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Business Group: Large employers grappling with health law changes

Reuters: As large employers take steps to comply with the health overhaul law, such as removing plans' spending limits and covering more preventive services at no cost to patients, they are also planning to shift more health care costs to workers, according to a report by the National Business Group on Health.

20 Aug 2010

Study finds black women with SLE develop cardiovascular disease at early age

A recent study by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine found significant racial disparities in the age of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients at the time of hospital admission for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and CVD-related death. Black women were youngest to both be admitted with CVD and to have an in-hospital death due to CVD.

20 Aug 2010

Grand Junction, Colorado: Still the health care poster child

In this story for Kaiser Health News, Bill Scanlon reports: "Just a year ago, as opposition to the proposed health overhaul flared at town hall meetings around the country, President Barack Obama made this western Colorado town of 53,000 people a crucial stop on his tour to revive the stalled initiative" (Scanlon, 8/19).

20 Aug 2010

After multiple medevac crashes, NTSB wants increased safety technology

USA Today: "The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling on regulators to require new lifesaving technologies on many air ambulances, including night-vision goggles, terrain avoidance computers and autopilot controls.

20 Aug 2010

USPTO rules out Oculir's claim on noninvasive glucose measuring device patent

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has held that all claims in Oculir's Patent No. 6,958,039 to be invalid as not patentable based on prior art from a patent disclosure by Yale researcher, Dr. Marc Abreu.

20 Aug 2010

Hospitals seek to end emergency room violence

NPR: A Maryland program is seeking to curb hospital violence. "Hospital emergency rooms are filled with the fallout of violent crime. Sometimes, the victims and the perpetrators are one and the same. It's a cycle of violence many would like to end.

20 Aug 2010

Schwarzenegger announces Calif. health IT network plan

Los Angeles Times: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a high-tech vision for his state Tuesday, including an unprecedentedly broad computer network. "Schwarzenegger joined U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at the UC Davis Cancer Center on Tuesday to announce the launch of the country's largest 'telehealth' system, which organizers say will one day connect patients to hundreds of hospitals and clinics statewide using broadband technology." The broadband network will be devoted entirely to the health care sector (Hennessy-Fiske, 8/18).

20 Aug 2010

Quality issue roundup: J & J revamping controls; The odds for orthopedic surgery; Automatic prescription refills and patient compliance

The New York Times: Johnson & Johnson has said it will "revamp its quality controls, creating a single framework for its drug, medical device and consumer health care divisions." The move comes after the drugmaker saw a number of recalls of its medicines, such as Tylenol and Motrin, as well as probes by a congressional committee and the FDA into actions at its McNeil Consumer Healthcare subsidiary.

20 Aug 2010

Study reports uneven decline of colorectal cancer mortality rate

Black patients die from colorectal cancer at much higher rates than whites do and new research points to unequal health care as the cause. While deaths from colorectal cancer have declined over the past 40 years, the declines have been uneven, said lead author Samir Soneji, Ph.D., of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

20 Aug 2010

KHN column: For cost control, vouchers and Medicare don't mix

In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Austin Frakt writes: "With the ambition of reducing the federal debt, Congressman Paul Ryan has offered a proposal to convert Medicare to a voucher-based program.

20 Aug 2010

Today's Opinions: Vouchers and Medicare; The shortage of doctors; Eliminating health system's disparities; Protecting cancer patients

With the ambition of reducing the federal debt, Congressman Paul Ryan has offered a proposal to convert Medicare to a voucher-based program. … Though rarely described this way, the private Medicare Advantage plans are a (voluntary) voucher system (Austin Frakt, 8/19).

20 Aug 2010

First Edition: August 19, 2010

In the news today, modest premium increases are ahead for Medicare drug plans while a survey finds that big employers expect health cost hikes in 2011.

20 Aug 2010

Elsevier, ASRT partner to provide CT modules through Mosby's Imaging Suite for technologists' education

Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced an exclusive partnership with The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) to provide a complete series of computed tomography modules through Mosby's Imaging Suite for technologists' continuing education. This partnership will provide technologists access to the highest quality continuing education, and will give hospital management the best tools to ensure patient safety.

19 Aug 2010

PAREXEL International launches temperature recording solution optimized for clinical trial supply process

PAREXEL International Corporation, a leading global biopharmaceutical services organization, today announced that it has introduced an integrated temperature recording solution for study drug transportation as part of its expanded Clinical Logistics Services.

From Parexel 19 Aug 2010

Velocity Technology Solutions to host and manage back office applications at St. Charles Health System

Velocity Technology Solutions, Inc. a leader in cloud-based enterprise software hosting, application management, and consulting services, announced today that it was selected by the St. Charles Health System, Inc. to host and fully-manage its Lawson enterprise resource planning applications and Kronos time and labor management applications. Velocity's expertise and demonstrated leadership in supporting the Lawson and Kronos applications, as well as its partnership with both software providers, were driving forces behind St. Charles' decision.

19 Aug 2010

NAFC to sponsor free medical clinic for uninsured Gulf Coast area residents

Gulf Coast area residents who are without health insurance are urged to register now for the upcoming massive free clinic to be held in New Orleans on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.

19 Aug 2010

Scientists produce atlas of worm infection prevalence, distribution throughout Africa

On Tuesday at the 12th International Congress of Parasitology, a group of scientists, led by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, launched an online series of maps showing the distribution and prevalence of worm infections across Africa, Tropika.net reports (Chinnock, 8/17).

19 Aug 2010

Wis. pushes to expand Medicaid funding for contraceptives, Minnesota encourages 'medical homes,' Md. settles nursing home payment case

"Wisconsin is pushing to expand a controversial program that uses federal Medicaid funds to provide free birth-control pills, vasectomies and other forms of contraception to low-income people, an effort made possible by the federal health-care overhaul. It and 26 other states already provide free contraception and other reproductive-health services through a Medicaid pilot project to lower-earning women who otherwise wouldn't qualify."

19 Aug 2010

Concern about slow pace of aid for Pakistan mounts as U.N. secures additional funds

U.N. officials and aid groups "expressed alarm on Tuesday that the plight of millions of Pakistanis flooded from their land has yet to strike a sufficiently sympathetic nerve among donors - neither governments nor the general public - with aid trickling in far more slowly than needed," the New York Times reports.

19 Aug 2010

Protection from unrealistic claims of Direct to consumer genetic tests needed

Direct to consumer (DTC) genetic tests are increasingly being marketed to the public via television, print ads, and the Internet. These home genetic tests provide access to a person's genomic information without necessarily involving a doctor or insurance company in the process.

19 Aug 2010

Health Care News and Research

Business Group: Large employers grappling with health law changes

Study finds black women with SLE develop cardiovascular disease at early age

Grand Junction, Colorado: Still the health care poster child

After multiple medevac crashes, NTSB wants increased safety technology

USPTO rules out Oculir's claim on noninvasive glucose measuring device patent

Hospitals seek to end emergency room violence

Schwarzenegger announces Calif. health IT network plan

Quality issue roundup: J & J revamping controls; The odds for orthopedic surgery; Automatic prescription refills and patient compliance

Study reports uneven decline of colorectal cancer mortality rate

KHN column: For cost control, vouchers and Medicare don't mix

Today's Opinions: Vouchers and Medicare; The shortage of doctors; Eliminating health system's disparities; Protecting cancer patients

First Edition: August 19, 2010

Elsevier, ASRT partner to provide CT modules through Mosby's Imaging Suite for technologists' education

PAREXEL International launches temperature recording solution optimized for clinical trial supply process

Velocity Technology Solutions to host and manage back office applications at St. Charles Health System

NAFC to sponsor free medical clinic for uninsured Gulf Coast area residents

Scientists produce atlas of worm infection prevalence, distribution throughout Africa

Wis. pushes to expand Medicaid funding for contraceptives, Minnesota encourages 'medical homes,' Md. settles nursing home payment case

Concern about slow pace of aid for Pakistan mounts as U.N. secures additional funds

Protection from unrealistic claims of Direct to consumer genetic tests needed

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