Heartlab breaks ground for new plant
WESTERLY – Heartlab, Inc., manufacturers of advanced cardiac imaging systems, has broken ground here for its new headquarters building. The 15,600 square foot building on Cross Wind Road in the Westerly Airport Industrial Park will house corporate office space, software development labs, a customer support center and a distribution area. Scheduled to be completed by the end of November, the new building will house all of the company’s 40 employees now working in a leased facility on Airport Road. Heartlab’s systems permit access and review of digital image records and archiving of image data which is then easily accessible via DVD media. The new building is being designed and will be constructed by New England Construction, designers and builders of commercial buildings in Southeastern New England for nearly 20 years.
Governor nominates Gonnella for district court
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Lincoln Almond has nominated Richard Gonnella for the vacancy in district court created by the shift of Judge Gilbert Indeglia to the Superior Court. Gonnella, who has been in private practice since 1978, has also been legal counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He also worked in the Public Defender’s Office from1975 to 1978. He received his law degree from Suffolk University Law School and his undergraduate degree from Roger Williams University. He resides in Cranston. His appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.
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Lighthouse Medical signs pact with ParkStone
PROVIDENCE – Lighthouse Medical Management, Inc., a non-hospital affiliated medical practice management firm, has signed an agreement with ParkStone Medical Information Systems to offer that firm’s hand-held system to Lighthouse’s 1,000 clients. With the system, those physicians and other medical providers will be able to access patient, billing, scheduling and other relevant information from ParkStone’s mobile device. Lighthouse offers a variety of consulting services and accounts receivable management to a reported 250 medical practices, represented by about 1,000 medical providers throughout New England.
Plenty of fuel for July 4th
PROVIDENCE – AAA Southern New England reported an ample supply of gasoline for motorists planning to travel on the extended July 4th holiday weekend and more than three-quarters of the stations in the region planning to be open on the holiday. Meanwhile, prices continued to rise, AAA reported after a survey released June 26. The average price of self-served unleaded regular gasoline rose two cents from the previous week to $1.68 per gallon. That is 18 cents more per gallon than was being charged in early May when prices started to rise. It is also 52 cents more per gallon than motorists were charged a year ago on July 4. Several factors are involved in the rising cost of gasoline, but the principal reason is generally considered to be the decision by OPEC nations to reduce the supply of crude oil production while also raising the price of oil per barrel, an increase also linked by the reduced supply.
CVS, Kodak to offer online photo services
WOONSOCKET (Bloomberg) — CVS Corp., the second-largest U.S. drugstore chain, said it will partner with Eastman-Kodak Co. to let customers view and access their pictures on the cvs.com Web site. The service allows customers to view their traditional or digital prints on line from the Web site by checking a box on their photo-finishing envelope. Customers can send pictures by e-mail or print them from the site within CVS stores or on line. CVS, with about 4,100 stores, is one of Kodak’s largest customers. The agreement with Kodak lets the drugstore chain expand the variety of digital services to its customers without changing the way they take pictures or have film developed, the company said. Eastman-Kodak, based in Rochester, New York, is the world’s biggest photography company. The new service will cost $8.99 for a 35-millimeter, 24-exposure roll of film, the company said.
Journal Register seeks more Northeast papers
New York (Bloomberg) — Journal Register Co., publisher of several daily and weekly newspapers in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, said it wants to buy more papers in the U.S. Northeast. There are “quite a few available, and we are taking a look,” Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Jelenic told investors and analysts at a newspaper industry conference in New York. He wouldn’t identify the newspapers. Journal Register expects advertising revenue to remain “strong” in 2000, Jelenic said.
Textron-Boeing Osprey plane has flaws, IG says
Washington (Bloomberg) — The V-22 Osprey aircraft being developed by Textron Inc. and Boeing Co. has 23 major flaws that won’t be fixed for more than a year after the U.S. Defense Department decides whether to approve full production worth as much as $19 billion, according to the Pentagon Inspector General. The companies could build as many as 66 of the controversial tilt-rotor aircraft before these deficiencies are scheduled to be fixed, said the Inspector General and the Pentagon’s top tester. The problems have “hampered” field tests designed to demonstrate the plane is reliable and effective in combat, said Philip Coyle, the testing officer. Still, the Navy gave the Marine Corps a waiver to fix the flaws after this December’s production decision in order to protect the program’s funding, said the IG’s report.
(Compiled from news reports and releases, print and electronic.)
