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Three Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals named 2012 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures

The Joint Commission is naming three Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals as 2012 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures, a designation reserved for accredited hospitals that consistently and at a very high level follow best practices for treating people who require surgery or suffer heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, pneumonia or other serious conditions.

4 Nov 2013

Details emerge about key fixers in 'tech surge' to address website issues

News outlets report that the administration's so-called "tech surge" has been somewhat mysterious, but it's becoming clear that the administration has enlisted engineers from a number of major companies.

4 Nov 2013

Appeals court rules against health law's contraception rule

News outlets covered the blow to the Obama administration's requirement that insurance policies include free coverage for women's birth control.

4 Nov 2013

Democrats feeling health law anxiety over troubled start

Democrats are worried the health law's problems could hurt them politically as Senate Democrats push Obama administration officials to ease their anxiety and fix implementation of the law.

4 Nov 2013

Simulation-based team training improves patient safety and clinical outcomes

A study conducted by an inter-professional team of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans faculty found that simulation-based operating room team training of medical and nursing students resulted in more effective teamwork by improving attitudes, behaviors, interaction and overall performance leading to potential increased patient safety and better clinical outcomes.

4 Nov 2013

New IRS rule gives consumers a break on FSA accounts

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service will allow Flexible Spending Account holders to carry over as much as $500 from one year to the next without a penalty.

3 Nov 2013

Federal appeals court reinstates Texas abortion law

A federal appeals court gave the OK for Texas to reinstate a controversial abortion law while its legal fate is being decided and reversed a decision issued earlier this week blocking the law, which now goes back into effect immediately. It requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and limits medication-induced abortions.

3 Nov 2013

COMS OPAL Award program recognizes top performers on a national basis

COMS Interactive, also known as Clinical Outcomes Management Systems, has launched the Outcomes Performance Achievement Leader (OPAL) Award program. The program is an extension of the company's focus on improving health care and clinical outcomes in the long-term care marketplace by leveraging Daylight IQ™, the COMS' flagship Disease Management Product Suite.

31 Oct 2013

Cardinal Health's non-GAAP operating earnings increase 13% to $532M in Q1 FY 2014

Cardinal Health today reported fiscal year 2014 first-quarter revenue of $24.5 billion and a 36 percent increase in non-GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations to $1.10. Non-GAAP operating earnings increased 13 percent to $532 million.

31 Oct 2013

Cigna posts strong revenue growth in third quarter 2013

Cigna Corporation today reported strong third quarter 2013 results with each of the Company's business segments posting strong revenue and earnings contributions.

31 Oct 2013

Researchers identify new way to determine successful surgical outcomes for epilepsy

A discovery from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers could provide epilepsy patients invaluable advance guidance about their chances to improve symptoms through surgery.

31 Oct 2013

VG Life Sciences' peptide awarded US patent for HIV treatment

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued on October 15, 2013 Patent No.: US 8,557,764 covering the VG Life Sciences' peptide VG1177 for treating HIV infection.

31 Oct 2013

Advanced inventory management systems can reduce costs related to medical, surgical items

Health-care supply chain researchers at the University of Arkansas, in a study of three hospitals within the Mercy network, have found that adoption of advanced inventory management systems can significantly reduce costs associated with medical and surgical items used in operating rooms.

31 Oct 2013

Mylan's revenues decrease 2% to $1.77B in third quarter 2013

Mylan Inc. today announced its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013.

31 Oct 2013

Viropharma announces financial results for third quarter 2013

ViroPharma Incorporated reported today its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013. Net sales were $113 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013, as compared to $91 million in the same three months of 2012.

31 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 31, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about the Obama administration's efforts to recover from health law implementation hiccups and challenges.

31 Oct 2013

Interaction between fat cells and bacterial toxins can lead to chronic inflammation

Making fat cells immortal might seem like a bad idea to most people, but for a team of University of Iowa scientists it was the ideal way to study how the interaction between bacteria and fat cells might contribute to diabetes.

31 Oct 2013

Hemp shareholders set to receive additional stock in Bioadaptives

Hemp, Inc., shareholders are set to receive additional stock in BioAdaptives, Inc. Executives of Hemp, Inc. solidified the all-stock deal with BioAdaptives, Inc. by selling the assets of its subsidiary, BioSwan, Inc. on October 25, 2013.

31 Oct 2013

Researchers explore strategies that would optimize fresher blood for patients

Although clinical evidence is lacking on the relationship between the storage time of red blood cells and outcomes in transfused patients, the authors of a review article in the November 2013 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery are advocating for a modernized blood management system—similar to inventory management systems seen in the retail sector—to potentially reduce patient complications.

31 Oct 2013

IQWiG completes first health economic evaluation

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care has completed its first health economic evaluation. The report on antidepressants published on 30 October 2013 shows that the "efficiency frontier method" works and can provide very helpful results.

31 Oct 2013