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Colorado Prevention Center is Selected by Healthcare Discoveries Inc. as a Partner in Providing Turnkey ECG Central Laboratory Services.


PASADENA, Calif. -- Healthcare Discoveries Inc. announced today its selection of the Colorado Prevention Center as their Partner for providing ECG ECG electrocardiogram.

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1. electrocardiogram

2. electrocardiograph


ECG
Also called an electrocardiogram, it records the electrical activity of the heart.
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Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit.
). Under the agreement between the two companies, a 32-channel Mortara Surveyor 12-lead Telemetry System will be installed in Healthcare Discoveries Inc.'s state-of-the-art CPU to facilitate ECG data acquisition, and the Colorado Prevention Center can provide turnkey ECG central laboratory services to Healthcare Discoveries' Sponsors. "We are very pleased to work with the Colorado Prevention Center on implementing the Mortara ECG technology platform, and we look forward to building a world class cardiac assessment program with them," Dennis Ruff, M.D., President of Healthcare Discoveries stated. Regarding the selection of Mortara's 12-lead telemetry system, Dr. Ruff noted, "The Surveyor System will enable Healthcare Discoveries Inc.'s CPU to support large studies requiring continuous telemetry monitoring, as well as thorough-QT studies requiring intensive 12- lead ECG documentation and data collection. With Mortara's cutting edge 12-lead telemetry technology, we can significantly improve clinic efficiency, and real-time monitoring of signal quality, significantly reduce lost time points, while improving subject compliance and investigator oversight. These factors alone will, in the end, reduce the cost of intensive cardiac monitoring to our Sponsors."

Evan King, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 of the Colorado Prevention Center, furthered, "We have implemented a cardiac safety database management, communication, and reporting system for handling digital (ECG) data, coupled with our centralized analysis and cardiologist interpretation of ECGs. The ECG data output provided for statistical analysis is tailored to the Sponsor's requirements and the resulting FDA FDA
abbr.
Food and Drug Administration


FDA,
n.pr See Food and Drug Administration.

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n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration.
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 data allows Colorado Prevention Center to complete the cycle of managing ECG data from site acquisition all the way to FDA submission."

About Healthcare Discoveries Inc.

Established in 2000, Healthcare Discoveries Inc. (www.healthcare-discoveries.com), is a wholly owned division of Catalyst Pharma Group, Inc. (www.catalystpharmagroup.com). HCD HCD Housing and Community Development
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 is composed of two separate, industry dedicated Phase I/IIa facilities, with a combined >200 bed (semi private rooms) capacity, located in San Antonio, TX. Integrated services at Healthcare Discoveries Inc. include: clinical development plan preparation, project management, regulatory document preparation, safety surveillance, clinical monitoring, data management, statistical analysis, medical writing, quality assurance auditing, and regulatory submissions.

About Colorado Prevention Center

The Colorado Prevention Center is an Academic Research Organization (ARO) dedicated to improving health by conducting clinical research and integrating scientific findings into the practice of preventive medicine preventive medicine, branch of medicine dealing with the prevention of disease and the maintenance of good health practices. Until recently preventive medicine was largely the domain of the U.S. . As an ARO, CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet.  provides trial management services that support every aspect of clinical research, including study design, biostatistics and data management, comprehensive trial management, specialized endpoint evaluation services, and completion of final study reports. The CPC is an affiliate of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.
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