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UC San Diego Health System named to The Leapfrog Group's list of Top Hospitals

For the second time, The Leapfrog Group has named UC San Diego Health System to its annual list of Top Hospitals. Awarded to hospitals nationwide for demonstrating excellence in hospital safety and quality, the Leapfrog Top Hospital award is an elite distinction given to less than seven percent of all eligible hospitals. The awards were announced on December 2, in Washington, D.C.

4 Dec 2014

Researchers identify retrieval practice as useful strategy for improving memory among youth with TBI

Brain injury researchers in New Jersey have identified retrieval practice as a useful strategy for improving memory among children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

4 Dec 2014

Five speech pathology students from Griffith to take on jobs with Queensland Health

Griffith’s Master of Speech Pathology department is delighted following the amazing success of five of its graduating students who are set to take on jobs with Queensland Health.

4 Dec 2014

UTHealth professor receives John A. Rupke Legacy Award

Arlo F. Weltge, M.D., M.P.H., clinical professor of emergency medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, has received the John A. Rupke Legacy Award for his lifelong commitment to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

3 Dec 2014

DebMed signs contract with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for Group Monitoring System

DebMed today announced a three-year agreement with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for the use of its Group Monitoring System, the only electronic hand hygiene monitoring system that complies with the World Health Organization's Five Moments for Hand Hygiene and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

3 Dec 2014

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions announces partnership with Visante healthcare consulting

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, a leading supplier of automation solutions for materials transport and medication management, announces its partnership with Visante healthcare consulting at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, California - December 7 – 11, 2014.

3 Dec 2014

Frost & Sullivan announces winners of 2015 CIO Impact Awards

Frost & Sullivan has announced 44 world-class companies as winners of the 2015 CIO Impact Awards. The recipients are comprised of enterprise teams, individuals, and technology partners enabling breakthrough new business models and strategies through the innovative use of transformative technologies.

3 Dec 2014

O2 Media acquires health and fitness e-retailer InboxFitness.com

O2 Media is pleased to announce that the company has acquired the health and fitness e-retailer InboxFitness.com.

3 Dec 2014

Garmatex, Diagnomics partner to develop healthcare products to prevent hospital-acquired infections

Garmatex Technologies, Inc., a leading inventor of performance fabric and apparel solution-focused technologies, has signed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") for a five year term with Diagnomics Inc., a biotech company that provides next-generation healthcare solutions from personal genomics.

3 Dec 2014

New MHA report calls on the country to address mental health issues

Our country is failing those in need of mental health services, according to a new report released by Mental Health America, the nation's leading community-based mental health advocacy organization. MHA for the first time has provided overall rankings for all 50 states and the District of Columbia on mental health status and access, and calls on the country to address mental health before Stage 4.

3 Dec 2014

WLT agrees to make MediClaims software available to Advanzeon

Advanzeon Solutions, Inc., which provides behavioral health, substance abuse and pharmacy management services, as well as sleep apnea programs, to employers, Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, and managed care companies throughout the U.S. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Agreement with WLT Software Enterprises, Inc.

3 Dec 2014

Aging in Rural Places: A new book examines health and wellness in rural areas

Kristina Hash, associate professor in the School of Social Work at West Virginia University, has co-edited and co-authored a book examining rural areas and discussing the issues, programs and policies designed to meet residents' needs.

3 Dec 2014

Gonzaga, UW to engage in community-focused exploration of medical education and research

Gonzaga University has announced its intention to engage in a community-focused exploration of a medical education and research partnership with the University of Washington School of Medicine in Spokane. This announcement follows an invitation, made to Gonzaga by the University of Washington, to consider forming a new partnership to sustain and potentially expand UW Spokane's medical school and create opportunities to grow biomedical research in Spokane.

3 Dec 2014

New WHO guidance provides cervical cancer control and prevention approach

New guidance from WHO aims to help countries better prevent and control cervical cancer. The disease is one of the world's deadliest - but most easily preventable - forms of cancer for women, responsible for more than 270 000 deaths annually, 85% of which occur in developing countries.

3 Dec 2014

FSMB receives NCQA certification for second time

The Federation of State Medical Boards announced that it has recently been certified for a second time by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The FSMB, which received its initial NCQA Certification in 2012, is certified under NCQA's Credentials Verification Organization Certification Program for the following credentials elements: Education and Training, Ongoing Monitoring of Sanctions, Medicare/Medicaid Sanctions, and Medical Board Sanctions.

3 Dec 2014

St. Mary's Medical Center adds Mazor Renaissance robot-assisted system to Spine Center

Dignity Health St. Mary's Medical Center has added the Mazor Robotics Renaissance computer-generated guidance system to its multidisciplinary Spine Center. St. Mary's is the only hospital in the Bay Area to exclusively offer this state-of-the-art technology for spine surgery.

3 Dec 2014

Louisiana Tech awarded $1.45 million grant to support UTeach teacher preparation program

The National Math and Science Initiative and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have awarded Louisiana Tech University a $1.45 million grant to support teacher preparation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, as part of the national UTeach program.

3 Dec 2014

TDF wins William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement

Tufts Dental Facilities Serving Individuals with Disabilities, a network of clinics that provides comprehensive oral health care to adults and children with intellectual, developmental, or acquired disabilities, has been announced as the winner of the William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Academic Dental Institution, part of the William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement.

3 Dec 2014

Implementing risk management practices necessary in health and fitness centers

Health is high on the agenda in many countries with efforts to get more people exercising in order to reduce the problems associated with obesity, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

3 Dec 2014

Oxford University Press plans to launch new open access journal in partnership with ASSC

Oxford University Press is delighted to announce that it is to launch a brand new Open Access journal, Neuroscience of Consciousness, in partnership with the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

3 Dec 2014

Healthcare News

UC San Diego Health System named to The Leapfrog Group's list of Top Hospitals

Researchers identify retrieval practice as useful strategy for improving memory among youth with TBI

Five speech pathology students from Griffith to take on jobs with Queensland Health

UTHealth professor receives John A. Rupke Legacy Award

DebMed signs contract with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for Group Monitoring System

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions announces partnership with Visante healthcare consulting

Frost & Sullivan announces winners of 2015 CIO Impact Awards

O2 Media acquires health and fitness e-retailer InboxFitness.com

Garmatex, Diagnomics partner to develop healthcare products to prevent hospital-acquired infections

New MHA report calls on the country to address mental health issues

WLT agrees to make MediClaims software available to Advanzeon

Aging in Rural Places: A new book examines health and wellness in rural areas

Gonzaga, UW to engage in community-focused exploration of medical education and research

New WHO guidance provides cervical cancer control and prevention approach

FSMB receives NCQA certification for second time

St. Mary's Medical Center adds Mazor Renaissance robot-assisted system to Spine Center

Louisiana Tech awarded $1.45 million grant to support UTeach teacher preparation program

TDF wins William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement

Implementing risk management practices necessary in health and fitness centers

Oxford University Press plans to launch new open access journal in partnership with ASSC

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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