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AMIA president & CEO presents HIT's impact on healthcare disparities

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Equity Summit, convened by the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine (IAMMM), opens today as the long-awaited Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is unveiled and opens to the public on the National Mall.

24 Aug 2011

State roundup: Budgets cause layoffs in Wash., end of Calif. adult day care

For the first time anyone can recall, state government employment has shrunk for two years in a row due to budget cuts, shedding nearly 4,700 full-time jobs since 2009.

24 Aug 2011

Canada's Minister of Health announces Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research

Today the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health announced the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), a transformative research initiative that places patients at the centre of health care.

24 Aug 2011

Viewpoints: Rational, not rationing, Medicare cuts; Paul Ryan's future; hospitals' clout

Congress needs to make sure that lobbying - and every dollar of campaign contributions to the super committee's members - is fully and immediately disclosed. ... The American Hospital Association has vowed a "full-court press" on the committee, as have defense industries and others.

24 Aug 2011

Haitian women crossing the border to give birth overwhelm Dominican health care system

"Dominican hospitals and clinics are being overwhelmed by Haitian women ... who make up roughly half of the patients giving birth in Dominican hospitals, officials here say," the Washington Post reports.

24 Aug 2011

Kerr, Family Health Network partner to reduce medication non-adherence

Family Health Network is pleased to announce its participation in a program in partnership with Kerr Health, a subsidiary of the renowned regional pharmacy chain, Kerr Drug. Kerr Health will deploy Family Health Network's Connected for Life(SM) platform to an initial group of patients who require frequent interaction with a pharmacist to assist them with medication therapy management.

23 Aug 2011

OHA, Plackers partner to combat chronic childhood oral diseases

Tooth decay is one of the most common yet preventable chronic childhood diseases in the US and according to the reports from the US Surgeon General, children from low-income families are twice as likely to suffer from this disease.

23 Aug 2011

NPR interviews author of study on emerging HIV epidemic among MSM in MENA

NPR's health blog "Shots" interviewed Laith Abu-Raddad of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, co-author of a recent study published in PLoS Medicine that showed "more than five percent of men who have sex with men are infected by HIV in" the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), about "the challenges of researching such a taboo topic."

23 Aug 2011

HealthAmerica expands social media platform through relationship with CaféWell

HealthAmerica announced today the expansion of its social networking community devoted solely to the health and well-being of its members through a relationship with CaféWell.

23 Aug 2011

Climate shifts may threaten to increase spread of malaria, health experts say

"Shifts in the world's climate and responses to those shifts – including construction of more irrigation systems – threaten to increase the spread of malaria, health experts say," AlertNet reports.

23 Aug 2011

Fla., CMS discuss Medicaid managed care options; Calif. may shrink healthy families enrollment

A Florida proposal to shift nearly all of its 3 million Medicaid patients into managed care is emerging as a national test case for how lenient CMS will be as cash-strapped states look for savings in their most expensive health program. CMS and Florida officials met this week to address concerns about a five-county managed care pilot program that Florida is seeking to expand statewide.

23 Aug 2011

Millennium Promise, SapientNitro launch anti-poverty campaign

SapientNitro, part of Sapient, today announced the launch of Spokes of Change, an anti-poverty campaign and fundraising effort initiated by the eminent international non-profit organization, Millennium Promise.

23 Aug 2011

Prescription drug shortages forcing docs, pharmacists to scramble

Record shortages of prescription drugs in the United States are forcing pharmacists and doctors to scramble to find medications for their patients, suitable alternatives or to delay potentially lifesaving treatments.

23 Aug 2011

New EHNAC accreditation program for HIE technology service providers

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, announced today the development of Outsourced Services Accreditation Program for Health Information Exchange Services (OSAP-HIE), a new accreditation program offering for health information exchange (HIE) technology service providers.

23 Aug 2011

USAID helps improve maternal, child health care at Pakistani hospital

This post in the State Department's "DipNote" blog looks at Fatima Jinnah Women's Hospital, "one of more than 80 Pakistani medical facilities that the United States has helped renovate in recent years in Pakistan" and describes how medical personnel at the facility "demonstrated the benefits that new equipment and training opportunities have made to their standard of care on Thursday, August 18, as U.S. Agency for International Development Mission Director Andrew Sisson toured the facility."

23 Aug 2011

UNICEF warns Horn of Africa 'crisis will get worse'; China contributes $16M in aid funds to WFP

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake told reporters on Friday that "more than 300,000 children in the Horn of Africa are severely malnourished 'and in imminent risk of dying' because of drought and famine," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.

23 Aug 2011

Research into TB medication may shorten treatment regimen

Research of the common tuberculosis (TB) drug pyrazinamide, which is used in combination with other medications to treat the disease in a six-month regimen, "has now revealed that the drug does kill the latent form of the microbe, which does not cause observable symptoms," VOA News reports.

23 Aug 2011

Humanitarians, policymakers to discuss escalating water scarcity and sanitation issues in Stockholm

"More than 2,600 humanitarians and policymakers meet in Stockholm this week to hash out ideas about how to tackle escalating problems surrounding water scarcity and access to sanitation, particularly in urban environments," AlertNet reports.

23 Aug 2011

IFMC changes company name to Telligen

IFMC has changed its name to Telligen, effective today.

23 Aug 2011

Gains against malaria recognized on World Mosquito Day

Sarah Kline, executive director of Malaria No More UK, writes in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog" about World Mosquito Day, which is recognized annually on August 20 to commemorate the discovery 114 years ago that female mosquitoes transmit malaria among humans.

23 Aug 2011