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CareTech Solutions to demonstrate BoardNet at HIMSS10

CareTech Solutions (www.caretech.com), an information technology (IT) and Web products and services company serving U.S. hospitals and health systems, will showcase BoardNet™, the company's secure internet portal for hospital boards and administrators in its booth (Hall C; 1242) at HIMSS10 annual conference and exhibition at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

1 Mar 2010

CareTech Solutions to showcase full IT service and eHealth Web portfolio at HIMSS10

CareTech Solutions (www.caretech.com), an information technology (IT) and Web products and services company serving U.S. hospitals and health systems, will showcase its full IT service and eHealth Web portfolio during HIMSS10 annual conference and exhibition at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

1 Mar 2010

Ratifying global tobacco control treaty: Opportunity for U.S. to lead struggle against tobacco usage

The fifth anniversary of the international treaty to address the global tobacco epidemic presents a significant opportunity for President Obama to continue his strong leadership on tobacco control by submitting the treaty to the Senate for ratification and urging its quick approval.

1 Mar 2010

Seventh annual forum to discuss Ontario's alcohol policy and actions need to address alcohol-related harm

As the question of how best to deal with privatization of alcohol sales and drinking and driving continue to be debated in Ontario, the Ontario Public Health Association and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) are pleased to present the seventh annual forum, aptly entitled Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity.

1 Mar 2010

Seven healthcare providers implement API Healthcare's solutions to increase staff productivity

API Healthcare, the leading provider of human capital management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced that seven healthcare providers have implemented its solutions to better manage labor costs, increase staff productivity and streamline workflow throughout their organizations

1 Mar 2010

Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

Hartford Hospital, one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals, is collaborating with NextGate in a Health Information Exchange (HIE) implementation and a separate work-flow integration project. With an aim to improve patient care, both initiatives rely on NextGate's MatchMetrix indexing solution to uniquely identify a patient across multiple encounters and locations within the Hartford healthcare system and beyond.

28 Feb 2010

Cinergy Health expresses concern regarding unresolved partisan issues during healthcare summit

Cinergy Health, a nationwide provider of health insurance benefit programs for the consumer market, expressed its concern regarding unresolved partisan issues during the healthcare summit on Thursday, February 25th.

28 Feb 2010

Senate fails to repeal Medicare physician payment formula

A Medicare meltdown now seems certain, as the U.S. Senate has left early for the weekend, abandoning seniors, military families and baby boomers. The Senate failed to repeal the Medicare physician payment formula that will cause a drastic 21 percent payment cut to physicians who care for Medicare and TRICARE patients.

28 Feb 2010

Republicans press campaign against reconciliation; Mccain seek to strip Medicare out of health bill

Republicans and Democrat hit the Sunday talk shows today to debate whether a complex congressional process called 'reconciliation' should be used to consider a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system. Reconciliation is normally used for 'taxing and spending and reducing deficits,' said Sen.

28 Feb 2010

Overturning EPA's endangerment finding: American Public Health Association, leading health organizations oppose

The American Public Health Association yesterday joined a dozen leading health organizations in urging the U.S. Senate to oppose a resolution introduced by Sen. Lisa Murkowski to overturn or block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's finding for six greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

27 Feb 2010

Open public comment period for URAC's revised IRO Accreditation

URAC, a leading healthcare accreditation and education organization, today announced the open public comment period for its revised Independent Review Organization Accreditation, version 5.0, which includes a new accreditation track for Healthcare Peer Review.

27 Feb 2010

NPAF's message to White House Summit participants: Policy agreement must triumph over partisan politics

The National Patient Advocate Foundation -- the sister organization to the Patient Advocate Foundation -- a direct patient services organization that assists patients throughout the country – delivered a message to all White House Summit participants that policy agreement must triumph over partisan politics during the bipartisan health care reform meeting.

27 Feb 2010

Of the 2.3M inmates, only 1.5M meet DSM IV medical criteria for substance abuse: CASA

Of the 2.3 million inmates crowding our nation's prisons and jails, 1.5 million meet the DSM IV medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction, and another 458,000, while not meeting the strict DSM IV criteria, had histories of substance abuse; were under the influence of alcohol or other drugs at the time of their crime; committed their offense to get money to buy drugs; were incarcerated for an alcohol or drug law violation; or shared some combination of these characteristics, according to Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population. Combined these two groups constitute 85 percent of the U.S. prison population.

27 Feb 2010

Electronic prescribing decreases prescription errors

Should doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven times less likely to make errors than those writing their prescriptions by hand. The study appears today in the online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

27 Feb 2010

Assisting people with disabilities during emergency or disaster situations: New training materials

Ontario-wide - Natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami and other catastrophic events have keenly demonstrated the need for emergency preparedness for government, businesses, households and individuals. When planning for disasters or emergencies, special consideration needs to be taken to include people with disabilities.

27 Feb 2010

Aetna.com: Most visited health insurance website

The recently redesigned Aetna.com is a hit with web surfers, who made it the most visited website among health insurers in the fourth quarter of 2009. In fact, 20 percent of Americans who visited a health insurance website during the quarter visited an Aetna site, according to “The Online Health Insurance Landscape,” an independent online audience measurement of health insurance websites recently released by comScore.

27 Feb 2010

Greenway Medical Technologies donates leading edge Health IT solutions to NKU

Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is providing its integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®; clinical trials and research analytics solution PrimeResearch™; and revenue cycle management solution PrimeRCM® to Northern Kentucky University.

27 Feb 2010

Two Atlanta-based nursing homes and their principals to pay the U.S. and several states $14M

Atlanta-based Mariner Health Care Inc. and SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC, as well as their principals, Leonard Grunstein, Murray Forman and Rubin Schron, have agreed to pay the United States and several states $14 million, the Justice Department announced today.

27 Feb 2010

Ensure radiation therapy from certified technologists with ongoing qualifications

Every day in the United States, tens of thousands of patients are exposed to ionizing radiation through radiation therapy, CT scans, x rays, mammograms, and other medical imaging and therapeutic procedures. Patients need to have confidence that the technologists caring for them have the credentials and qualifications to safely administer radiation, and that the equipment they are using is properly calibrated and maintained to deliver radiation safely and within the proper dose parameters.

27 Feb 2010

CPR instructions through cell phone: Potential critical, life-saving tool

People who received detailed audio instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) demonstrated better compression rate, hand placement and compression depth than those who did not receive recorded instructions by cell phone. The results of the study are published today online in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Cell Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Audio Instructions When Needed by Lay Rescuers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial").

27 Feb 2010

Healthcare News

CareTech Solutions to demonstrate BoardNet at HIMSS10

CareTech Solutions to showcase full IT service and eHealth Web portfolio at HIMSS10

Ratifying global tobacco control treaty: Opportunity for U.S. to lead struggle against tobacco usage

Seventh annual forum to discuss Ontario's alcohol policy and actions need to address alcohol-related harm

Seven healthcare providers implement API Healthcare's solutions to increase staff productivity

Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

Cinergy Health expresses concern regarding unresolved partisan issues during healthcare summit

Senate fails to repeal Medicare physician payment formula

Republicans press campaign against reconciliation; Mccain seek to strip Medicare out of health bill

Overturning EPA's endangerment finding: American Public Health Association, leading health organizations oppose

Open public comment period for URAC's revised IRO Accreditation

NPAF's message to White House Summit participants: Policy agreement must triumph over partisan politics

Of the 2.3M inmates, only 1.5M meet DSM IV medical criteria for substance abuse: CASA

Electronic prescribing decreases prescription errors

Assisting people with disabilities during emergency or disaster situations: New training materials

Aetna.com: Most visited health insurance website

Greenway Medical Technologies donates leading edge Health IT solutions to NKU

Two Atlanta-based nursing homes and their principals to pay the U.S. and several states $14M

Ensure radiation therapy from certified technologists with ongoing qualifications

CPR instructions through cell phone: Potential critical, life-saving tool

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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