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ETMC to implement Unibased's Consumer Access and Scheduling for Healthcare web application

East Texas Medical Center (ETMC) has announced its selection of Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc. (Unibased) consumer portal, Consumer Access and Scheduling for Healthcare (CASH) to simplify and expedite access for services. The web application is fully integrated with the Unibased ForSite2020® product suite and it will improve the access process. Providing 24/7 web access to service scheduling and registration eliminates several of the impediments consumers experience in obtaining their healthcare needs.

29 Oct 2009

Catheter-directed therapy safe and effective for treating acute pulmonary embolism

William Kuo, MD, was the on-call interventional radiologist one Friday night three years ago when he received a call from the intensive care unit at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. He was asked to attend to a 62-year-old woman who had collapsed at home and was rushed to the emergency room with massive blood clots in her lungs.

28 Oct 2009

IPIT uses Affymetrix’s DMET Plus biomarker panel to expand the PGENI

Affymetrix, Inc. announced today that the Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy (IPIT) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is using the company’s DMET™ Plus biomarker panel to expand the Pharmacogenetics for Every Nation Initiative (PGENI).

28 Oct 2009

NPC, PMC to explore comparative effectiveness research for effective health care treatments

As Congress continues its efforts to reform the health care system, the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC) and the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) will host a conference tomorrow to explore a key topic in the debate: using comparative effectiveness research (CER) to determine which health care treatments are most effective while improving the quality of patient care through personalized medicine.

28 Oct 2009

Industry experts to discuss best practices in healthcare operations at 2009 HFMA Revenue Cycle Strategies Conference

Craneware, Inc. (AIM: CRW.L), a leader in financial performance improvement solutions for U.S. healthcare, today announced a presentation at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's (HFMA) Revenue Cycle Strategies Conference scheduled for November 5-7 in Chicago, IL.

28 Oct 2009

VHA helps nurses to develop work processes that are more patient-centric

Nurses work in a world of broken systems, wasted time and energy, which can be incredibly frustrating and detrimental to patient care. Most national studies show that nurses spend as little as 30 percent of their day engaged in direct patient care activities, and this can contribute to poor patient outcomes in terms of infections and other complications, poor patient and nurse satisfaction and poor quality of care overall.

28 Oct 2009

Reid's end game? Senate bill will have public option with 'opt out'

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday that he will include a public insurance plan in the final Senate health overhaul legislation.

27 Oct 2009

OrSense launches a non-invasive Hb measurement system for anemia screening

OrSense Ltd., developer of monitors for non-invasive measurements of various blood parameters, announced today at the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Annual Meeting & TXPO, at New Orleans, the presentation of NBM-200, a non-invasive hemoglobin (Hb) measurement system for anemia screening in blood donation centers.

27 Oct 2009

AFL-CIO to push even harder for health reform, may bend on 'Cadillac tax'

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is "willing to consider a tax on high-value health insurance plans — something labor has vehemently opposed — if middle-class workers aren't hurt, The Associated Press reports. The flexibility is notable because "[l]abor leaders worry that workers would be affected even though lawmakers aimed the proposed tax at insurance plans offering the richest benefits" (Werner, 10/26).

27 Oct 2009

Child birth to be broadcast live

MomsLikeMe.com, a leading local-moms site, announces that an entire pregnancy is being captured on TwinCities.MomsLikeMe.com. A locally driven online social network for moms, MomsLikeMe.com, is thrilled that Lynsee and Anders will share the experience of having their first child -- including the baby's birth in November -- with the community.

27 Oct 2009

Teleflex's revenues decreases to $461.5 million in third quarter 2009

Teleflex Incorporated today announced financial results for the Third Quarter ended September 27, 2009.

27 Oct 2009

First Edition: October 27, 2009

Based on today's headlines, it's fair to say that -- at least for the Senate -- it's all about Majority Leader Harry Reid's announcement regarding the public option.

27 Oct 2009

CCPM coalition members urge Congress to fix or drop the current biogenerics provision

The Coalition for a Competitive Pharmaceutical Market (CCPM), its allied organizations, representing several hundred million Americans, join experts from the medical and research communities, economists and thought leaders appealing to Congress to fix the excessive 12-year market exclusivity and ever-greening provisions for biologics or drop it altogether.

27 Oct 2009

Senate health bill could come this week, 'compromise' public option now seems likely

Senate Democrats will need to move quickly if they want to pass some version of health overhaul legislation by the end of the year.

27 Oct 2009

Romer sees health care reform as critical to ease deficit

Top White House advisor Christina Romer said that health reform would help to ease the deficit at a speech today. Reuters reports: "While some critics say Democrats' efforts to regulate the insurance sector should wait until the deficit is under control, they should instead see it 'as the most significant act we could take to tackle the deficit,' Romer said in speech to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based think-tank" (Heavey, 10/26).

27 Oct 2009

Carroll Hospital Center implements Lawson core applications

Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Maryland, recently completed an organization wide deployment of multiple enterprise software applications from Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN). The healthcare provider implemented Lawson Enterprise Financial Management and Asset Management suites as well as Lawson Business Intelligence.

26 Oct 2009

Future physician workforce may be younger but fewer in number than previously projected

Compared with a source of data often used regarding physician workforce supply and projected changes, data from the U.S. Census Bureau suggests that the future physician workforce may be younger but fewer in number than previously projected, according to a study in the October 21 issue of JAMA.

26 Oct 2009

New report analyzes similarities, differences, potential impacts and costs of current health reform bills

A new Commonwealth Fund report analyzes the similarities, differences, potential impacts, and costs of current bills passed by the five committees of jurisdiction in the United States Congress: Finance Committee and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committees in the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce committees.

24 Oct 2009

Bioethicist honored with March of Dimes Distinguished Lectureship in Perinatal Bioethics award

A bioethicist who specializes in moral dilemmas families face when making medical decisions for critically-ill newborns was honored with the first-ever March of Dimes Distinguished Lectureship in Perinatal Bioethics.

24 Oct 2009

Senate leaders close to including a version of public option in health bill

The New York Times: "In pushing to include a government-run health insurance plan in the health care bill, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is taking a calculated gamble that the 60 members of his caucus could support the plan if it included a way for states to opt out."

24 Oct 2009

Labor News and Research

ETMC to implement Unibased's Consumer Access and Scheduling for Healthcare web application

Catheter-directed therapy safe and effective for treating acute pulmonary embolism

IPIT uses Affymetrix’s DMET Plus biomarker panel to expand the PGENI

NPC, PMC to explore comparative effectiveness research for effective health care treatments

Industry experts to discuss best practices in healthcare operations at 2009 HFMA Revenue Cycle Strategies Conference

VHA helps nurses to develop work processes that are more patient-centric

Reid's end game? Senate bill will have public option with 'opt out'

OrSense launches a non-invasive Hb measurement system for anemia screening

AFL-CIO to push even harder for health reform, may bend on 'Cadillac tax'

Child birth to be broadcast live

Teleflex's revenues decreases to $461.5 million in third quarter 2009

First Edition: October 27, 2009

CCPM coalition members urge Congress to fix or drop the current biogenerics provision

Senate health bill could come this week, 'compromise' public option now seems likely

Romer sees health care reform as critical to ease deficit

Carroll Hospital Center implements Lawson core applications

Future physician workforce may be younger but fewer in number than previously projected

New report analyzes similarities, differences, potential impacts and costs of current health reform bills

Bioethicist honored with March of Dimes Distinguished Lectureship in Perinatal Bioethics award

Senate leaders close to including a version of public option in health bill

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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