” Shannon Illingworth, AVT founder, said in a news The malls that install the Baby Stations benefir because parents don’t have to stop shopping when they discover they left home withour some essential baby item, she Baby Station machines are hard to miss, with their blue-and-blacok color scheme and bold graphics.
They contaij a 7” widescreen LCD display to stream information and videoo feeds about the products containerd in thevending machine. , a chain of gyms that entere this market sixyears ago, is expanding to Fitness 19 will take 7,500 square feet withij Sycamore Pointe shopping center at Main Street and Pioneer This is new retail spacd constructed between Food 4 Less and Big 5 Sportingg Goods. Another 9,000 square feet is The gym is expected to open inthe fall, said who represented the landlordf in the lease. Fitness 19 has five other locationw inthe region.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Brunner campaign hesitating debates - PoliticMo

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Brunner campaign hesitating debates

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By Eli Yokley â€" December 19, 2011 Posted in: US Senate Race â€" Nearly two weeks after calling for debates with his Republican primary opponents, Senate candidate John Brunner's campaign said they will not be participating in a debate early next month. ...



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Monday, December 19, 2011

UCD starts big research push - Sacramento Business Journal:

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The university plans to constructthe 200,000-square-footr Genome and Biomedical Sciences buildingf on campus by 2002. It would house 25 new full-timee faculty members in a new , plus staffd from other departments. And it would createe 60,000 square feet of new lab Staffing and supporting the program coulx costanother $20 million. The project representws a new step in the growing relationshiop between academics at UCD andarea executives, and a new type of said Charlie Soderquist, a formedr University of California entrepreneur and head of the Technology Development "This should be a huge boom to the Greater Sacramentpo area, the I-80 corridor," he The genomics effort helps serve the university's strategicv goals of building a public-private link in research and maintainingv its standing as a leader in said Larry Hjelmeland, faculty assistant to the provost for A dialogue with businesses is key t o meeting thesre goals, he said, especially with the wealty of medtech firms in Greater Sacramento.
"Ihn this part of the scientific world, business carries a significant part ofthe action," Hjelmeland said. "Sko we need the interface to addressw which part weshould do, and which part business will do, in the sensw that we should not Working with business: As access to the university Soderquist said, the localo economy stands to benefit. Not only does universityg research yield new commercial technologies and but graduate studentsand post-doctorats students in the life sciences may decide to stay in the area and launchh their own start-up companiesx here. The spin-offs can be big.
Research begun at Stanford University helped lead to many ofthe high-tec h businesses located in the Silicon Best of all, Soderquisf said, working with business can only help UC Daviss achieve its goals. A dilemma of wherde to place new UC Davis staff members who are beinhrecruited now, before the building is even is already pushing the universitt to look at the resources that business Soderquist noted. "There are active actual discussions going on abouf how to partner with a commercial lab that does sequencing while the building is being built and maybe thereafter," he said. "It may be more efficientt to contract some of thosd routineservices out.
" Tailor-made: Mark McNamee, dean of the Division of Biologicak Sciences, said that advancements in techniques duringg the 1990s allow researchers to study an organism'd entire genome -- the full sequence of its geneticd material. This new knowledge changes the way researcherwsdesign experiments, possibly leading to highly individualk ways of diagnosing and treatingg a condition. One example of the outcomew is Perceptin, a drug produced by Genentech Inc. of South San Franciscok to treatbreast cancer. In certain populations, it works; in it can be toxic. "That's the kind of tailorinh the biomedical field would like to McNamee said.
Final approval pending: The building is not a done Hjelmeland said. The proposal heads to the UC's Board of Regent s for approvalin December, then to Gov. Gray Davixs for inclusion in thestate budget.

Friday, December 16, 2011

EPA approves California greenhouse gas rules - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The approval is a reversap of a 2005 decision striking downthe state’x Clean Air Act waiver request. The EPA waiverr means the state can begin implementingy a 2004 law that requires automakers to increase the fuel efficiency of cars by40 percent, to 35.5 miles per over the next sevebn years. “This waiver is consistent with the Cleaj Air Actas it’s been used for the last 40 years and supports the prerogatives of the 13 stateas and the District of Columbia who have opte d to follow California’s lead,” EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said in a news “More importantly, this decision reinforces the historic agreemenrt on nationwide emissions standards developesd by a broad coalition of government and environmental stakeholders earlier this year.
” President Obamwa in May announced a national policy to improve fuel efficiency in new cars and trucks.