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AADA: U.S. Congress fails to approve legislation preventing 21% cut in payments for physicians

The American Academy of Dermatology Association is disappointed that the United States Congress has failed to approve legislation preventing the implementation of a 21 percent cut in payments for physicians who treat Medicare patients.

2 Mar 2010

IBM introduces new service that can enable health systems to exchange patient data with physicians

At the HIMSS10 Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, IBM introduced Initiate Exchange, a new service that enables health systems to exchange patient data with physicians. The company also announced that Initiate client CareSpark, has been awarded a Social Security Administration contract through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

2 Mar 2010

UC Davis Medical Center to implement LUMEDX Apollo interoperability solutions for cardiovascular information management

LUMEDX Corporation, a leading provider of vendor-neutral, integrated medical imaging and information systems, today announced that UC Davis Medical Center purchased LUMEDX Apollo structured reporting, analytic and interoperability solutions for their Heart and Vascular Centers. Prior to these purchases, UC Davis Medical Center used the Apollo clinical data repository solely to support cardiac registry participation.

2 Mar 2010

California's dirty air costs more than $193M in hospital-based medical care, finds RAND study

California's dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such as asthma and pneumonia that are triggered by elevated pollution levels, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

2 Mar 2010

Daily consumption of chlorella can help maintain healthy body

Americans' dietary habits have been scrutinized for being dependent on processed, refined and incomplete foods. This has left many Americans to reassess the foods they eat and essentially reconstruct their personal food pyramids.

2 Mar 2010

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Primordial, a leading vendor of communication, workflow, quality management and analytics applications for the medical imaging market, announced today that it will deploy and further develop Primordial’s applications at NYU Langone Medical Center. As part of the agreement, Primordial will install its platform and applications at NYU Langone Medical Center, an integrated academic medical center, to unify communications and manage complex workflow for a highly sub-specialized and distributed work environment.

2 Mar 2010

Health Impact Project announces $150,000 grant to examine health impacts of cap-and-trade regulation

The Health Impact Project today announced the award of a $150,000 grant to the Oakland-based Public Health Institute to collaborate with the California Department of Public Health on a health impact assessment (HIA) of a proposed "cap-and-trade" regulation under California's 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act.

2 Mar 2010

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services and Rochester RHIO, the regional health information organization connecting medical providers across nine counties in New York today announced that fifty area eldercare agencies are joining the health information exchange. For the first time anywhere, health care providers are now able to view medical and social supports that human service agencies provide senior patients, alongside their clinical information.

2 Mar 2010

Thomson Reuters introduces new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals

Thomson Reuters announced today the launch of its new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals.

2 Mar 2010

APTA: CMS announces dates for holding claims

(U.S. Physical Therapy) The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) reported on its website (APTA.org) on Friday, February 26, 2010 that “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will hold claims for the first 10 business days of March. The hold will apply to claims with dates of service of March 1, 2010 through March 12, 2010. Claims with dates of service of January 1, 2010-February 28, 2010 will continue to be paid based on the 0% update approved by Congress.

2 Mar 2010

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Aspirus, a non-profit system of hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities with more than 4,200 employees and more than 400 licensed inpatient beds in its system, is helping its practitioners streamline workflows while reducing IT administrative costs leveraging EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization.

2 Mar 2010

InterSystems Ensemble platform enables first successful electronic transmission of genetic data

InterSystems Corporation, the global leader in software for connected healthcare, today announced that InterSystems Ensemble® was the software platform for the first-ever successful electronic transmission of comprehensive genetic data. The information was sent cross-country from Boston-based Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM) to Intermountain HealthCare in Salt Lake City, Utah. The announcement about reaching this milestone in personalized medicine came at the HIMSS10 conference.

2 Mar 2010

GE Healthcare introduces Qualibria platform to improve performance of healthcare delivery organizations

GE Healthcare today is announcing Qualibria, its new clinical knowledge platform that enables healthcare delivery organizations to improve performance against their quality targets. Qualibria gives clinicians more control over patient outcomes by bringing together real-time data from existing IT systems and comparing these data against shared baselines of evidence-based best practices.

2 Mar 2010

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

Lexmark International, Inc. will showcase Lexmark Downtime Reports, the first printer-based healthcare downtime solution, at the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference being held in Atlanta.

2 Mar 2010

Physicians Foundation responds to new Medicare physician payment cuts of 21%

The Physicians Foundation, a national healthcare organization that represents the interests of physicians, responded today to new Medicare physician payment cuts of 21 percent, which became effective today after Congress failed to take action on a month long stay.

2 Mar 2010

Prevention of 21% cuts in Medicare payments to physicians: Congress fails to approve, AADA disappointed

The American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA) is disappointed that the United States Congress has failed to approve legislation preventing the implementation of a 21 percent cut in payments for physicians who treat Medicare patients.

2 Mar 2010

UPMC, Google Health, CMU and dbMotion develop novel PHR technology

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) today announced the development of personal health record (PHR) technology that may soon give patients the ability to add critical health information to the electronic health records maintained by hospitals and physicians. UPMC completed the proof-of-concept project in collaboration with Google Health, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and technology partner dbMotion.

2 Mar 2010

Two-week U.N. meeting on gender equality kicks off Monday

Ahead of the two-week U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which kicks off Monday in New York, Inter Press Service features a Q&A with Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), who highlights some of the goals of the meeting. As part of CSW, world leaders are expected to discuss gender equality in the context of the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, the 1994 Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

2 Mar 2010

Xerox's DocuShare platform allows doctors to access patient records in seconds

Healthcare organizations making the switch to digital can take the lead from White Memorial Medical Center. Administrators at the Los Angeles-based hospital say Xerox Corporation’s DocuShare Enterprise Content Management Platform allows doctors to access records in seconds – not hours – to efficiently monitor and serve the more than 17,000 patients the hospital sees annually.

2 Mar 2010

Merck's Isentress HIV/AIDS drug pricing: CalSTRS and CalPERS express concern

Today AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) announced that the two largest public pension funds in the nation, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), have sent letters to Merck and Co. Pharmaceuticals expressing concern over the company’s pricing for its key HIV/AIDS drug, Isentress—now the most expensive first-line AIDS treatment in the U.S.

2 Mar 2010

Healthcare News

AADA: U.S. Congress fails to approve legislation preventing 21% cut in payments for physicians

IBM introduces new service that can enable health systems to exchange patient data with physicians

UC Davis Medical Center to implement LUMEDX Apollo interoperability solutions for cardiovascular information management

California's dirty air costs more than $193M in hospital-based medical care, finds RAND study

Daily consumption of chlorella can help maintain healthy body

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Health Impact Project announces $150,000 grant to examine health impacts of cap-and-trade regulation

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

Thomson Reuters introduces new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals

APTA: CMS announces dates for holding claims

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

InterSystems Ensemble platform enables first successful electronic transmission of genetic data

GE Healthcare introduces Qualibria platform to improve performance of healthcare delivery organizations

Lexmark International to showcase printer-based healthcare downtime solution at HIMSS 2010

Physicians Foundation responds to new Medicare physician payment cuts of 21%

Prevention of 21% cuts in Medicare payments to physicians: Congress fails to approve, AADA disappointed

UPMC, Google Health, CMU and dbMotion develop novel PHR technology

Two-week U.N. meeting on gender equality kicks off Monday

Xerox's DocuShare platform allows doctors to access patient records in seconds

Merck's Isentress HIV/AIDS drug pricing: CalSTRS and CalPERS express concern

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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