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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida reduces IT costs with BMC software

With the help of BMC Software, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) is reducing costs while preparing for the new demands healthcare reform will bring to IT.

24 Jan 2011

First Edition: January 24, 2011

Today's health policy news includes reports foreshadowing possible Senate action on repealing the health overhaul.

24 Jan 2011

Family Research Council calls for legislative action and increased oversight of abortion clinics

Family Research Council is demanding answers, increased oversight and legislative action in the wake of the arrest of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist charged with eight counts of murder, including a patient and seven newborn infants.

24 Jan 2011

Conservative Republicans officially release funding reduction plan that includes cutting USAID budget

Foreign Policy's blog "The Cable" reports on Thursday's call by a group of "conservative House Republicans ... for a drastic defunding of the U.S. Agency for International Development and a host of other programs" (Rogin, 1/20).

24 Jan 2011

Healthcare workers can help improve quality of life for end of life patients

Healthcare workers can most directly affect quality of life (QOL) of patients with advanced stage lung cancer by helping manage symptoms such as pain, lack of energy, shortness of breath, coughing, difficulty sleeping and dry mouth, according to a study recently published in the journal Oncology Nursing Forum.

24 Jan 2011

Elsevier, Robert Koch Institute partner for systematic posting of manuscripts in institutional repositories

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the Robert Koch Institute announced they have entered into a two-year trial agreement enabling researchers at Robert Koch Institute to systematically post their manuscripts in the institutional repository.

24 Jan 2011

PHA concerned over negative impact on patient care by Section 6001 of Healthcare Reform

Physician Hospitals of America (PHA) is deeply concerned about the negative impact on patient care caused by Section 6001 of Healthcare Reform which prohibits new construction or expansion of physician owned hospitals (POHs). Since its passage, section 6001 has prevented or impeded progress for 37 new hospitals, more than 40 nearly-finished hospital construction projects, and approximately 20 major expansion projects.

24 Jan 2011

Global Poverty Summit addresses MDGs, global trade policy

At the Global Poverty Summit January 16-19 in Johannesburg, South Africa, "academics, policy-makers, civil society activists and development workers ... agreed that the [U.N. Millennium Development Goals] MDGs have made a difference, but have fallen far short of the ambitious targets on poverty, education, health, gender equality and global partnership that 189 countries committed to achieving by 2015," IRIN reports.

24 Jan 2011

Republicans attack health law, call for Senate repeal vote; Obama to defend law in SOTU

News outlets previewed the President's State of the Union address and discussed how the health law repeal vote might fare in the Senate.

24 Jan 2011

MGH research sheds light on mechanisms of action of mindfulness-based training

Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers report the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain's grey matter.

24 Jan 2011

Rotavirus vaccine significantly cuts child hospitalizations, study says

Developing and developed countries that require children to be vaccinated against rotavirus "have significantly reduced the number of children admitted to hospitals with the disease, a report showed on Thursday," Reuters reports (Kelland, 1/20).

24 Jan 2011

Sen. Barrasso calls for Senate to move on health repeal

Following House passage of the healthcare repeal, a Republican senator used the GOP's weekly address to urge the upper chamber to scrap the law. "Ask yourself - are you better off or worse off now that the healthcare law has been on the books for almost a year?" Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said. Barrasso said the new House Republican majority had "kept its promise" to voters by advancing a repeal of the healthcare law. "Now it's the Senate's turn," he said.

24 Jan 2011

CT scans can help physicians to diagnose abdominal pain, reduce health care costs

The use of CT scanning to evaluate abdominal pain in emergency departments can help physicians arrive at a diagnosis quickly and decisively. A study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and appearing in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology also finds that information provided by CT scans changed treatment plans for almost half the patients studied and significantly reduced probable hospital admissions.

24 Jan 2011

Los Angeles Society of Pathologists honors LA BioMed researcher with Lifetime Achievement Award

The Los Angeles Society of Pathologists, Inc. presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Samuel W. French, MD, a principal investigator at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, on Jan. 15.

24 Jan 2011

College of Osteopathic Medicine receives grant to develop training program for medical students

Nova Southeastern University's medical school, the College of Osteopathic Medicine, recently received a $2.3 million federal grant to develop an academic curriculum to train medical and other students in the health professions to better meet the needs of patients in a changing national health care system.

24 Jan 2011

Healthcare News

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida reduces IT costs with BMC software

First Edition: January 24, 2011

Family Research Council calls for legislative action and increased oversight of abortion clinics

Conservative Republicans officially release funding reduction plan that includes cutting USAID budget

Healthcare workers can help improve quality of life for end of life patients

Elsevier, Robert Koch Institute partner for systematic posting of manuscripts in institutional repositories

PHA concerned over negative impact on patient care by Section 6001 of Healthcare Reform

Global Poverty Summit addresses MDGs, global trade policy

Republicans attack health law, call for Senate repeal vote; Obama to defend law in SOTU

MGH research sheds light on mechanisms of action of mindfulness-based training

Rotavirus vaccine significantly cuts child hospitalizations, study says

Sen. Barrasso calls for Senate to move on health repeal

CT scans can help physicians to diagnose abdominal pain, reduce health care costs

Los Angeles Society of Pathologists honors LA BioMed researcher with Lifetime Achievement Award

College of Osteopathic Medicine receives grant to develop training program for medical students

Tips for parents to prevent infant abduction

Bluecross awards UTHSC $2,912,751 grant to promote patient safety

CHIL receives $23.7 NIFA grant to prevent young child obesity

HIMSS establishes new Latino Initiative to focus on health IT needs

HMS receives ONC-ATB certification for electronic health record

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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