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CCA receives $7,500 Standard Charitable Foundation grant

The Standard Charitable Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Standard Insurance Company, has awarded a $7,500 grant in support of the Children's Cancer Association.

5 May 2012

China joins Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

"Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo announced that China has joined the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves during a tour of a clean cookstove exhibit with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Beijing today," a U.S. Department of State press release reports.

5 May 2012

High profile judge hints that Supreme Court decision to strike health law 'would be a mistake'

The Wall Street Journal reports that Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson said the high court should "think twice" about overturning the law. In other health law news, the White House's under-the-radar effort to build support for the overhaul appears to be working.

5 May 2012

UNFPA, International Confederation of Midwives recognize International Day of the Midwife

In a joint statement, UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin and Agneta Bridges, secretary-general of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), recognize the International Day of the Midwife on May 5.

5 May 2012

Sierra Leone has made progress in improving maternal, child health care, but 'much more to do'

"Just two years ago, our country had one of the worst maternal and infant death rates in the world," Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma writes in a Huffington Post U.K. "Impact" blog post, adding, "We knew something had to be done." So in September 2009, the government announced "that all health user fees would be removed for pregnant and lactating women and children under the age of five" and "introduced the Free Health Care Initiative [FHCI] in April 2010, which would give around 460,000 women and a million children a much better chance of having a longer and happier life," Koroma writes.

5 May 2012

Oregon gets $1.9B to launch Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations to try to cut health spending

The federal support will help Oregon's Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations as they try to cut health costs by 2 percent over two years using preventive care to keep patients healthy.

5 May 2012

Copenhagen Consensus report argues for expanding family planning programs in 'high-fertility' countries

As part of a series of Slate articles highlighting issues being examined by the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Bjorn Lomborg, director of the center, examines the implications of population growth on development indicators.

5 May 2012

HIMSS Analytics recognizes 17 Banner Health facilities with Stage 7 award

Seventeen Banner Health facilities have achieved Stage 7, the final stage in the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) as acknowledged by HIMSS Analytics, a wholly owned nonprofit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

5 May 2012

ACR names WDI as Breast Imaging Center of Excellence

Women's Digital Imaging of Ridgewood (WDI) has been named a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The Center of Excellence designation is awarded to facilities that meet the highest standards set by the ACR through peer-review evaluations conducted in each breast imaging modality by board-certified physicians and medical physicists.

5 May 2012

LRI applauds ACR colleagues for new lupus nephritis guidelines

The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) applauds our colleagues at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) for issuing new guidelines to help healthcare professionals screen, diagnose and treat lupus nephritis, a type of kidney disease associated with lupus. Available on the ACR website, the new guidelines are just published in the April 2012 issue of Arthritis Care & Research.

5 May 2012

Viewpoints: Limited choices for prescriptions; Health mandate is about liberty; VA fails to serve vets' mental health needs

Just a few years ago, so-called pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, like Medco would contract with most leading drugstore chains so people could fill their prescriptions almost anywhere they pleased. Then the PBMs realized they could operate more efficiently and profitably by limiting people's choices to a single drugstore - their own. So they laid down the law with consumers.

5 May 2012

CINJ nurses develop new teaching method to improve patient safety

Oncology nurses in the outpatient setting face constant challenges in the management of patient care, as many cancer patients receive therapies known to cause allergic reactions or hypersensitivity. When such emergencies arise, oncology nurses need to quickly, competently and safely manage these specific needs. In order to address such a scenario, nurses at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) have developed a teaching method to make mock situations more closely resemble real emergency events.

5 May 2012

USAID's Shah speaks about agency's operations, efforts to build sustainable solutions to hunger in Foreign Policy interview

In an interview with Foreign Policy, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah speaks "about how he is reinventing USAID, an often-embattled agency charged with helping the world's poorest countries develop, while at the same time dealing with crises around the globe," the magazine reports.

5 May 2012

PACSGEAR Image Exchange to be showcased at SIIM 2012

PACSGEAR, the leading provider of imaging connectivity for electronic health records, today announced the PACSGEAR Image Exchange, a cloud-based solution designed to securely upload and share medical images and results between facilities.

5 May 2012

Andrew Technologies launches HydraSolve Lipoplasty System at ASAPS meeting

Andrew Technologies, LLC launched the HydraSolve Lipoplasty System today at the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) in Vancouver, BC.

5 May 2012

KFF issues new brief on statutory requirements & policies governing U.S. global family planning and reproductive health efforts

The Kaiser Family Foundation on Thursday released a new issue brief that "provides a summary of the major policies and statutory requirements governing U.S. participation in international family planning and reproductive health efforts," according to the website.

5 May 2012

DST Health Solutions, Johns Hopkins to celebrate 20th Anniversary of ACG System

DST Health Solutions, LLC, today announced that they and Johns Hopkins University will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the ACG System this year. Johns Hopkins' ACG System offers one of the best in class case mix methodologies, providing Predictive Modeling, Risk Adjustment and Population Case Mix methods to achieve better disease and case management, and ultimately, better patient care.

5 May 2012

Mindray to launch new DC-8 ultrasound system at ACOG annual meeting

Mindray Medical International Limited, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices worldwide, today announced that it will introduce the new DC-8 ultrasound system at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) annual meeting being held in San Diego, May 5-9, 2012.

From Mindray 5 May 2012

Highlights: D.C. may have funds for illegal immigrant health care; Fla. passed up $200M because it comes from health law; Texas to build 2 new med schools

D.C. Council member David A. Catania has found an additional $20 million in the budget to continue offering free health insurance to 19,000 undocumented immigrants, reversing a proposal by Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) that could have restricted them from receiving emergency care. Catania (I-At Large) … has made full funding of the Alliance Insurance program a chief priority as the council prepares for final budget deliberations.

5 May 2012

Dade Medical College introduces new online campus

Dade Medical College launches its new online campus as the college continues to expand its offerings of specialized allied healthcare and nursing education programs for the community.

5 May 2012

Healthcare News

CCA receives $7,500 Standard Charitable Foundation grant

China joins Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

High profile judge hints that Supreme Court decision to strike health law 'would be a mistake'

UNFPA, International Confederation of Midwives recognize International Day of the Midwife

Sierra Leone has made progress in improving maternal, child health care, but 'much more to do'

Oregon gets $1.9B to launch Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations to try to cut health spending

Copenhagen Consensus report argues for expanding family planning programs in 'high-fertility' countries

HIMSS Analytics recognizes 17 Banner Health facilities with Stage 7 award

ACR names WDI as Breast Imaging Center of Excellence

LRI applauds ACR colleagues for new lupus nephritis guidelines

Viewpoints: Limited choices for prescriptions; Health mandate is about liberty; VA fails to serve vets' mental health needs

CINJ nurses develop new teaching method to improve patient safety

USAID's Shah speaks about agency's operations, efforts to build sustainable solutions to hunger in Foreign Policy interview

PACSGEAR Image Exchange to be showcased at SIIM 2012

Andrew Technologies launches HydraSolve Lipoplasty System at ASAPS meeting

KFF issues new brief on statutory requirements & policies governing U.S. global family planning and reproductive health efforts

DST Health Solutions, Johns Hopkins to celebrate 20th Anniversary of ACG System

Mindray to launch new DC-8 ultrasound system at ACOG annual meeting

Highlights: D.C. may have funds for illegal immigrant health care; Fla. passed up $200M because it comes from health law; Texas to build 2 new med schools

Dade Medical College introduces new online campus

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