Bingham
Farms health info exchange attracts more doctors
The Bingham Farms health information
exchange my1HIE LLC Wednesday announced that doctors with the Huron
Valley Physicians Association will now participate in the exchange.
My1HIE (an acronym for My One Health Information Exchange) also announced
it had selected WellCentive Registry from Atlanta, Ga.-based WellCentive
LLC as its patient registry and disease management system. There was
also another major physician group announcement with my1HIE, which was
abruptly withdrawn Wednesday evening. More.
GR's
Spectrum Health adds Utah firm's health info exchange Grand Rapids-based Spectrum
Health and Salt Lake City, Utah-based Medicity, Inc. said Wednesday
that they had deployed a secure health information exchange. The system
aims to link hospitals and physicians for enhanced clinical decision-making,
care coordination and patient safety. It is being offered to physicians
throughout West Michigan. The system integrates clinical information
with the electronic medical records at individual doctors' offices.
In addition, if an office is still using paper charts, Spectrum Health
supplies a bridge system so that office can start interacting electronically.
More.
Rubicon
Genomics technology gets another marketer Ann Arbor-based Rubicon
Genomics Inc., a developer of products that enable optimal performance
of advanced genetic analysis tools, announced Wednesday that it has
reached agreement with Cambridge England-based BlueGnome to non-exclusively
market its PicoPlex technology to In Vitro Fertilization researchers
under the name SurePlex DNA Amplification System. The technology will
be part of the BlueGnome 24sure microarray-based technology. More.
Film, video
fest returning to Madonna U Wannabe movie-makers will
have the opportunity to tell their stories during PAH-Fest Motown 2009,
July 13-19, at Madonna University’s Livonia campus, 36600 Schoolcraft
Road. It's the Detroit-area’s third annual Project Accessible
Hollywood festival -- a unique, entirely free, digital media festival
that features a full schedule of activities where participants create
everything from cell-phone movies to six-minute digital films. The events
and competitions are open to people from all walks of life -- no filmmaking
experience is necessary, just a story to tell. Members of the community
are invited to participate in the Digi Portrait, Tone Poem and Cell
Phone Art competitions. Professional coaching is provided and software
and cash prizes will be awarded. More.
N.J.
firm buys 30 percent of Detroit trash-to-energy plant
Michigan Waste Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Fairfield, N.J.-based Covanta Holding Corp., Wednesday announced
it will continue to operate the Detroit Energy-from-Waste Facility.
Covanta also announced that it has completed an agreement to purchase
a 30 percent interest in the Detroit facility for an undisclosed price.
Michigan Waste Energy has operated the trash-burning plant since 1991,
providing services to the city of Detroit under contract with the Greater
Detroit Resource Recovery Authority. More.
'Pure Michigan' travel campaign named to list of 10 best ever
The award-winning Pure Michigan
tourism campaign has received another accolade -- this one from Forbes,
naming it among the 10 all-time best travel campaigns.
On the heels of a successful national cable
television campaign that launched March 30, this recognition is further
proof Michigan is making its mark when it comes to travel and tourism.
Forbes ranked the Pure Michigan campaign
sixth best, the highest rated state tourism campaign on the list, saying,
"this campaign sells with its simple and universal message: that
sometimes we all need to get away from life's stresses and relax a bit."
Clearly, the three judges agreed. Ranking the campaigns were Peter Greenberg,
travel journalist; Rudy Maxa, contributing editor with National Geographic
Traveler magazine; and Tom Parsons, publisher of BestFares.com
"Having the Pure Michigan campaign
recognized as one of the best campaigns ever is quite gratifying,"
said George Zimmermann, vice president of Travel Michigan, a business
unit of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. "This award-winning
campaign has produced a dramatic increase in the number of travelers
seeking Michigan tourism information."
Other campaigns making the list include
the iconic 1980s Paul Hogan campaign for Australia -- "I'll slip
another shrimp on the barbee for ya" -- and the "what happens
here, stays here" campaign for Las Vegas, plus advertising campaigns
for India, Canada, Jamaica and New Zealand.
The Pure Michigan tourism campaign went
national for the first time this year and ran through June on 15 cable
channels: Golf Channel, Travel Channel, A&E, Bravo, Style, Fine
Living, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, E!, DIY Network, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and
Fox News.
Note: For information on how you
can sponsor content in the Blue Box, contact Jeff Lasser at (248) 455-7319
or jeff.lasser@cbsradio.com.
Green cleaning
gear firm gets Chicago-area manufacturer Saranac-based NXGen Holdings
Inc. Wednesday announced that its subsidiary, Green Bridge Industries
Inc., has signed an agreement with an undisclosed Chicago-area manufacturing
plant for its manufacturing, packaging, and storage capabilities. The
plant is approximately 60,000 square feet and has six production lines,
which Green Bridge Industries will use to manufacture its GBI and private
label product lines. More.
IT consultant
offers satisfaction assessment
Bloomfield Township-based
Franklin CIO Services LLC, an IT services firm providing part time or
interim CIOs and high level IT consulting to medium sized businesses,
has made its Information Technology Satisfaction Assessment available.
The scorecard is a series of 25 questions with simple yes or no answers.
The answers result in a score that provides a quick assessment of how
effectively a company is leveraging IT. More.
New
gasket technology for fuel cells from Federal-Mogul Southfield-based Federal-Mogul
Corp. Wednesday announced a new gasket technology to assist in fuel
cell development for energy-efficient vehicles. Federal-Mogul's patented
Liquid Elastomer Molding gaskets are constructed with small engineered
elastomeric beads molded onto thin carriers that provide superior sealing
performance while significantly reducing the size and weight of each
fuel cell stack, compared to other molded sealing technologies. More.
THE WORLD IN TECH
CenturyTel
completes purchase Embarq With the completion of its
purchase of Embarq Corp. Wednesday, CenturyTel Inc. becomes one of the
largest traditional telephone companies in the country. But the combined
company, to be renamed CenturyLink, will have to answer concerns about
how quickly it can expand high-speed Internet service and survive the
continued exodus of traditional telephone customers. More.
Facebook
plans to simplify privacy settings Facebook
is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an
attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information
they share on the site. Privacy has been a central, often thorny issue
for Facebook because so many people use it to share personal information
with their friends and family. But as the 5-year-old social networking
service has expanded its user base and added features, its privacy controls
have grown increasingly complicated. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company
said Wednesday that the new settings will give people greater control
over what photos, updates and personal details they share with their
friends, family and strangers on Facebook and, eventually, the wider
Internet. More.
On
the Walkman's 30th birthday, Sony is struggling
When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years
ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable
cassette-tape player delivered music on-the-go -- a totally innovative
idea back in 1979. Today, Sony Corp. is struggling to reinvent itself
and win back its reputation as a pioneer of razzle-dazzle gadgetry once
exemplified in the Walkman, which Wednesday had its 30th anniversary
marked with a special display at Sony's corporate archives. The Japanese
electronics and entertainment company lost 98.9 billion yen ($1.02 billion)
in the fiscal year ended March -- its first annual loss in 14 years
-- and is expecting more red ink this year. The manufacturer, which
also makes Vaio PCs and Cyber-shot cameras, hasn't had a decisive hit
like the Walkman for years, and has taken a battering in the portable
music player market to Apple Inc.'s iPod. More.
Is
Twitter the news outlet of the 21st Century?
Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive
outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where Michael
Jackson was brought and later pronounced dead. How had Hayes, 25, and
Coleman, 21, heard the news so quickly? Twitter. The two young women
had learned about Jackson's health like so many who get their news nowadays:
by reading the ever-flowing feed of real-time information on the microblogging
service. Jackson's unexpected death at 50 was just the latest major
news event where Twitter played a central role. But just as quickly
as Twitter has emerged as a news source, so, too, has its susceptibility
to false rumors become abundantly apparent. More.
Stocks:
A gain as numbers (except employment) look good Investors kicked off the
stock market's third quarter with a moderate gain after getting some
reassuring data on manufacturing and housing. The buying was tempered
by caution ahead of Thursday's June jobs report. The Labor Department
is expected to report another uptick in the unemployment rate to 9.6
percent, according to economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters. Growing
unemployment has been keeping investors nervous about consumer spending
- a major driver of growth. Much of Wednesday's data was positive, including
a report showing more stable manufacturing activity in the United States,
and another indicating the fourth straight monthly rise in pending home
sales. Stocks also got a boost from European markets, which rose following
similarly upbeat manufacturing data in that region. Not all of the economic
news was upbeat, however. Construction spending fell in May by more
than the market expected, and according to the ADP National Employment
Report, the private sector lost more jobs in June than anticipated.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU)
rose 57.06 points, or 0.7 percent, to 8,504.06; the S&P 500 (SPX)
rose 4.01 points or 0.4 percent, to 923.33, and the Nasdaq Composite
(COMP)
rose 10.68 points or 0.6 percent, to 1,845.72. The Philadelphia Semiconductor
Index ($SOX)
rose 3.87 points or 1.5 percent to 267.02. The Morgan Stanley High Tech
35 Index (MSH)
rose 2.67 points or 0.6 percent to 454.37. The NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical
Index (DRG)
rose 1.58 points or 0.6 percent to 263.69. The NYSE Arca Biotech Index
(BTK)
fell 9.9 points or 1.4 percent to 687.27.
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