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Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, LUNGevity Foundation host first Nashville Breathe Hope event

LUNGevity Foundation, the nation's largest lung cancer organization and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center are hosting 75 lung cancer survivors and caregivers tomorrow evening during the first Nashville "Breathe Hope" event, November 5 at the University Club of Nashville from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

5 Nov 2011

Health Net selected as double-winner in 18th annual National Health Information Awards

Health Net, Inc. was selected as a double-winner in the 18th annual National Health Information Awards. The program is coordinated by the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse that recognizes the nation's best consumer health information programs and materials.

5 Nov 2011

More than 36,000 people join Cancer Research UK's Voice for Radiotherapy campaign

More than 36,000 people have joined Cancer Research UK's Voice for Radiotherapy campaign to call on the government to improve radiotherapy services in England.

5 Nov 2011

Super committee progress appears to be at 'impasse'

As the clock ticks toward the panel's Thanksgiving deadline, the question of raising taxes continues to be a sticking point. Republicans and Democrats appear to be trying to "horsetrade" revenue increases for entitlement program cuts. In the background, 33 Republican senators sent a letter to the committee insisting on "no net tax increase."

5 Nov 2011

Hawaii Pacific Health joins Premier's Partnership for Care Transformation collaborative

Hawaii Pacific Health has joined the Premier healthcare alliance's PACT (Partnership for Care Transformation) collaborative to build the necessary capabilities that are required under the final Medicare shared savings rule.

5 Nov 2011

FindTheBest announces Smart Badges for three Health categories

FindTheBest recently launched a new Smart Badge program that awards the top Smart Rated products and services across an expanding number of comparisons.

5 Nov 2011

Eat'n Park unfolds Caring for Kids Campaign to raise funds for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Eat'n Park is rolling out its 33rd annual Caring for Kids Campaign to raise funds for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Beginning today and running through December 11, guests are invited to purchase a raffle ticket for the chance to win a new 2012 Ford Focus.

5 Nov 2011

Romney calls for increase in Medicare eligibility age

Mitt Romney unveiled a sweeping budget-cutting plan today that would increase the eligibility age for Social Security and cap Medicaid payments to states. Romney's plan would also increase the eligibility age for Medicare and allow seniors to choose between the government-sponsored plan and private insurance.

5 Nov 2011

AAPM announces new plans for Safe Opioid Prescribing program

On the cusp of the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report about the growing death toll from prescription drug deaths, the physician leadership of the American Academy of Pain Medicine announced its plans to roll-out a new education initiative: Safe Opioid Prescribing: Reversing the Trends.

5 Nov 2011

Vertex announces 16 grant recipients of Hep-C Circle of Care program

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced that it has awarded 16 grants totaling approximately $1.5 million to a variety of academic, patient and community groups as part of the Vertex Hep-C Circle of Care program, a pilot competitive grants program designed to foster innovative approaches to patient care and support people living with chronic hepatitis C.

5 Nov 2011

Political cartoon: 'Bulk Discounts'

Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Bulk Discounts" by Bob and Tom Thaves.

5 Nov 2011

NCQA recognizes three additional MetCare centers as PPC-PCMH

Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc., a leading provider of health care services in Florida, today announced that an additional three of its centers have been recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as Physician Practice Connections - Patient-Centered Medical Homes.

5 Nov 2011

Romney details his deficit-reduction plans

Media outlets also report on how the abortion issue might impact GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, fact checks and news from Iowa about Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum also are in the headlines.

5 Nov 2011

Key Assets expands foster care provision in Western Australia

Key Assets is expanding its foster care provision in Western Australia with the upcoming launch of a new disability services program.

5 Nov 2011

IAFN to celebrate 'Forensic Nurses Week' on Nov. 7-11

"You are safe" are often the first words heard by survivors of violent acts when Forensic Nurses are present to provide care in hospitals, clinics, jails and community settings around the world. Forensic Nurses are nurses with advanced education and training, giving them the skills to deal with the immediate health care consequences of violence. On November 7-11, the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) will celebrate "Forensic Nurses Week" to recognize these nurses who provide exceptional care to victims and perpetrators of abuse and violence.

5 Nov 2011

MED3OOO, Medicomp partner to embed Quippe into InteGreat EHR

Medicomp Systems newest documentation and patient management application, Quippe, has been imbedded into MED3OOO's InteGreat EHR. Quippe is an easy to use and learn interface that puts the power to care back into the hands of the clinicians and allows them to focus on the patient, not data entry.

5 Nov 2011

Governors raise concerns about insurance exchanges

Some of the federal healthcare law's requirements related to insurance exchanges threaten the autonomy of U.S. states, which need more support in establishing the marketplaces, state governors said in a letter released on Thursday. "The decision to implement health insurance exchanges requires a number of complex policy decisions amid aggressive timelines," wrote the National Governors Association in a letter to U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius dated Nov. 2.

5 Nov 2011

Women's groups in Somali town push for law banning female genital mutilation/cutting

"Women's groups in the Somali town of Galkayo are lobbying the authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland to enact a law banning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), saying the practice was becoming widespread," IRIN reports.

5 Nov 2011

Obesity affecting wealthy, middle classes more than poor in developing countries, study says

"'First world' health problems such as obesity and heart disease may be gaining ground in developing nations, but they are mostly afflicting the rich and middle class while poor people remain undernourished and underweight," according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Reuters reports.

5 Nov 2011

First U.S. transcatheter aortic heart valve implant performed at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center today became the first in the United States to implant the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve as an FDA-approved standard of care.

5 Nov 2011

Healthcare News

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, LUNGevity Foundation host first Nashville Breathe Hope event

Health Net selected as double-winner in 18th annual National Health Information Awards

More than 36,000 people join Cancer Research UK's Voice for Radiotherapy campaign

Super committee progress appears to be at 'impasse'

Hawaii Pacific Health joins Premier's Partnership for Care Transformation collaborative

FindTheBest announces Smart Badges for three Health categories

Eat'n Park unfolds Caring for Kids Campaign to raise funds for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Romney calls for increase in Medicare eligibility age

AAPM announces new plans for Safe Opioid Prescribing program

Vertex announces 16 grant recipients of Hep-C Circle of Care program

Political cartoon: 'Bulk Discounts'

NCQA recognizes three additional MetCare centers as PPC-PCMH

Romney details his deficit-reduction plans

Key Assets expands foster care provision in Western Australia

IAFN to celebrate 'Forensic Nurses Week' on Nov. 7-11

MED3OOO, Medicomp partner to embed Quippe into InteGreat EHR

Governors raise concerns about insurance exchanges

Women's groups in Somali town push for law banning female genital mutilation/cutting

Obesity affecting wealthy, middle classes more than poor in developing countries, study says

First U.S. transcatheter aortic heart valve implant performed at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia

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