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HCL introduces ACE SmartCare Clinical Decision Support solution at HiMSS Conference

HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today launched ACTIVE CARE EXCELLENCE (ACE) SmartCare Clinical Decision Support solution at the HiMSS Conference in Orlando.

21 Feb 2011

New study indicates that personality disturbances can be treated

A new study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by a group of Dutch investigators headed by Paul Emmelkamp indicates that also personality disturbances can be treated.

21 Feb 2011

Sarasota Memorial selects Meru for pervasive wireless coverage to healthcare industry

Meru Networks, Inc., the leader in virtualized 802.11n enterprise wireless networking, today announced that Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, the second-largest acute care public medical center in Florida, selected Meru for pervasive wireless coverage throughout their 806-bed facility.

21 Feb 2011

$Tip sheets provide details on hip and knee fracture treatment$

Tip sheets provide details on hip and knee fracture treatment

Patients who wait more than 36 hours for surgery to correct a hip fracture have a 39 percent rate of medical complication and those who wait 48 hours have a 46 percent complication rate. Patients who receive surgical treatment within 24 hours have a lower complication rate of 25 percent and a shorter hospital stay. Each day the surgery was delayed added an additional two days to hospital stay.

21 Feb 2011

'Experience station' program offers rheumatologists to gain insight into patients' everyday challenges

Pharmaceutical companies are focusing on more unique approaches in the development of educational and experiential solutions for their health care customers at medical conferences, according to Joe Scrocco, chief executive officer of OneWorld, Inc., a leading pharmaceutical consulting firm.

21 Feb 2011

Logicworks, Orion partner to provide highest standard of security for organizations using HIE SaaS model

Orion Health, Inc., global leaders in Health Information Exchange solutions, announces today its partnership with Logicworks, a leading provider of high availability and private cloud hosting solutions, to provide the highest standard of security for organizations using the Orion Health Health Information Exchange SaaS model.

21 Feb 2011

FRC condemns Obama administration's decision to eliminate conscience rights for medical professionals

Family Research Council condemned today's decision by the Obama administration to eliminate key provisions of a Bush administration regulation that enforced laws protecting the conscience rights of medical professionals who oppose abortion.

21 Feb 2011

New study: Venus White Pro whitens teeth up to 8.4 shades with virtually no sensitivity

Heraeus Kulzer, LLC, the leader in advancing dental esthetics and overall dental wellbeing, announced today the results of a new study that demonstrates that Venus White Pro whitens teeth up to 8.4 shades with virtually no sensitivity.

21 Feb 2011

dbMotion announces contract awards with numerous healthcare organizations

dbMotion, an innovative provider of connected healthcare solutions, announced contract awards with numerous healthcare organizations including Orlando Health; University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio; Sharp Healthcare and Huntington Memorial Hospital in 2010, underscoring the company's accelerated growth among providers seeking to achieve genuinely connected healthcare.

21 Feb 2011

HHS overturns Bush 'conscience' rule for workers opposing abortion

The Obama administration on Friday rescinded most of a 2008 rule that granted sweeping protections to health care providers who opposed abortion, sterilization and other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds.

20 Feb 2011

Oral sex linked to cancer

Researchers from the United States have said that there is strong evidence linking oral sex to cancer. They have urged more study of how human papillomaviruses may be to blame for a rise in oral cancer among white men.

20 Feb 2011

Largest Medicare fraud case nets 114 offenders

In one of the largest healthcare fraud cases, the U.S. government last Thursday charged 114 doctors, nurses and other defendants with Medicare crime schemes that exceeded $225 million in false billings.

20 Feb 2011

Experts caution against dangers of inflated expectations of genomic medicine

In the ten years since the human genetic code was mapped, expectations among scientists, health care industry, policy makers, and the public have remained high concerning the promise of genomics research for improving health.

19 Feb 2011

Research cuts could mean ongoing cancer deaths

In a guest column for the New Jersey Star-Ledger, a former White House spokesman and Chief-of-Staff for the House Aging Committee and Health Subcommittee, Robert Weiner, a George Washington University breast cancer laboratory director and professor, Dr. Patricia Berg, and policy analyst, James Lewis assert that "as the government keeps funding two wars and ongoing tax breaks, curing diseases like cancer is being threatened in the budget debates underway.

19 Feb 2011

Kresge Foundation awards $750,000 grant for East Cleveland Teen Collaborative

Cleveland Clinic, the City of East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and a collection of local health and social service agencies are launching the East Cleveland Teen Collaborative, a partnership focused on reducing health disparities and improving health outcomes of East Cleveland youth.

19 Feb 2011

ICA launches innovative patient portal product at HIMSS11

Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), a leading provider of comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions to hospitals, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), communities and states, launches its innovative patient portal product at HIMSS11 Exhibition in Booth # 2837, February 20-24, 2011, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla.

19 Feb 2011

MedVirginia to showcase interoperability solutions at HIMSS11 Conference

MedVirginia has announced its participation in the Interoperability Showcase™ at the HIMSS11 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Florida next week.

19 Feb 2011

Scientist argues cost-effectiveness analysis should play bigger role in American health care system

Cost-effectiveness analysis should play a bigger role in the American health care system, argued a University of Chicago researcher Friday at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

19 Feb 2011

Rescinding elements of regulation protecting conscience rights of health care providers a disappointment

The Obama administration's final rule rescinding important elements of a federal regulation protecting the conscience rights of health care providers is a disappointment, but there are also reasons for hope, said Deirdre McQuade of the Pro-Life Secretariat of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

19 Feb 2011

NSBRI awards four scientists with postdoctoral fellowships for space-related biomedical research

Four young scientists are now conducting research to help protect astronaut health. The researchers are recipients of postdoctoral fellowships awarded by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

19 Feb 2011

Health Care News and Research

HCL introduces ACE SmartCare Clinical Decision Support solution at HiMSS Conference

New study indicates that personality disturbances can be treated

Sarasota Memorial selects Meru for pervasive wireless coverage to healthcare industry

Tip sheets provide details on hip and knee fracture treatment

'Experience station' program offers rheumatologists to gain insight into patients' everyday challenges

Logicworks, Orion partner to provide highest standard of security for organizations using HIE SaaS model

FRC condemns Obama administration's decision to eliminate conscience rights for medical professionals

New study: Venus White Pro whitens teeth up to 8.4 shades with virtually no sensitivity

dbMotion announces contract awards with numerous healthcare organizations

HHS overturns Bush 'conscience' rule for workers opposing abortion

Oral sex linked to cancer

Largest Medicare fraud case nets 114 offenders

Experts caution against dangers of inflated expectations of genomic medicine

Research cuts could mean ongoing cancer deaths

Kresge Foundation awards $750,000 grant for East Cleveland Teen Collaborative

ICA launches innovative patient portal product at HIMSS11

MedVirginia to showcase interoperability solutions at HIMSS11 Conference

Scientist argues cost-effectiveness analysis should play bigger role in American health care system

Rescinding elements of regulation protecting conscience rights of health care providers a disappointment

NSBRI awards four scientists with postdoctoral fellowships for space-related biomedical research

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