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WednesdayMar 08, 2017 8:30 am

Headaches of Hospital Leaders Validate Need for Health Care Data Solutions

Hospital CEOs have bigger headaches than most, as their institutions face a growing demand for services and rising costs. As a result, for the 13th year in a row, hospital managers put financial challenges at the top of a list of their leading administrative afflictions, according to a recent survey by Becker’s Hospital Review*. The frustration centers on new regulations and the complex transmutation of health care still underway as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Government mandates and patient safety and quality appeared as No. 2 and No. 3 on the blacklist, which means…

WednesdayMar 08, 2017 8:30 am

Strong Technical Interface Making Cannabis Industry More Profitable and Efficient

Any fast-growing business needs an operational framework to help it develop and better serve its customers, and the marijuana industry is no different. As the legal cannabis market continues its impressive expansion, a growing number of companies are emerging to form a legal support framework of related technology and ancillary services that are driving the industry toward an efficient and profitable structure. Companies such as SinglePoint, Inc. (SING) (SING Profile), MassRoots, Inc. (MSRT), mCig. Inc. (MCIG), Rocky Mountain High Brands, Inc. (RMHB) and Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (IIPR) are branching out into different segments of the industry, determined to make…

TuesdayMar 07, 2017 2:24 pm

Ring Energy, Inc. (REI) Rebounds from Lows and Increases Production

Oil and gas company stocks have taken a beating as oil prices have tumbled from a peak of over $100 in 2014 to around $50 a barrel today. This fall in prices crippled many exploration and production companies. Down from its peak of nearly $20 per share in 2014, Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE MKT: REI) is still in a better position than most. Unlike other drillers, Ring Energy isn’t highly leveraged and has comparatively low production costs. Ring Energy has stated that it could operate profitably under $60 per barrel, and the majority of the company's crude production is based…

TuesdayMar 07, 2017 9:14 am

SeeThruEquity Issues Update on ChineseInvestors.com (CIIX), Increases Price Target to $3.75

Less than two weeks after making a presentation at the SeeThruEquity Conference in Miami Beach, SeeThruEquity increased its price target for ChineseInvestors.com (OTCQB: CIIX) to $3.75. The previous price target for CIIX, issued in October 2016, was $2.05. SeeThruEquity delivers unbiased and unpaid for equity research for publicly traded companies with market capitalizations of less than $1 billion. The increased target price reflects the added potential from legal cannabis initiatives taken by ChineseInvestors.com. Though in the early stages of penetrating the legal cannabis market, ChineseInvestors.com has demonstrated prior success with its profitable investment in Medicine Man Technologies, generating $2.3 million…

MondayMar 06, 2017 12:28 pm

The Female Health Company / Veru Healthcare (NASDAQ: FHCO) is “One to Watch”

The Female Health Company / Veru Healthcare (NASDAQ:FHCO) has established for itself an extremely robust footing in the global public health sector via its hormone-free, latex-free FC2 Female Condom, the only FDA-approved female condom in a market forecast to deliver nine percent plus CAGR over the next five years. The Americas, EMEA and APAC regions alone amount to roughly half a billion plus in revenues already, according to Technavio, and while the Americas’ female condom market accounts for nearly half of the global sum, China and India will most likely drive APAC to out-pace all other regions in terms of…

MondayMar 06, 2017 9:52 am

InMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (IMLFF) is “One to Watch”

InMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: IMLFF) is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of novel therapeutics leveraging the pharmacological benefits of cannabinoids. Utilizing its proprietary bioinformatics assessment tool, InMed aims to identify bioactive compounds found within the cannabis plant that have the potential to offer optimized therapeutic benefit while demonstrating limited adverse effects. This assessment tool, in combination with the company’s cannabinoid biosynthesis technology and drug development pipeline, serves as InMed’s fundamental value driver. Bioinformatics is a proprietary, computer-based program designed to assist in the identification of novel cannabinoids using comprehensive algorithms to integrate data from numerous bioinformatics databases,…

MondayMar 06, 2017 8:56 am

Net Element (NASDAQ: NETE) at the Vanguard of Mobile Payment Revolution

The smartphone has become the computer we carry with us everywhere, and it has changed the way the world transacts business. Smartphones are now powerful mini-computers, personal assistants, and mobile shopping carts. From the advent of the smartphone 10 years ago, there are now an estimated 4.8 billion users globally. In just over a decade, these ubiquitous devices have created transformational business opportunities. The mobile payments industry is flourishing from this growth. By 2014, 14 percent of all mobile users in the U.S. had made a mobile payment, and a year later it was 39 percent. Some estimates suggest that…

FridayMar 03, 2017 3:27 pm

ORHub, Inc. (ORHB) Provides Cloud Based Cure for High Health Care Costs

Health care costs in the U.S. have been rising rapidly over the decades and data provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation (http://nnw.fm/f3Sc1) show the extent of that rise. In 1960, total national expenditure on health care was $27.2 billion, amounting to 5 percent of GDP. In 2015, it had climbed to $3.2 trillion, increasing by an astounding 11,785 percent to 17.8 percent of National Income (GDP). The causes are diverse: a combination of factors that include greater demand for health services and a population that is living longer. But the solutions have been less obvious. Now, ORHub, Inc. (OTC: ORHB)…

FridayMar 03, 2017 1:01 pm

MediWound (NASDAQ: MDWD) to Extend Label for Pineapple Drug to Larger Burns

When Christopher Columbus introduced the pineapple to Europe in the late fifteenth century, he undoubtedly would have had no idea that extracts from the plant could be used to treat severe thermal burns. Yet, 500 years later, a next-generation proteolytic enzyme platform for wound debridement, NexoBrid, derived from pineapples, has been developed by MediWound Ltd. (NASDAQ: MDWD). Now, positive results from a Phase II study evaluating NexoBrid will be used to support a request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to extend the label for NexoBrid to larger burns. The painstaking research undertaken by niche…

FridayMar 03, 2017 9:10 am

Moxian (NASDAQ: MOXC) Positioned to Profit from one of World’s Fastest Growing Markets

For companies trying to keep up with technology, social media, interactive customer acquisition, and customer loyalty programs, all while trying to grow a brick and mortar business, it can be a daunting task. To attract new customers on multiple interactive levels can require hiring entire departments of personnel to set up, organize, and execute effective strategies. It can be costly, time consuming, and require ongoing management. In Asia, more and more small- and medium-sized businesses are turning to Moxian (NASDAQ: MOXC) for turnkey solutions to all of these challenges. Moxian operates a social network platform that integrates social media and…