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Aetna introduces new IHP for employees to adopt healthy behaviours

Aetna, a leading global diversified health care benefits company, today announced the launch of a new suite of International Healthcare Plans for employers with globally mobile employees.

24 Feb 2011

Talent Plus, Centric Health Resources partner to provide patient-centered quality services

Centric Health Resources, Inc., a nationwide, Patient-Centered Health Management organization and specialty pharmacy, dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with orphan, ultra-orphan, and chronic genetic disorders, has partnered with Talent Plus, a global human resources consulting firm committed to building high-performing, talent-based organizations.

24 Feb 2011

Study examines several homicides involving anesthetic drugs, outlines anesthesiologists' experiences

A study published in March's issue of Anesthesiology examines several homicides involving anesthetic drugs and calls on anesthesiologists to assist in the investigation and prosecution of criminals who divert and kill with these drugs.

24 Feb 2011

Former Democratic and Republican Senate majority leaders to keynote GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit

Just one month after announcing their partnership in bipartisan healthcare reform, Tom Daschle, former Democratic Senate majority leader, and Bill Frist, M.D., former Republican Senate majority leader, have confirmed they will keynote the 2011 GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit.

24 Feb 2011

UK HealthCare to deploy Allscripts EHR, Practice Management solution for faculty providers

UK HealthCare, the patient care operations of University of Kentucky, will deploy the Allscripts lectronic Health Record and Practice Management solution to help its team of 6,000 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and health care providers enhance the quality of patient care, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery.

24 Feb 2011

Sanofi Pasteur to participate in first international bell-ringing event to eradicate polio

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group, today will participate in the first international bell-ringing event by a company listed on NYSE Euronext. The events will acknowledge past successes and future challenges in the battle to eradicate polio at the stock exchanges in New York, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon.

24 Feb 2011

New strategies to improve developing countries' access to low-cost generic drugs needed, experts say

New strategies that ensure developing countries have access to low-cost generic medicines and encourage innovation are needed, according to experts who attended a recent meeting sponsored by the WHO, World Intellectual Property Organization, and World Trade Organization (WTO) that addressed growing concern that strict intellectual property protections are limiting access to low-cost generic medicines, BMJ News reports.

24 Feb 2011

New study: Surgeon annual volume linked to decreased in-hospital mortality for aneurysm repairs

A new study in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery, the official publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery, has revealed that for open repair of intact elective abdominal aortic aneurysms, surgeon annual volume rather than institutional volume is more strongly associated with decreased in-hospital mortality.

24 Feb 2011

U.N. commission on the status of women opens in New York

Kicking off the two-week 55th Annual Session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in New York on Tuesday, Michelle Bachelet, the first under-secretary-general and executive director of U.N. Women, highlighted the role of gender equality in country development, peace and security, Angola Press reports (2/23).

24 Feb 2011

HIMSS continues to add new health informations to Meaningful Use Onesource

Providing current and vital resources for implementation of health information technology to improve patient care, HIMSS continues to add new information to Meaningful Use OneSource, an online repository of hundreds of documents, tools and links to other knowledge available on the Internet.

24 Feb 2011

Opinions: Foreign aid lessons from Britain; food security; Global Fund investigation; U.S. food aid cuts; Africa needs trade

"Before Republican budget hawks wield their knife, ... they should take a lesson from their conservative cousins in the United Kingdom: When belt-tightening gets serious, foreign aid should be improved, not gutted," according to an opinion piece in the New Republic written by Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

24 Feb 2011

Daily report global health conversations: Health sector corruption

Recent media reports have drawn attention to an internal audit that revealed several countries' misuse of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria grant money, totaling $34 million.

24 Feb 2011

BHI: People with untreated hearing loss lose income annually

People with untreated hearing loss lose as much as $30,000 in income annually, depending on their degree of hearing loss, according to the latest national study by the Better Hearing Institute. And the cost to society is estimated to be as high as $26 billion in unrealized federal taxes.

24 Feb 2011

Planned parenthood cuts draw opposition from state, local officials

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and two Democratic governors spoke out against House Republicans' family planning cuts Tuesday as the Senate prepares to take up the stop-gap funding bill for the rest of the year.

24 Feb 2011

Senate Majority Leader will attempt to pass new one-month stopgap measure to avoid government shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday "he will attempt to pass a 'clean' one-month stopgap funding measure at current spending levels when the Senate returns next week, in a bid to avoid a government shutdown," CQ reports.

24 Feb 2011

CollaborativeCARE Conference, HIMSS form alliance to lead healthcare information technology

CollaborativeCARE Conference (C3), the first healthcare conference designed to foster regional coordinated care by educating specialists, primary care physicians and patients, today announced an alliance with HIMSS that will provide customized access to health information technology at the inaugural C3 event in Long Beach, Calif., scheduled for Nov. 15-20, 2011.

24 Feb 2011

Judge upholds health law's insurance coverage requirement

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., became the third federal judge to uphold the constitutionality of the health overhaul's individual mandate. The decision was issued Tuesday evening.

24 Feb 2011

General Electric extends healthcare IT portfolio to mobile devices and tablet computing

General Electric, an industry leader in the adoption of mobile technology, demonstrated the extension of its healthcare IT portfolio to mobile devices and tablet computing at this week's Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Orlando.

24 Feb 2011

Opponents of med-mal reform settle on new argument

Trial lawyers and consumer advocates are trotting out a novel argument as they fight off tort reform proposals: they say medical malpractice suits, rather than driving over-use of costly tests by risk-averse doctors, instead prevent rationing.

24 Feb 2011

'Current Concepts' article outlines ultrasound use among clinicians

Clinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the "stethoscope of the future," predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside as that trusty tool around every physician's neck. According to a new report in The New England Journal of Medicine, that day has arrived.

24 Feb 2011

Healthcare News

Aetna introduces new IHP for employees to adopt healthy behaviours

Talent Plus, Centric Health Resources partner to provide patient-centered quality services

Study examines several homicides involving anesthetic drugs, outlines anesthesiologists' experiences

Former Democratic and Republican Senate majority leaders to keynote GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit

UK HealthCare to deploy Allscripts EHR, Practice Management solution for faculty providers

Sanofi Pasteur to participate in first international bell-ringing event to eradicate polio

New strategies to improve developing countries' access to low-cost generic drugs needed, experts say

New study: Surgeon annual volume linked to decreased in-hospital mortality for aneurysm repairs

U.N. commission on the status of women opens in New York

HIMSS continues to add new health informations to Meaningful Use Onesource

Opinions: Foreign aid lessons from Britain; food security; Global Fund investigation; U.S. food aid cuts; Africa needs trade

Daily report global health conversations: Health sector corruption

BHI: People with untreated hearing loss lose income annually

Planned parenthood cuts draw opposition from state, local officials

Senate Majority Leader will attempt to pass new one-month stopgap measure to avoid government shutdown

CollaborativeCARE Conference, HIMSS form alliance to lead healthcare information technology

Judge upholds health law's insurance coverage requirement

General Electric extends healthcare IT portfolio to mobile devices and tablet computing

Opponents of med-mal reform settle on new argument

'Current Concepts' article outlines ultrasound use among clinicians

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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