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MedeAnalytics' white paper focuses on potential reductions of annual updates to the IPPS

MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, today released a white paper on one of the HITECH Act's measures designed to motivate hospitals to become meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs): potential negative adjustments to Medicare's market basket updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS).

30 Mar 2010

Seniors at Springhill retirement community find a secret to stay young and active

Seniors at Springhill retirement community have found a secret to staying young and active—HealthAbility. Springhill resident Joe Bertoncini, 88, has always been active, with 64 Senior Olympic medals over the past 14 years. He says the HealthAbility program has helped him to build on those healthy results.

30 Mar 2010

Posting calorie counts on menus and menu boards also needed in Ontario

US President Barack Obama's groundbreaking health care legislation includes a provision requiring restaurants to post calories on menus and menu boards. For the past year, Ontario's doctors have been calling for similar action from the government, chain restaurants and school cafeterias in the province and believe now is the perfect time for this initiative to be implemented.

30 Mar 2010

AMGA praises members for including ACOs in health reform legislation

The American Medical Group Association announced significant accomplishments in its advocacy efforts to reward members for the high level of quality, cost-efficient, coordinated care they bring to their communities with the inclusion of language establishing Accountable Care Organizations in the recently passed health reform legislation.

30 Mar 2010

Euthanasia: Defining actions and terms, and promoting honest debate needed

It is time to discard the word euthanasia because it mixes ideas and values that confuses the debate about dying, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

30 Mar 2010

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority hires two Patient Safety Liaisons for Southeast region

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has hired its final two Patient Safety Liaisons for the Southeast region to serve as educational patient safety consultants to healthcare facilities that submit reports through the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System.

30 Mar 2010

Bayshore Home Health deploys WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption software

Bayshore Home Health, Canada's largest provider of home and community health care services, is installing WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption software on all laptops and tablets used by the company, including those utilized by clinical managers and nurses.

30 Mar 2010

First Edition: March 30, 2010

Today's news pages are full of stories detailing more particulars of the new health care bill to be signed into law today by President Obama. Meanwhile, the headlines also indicate that for Democrats, politically capitalizing on the new measure will be no easy task.

30 Mar 2010

US consumers torn between health insurance coverage and rising health care costs

DSS Research, the leader in market research for the health insurance industry, developed a proprietary set of metrics that gauge the level of engagement in health care on the part of the consumer. This quarter we also added questions based on the current health care crisis.

30 Mar 2010

MedBuild receives MBI's 2010 Awards of Distinction for Nash Memorial Hospital Project

Modular Building Institute has named MedBuild, a healthcare division of ModSpace, first-place winner for their 2010 Awards of Distinction. MBI gave MedBuild top honors in its permanent healthcare category for its construction of the patient-ready imaging suite at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount, N.C.

30 Mar 2010

National Donate Life Month: Facts surrounding dire need for organ donations

With Thursday, April 1, 2010, marking the start of "National Donate Life Month," Health Net, Inc. is working to increase awareness regarding the urgent need for organ donations - particularly among minority populations - and also to dispute some of the misperceptions surrounding organ donation.

30 Mar 2010

Patients form new coalition to advocate for patients' rights and to fight health bureaucracy

For the first time in Canadian history patients met formally to voice their concerns about the way healthcare decisions are made.

30 Mar 2010

United Concordia Dental's enrollment reaches 8 million membership mark

United Concordia Dental, one of the nation's largest dental insurers, today eclipsed 8 million members.

30 Mar 2010

Regenstrief Institute awarded Recovery Act contract to automate disability case determinations

The Regenstrief Institute has been awarded a Recovery Act contract to help the U.S. Social Security Administration and Indiana healthcare providers shorten and improve the process of making disability case determinations through automation. Work is scheduled to begin March 31.

30 Mar 2010

Preventive health care researchers meet to outline vision for evidence-based prevention in health care

Leading preventive health care researchers, physicians and executives assembled at U.S. Preventive Medicine® Friday to outline their vision for advancing evidence-based prevention in health care.

30 Mar 2010

Research: Having large number of supportive relatives increases fear of dying among elderly

Having a large number of supportive relatives increases the fear of dying among the elderly from ethnic minority groups, suggests research in Postgraduate Medical Journal.

30 Mar 2010

Key provisions in health care reform to impact employers' benefit plans: Ceridian Web forum

Ceridian Corporation, a leading provider of managed human resource, employee benefits administration, tax filing and payroll outsourcing solutions, announced today it will present a free educational Web forum to help employers understand the changes they will soon need to make to their benefits plans on account of health care reform.

30 Mar 2010

WPS Health Insurance secures spot on 2010 World's Most Ethical Companies list

WPS Health Insurance, Wisconsin's leading not-for-profit health insurer, has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for 2010. Out of a record number of nominations for the award, WPS Health Insurance (Wisconsin Physicians Service) secured a hard-earned spot on the list by going the extra mile, implementing upright business practices and initiatives that are instrumental to the company's success, benefit the community, and raise the bar for ethical standards within the industry.

30 Mar 2010

Nationwide campaign to repeal government controlled national health care program

Americans for Responsible Health Care announced today that it is launching a nationwide campaign to collect ten million signatures of Americans determined to repeal, reform and replace the new government controlled national health care program that was enacted despite the public's overwhelming opposition.

30 Mar 2010

CompCare signs contract to provide autism care coordination services in Wisconsin

Comprehensive Care Corporation today announced it has signed a contract effective March 1, 2010, to provide autism care coordination services for a health plan in Wisconsin.

30 Mar 2010

Healthcare News

MedeAnalytics' white paper focuses on potential reductions of annual updates to the IPPS

Seniors at Springhill retirement community find a secret to stay young and active

Posting calorie counts on menus and menu boards also needed in Ontario

AMGA praises members for including ACOs in health reform legislation

Euthanasia: Defining actions and terms, and promoting honest debate needed

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority hires two Patient Safety Liaisons for Southeast region

Bayshore Home Health deploys WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption software

First Edition: March 30, 2010

US consumers torn between health insurance coverage and rising health care costs

MedBuild receives MBI's 2010 Awards of Distinction for Nash Memorial Hospital Project

National Donate Life Month: Facts surrounding dire need for organ donations

Patients form new coalition to advocate for patients' rights and to fight health bureaucracy

United Concordia Dental's enrollment reaches 8 million membership mark

Regenstrief Institute awarded Recovery Act contract to automate disability case determinations

Preventive health care researchers meet to outline vision for evidence-based prevention in health care

Research: Having large number of supportive relatives increases fear of dying among elderly

Key provisions in health care reform to impact employers' benefit plans: Ceridian Web forum

WPS Health Insurance secures spot on 2010 World's Most Ethical Companies list

Nationwide campaign to repeal government controlled national health care program

CompCare signs contract to provide autism care coordination services in Wisconsin

Digital pathology and the PathoVerse: A conversation with Dr. Singh

Bioprocess Efficiency with Cell Density Monitoring

Exploring electron microscopy for plant and microbial imaging at the John Innes Centre

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