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New research building at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receives LEED certification

Building materials that better retain heat in the winter, and reflect it in the summer; plumbing fixtures that save water; and facilities that encourage employees to bicycle to work. Environmentally-friendly features like these enable the new research building at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to be certified as a green structure.

16 Dec 2009

GlobalHealth Education & Training service established to meet growing demand in healthcare

Long-time healthcare education business owner, Deborah Kann Schwarzberg, has established GlobalHealth Education & Training®, a corporate training and degree-granting educational service. GlobalHealth was formed to respond to the growing demand for trained employees and management within the healthcare and ancillary industries to enhance their formal education and attain advanced degrees online.

16 Dec 2009

AARP says bipartisan amendment can bring down medication costs

The U.S. Senate today rejected an amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would have helped make prescription drugs more affordable by allowing for the safe and legal importation of lower priced drugs from abroad. The bipartisan amendment, endorsed by AARP and sponsored by Senators Dorgan, Snowe, McCain, Grassley and Stabenow, would have improved competition and helped to bring down the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs.

16 Dec 2009

Senator discusses small business amendments in health bill

United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair, Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., yesterday spoke on the Senate floor about the significant small business reforms within the Senate health bill that would provide entrepreneurs with more choices and stable costs.

16 Dec 2009

Food and Health Bureau invites EOI from Hong Kong in developing private hospitals

The Food and Health Bureau has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from Hong Kong and overseas parties in developing private hospitals at four sites in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

16 Dec 2009

Consumer Watchdog calls for preserving state authority, ban on annual benefit limits and effective rate regulation

Consumer Watchdog condemned the removal of the Medicare buy-in provision for those over 55 and the public option from the U.S. Senate health reform bill. But the group said that the Senate must still make three essential fixes to the greatly weakened bill to prevent ceding the entire health care system to the insurance industry.

16 Dec 2009

Challenges U.S. and U.K. cancer patients face in gaining access to expensive treatments

Cancer patients in both the United States and the United Kingdom face challenges in gaining access to expensive treatments, according to research published in the December issue of The Milbank Quarterly.

16 Dec 2009

Patient who received Total Artificial Heart and dual transplant celebrates Christmas

Last December, there were only two things 46-year-old Chuck Besen wanted for Christmas… a matching donor heart and kidney. This year, thanks to the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart and the dual transplant he received at University Medical Center (UMC) in March, Besen will celebrate his first Christmas at home with his 2-year-old son Dylan and his fiancée Jennifer Hokanson.

16 Dec 2009

New York Times highlights shortfalls in transplant patient immunosuppressive drug coverage

Today's New York Times article by Kevin Sack, "Plan for Kidney Drugs Spurs Division," illustrates an internal renal community reimbursement debate that may result in kidney patients continuing to be deprived of their life-saving immunosuppressive medications beyond the current 36-month Medicare program limit.

16 Dec 2009

Thirty indicted over $61M Medicare fraud

Thirty people have been charged in three cities for their alleged roles in schemes to submit more than $61 million in false Medicare claims as part of the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced today.

16 Dec 2009

Spiritual care can improve outcomes in terminally ill cancer patients

In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found support of patients' spiritual needs by the medical team is associated with greater use of hospice, less aggressive care, and greater quality of life near death. The

16 Dec 2009

VA and Department of Defense clinical practice guidelines for mTBI

The current issue of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA's) Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD) features 19 timely scientific articles on traumatic brain injury (TBI), based on work by VA researchers and colleagues from a variety of disciplines. The papers were commissioned for a "state of the art" conference VA held last year to advance research in this area.

16 Dec 2009

Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services to pay U.S. $7.95M for resolving Medicare fraud allegations

Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services Inc., the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals, has agreed to pay the United States $7.95 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals defrauded Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The two hospitals are Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center (OLL) in Camden, N.J., and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County (LMC) in Willingboro, N.J.

16 Dec 2009

Pharmaceutical manufacturers controlling health reform debate, Senate disallows prescription drug import

The failure of the U.S. Senate to allow importation of prescription drugs to cut costs, much less the more effective direct bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, is just the latest example of how big industry controls the health reform debate, according to Consumer Watchdog.

16 Dec 2009

CDHPs deliver quality and accessible health coverage at lower costs

As overall medical costs continue to increase by double digits annually, medical costs for individuals in account-based consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) went down 26% over four years, while levels of care for their preventive medicine, chronic disease management and evidence-based treatments were higher than their counterparts in traditional PPO and HMO health plans, according to a new multi-year study of health care claims experience of 655,000 CIGNA customers.

16 Dec 2009

Physicians support EHR use, but privacy breaches remain an issue

Although physicians support the use of electronic health records, concerns about potential privacy breaches remain an issue, according to two research articles published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Informatics Association (JAMIA), in its premiere issue as one of 30 specialty titles published by the BMJ (British Medical Journal) Group, UK.

16 Dec 2009

Senate Democrats vote against tax amendment

The Senate will vote today on an amendment which would send the healthcare bill back to the Finance Committee to strip out its numerous tax hikes on families making less than $250,000 per year. The vote sets up a showdown for Senate Democrats as President Barack Obama has made a "firm pledge" not to raise "any form" of taxes on these families.

16 Dec 2009

New method to improve accuracy of estimated blood loss

Determining blood loss at the scene of trauma can be critical to successful patient treatment. Health care workers such as emergency medical technicians have used visual estimation, which can be highly inaccurate, as their only means of determining volumes of blood loss. A new, simple method developed by UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School may drastically improve their accuracy.

16 Dec 2009

MERI's EMS disaster training courses to be offered to paramedics and EMTs

The Medical Education and Research Institute (MERI) announced today the first of its EMS disaster training courses which will be offered to paramedics and EMTs throughout Memphis, Shelby County and its municipalities on December 17, 2009.

16 Dec 2009

Post-surgical infections raise healthcare expenditures

Post-surgical infections significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and death and cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who conducted the largest study of its kind to date.

16 Dec 2009

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New research building at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia receives LEED certification

GlobalHealth Education & Training service established to meet growing demand in healthcare

AARP says bipartisan amendment can bring down medication costs

Senator discusses small business amendments in health bill

Food and Health Bureau invites EOI from Hong Kong in developing private hospitals

Consumer Watchdog calls for preserving state authority, ban on annual benefit limits and effective rate regulation

Challenges U.S. and U.K. cancer patients face in gaining access to expensive treatments

Patient who received Total Artificial Heart and dual transplant celebrates Christmas

New York Times highlights shortfalls in transplant patient immunosuppressive drug coverage

Thirty indicted over $61M Medicare fraud

Spiritual care can improve outcomes in terminally ill cancer patients

VA and Department of Defense clinical practice guidelines for mTBI

Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services to pay U.S. $7.95M for resolving Medicare fraud allegations

Pharmaceutical manufacturers controlling health reform debate, Senate disallows prescription drug import

CDHPs deliver quality and accessible health coverage at lower costs

Physicians support EHR use, but privacy breaches remain an issue

Senate Democrats vote against tax amendment

New method to improve accuracy of estimated blood loss

MERI's EMS disaster training courses to be offered to paramedics and EMTs

Post-surgical infections raise healthcare expenditures

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