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New analytic application offers new insights to employers on their health benefits

A new analytic application from Thomson Reuters and HighRoads gives large employers new insights into how the design of their health benefits influence employees’ health care choices — and health care costs.

13 Jan 2010

Americans for Responsible Heath Care launches independent television ad campaign

Americans for Responsible Heath Care is launching an independent television advertisement campaign in the Boston media market to educate Americans about the dangerous health care proposal being debated in Congress.

13 Jan 2010

Medical Marijuana praises New Jersey State Assembly for removing state-wide penalties on marijuana use

Medical Marijuana Inc applauds the New Jersey State Assembly and Senate for having approved "The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act" on Monday, January 11, 2010. A804/S119 removes state-wide penalties for possession of up to two ounces of marijuana when a New Jersey licensed Physician recommends it for one of the qualified medical conditions including Aids, Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis and Crohn's disease among others.

13 Jan 2010

RN Union launches nationwide disaster relief program to assist Haiti residents

The nation’s largest organization of registered nurses tonight activated its nationwide disaster relief program to recruit nurse volunteers to provide assistance to residents of earthquake devastated Haiti, the National Nurses United announced Tuesday night.

13 Jan 2010

U.S. Department of Labor sues Mid-States Express for misusing employees' retirement and health benefit plans

The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owners of bankrupt Mid-States Express Inc. of Aurora, Ill., for allegedly failing to protect the interests of the participants and beneficiaries in the company's 401(k) and health plans. The department's lawsuit alleges that Bruce Hartmann failed to disclose to employees that their medical bills were not likely to be paid, even as the company continued to take deductions from their paychecks for medical coverage.

13 Jan 2010

Era of rapid expansion in biomedical research funding began in 1990's ends

After a decade of remarkable growth, total annual funding for biomedical research in the U.S. has decelerated and may have even fallen when adjusted for inflation. That is the conclusion of a study today published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

13 Jan 2010

NCCN to present recommendations on REMS in cancer care at Oncology Summit

Risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS), which can be required by the FDA for drugs or biologics with significant toxicity and/or risks, are emerging as a priority topic for a variety of individuals. The goal of REMS to mitigate known or potential drug risks must be balanced with concerns that such programs may be overly complex and burdensome to physicians and other healthcare providers.

13 Jan 2010

Telecare Corporation, Eisenhower Medical Center partner to manage a new inpatient geropyschiatric program

Telecare Corporation announced today that it has partnered with Eisenhower Medical Center to manage a new inpatient geropyschiatric program. Eisenhower is a 313-bed hospital serving the Palm Springs/Rancho Mirage and greater Coachella Valley area of California.

13 Jan 2010

Healthcare executives explain how manual processes can bleed billions of dollars in fraud and duplicative costs

In an exclusive PYMNTS.com Briefing Room on Healthcare Payments sponsored by TSYS, this leading global provider of outsourced payment services, examines how the design and implementation of a healthcare payments network will save billions by reducing the fraud and the waste that are endemic to the current system.

13 Jan 2010

Breast cancer organizations form new agreement to raise funds for research

Leading breast cancer organizations Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation in Canada today announce a new agreement to raise funds and explore possibilities to partner in research, education, advocacy and awareness programs across borders.

13 Jan 2010

Nancy Pelosi: Insurance companies funneled between $10M and $20M to fund deceptive television ads

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on a news report (http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2010/01/health-insurers-funded-chamber.php) showing that the nation's largest insurance companies funneled between $10 million and $20 million through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to fund deceptive television ads opposing health insurance reform.

13 Jan 2010

Agilent Technologies launches two Greenhouse Gases Analyzers

Agilent Technologies Inc., today announced the availability of two Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Analyzers for simultaneous analysis of methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) in air samples. The analyzers also can be used for soil gas analysis or plant breathing studies, where the samples contain CH4, N2O, and CO2. Both analyzers easily can be expanded to determine sulfur hexafluoride (SF6).

13 Jan 2010

Public health experts take steps to reduce number of healthcare professionals who smoke

Public health experts are calling for urgent steps to reduce the number of healthcare professionals who smoke, after a survey of more than 800 new nursing students found that almost half were current or former smokers.

13 Jan 2010

NCB Capital Impact and MetLife team up to get more capital for community health centers

In an effort to preempt a potential decline in health care services for California’s most vulnerable communities due to the state budget crisis, NCB Capital Impact and MetLife have teamed up to get more capital to community health centers (CHCs) that need it most.

13 Jan 2010

Unintentional suffocation of infants twice as common in rural areas of China

The death rate from injuries in rural areas of China is higher than in urban areas, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy.

13 Jan 2010

AACE sends petition to Congress opposing new Medicare policy

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) sent a petition to Congress today signed by 1,325 AACE members, non-AACE member physicians, allied health professionals and patients opposing a new Medicare policy which would eliminate consultation codes for specialists.

13 Jan 2010

MedAssets to demonstrate how its solutions help optimize hospital’s revenue cycle

MedAssets, Inc. will demonstrate how its revenue cycle management and spend management solutions help hospitals and healthcare systems reduce costs, increase efficiency and increase revenue at the inaugural HFMA Virtual Trade Show, to be held on January 12-13, 2010.

13 Jan 2010

Emmi Solutions expands existing suite of cancer-related programs in collaboration with ACS

Emmi Solutions, LLC, creators of Web-based interactive multimedia patient education programs, has collaborated with the American Cancer Society, the nation’s leading voluntary health organization and the preeminent source of cancer information and service, to expand Emmi Solutions’ existing suite of cancer-related programs.

13 Jan 2010

Economist Stuart Butler: Give states maximum flexibility under health reform

In this wide-ranging interview with Kaiser Health News, the Heritage Foundation's Stuart Butler talks about the proposal to have the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have a role in expanding insurance coverage to more Americans; the increasingly heated debate over the roles of the federal government and the states in implementing any legislation: and the merits -- or demerits -- of an individual mandate.

13 Jan 2010

PIMs usage among elderly patients may increase adverse events and health care costs

A new study provides important evidence that the use of certain potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) among the elderly may increase adverse events and health care costs.

13 Jan 2010

Healthcare News

New analytic application offers new insights to employers on their health benefits

Americans for Responsible Heath Care launches independent television ad campaign

Medical Marijuana praises New Jersey State Assembly for removing state-wide penalties on marijuana use

RN Union launches nationwide disaster relief program to assist Haiti residents

U.S. Department of Labor sues Mid-States Express for misusing employees' retirement and health benefit plans

Era of rapid expansion in biomedical research funding began in 1990's ends

NCCN to present recommendations on REMS in cancer care at Oncology Summit

Telecare Corporation, Eisenhower Medical Center partner to manage a new inpatient geropyschiatric program

Healthcare executives explain how manual processes can bleed billions of dollars in fraud and duplicative costs

Breast cancer organizations form new agreement to raise funds for research

Nancy Pelosi: Insurance companies funneled between $10M and $20M to fund deceptive television ads

Agilent Technologies launches two Greenhouse Gases Analyzers

Public health experts take steps to reduce number of healthcare professionals who smoke

NCB Capital Impact and MetLife team up to get more capital for community health centers

Unintentional suffocation of infants twice as common in rural areas of China

AACE sends petition to Congress opposing new Medicare policy

MedAssets to demonstrate how its solutions help optimize hospital’s revenue cycle

Emmi Solutions expands existing suite of cancer-related programs in collaboration with ACS

Economist Stuart Butler: Give states maximum flexibility under health reform

PIMs usage among elderly patients may increase adverse events and health care costs

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