The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is developing a data storage system connected to its newborn screening program to track the treatment of rare congenital diseases for research scientists to use.It is planning a data storage repository as part of the “Long-Term Follow-Up Data Collection Tool” project. It will store long-term clinical records of patients who [...]

Temple University Hospital‘s CEO has stepped down and will be replaced by John N. Kastanis, a healthcare consultant from Navigant (NYSE:NCI), a Chicago firm that has offices in Philadelphia.Sandy Gomberg worked for the Temple University Health System for 14 years, three as CEO of Temple University Hospital, according to a letter from Larry Kaiser, CEO [...]

Mayo Medical Laboratories is adding a new tuberculosis test that will help physicians better determine the kind of TB afflicting patients.Mayo licensed the diagnostic test from Germany’s Qiagen, a provider of sample and assay technologies. The license expands on what’s currently available in terms of TB testing from Mayo. Currently, tests are done using a [...]