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Zotec Partners announces strategic technology alliance with Florida-based MBS

Zotec Partners, an industry leader in medical billing, practice management and Radiology Information Systems software and services, is announcing today a strategic technology alliance with Florida-based Medical Business Service, Inc. This alliance enables Zotec Partners to further penetrate the radiology and pathology markets and strengthen its position as a leader in hospital-based revenue cycle management.

24 May 2010

LHC Group, Idaho Home Health and Hospice announce definitive agreement

LHC Group, Inc., a national provider of home health and hospice, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with Idaho Home Health and Hospice. Founded in 1977, Idaho Home Health and Hospice is a Joint Commission Accredited home health and hospice provider which currently serves 28 counties through 9 locations in the state of Idaho.

24 May 2010

First Edition: May 24, 2010

Irene Wielawski writes for Kaiser Health News that electronic medical records may be as important as stethoscopes. "Dr. David Blumenthal was not happy to find a new computer installed on his desk when he showed up for work one morning eight years ago at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He knew the hospital had been hard at work on developing an electronic medical record system, but Blumenthal wasn't keen on changing practices that had served him and his patients just fine over the years.

24 May 2010

Spectrum Health receives MEDSEEK's 2010 eHealth Excellence Award

MEDSEEK, the industry's only provider of the eHealth ecoSystemTM, announced today that Spectrum Health was awarded MEDSEEK's 2010 eHealth Excellence Award for outstanding vision, innovation and performance in using eHealth technology to enhance care delivery, information access and service. The award was presented at MEDSEEK's 10th Annual eHealth Client Congress in San Diego, Calif., on May 5, 2010.

24 May 2010

2010 ASCO Annual Meeting highlights new research findings on cancer

Experts from The Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center will present new research findings at the 46th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, Illinois.

24 May 2010

State roundup: Genetic testing on campus, Texas docs in Mass., and more

"A plan by the University of California, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming freshman has come under fire from critics who said the school was pushing an unproven technology on impressionable students. The university has said it will send test kits to 5,500 new students to analyze genes that help control the body's responses to alcohol, dairy products and folic acid" (Wohlsen, 5/21).

24 May 2010

New Mexico meets all requirements for operational planning as part of ARRA state HIE program: ONC

New Mexico is the first state to meet all requirements for strategic and operational planning as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act state health information exchange cooperative agreement program, according to the United States Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

24 May 2010

Lytix Biopharma receives approval to initiate Phase I/IIa clinical trial of Lytixar for MRSA

The Norwegian pharmaceutical company Lytix Biopharma AS today announces the approval by the Swedish Medical Products Agency to commence a Phase I/IIa clinical trial with Lytixar (LTX-109) for nasal decolonisation of MRSA.

24 May 2010

New technique designed to analyze individual immune cells may help diagnose food allergies: Study

About 30 percent of Americans believe they have food allergies. However, the actual number is far smaller, closer to 5 percent, according to a recent study commissioned by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. That's due in large part to the unreliability of the skin test that doctors commonly use to test for food allergies.

24 May 2010

ICON announces acquisition of Timaq Medical Imaging

ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that it has acquired Timaq Medical Imaging, a leading European provider of advanced imaging services to pharmaceutical and biotech firms.

24 May 2010

New findings on INTUNIV Extended Release Tablets presented at major psychiatric meeting

Shire plc, the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced new findings on once-daily INTUNIV (guanfacine) Extended Release Tablets, the first selective alpha-2A agonist approved for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, at a major psychiatric meeting.

24 May 2010

Researchers develop new therapy for psychological treatment of patients suffering from fibromyalgia

Researchers of the Labpsictec at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellon and the LahHuman Group at the Universidad Politecnica of Valencia and the University of Valencia have developed a new therapy based on the use of mobile devices and virtual reality for the psychological treatment of patients suffering from fibromyalgia.

24 May 2010

SiMoA technology measures individual PSA molecules in prostate cancer patients: Nature Biotechnology

Quanterix Corporation, the single molecule diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing high sensitivity tests, announced the publication of a breakthrough study of the company's proprietary technology that demonstrates an unprecedented sensitivity for measuring a biomarker for prostate cancer recurrence.

24 May 2010

New study indicates pregnancy can double HIV risk in men

Young women of reproductive-age are among those at greatest risk of acquiring HIV, and several studies have suggested that during pregnancy women are even more susceptible to infection.

24 May 2010

Overall proportion of hospital patients died after heart attack fell by 37%: AHRQ

The overall proportion of hospital patients who died in the hospital after a heart attack fell by 37 percent between 2000 and 2007, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The rate fell from from 106 per 1,000 patients to 67 per 1,000 patients during the period

21 May 2010

Bristol-Myers Squibb announces positive results from Phase 2 study of ipilimumab in patients with NSCLC

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today announced positive results from a randomized Phase 2 study evaluating ipilimumab in combination with standard chemotherapy in previously untreated patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

21 May 2010

Young Faces of ALS campaign to raise awareness on ALS

The ALS Therapy Development Institute announced today that it is supporting a new awareness campaign driven by several ALS patients diagnosed with the progressive neurodegenerative disease commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease before the age of 30. This campaign, called "Young Faces of ALS," is designed and led by a group of seven young men and women and will consist of a group effort to visit each of the 30 Major League Baseball parks during the 2010 baseball season.

21 May 2010

High family medical bills appear to reduce use of expensive medications: Study

People with rheumatoid arthritis whose health insurance requires them to pay a higher share of the cost are less likely to use biotech drugs than those with coverage that is more generous. High family medical bills also appear to reduce the use of these powerful but expensive medications, according to a new study in Health Services Research.

21 May 2010

New marker may be the significant breakthrough in allergy testing for newborn babies

A simple blood test can now predict whether newborn babies are at high risk of developing allergies as they grow older, thanks to research involving the University of Adelaide.

21 May 2010

Democrats push three-year Medicare 'doc fix' as part of larger tax bill

A proposal to stop planned payment cuts to Medicare doctors for three years is in a bill extending tax cuts and lengthening unemployment benefits.

21 May 2010

Hospital News and Research

Zotec Partners announces strategic technology alliance with Florida-based MBS

LHC Group, Idaho Home Health and Hospice announce definitive agreement

First Edition: May 24, 2010

Spectrum Health receives MEDSEEK's 2010 eHealth Excellence Award

2010 ASCO Annual Meeting highlights new research findings on cancer

State roundup: Genetic testing on campus, Texas docs in Mass., and more

New Mexico meets all requirements for operational planning as part of ARRA state HIE program: ONC

Lytix Biopharma receives approval to initiate Phase I/IIa clinical trial of Lytixar for MRSA

New technique designed to analyze individual immune cells may help diagnose food allergies: Study

ICON announces acquisition of Timaq Medical Imaging

New findings on INTUNIV Extended Release Tablets presented at major psychiatric meeting

Researchers develop new therapy for psychological treatment of patients suffering from fibromyalgia

SiMoA technology measures individual PSA molecules in prostate cancer patients: Nature Biotechnology

New study indicates pregnancy can double HIV risk in men

Overall proportion of hospital patients died after heart attack fell by 37%: AHRQ

Bristol-Myers Squibb announces positive results from Phase 2 study of ipilimumab in patients with NSCLC

Young Faces of ALS campaign to raise awareness on ALS

High family medical bills appear to reduce use of expensive medications: Study

New marker may be the significant breakthrough in allergy testing for newborn babies

Democrats push three-year Medicare 'doc fix' as part of larger tax bill

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