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Sharp refines IT service management strategy to include BMC solutions

Sharp HealthCare is known for leveraging IT to support its culture of quality service, innovation and excellence. But as the industry faces new reforms affecting patient care and management of patient data, Sharp is relying on BMC Software for an integrated approach to maintain its reputation of IT innovation.

12 Jan 2011

HP awarded $30 million contract to create Texas Medicaid health information exchange

HP today announced a 52-month services agreement with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to create a statewide Medicaid health information exchange.

12 Jan 2011

Salix and CCA offer Colonoscopy For Dummies

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., in partnership with the Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA), is proud to announce the availability of Colonoscopy For Dummies.

12 Jan 2011

First Edition: January 12, 2011

Today's headlines include reports about how the congressional health debate might proceed in the wake of last weekend's violence and more details on New York's Medicaid challenges.

12 Jan 2011

Best diet aid: Water

If you're like most people, losing those last few holiday pounds is high on your list of to-dos this month. Fortunately, one of the best diet aids is free, abundant and right at your fingertips: water.

12 Jan 2011

New blood inventory management system will help track usage in patients

Hospitals will be able to carefully track their use of blood products in patients, manage their inventory and compare blood use protocols against best practices through a new inventory management system being made available to the 75 independent blood centers that are members of America's Blood Centers.

12 Jan 2011

Americans taking bed bug resurgence seriously

One out of five Americans has had a bed bug infestation in their home or knows someone who has encountered bed bugs at home or in a hotel according to a new survey released by the National Pest Management Association (NPMA).

12 Jan 2011

Network Frontiers' Unified Compliance Framework update focuses on mapping Healthcare Authority Documents

Network Frontiers, the premier provider of IT Compliance mapping, has released the Q4 2010 Unified Compliance Framework quarterly update. The Q4 2010 release focuses on mapping Healthcare Authority Documents.

12 Jan 2011

Patients prepared to travel 'dental miles' to register with NHS dentists

It used to be a fear of the dentist that kept us away from the dental chair but today it is more than twice as likely to be the cost of dental care that's holding us back, according to research from Tesco Dental Insurance.

12 Jan 2011

UnitedHealthcare selects Millennium as participating provider of pain management services

Millennium Laboratories, a leading provider of therapeutic drug monitoring and education to physicians and staff treating chronic pain, announced it will provide pain management and therapeutic drug monitoring services to physicians participating in UnitedHealthcare's national care provider network.

12 Jan 2011

Lightning Process training course tops in survey by ME/ CFS

A revolutionary self training course has emerged top in a survey conducted by the Sussex and Kent ME/ CFS Society.

12 Jan 2011

Taking the Pulse Europe study provides data on physician behaviors, preferences with pharmaceutical companies

Pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research releases its latest Taking the Pulse Europe study, which explores how physicians in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom use the Internet and technology for their practices and professional purposes.

12 Jan 2011

Winter weather tips for people with high blood pressure

It's sad but true. Celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil of PA and his relatives accurately predict the end or extension of winter only 39 percent of the time according to the United States National Climate Center.

12 Jan 2011

Kaiser Permanente Northwest leads nation in counseling against childhood obesity

Kaiser Permanente Northwest leads the nation among all reporting commercial health plans with top marks in counseling children for physical activity and nutrition, according to the National Committee on Quality Assurance's Quality Compass for 2010.

12 Jan 2011

Health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements increase to 5.7M in 2010

The number of health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) increased to 5.7 million in 2010, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). Assets in these account-based health plans increased to $7.7 billion in 2010.

12 Jan 2011

University of Leicester to launch new €3.5m research centre

The University of Leicester is to launch a new €3.5m research centre that will train a new breed of hi-tech environmental researchers for the future - skilled in using the latest satellite technologies to tackle pressing environmental issues.

12 Jan 2011

AMGA ACO Implementation Collaborative to meet January 26-28, 2011 in Scottsdale

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) today announced 16 leading medical groups and organized systems of care that will be participating in its ACO Implementation Collaborative, scheduled to have its first meeting January 26-28, 2011 at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona.

12 Jan 2011

Education for Health to help achieve Healthy People 2020 goals

Launched on December 2, 2010, Healthy People 2020 is an ambitious, science-based, 10-year agenda for improving the health of all Americans. A key component, Education for Health, is an educational roadmap to achieve the Healthy People 2020 goals.

12 Jan 2011

Doctors matter in treatment of breast cancer

A recent journal article presents evidence that suggests that the course of treatment that a doctor chooses to treat a breast cancer patient may play a larger role in expected outcomes than was previously believed. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute's article (online 01/03/2011; print 01/19/2011) Breast Cancer Outcome: Your Doctor Matters examines variations in outcomes from surgeon to surgeon.

12 Jan 2011

Dartmouth-Hitchcock joins GOR Initiative to help reduce environmental impact of country's operating rooms

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has joined the Greening the Operating Room Initiative, Practice Greenhealth's broad coalition that plans to develop a sweeping and prescriptive path to green the country's operating rooms.

12 Jan 2011