SonaMed Corporation, a leader in the development and marketing of patient monitoring equipment, has signed a three-year contract with HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG), one of the nation's largest healthcare group purchasing organizations, as a dual-source supplier of hearing assessment systems. This dual source contract facilitates the purchase of SonaMed's family of Clarity Newborn Hearing Screening Products by any of HPG's membership. The Company's auditory assessment products included in the contract range from a handheld OAE screening device to initial diagnostic systems, and include data management software for program quality assurance and the patented combination of OAE and ABR technologies in a single device. Also included in the offering are SonaMed's unmatched clinical education programs, technical service and attractive financing options for equipment and supplies.

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MediNotes Corporation released a major upgrade during the summer of 2000 to equip their flagship EMR program with a client-server SQL database, and outfit the software with a new set of functionality. The new 4.1 release will raise a lot less dust than it's fully redesigned predecessor but will concentrate on many refinements that will give the physician much more control of their records.

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