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Hospitals to get more bargaining clout for medical devices

The Wall Street Journal: "Hospitals lack leverage when negotiating prices for high-cost implants like defibrillators and replacement hips because individual doctors, rather than hospitals, typically select the products they use in their patients. Since these doctors often aren't hospital employees, they have little incentive to bargain-hunt.

17 May 2010

IRS to announce tax credit rules for small business health premiums

The Associated Press: "Pitching President Barack Obama's health care law to skeptical business owners, the IRS on Monday will announce ground rules for small firms wishing to claim a new federal tax credit for health insurance." The tax credit, which was created by the new health overhaul law, "covers up to 35 percent of the premiums that certain small businesses pay on behalf of their workers.

17 May 2010

Dartmouth to start health care delivery research center

"Dartmouth College is getting $35 million to open a center it hopes will help the nation take the next big steps in health care reform: improving quality while lowering costs," The Associated Press reports.

17 May 2010

Halozyme announces voluntary HYLENEX product recall

Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that Halozyme and Baxter have confirmed the presence of small flake-like glass particles in a limited number of vials of HYLENEX® (hyaluronidase human injection) product at the Baxter manufacturing facility. Earlier today, Halozyme notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it is voluntarily recalling affected lots of 150U HYLENEX product from distribution.

17 May 2010

Freescale Semiconductor receives ZigBee Certification for wireless health and wellness solutions

Freescale Semiconductor today announced it has received ZigBee Certified product status for its ZigBee Health Care wireless health and wellness processing platforms. The ZigBee Certified products status is awarded to products that have been tested and met criteria for interoperability that enable wireless devices to securely and reliably monitor and manage noncritical, low-acuity health care services.

17 May 2010

First Edition: May 17, 2010

Today's headlines highlight stories about efforts to advance the implementation of federal health reforms as well as the sweeping measure's political impact in primary races across the country.

17 May 2010

University of Freiburg to host symposium on fate

The Institute of Medical Ethics and Medical History of the University of Freiburg is hosting the 1st Freiburg Symposium on the topic "The End of Fate? The Human Condition Between the Facts of Life and Medical-Technological Design."

17 May 2010

Fraud, waste, and abuse

The Congressional Budget Office announcement May 11, 2010, that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) would cost, over the next ten years, $115 Billion more, brings the total cost over $1 Trillion. Imagine—Congress and the President spent a whole year jamming a 2,309 page monster down our throats on the pretense of “eliminating fraud, waste and abuse (in the delivery of medical care) at a lower cost”. This same Congressional Budget Office, using the contrived numbers given by Congress, had previously said Obamacare would REDUCE federal deficits by $143 Billion. I smell FRAUD.

17 May 2010

Sports physicals keep athletes healthy to play and avoid tragic occurrences, says sports medicine expert

While seemingly invincible teenage athletes at the height of good health and fitness aren't likely candidates for doctor's visits, even the fit need to visit a physician before practice. Sports physicals, often called pre-participation sports examinations, are key to making sure athletes are healthy enough to play and avoiding tragic occurrences, like sudden cardiac death, says a Saint Louis University sports medicine expert.

17 May 2010

Dartmouth College receives $35M to establish The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science

Dartmouth College has received a $35 million commitment to establish The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, President Jim Yong Kim announced today. The anonymous gift will advance a new field of study, harnessing the knowledge and expertise of faculty across multiple disciplines from the arts and sciences as well as from the medical, business and engineering schools.

17 May 2010

Small business lobby, others join states' lawsuit against health law

"A national business lobbying group on Friday joined 20 U.S. states in a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system. The joint lawsuit led by Florida and now grouping 20 states was filed on March 23 by mostly Republican attorneys general." The suit claims the law "violates state government rights in the U.S. Constitution and will force massive new spending on hard-pressed state governments" (Brown, 5/14).

17 May 2010

Schwarzenegger budget proposal cuts in-home care

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled his latest spending plan for the financially strapped state on Friday, and news coverage focused on the deep cuts he is proposing.

17 May 2010

Anti-abortion groups use health law in efforts to restrict insurance coverage

Abortion opponents fought passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul to the bitter end, and now that it's the law, they're using it to limit coverage by private insurers. An obscure part of the law allows states to restrict abortion coverage by private plans operating in new insurance markets.

17 May 2010

BizXchange facilitates B2B barter transactions for health care

Doubt was cast on the legitimacy of using barter for health care services on April 21, when Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden commented that in the "olden days" people paid doctors with "a chicken" or other goods. BizXchange, a barter exchange company with offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Dubai, has been offering its more than 2,000 members health care services via barter for the last eight years. Members have spent nearly $4 million on health care related services since BizX was founded in 2002.

15 May 2010

Soliant Health opens up voting for 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals contest

Soliant Health, a leading specialty healthcare staffing provider and part of Adecco Group, has opened up voting for its second annual 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals contest.

15 May 2010

SEIU ULTCW responds to Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts to In-Home Supportive Services

Below is a statement released today by Laphonza Butler, President of SEIU ULTCW, in response to Governor Schwarzenegger's May Revise and his proposed $750 million in cuts to In-Home Supportive Services:

15 May 2010

CEDF small business loan guarantee program to stem improper disposal of needles, prescription drugs

Connecticut waterways may be safer from biomedical waste, thanks to an innovative Community Economic Development Fund small business loan guarantee program. CEDF, with loan-program partners, Connecticut's Department of Economic and Community and the City of West Haven have guaranteed a small business loan to a West Haven company that stems improper disposal of needles and prescription drugs.

15 May 2010

Healthcare News

Hospitals to get more bargaining clout for medical devices

IRS to announce tax credit rules for small business health premiums

Dartmouth to start health care delivery research center

Halozyme announces voluntary HYLENEX product recall

Freescale Semiconductor receives ZigBee Certification for wireless health and wellness solutions

First Edition: May 17, 2010

University of Freiburg to host symposium on fate

Fraud, waste, and abuse

Sports physicals keep athletes healthy to play and avoid tragic occurrences, says sports medicine expert

Dartmouth College receives $35M to establish The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science

Small business lobby, others join states' lawsuit against health law

Schwarzenegger budget proposal cuts in-home care

Anti-abortion groups use health law in efforts to restrict insurance coverage

BizXchange facilitates B2B barter transactions for health care

Soliant Health opens up voting for 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals contest

SEIU ULTCW responds to Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts to In-Home Supportive Services

CEDF small business loan guarantee program to stem improper disposal of needles, prescription drugs

Biobanking is a step closer to becoming reality in Europe

United Spinal Association and ICS co-sponsor first annual conference to empower women with disabilities

Country's first nurses to finish new nurse-midwifery program receive DNP degrees

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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