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LUMEDX implements CardioInventory software at Iowa Health Systems' affiliate hospitals

LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of vendor-neutral, integrated cardiovascular imaging and information systems (CVIS), announced the successful implementation of CardioInventory at nine Iowa Health Systems (IHS) affiliate hospitals. The final go-live at St. Luke's Medical Center in Cedar Rapids represents an important milestone in the ongoing installation of a centralized, enterprise-wide LUMEDX cardiovascular image- and data-management system for Iowa Health System.

9 Dec 2010

EULAR welcomes EPSCO Council's decision on tackling chronic diseases in Europe

The European League Against Rheumatism welcomes the outcomes of yesterday's Council of the European Union. In its meeting on 7 December, ministers for health adopted Council Conclusions on chronic diseases, in which the Council calls on Member States and the European Commission to adopt concrete, coordinated measures to tackle chronic diseases in Europe.

9 Dec 2010

Home health care technology could help patients improve their health, overall well-being: Study

Home health care technology may provide one important solution to global concerns about how to sustain health care systems threatened by rising costs and manpower shortages, but such a change faces multiple obstacles to adoption, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

9 Dec 2010

Aetna announces agreement to acquire Medicity

Aetna today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Medicity, a health information exchange technology company, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

7 Dec 2010

Mental Health Research Network receives grant to create data resource for mental health researchers

Ask anyone: There must be better ways to treat mental health problems. Treatment hinges on research. But traditional research is slow-and so expensive that it can't even ask many pressing questions in mental health. And findings from academic settings may not apply to patients or clinicians in the real world of health care.

7 Dec 2010

State roundup: Wash. state to pay most of state worker premiums; Budget cuts and mental health in N.Y.; Idaho fraud

Gov. Chris Gregoire told state workers for months that they'd have to pay a bigger share of health-care costs — equal to 26 percent of their health-insurance premiums — because of a looming multibillion-dollar budget shortfall. That all changed when Gregoire's office agreed this week to have workers pay 15 percent of health-care premium costs, with the state picking up the other 85 percent in the next two-year budget (Garber, 12/3).

7 Dec 2010

Cerner, Baxa sign strategic reseller agreement for DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager

Cerner Corporation and Baxa Corporation have signed a strategic reseller agreement for the Baxa DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager. The agreement enables Cerner to market and resell the Baxa DoseEdge System as part of an integrated Cerner offering. Cerner clients now have access to a broader suite of solutions and certified integration for dose tracking from compounding to delivery.

6 Dec 2010

White House marks World AIDS Day

Commemorating World AIDS Day on Wednesday President Barack Obama called for continuing to fight HIV/AIDS domestically and abroad, Agence France-Presse reports (12/1).

2 Dec 2010

Physician-led models of care benefit patients, health system

To best meet the goals of optimized, coordinated patient care and also help curb health care costs, physicians should be the heart of accountable care organizations (ACOs), an evolving model of patient care. The American Medical Association today outlined recommendations to make this a reality in comments provided to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

2 Dec 2010

GE announces image exchange solution

GE Healthcare today announced its eHealth Image Exchange software solution: a flexible, standards-based platform for sharing images and integrating workflows across a healthcare community. The eHealth Image Exchange helps improve the quality of radiology care across the healthcare community by reducing costs and inefficiencies caused by using CDs and film to share images, and by enhancing online patient review capabilities among multi-disciplinary teams in numerous locations.

2 Dec 2010

Employer-sponsored family health insurance premiums increase 41% from 2003 to 2009

Premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance increased an average of 41 percent across states from 2003 to 2009, more than three times faster than median incomes, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. Yet, insurance is buying less. The report found that deductibles per person rose 77 percent, on average. Higher premiums plus higher out-of-pocket costs are putting working families' budgets under stress across the country.

2 Dec 2010

GE Healthcare launches eHealth Image Exchange software solution

GE Healthcare today announced its eHealth Image Exchange software solution: a flexible, standards-based platform for sharing images and integrating workflows across a healthcare community.

2 Dec 2010

VCU receives $1 million to improve health care for geriatric patients

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine has received a Next Steps in Physicians' Training in Geriatrics grant totaling nearly $1 million from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to support programs to train medical students, residents and physicians in geriatrics.

1 Dec 2010

California's largest insurers fined nearly $5 million

Los Angeles Times: "California's seven largest health plans were fined nearly $5 million in total Monday for failing to properly pay medical claims submitted by thousands of doctors and hospitals over the last three years. Insurance regulators said the companies also would pay 'tens of millions of dollars' in restitution to medical providers whose claims were underpaid or incorrectly rejected.

30 Nov 2010

Gavi Alliance elects new chair to continue global immunisation efforts

Former Norwegian Minister of Health and current member of parliament Dagfinn Høybråten was unanimously elected by the GAVI Alliance Board as its new Chair, GAVI announced on the first day of its board meeting taking place in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.

30 Nov 2010

Emergency artesunate suppositories are cost-effective intervention for children with suspected severe malaria

Giving emergency artesunate suppositories to children with suspected severe malaria before referring them for treatment is a cost-effective intervention that can substantially improve the management of childhood malaria in remote African settings, according to a new study led by Boston University School of Public Health [BUSPH] researcher Yesim Tozan, PhD.

30 Nov 2010

Opinions: The Pope and condoms; fighting HIV/AIDS in South Africa; malaria eradication or control; health care workers; foreign aid in Haiti

Reflecting on Pope Benedict XVI's recent statements regarding the use of condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV, Michael Gerson writes in a Washington Post column.

24 Nov 2010

WHO report calls for countries to improve access to health services

Tens of millions of people are pushed into poverty each year as a result of rising costs for health care, the World Health Organization said Monday as the agency released a report on financing health systems and universal coverage, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C reports.

23 Nov 2010

Health groups urge restrictions on tobacco additives

Following five days of deliberations aimed at fleshing-out the so-called Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, delegates on Saturday approved a proposal to limit the use of tobacco additives, which critics say improve the flavor of cigarettes, encouraging consumers to smoke more, Reuters reports.

23 Nov 2010

Perspectives on World Health Report 2010

With the financial crisis still hanging over many countries, this year's World Health Report from the World Health Organization, "Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage" is timely and relevant to the question of how to ensure that all people have access to health care services, without suffering financial hardship. This is the conclusion of a Perspective article on the 2010 World Health Report from Sara Bennett (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and colleagues, published in PLoS Medicine to coincide with the release of the Report.

22 Nov 2010

Health Systems News and Research

LUMEDX implements CardioInventory software at Iowa Health Systems' affiliate hospitals

EULAR welcomes EPSCO Council's decision on tackling chronic diseases in Europe

Home health care technology could help patients improve their health, overall well-being: Study

Aetna announces agreement to acquire Medicity

Mental Health Research Network receives grant to create data resource for mental health researchers

State roundup: Wash. state to pay most of state worker premiums; Budget cuts and mental health in N.Y.; Idaho fraud

Cerner, Baxa sign strategic reseller agreement for DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager

White House marks World AIDS Day

Physician-led models of care benefit patients, health system

GE announces image exchange solution

Employer-sponsored family health insurance premiums increase 41% from 2003 to 2009

GE Healthcare launches eHealth Image Exchange software solution

VCU receives $1 million to improve health care for geriatric patients

California's largest insurers fined nearly $5 million

Gavi Alliance elects new chair to continue global immunisation efforts

Emergency artesunate suppositories are cost-effective intervention for children with suspected severe malaria

Opinions: The Pope and condoms; fighting HIV/AIDS in South Africa; malaria eradication or control; health care workers; foreign aid in Haiti

WHO report calls for countries to improve access to health services

Health groups urge restrictions on tobacco additives

Perspectives on World Health Report 2010

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