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Hospital Dream Jobs website chosen #34 on 'Top 50 Nursing Job Sites Worth Bookmarking' list

Hospital Dream Jobs, a website focusing on hospital employment, medical careers, and healthcare jobs, was chosen #34 on a list of the "Top 50 Nursing Job Sites Worth Bookmarking" compiled by The Web Nurse, a leading blog for all things related to nursing jobs, healthcare, and the medical profession in general. This honor is especially significant given that Hospital Dream Jobs' website has only been live for six months, and is further validation of the effectiveness of the website's state-of-the-art services for both job seekers and employers in the medical profession.

26 Jul 2010

Aptium Oncology to provide administrative services at new Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Offering greater access to cancer care services for Manhattan West Side residents in New York, Beth Israel Medical Center has opened the Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center - West Side Campus in the facility formerly known as St. Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center (SVCCC). The facility, which originally opened in 1996, was one of a few Saint Vincent's outpatient services units untouched and left open when the iconic hospital closed its doors on April 30, 2010. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony launched the center on Wednesday, July 14, 2010.

26 Jul 2010

Experts available for comment on new medicare contracts that drive health care hookups

So-called "accountable care organizations" or ACOs might change the way that the agency running Medicare does business. An article in the Indiana Business Journal explains that the new health reform law requires the agency to sign new "shared savings" contracts with ACOs and gives examples of how these organizations work. ACOs can begin doing business with Medicare in January 2012.

26 Jul 2010

Campaign for safe horse riding

A recent UK HealthCare survey found that 60 percent of Kentucky horseback riding respondents did not wear any safety apparel the last time they went riding.

26 Jul 2010

Radiologists better at evaluating legal cases: Study

A study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found that 31 radiologists who reviewed the CT scans used in a medical malpractice lawsuit did not agree with the conclusions reached by four paid medical expert witnesses in the case.

26 Jul 2010

Kindergarten puppet show reduces anxiety of kids with cancer

THE PUPPET SHOW IS PART OF THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL PROGRAM AT DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE IN BOSTON. IT'S DESIGNED TO REDUCE THE ANXIETY OF CHILDREN LIVING WITH CANCER. LISA SCHERBER (SHER-BURR) HEAD'S UP THE PROGRAM.

26 Jul 2010

Study compares current state of healthcare system in UK and proposed system in US

A comparison of the current state of the healthcare system in the UK and the new system proposed under legislation pushed through by Barack Obama's government, shows some surprising results. The review is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM).

26 Jul 2010

Council seeks to limit medical resident working hours for improved patient care

As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education seeks to improve patient care by further limiting the hours worked by medical residents, the Journal of Surgical Research will published a new study online on Monday reporting that outcomes in two common surgeries - appendectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy - were similar among residents who had worked less than 16 hours and those who had worked more than 16 hours.

26 Jul 2010

New guidelines for care of heart transplant recipients from ISHLT

Since the dawn of heart transplantation in the 1960s, medical care of heart transplant recipients has varied from center to center and been guided by the experience of individual clinicians. The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) has made an unprecedented commitment by convening experts in all areas of heart transplantation to develop practice guidelines for the care of heart transplant recipients.

26 Jul 2010

NUHW wins agreement for workers' right to vote by mail

On a conference call held Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) won an agreement that ensures workers' right to vote by mail in the privacy of their homes, in a government-protected election to join NUHW.

26 Jul 2010

Sec. of State Clinton signs 5-year AIDS control partnership agreement with Vietnam

During her trip to Vietnam, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "engaged in health diplomacy by visiting the Ngoc Lam Pagoda orphanage for AIDS-affected children," Foreign Policy's blog "Madam Secretary" reports.

26 Jul 2010

Methodist surgical team completes first phase training to implant new total artificial heart

A 13-member surgical team from the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center completed the first phase of training to implant a new total artificial heart designed to completely replace the heart's function while the patient waits for a heart transplant. Methodist will be the first hospital in Texas to offer this total heart replacement.

26 Jul 2010

UnitedHealth ups ante on health IT with purchase of Picis, expecting stimulus windfall

Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal: UnitedHealth Group's technology consulting subsidiary Ingenix, of Eden Prairie, Minn., has purchased Massachusetts tech firm Picis, a maker of emergency room and intensive care software. "Both companies are deeply involved in the area where health care and information technology meet. Ingenix, which had revenue of $1.8 billion last year, provides consulting and outsourcing to almost 6,000 hospitals.

26 Jul 2010

L2FU reports 100% recovery of recent study's lost clinical trial patients

Recovering unnecessarily lost patient information is now a viable reality. Lost to follow up rates in clinical research trials can range from 20- 60%. As a result, patients who drop from a clinical trial and 'go missing' can impart a major set-back in pharmaceutical research. Failure to contact patients and obtain final closure data, or bring them back into the clinical trial (if the protocol allows) results in study delays, increased patient recruitment costs, compromised study data, and in some cases an insufficient amount of information to prove the safety and efficacy of a drug.

26 Jul 2010

Highlights on reasoning behind MRC's negative decision on funding of IVF

Thirty-two years ago today, the world's first baby was born after in vitro fertilisation. However, the work that led to the birth of Louise Brown on 25 July 1978 had to be privately funded after the UK's Medical Research Council decided in 1971 against providing the Cambridge physiologist Robert Edwards and the Oldham gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe with long-term financial support. Today, an intriguing paper published in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction reveals for the first time the reasoning behind the MRC's much-criticised decision.

26 Jul 2010

It's back: House Democrats argue anew for public option

House Democrats are arguing again for the passage of a public option to compete with private health plans and reduce the deficit, news outlets report.

26 Jul 2010

Outcomes selected to administer MTM program for employees in the State of Iowa

Outcomes Pharmaceutical Health Care has been selected by the State of Iowa Department of Administrative Services to administer a Medication Therapy Management program for the state employee health plan.

26 Jul 2010

Recession-weary workers, states still hope for COBRA and Medicaid subsidies

"Although Congress this week approved an extension of unemployment insurance benefits, two health-related proposals initially linked to the measure - including extensions of COBRA subsidies for unemployed workers and enhanced federal Medicaid contributions for states — have stalled" (Villegas, 7/23).

26 Jul 2010

Pulse Report 2010: Recession, unemployment, insurance losses increase pressure on ERs, patients

Average length of stay in the nation's emergency departments increased to four hours and seven minutes, and the nation's emergency physicians are very concerned about patient safety being jeopardized by long wait times. Press Ganey's Pulse Report 2010, released yesterday, confirms what the American College of Emergency Physicians has reported previously: The recession, high unemployment and insurance losses are increasing pressure on emergency departments and their patients.

26 Jul 2010

Md. Democrats tout crackdown on Medicaid fraud; Four plead not guilty in Calif. Medicare fraud case

Touting a favorite program, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown said Thursday the state's health department has found $26 million in fraud and waste in the state Medicaid program. The extra cash will not close the roughly $1.5 billion deficit that awaits the winner of November's gubernatorial election, but Brown argued the extra money will help. Brown also used the occasion to remind folks that he lobbied to strengthen the state's Medicaid False Claims Act during the legislative session.

26 Jul 2010

Healthcare News

Hospital Dream Jobs website chosen #34 on 'Top 50 Nursing Job Sites Worth Bookmarking' list

Aptium Oncology to provide administrative services at new Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Experts available for comment on new medicare contracts that drive health care hookups

Campaign for safe horse riding

Radiologists better at evaluating legal cases: Study

Kindergarten puppet show reduces anxiety of kids with cancer

Study compares current state of healthcare system in UK and proposed system in US

Council seeks to limit medical resident working hours for improved patient care

New guidelines for care of heart transplant recipients from ISHLT

NUHW wins agreement for workers' right to vote by mail

Sec. of State Clinton signs 5-year AIDS control partnership agreement with Vietnam

Methodist surgical team completes first phase training to implant new total artificial heart

UnitedHealth ups ante on health IT with purchase of Picis, expecting stimulus windfall

L2FU reports 100% recovery of recent study's lost clinical trial patients

Highlights on reasoning behind MRC's negative decision on funding of IVF

It's back: House Democrats argue anew for public option

Outcomes selected to administer MTM program for employees in the State of Iowa

Recession-weary workers, states still hope for COBRA and Medicaid subsidies

Pulse Report 2010: Recession, unemployment, insurance losses increase pressure on ERs, patients

Md. Democrats tout crackdown on Medicaid fraud; Four plead not guilty in Calif. Medicare fraud case

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