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HMS gets 40-hospital contract with Community Health Systems

Health care software system and technology provider Healthcare Management Systems is expanding its relationship with hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc.

HMS, based in Nashville, develops sells and provides support for integrated clinical and financial hospital information systems and services.

Review: 'Second Lives' makes the virtual real

A Journey Through Virtual Worlds," an engrossing travelogue of the author's explorations in alternate gaming realities, this kind of dual life is growing in popularity with staggering speed.

For instance, consider the digital world of Second Life, which allows "residents" to interact with others in a quasi-realistic landscape where players can build giant castles on their virtual land, give their avatars angel wings or jetpacks, and even start businesses that lead to real-world cash. In 2003, when the game premiered, it had 25,000 players, who paid monthly fees for access; today, it boasts more than 12 million residents. (It's so popular that the news agency Reuters has a reporter working full time in the game to sleuth out the latest virtual news.) In total, an estimated 70 million people worldwide regularly log onto enormous online game worlds like EverQuest and World of Warcraft, to do everything from hunt monsters to break dance in floating clubs.

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Semtek Receives Patent on Magnetic Stripe Reader with Power Management Control for Attachment to PDAs and SmartphonesSemtek Innovative Solutions Corporation announces it has been issued a patent for a magnetic stripe card reader (MSR) unit capable of attaching to and communicating with a handheld PDA or smartphone using only the electrical power available as supplied by the device.

Pettit spent $99,000 in losing DA's race

Washington County District Attorney John C. Pettit's re-election committee outspent that of his Republican opponent about 2.5 to 1 in his unsuccessful bid to win a seventh four-year term in office.

Campaign finance forms filed this week with the Washington County Elections Office show Pettit's committee spent $61,664 on the election after Oct. 23.

For the same reporting period that ended Nov. 26, the Steven Toprani Leadership Committee spent $22,424.

Combined with previous campaign finance forms that showed expenditures from June 5 through Oct. 22, Pettit's re-election committee spent a total of $99,413 while Toprani's committee for the same period reported spending $37,827.

Both candidates' campaign committees ended the reporting period with unpaid debts and obligations, Pettit to the tune of $41,255 and Toprani with $15,420.

Wild Card/Vacation Day 11 of 12

Only two more shopping days until I return to the final days of the City Council campaigns. Then, we'll have fun taking apart the campaigns. Any dirt yet? Any mudslinging. You know, the good stuff. Or is everyone behaving? My wife is now looking over my shoulder -- literally -- so I have to pretend that I'm just checking ball scores. See ya in two days. Here's Wild Card ...

PTV Sciences hires industry vet to steer biotech investments

Anderson was the Group Chairman at Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and Worldwide Franchise Chairman at medical device maker Cordis Corp. He has served in senior leadership positions with several other international health care and medical device companies.

SNP threatens to tax supermarkets in war on booze culture

More alcohol is now being sold in off-sales than through on sales. And the problems of binge drinking are not restricted to city centres – they're being felt throughout Scotland and in every age group."Somebody has to meet the cost of these consequences. It would be manifestly wrong to impose a 'polluter pays' levy only on pubs in city centres and not on supermarkets and off-licences in other towns and communities, if that's where we're also seeing problems."We have a serious problem in Scotland. People are telling me the problems are not simply from the licensed trade but also from off-licences."Research suggests that 80 per cent of all alcohol sold in Scotland comes from off-licences. The problem of under-age drinking has also been linked by the police and government to irresponsible shopkeepers.The issue was graphically highlighted by the murder of Garry Newlove, who was kicked to death by a gang of drunk teenagers who had been vandalising his wife's car.A recent Home Office study revealed that almost three-quarters of under-age drinkers in deprived areas get their alcohol from supermarkets, corner shops or from their parents.The survey showed that 52 per cent obtain alcohol from supermarkets or corner shops and 22 per cent from parents or family members.Mr MacAskill revealed the new plan during a meeting with alcohol workers in Livingston, which like most towns in Scotland is blighted with the problem of under-age drinkers.