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Digital Assent closes $2 million Series A equity financing round

Atlanta-based Digital Assent, provider of the PatientPad self-service patient check-in and patient education solution, announces the closing of a $2 million Series A round of equity financing led by Imlay Investments, Fulcrum Equity Partners and BLH Venture Partners.

24 Jan 2011

Senate GOP leaders press for health law repeal vote

Senate Republicans say they need to have a vote on repealing the health overhaul — even if they are going to lose — in order to be "on the record" about what they want and to make good on their campaign promises.

24 Jan 2011

Feds recoup billions in health care fraud cases

According to USA Today, whistle-blowers helped federal agents recover this record-breaking amount in health care fraud judgements.

24 Jan 2011

WSJ: Lawsuit explores fight over role of residential institutions for people with disabilities

The Justice Department in a lawsuit against Arkansas is reigniting an emotional fight over the role of residential institutions for people with disabilities. The suit focuses on one of Arkansas's facilities for people with severe disabilities, the Conway Human Development Center.

24 Jan 2011

Viewpoints: Reps. Ryan, kind on repeal; Opinions on what's next for health reform

The health-care law enacted by the last Congress is enormous—more than 2,000 pages—and full of provisions that will expand government control of health care and limit what individuals and employers can do. ... in the end the Senate, House, and White House will have to come together and agree on some health-care changes.

24 Jan 2011

UMass Memorial Health Care implements Merge Healthcare's iConnect Access imaging distribution solution

Merge Healthcare, a leading health IT solutions provider, successfully deployed an imaging distribution solution for the physicians of UMass Memorial Health Care, an academic medical center with five facilities serving Central New England. iConnect Access™ gives physicians the ability to view medical images directly from their electronic health record.

24 Jan 2011

Roundup: Mass. BCBS chief on health costs; Georgia insurance exchange, Arizona waiver request

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed emergency legislation authorizing her to request a two-year waiver from the CMS to reduce Medicaid rolls by 280,000 people. Brewer said in a statement she intends to request the waiver as early as Monday. She added that she plans to meet with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the coming weeks to discuss "the dire need for a Medicaid waiver for Arizona".

24 Jan 2011

In new Congress, Roe v. Wade anniversary draws out critics and defenders

As thousands of antiabortion activists streamed into the nation's capital to protest Saturday's 38th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the politics of abortion are heating up again on Capitol Hill. The election of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives swept in scores of social conservatives, re-energizing the antiabortion movement in Congress.

24 Jan 2011

CenterWatch quadruples size of Clinical Trials Listing Service

CenterWatch—a leading publisher of clinical trials information—announced that it has more than quadrupled the size of its Clinical Trials Listing Service™ (CTLS). The service now lists more than 80,000 active clinical trials across a wide range of disease conditions, making it the largest online and dynamic database of global clinical trials involving new drugs and devices regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services.

24 Jan 2011

NHLBI, HeartWare award $13.3M to study benefits of heart devices for heart failure

The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded $13.3 million to explore the potential benefits of heart devices for the large and growing group of Americans with heart failure.

24 Jan 2011

First Edition: January 24, 2011

Today's health policy news includes reports foreshadowing possible Senate action on repealing the health overhaul.

24 Jan 2011

Family Research Council calls for legislative action and increased oversight of abortion clinics

Family Research Council is demanding answers, increased oversight and legislative action in the wake of the arrest of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist charged with eight counts of murder, including a patient and seven newborn infants.

24 Jan 2011

Conservative Republicans officially release funding reduction plan that includes cutting USAID budget

Foreign Policy's blog "The Cable" reports on Thursday's call by a group of "conservative House Republicans ... for a drastic defunding of the U.S. Agency for International Development and a host of other programs" (Rogin, 1/20).

24 Jan 2011

Global Poverty Summit addresses MDGs, global trade policy

At the Global Poverty Summit January 16-19 in Johannesburg, South Africa, "academics, policy-makers, civil society activists and development workers ... agreed that the [U.N. Millennium Development Goals] MDGs have made a difference, but have fallen far short of the ambitious targets on poverty, education, health, gender equality and global partnership that 189 countries committed to achieving by 2015," IRIN reports.

24 Jan 2011

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

York South-Weston area residents will soon benefit from reduced MRI wait times, thanks to the addition of a new MRI machine and additional funding to reduce the number of patients waiting for MRI scans at the Humber River Regional Hospital's Church St. site.

24 Jan 2011

Republicans attack health law, call for Senate repeal vote; Obama to defend law in SOTU

News outlets previewed the President's State of the Union address and discussed how the health law repeal vote might fare in the Senate.

24 Jan 2011

Rotavirus vaccine significantly cuts child hospitalizations, study says

Developing and developed countries that require children to be vaccinated against rotavirus "have significantly reduced the number of children admitted to hospitals with the disease, a report showed on Thursday," Reuters reports (Kelland, 1/20).

24 Jan 2011

Sen. Barrasso calls for Senate to move on health repeal

Following House passage of the healthcare repeal, a Republican senator used the GOP's weekly address to urge the upper chamber to scrap the law. "Ask yourself - are you better off or worse off now that the healthcare law has been on the books for almost a year?" Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said. Barrasso said the new House Republican majority had "kept its promise" to voters by advancing a repeal of the healthcare law. "Now it's the Senate's turn," he said.

24 Jan 2011

CT scans can help physicians to diagnose abdominal pain, reduce health care costs

The use of CT scanning to evaluate abdominal pain in emergency departments can help physicians arrive at a diagnosis quickly and decisively. A study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and appearing in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology also finds that information provided by CT scans changed treatment plans for almost half the patients studied and significantly reduced probable hospital admissions.

24 Jan 2011

College of Osteopathic Medicine receives grant to develop training program for medical students

Nova Southeastern University's medical school, the College of Osteopathic Medicine, recently received a $2.3 million federal grant to develop an academic curriculum to train medical and other students in the health professions to better meet the needs of patients in a changing national health care system.

24 Jan 2011

Health Care News and Research

Digital Assent closes $2 million Series A equity financing round

Senate GOP leaders press for health law repeal vote

Feds recoup billions in health care fraud cases

WSJ: Lawsuit explores fight over role of residential institutions for people with disabilities

Viewpoints: Reps. Ryan, kind on repeal; Opinions on what's next for health reform

UMass Memorial Health Care implements Merge Healthcare's iConnect Access imaging distribution solution

Roundup: Mass. BCBS chief on health costs; Georgia insurance exchange, Arizona waiver request

In new Congress, Roe v. Wade anniversary draws out critics and defenders

CenterWatch quadruples size of Clinical Trials Listing Service

NHLBI, HeartWare award $13.3M to study benefits of heart devices for heart failure

First Edition: January 24, 2011

Family Research Council calls for legislative action and increased oversight of abortion clinics

Conservative Republicans officially release funding reduction plan that includes cutting USAID budget

Global Poverty Summit addresses MDGs, global trade policy

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

Republicans attack health law, call for Senate repeal vote; Obama to defend law in SOTU

Rotavirus vaccine significantly cuts child hospitalizations, study says

Sen. Barrasso calls for Senate to move on health repeal

CT scans can help physicians to diagnose abdominal pain, reduce health care costs

College of Osteopathic Medicine receives grant to develop training program for medical students

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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