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CIGNA plans help reduce annual health care costs without compromising care

When Americans engage in health-smart habits such as participating in health coaching and disease management programs, substituting generic medications for brand name drugs and avoiding unnecessary trips to the emergency room, their total medical costs went down 15 percent -- an average $358 per person in the first year -- according to a new multi-year study comparing the health care claims experience of 897,000 CIGNA customers in consumer driven health (CDH) plans, PPOs and HMOs.

20 Oct 2010

Nightingale signs over 400 EMR seats in Canada during first half of fiscal 2011

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services today announced that during its fiscal 2011 second quarter ended September 30, it signed agreements to deploy its Nightingale On Demand EMR and practice management solution with healthcare providers across Canada, representing more than 200 seats (A "Seat" is defined as a paying healthcare provider using Nightingale's Electronic Medical Record).

20 Oct 2010

StoneArch Creative receives Gold Award at MM&M 2010

For the third consecutive year, StoneArch Creative was honored with a Gold Award at the 2010 Medical Marketing and Media (MM&M) Awards, held on October 12 in New York City.

20 Oct 2010

Atrius selects Sightlines, DxCG Risk solutions for healthcare processes

Verisk Health, Inc., announced today that Atrius Health has selected Sightlines Medical Intelligence and DxCG Risk Solutions to identify, manage, and predict healthcare risk across its commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare populations.

20 Oct 2010

New online community to discuss weight loss management

Frank Cruz has been at the forefront of a campaign to stop the spread of obesity in America. In an effort to give people a chance to share their stories and struggles with weight, Frank began blogging on the website "Fat Man Unleashed," an online community of voices who have all battled with what Frank calls, "The Yo-yo Life."

20 Oct 2010

First Edition: October 20, 2010

Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby reports One of the nation's largest health insurers said today it is testing a new way to pay for some cancer treatments, aiming to identify the best medicines and limit profits doctors make by dispensing in-office chemotherapy drugs.

20 Oct 2010

New model for rural clinics in underserved areas

The University of Maryland Dental School Clinic, Perryville is a new model for rural clinics in underserved areas across the country, says Christian S. Stohler, DMD, DrMedDent, dean of the Dental School in Baltimore.

20 Oct 2010

ACS CAN asks federal and state candidates to state positions on cancer issues

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is asking federal and state candidates to go on the record with their positions on cancer issues. ACS CAN, the nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, has reached out to more than 500 candidates across the country in a nationwide effort to educate voters about laws and policies that help people fight cancer.

20 Oct 2010

Elsevier / MC Strategies partners with AORN to develop latest module for Perioperative Collection

Elsevier / MC Strategies a pioneer in providing e-learning solutions to more than 1,300 healthcare organizations, has partnered with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) to develop the latest module for Mosby's Nursing Skills Perioperative Collection, the only perioperative-specific set of nursing skills approved by AORN to be consistent with the Standards and Recommended Practices.

20 Oct 2010

Euroscience deeply concerned over governments' proposed cuts in research investment

Across the European Union and the wider Europe, governments are engaged in cutting public expenditure and we are entering an unprecedented period of austerity. Thus, public support for research is now at risk in a manner not seen before and just at the time when Europe faces new challenges from the rising new economies, especially in Asia, and when threats to our quality of life from climate change, demographic change and energy, food and resource availability and sustainability are becoming evermore threatening and urgent.

20 Oct 2010

JIPH selected for inclusion in MEDLINE Indexing

Elsevier Middle East announces that the Journal of Infection and Public Health (JIPH) has been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Citations for articles indexed, the indexing terms and the abstract printed in the journal are now searchable using PubMed (http://www.pubmed.gov). Indexing using the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) advanced MeSH terminology will be retroactive from Volume 1, Issue 1 (2008) of the journal.

20 Oct 2010

Department of Veterans Affairs advertises Suicide Prevention Hotline

This week, nearly 1,200 life-saving advertisements will go up on city buses, bus shelters, rail and subway stations across the Nation displaying a message of hope for those who have served their country and may be facing an emotional crisis. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is advertising its Suicide Prevention Hotline through Jan. 9, 2011.

20 Oct 2010

ACS NSQIP recognizes Christiana Care Health System as participating hospital

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized Christiana Care Health System as one of 26 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals in the United States that have achieved exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care.

20 Oct 2010

New CIMIT Accelerator program spins out HanGenix

A recently formed Boston-based start up called HanGenix is the first company to be spun out of the new CIMIT Accelerator program. HanGenix is focused on reducing hospital acquired infections (HAI) by installing comprehensive hand hygiene solutions that remind clinicians to perform proper hand hygiene and document their compliance.

20 Oct 2010

HHS announces new $30 million Consumer Assistance Grants program awards

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced new Consumer Assistance Grants program awards of nearly $30 million to help states and territories put patients in charge of their health care. These grants will support states' efforts to establish or strengthen consumer assistance programs that provide direct services to consumers with questions or concerns regarding their health insurance.

20 Oct 2010

Highlights of world's largest ophthalmic education conference

Results of clinical research on new presbyopia treatments now available in Europe-and possibly available soon in the United States-were reported in today's Scientific Program of the 2010 Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO). The AAO-MEACO meeting is the world's largest, most comprehensive ophthalmic education conference and is in session October 16 through 19 at McCormick Place, Chicago.

20 Oct 2010

Minnesota health care organizations share patient EHRs through network of interoperable systems

Eight of the largest health care organizations in Minnesota have successfully launched software that enables electronic sharing of patient records across the group - and with other network members nationwide. The network of interoperable systems allows for an estimated 75 percent of Minnesotans (3.6 million patients) to show up at any one of the organizations' hospitals or clinics and have records from previous visits immediately available to doctors.

20 Oct 2010

National Pap Test Campaign for cervical cancer diagnosis

The Federation of Medical Women of Canada (FMWC) and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) are ready to launch this year's National Pap Test Campaign, to take place during National Cervical Cancer Awareness Week. From October 24th to 30th, over 100 health-care professionals across Canada are taking a stand against cervical cancer by hosting public Pap test clinics in their community.

20 Oct 2010

Loyola University Chicago MNSON supports recommendations to advance nursing profession

Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON) supports the recommendations recently issued by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine to advance the nursing profession in the United States.

20 Oct 2010

Falls are the leading cause of ER visits and unintentional home injury deaths

If you or someone you know has been treated in the emergency department recently after suffering a fall, you are not alone. Unintentional falls are the leading injury-related reason for why people seek emergency care, with almost 9 million visits occurring each year, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

20 Oct 2010