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Smart Use receives Primary Supplier status award for provision of NHS inventory management solutions

Smart Use Solutions, the leading provider of inventory management software to the healthcare sector today announced it has been awarded Primary Supplier status for the provision of NHS inventory management solutions.

18 Nov 2013

Medical image exchange: an interview with Willie Tillery, CEO of Accelarad

Accelarad’s team first recognized the need for the virtualization of radiology more than 10 years ago. Over the past six years, the industry has readily adopted cloud-based medical image exchanges, as evidenced by the thousands of physicians who share nearly half a billion images via Accelarad each year.

18 Nov 2013

Researchers take close look at medicine's highest volume activity

Laboratory testing is health care's single highest volume activity, with over 5 billion tests performed each year in the U.S.

18 Nov 2013

Childhood cancer survivors face heart problems decades after treatment

Cancer treatment takes a toll on the hearts of child survivors, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013.

18 Nov 2013

Oxford scientists use nanoparticles to study mechanisms underlying 'mystery' cases of infertility

A way of using nanoparticles to investigate the mechanisms underlying 'mystery' cases of infertility has been developed by scientists at Oxford University.

18 Nov 2013

Close to 100 novel human gene regions that code for proteins may be linked to cancer

By using a new analysis method, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Sweden have found close to one hundred novel human gene regions that code for proteins. A number of these regions are so-called pseudogenes, which may be linked to cancer.

18 Nov 2013

Heart disease: The leading cause of deaths related to pregnancy in California

Heart disease is the leading cause of women's pregnancy-related deaths in California - but nearly one-third could be prevented, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013.

18 Nov 2013

Health insurers leery about 'fix' to Obamacare woes

Top insurance industry executives met with the president on Friday and two spoke this morning, saying the rules change could create "problems."

18 Nov 2013

Pregnant women's proximity to organic compounds impacts risk of heart defects in children

Children's congenital heart defects may be associated with their mothers' exposure to specific mixtures of environmental toxins during pregnancy, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013.

18 Nov 2013

Democrats facing political fallout from Obamacare's woes

News outlets covered the fallout from Friday's House of Representatives vote to allow insurers to renew plans that do not comply with the health law.

18 Nov 2013

Scientists discover gene associated with high risk of severe childhood asthma.

An international scientific team has discovered a gene associated with a high risk of severe childhood asthma. The specific gene variant may be an actual cause of this form of asthma, a leading cause of hospitalization in young children.

17 Nov 2013

Measuring BMI can help predict diabetic patient's risk for heart disease

Researchers from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, in collaboration with researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health, have discovered a simple way to further predict a diabetic patient's risk for heart disease: by measuring their body mass index or BMI.

17 Nov 2013

Cataract surgeries deliver 4,567% financial return on investment to society

Cataract surgeries performed over one year eventually save $123.4 billion over 13 years and delivers a 4,567 percent financial return on investment to society according to the results of a cost-utility study, published online today in the Academy's official journal, Ophthalmology, and will be presented on Nov. 17 at the world's largest ophthalmic conference, the American Academy of Ophthalmology's 117th Annual Meeting, in New Orleans. Researchers say that the results prove that healthcare interventions create substantial economic wealth.

16 Nov 2013

M1T invests $3.4 million in Cloud Medical

M1T, an American business active in the Health Care industry, has made an investment of $3.4 Million in Cloud Medical, completing the company series A round. Cloud is a Healthcare IT company focused on deploying hardware and software systems that will minimize inefficiencies related to compliance and auditing, giving providers more control over medical procedures, processes and records.

16 Nov 2013

California exchange certified Health Insurance Agents are ready and willing to assist policyholders

President Obama announced yesterday that he is requesting insurance carriers, who have provided cancellation notices to individual and family policyholders, to allow these policyholders to continue their existing policies throughout 2014.

16 Nov 2013

Kindred Healthcare to acquire Synergy Home Care

Synergy Home Care, a premier home health care provider that operates through 17 locations in Louisiana, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Kindred Healthcare, Inc. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013, pending regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.

16 Nov 2013

New report addresses many changes that transform Medical Education landscape

Medical Education groups are often being transformed by regulatory and budget pressures, making it increasingly difficult to effectively educate healthcare practitioners on the safe and effective use of products. With the pressure to reduce budgets increasing within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, it is absolutely critical for Medical Education groups to find practical and economical methods of reaching healthcare professionals.

16 Nov 2013

Lawmakers stake out positions on President's plan, pursue legislative steps

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, signaled his intent to bring a bill by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., to the floor for a vote. Republican leaders expect the bill, which is viewed by the administration as an effort to undo the health law, to pass easily on a largely party-line vote.

16 Nov 2013

Viewpoints: 'Nation takes stock' of Obama and his health law; Noonan says now is time to hold back Obamacare; Obama needs to be resolute

President Obama has come up with a modest fix for a self-inflicted political wound: his repeated - and wrong - assertions that Americans would be able to keep their health insurance plans if they wanted to under the health care reform law (11/14).

16 Nov 2013

Researchers explore use of games in the management of young people's healthcare

Researchers from Birmingham City University and Birmingham Children's Hospital are exploring how computer games and game based learning can be applied in the healthcare sector in a bid to boost young people's understandings of medical conditions that they may be living with and how to best to care for themselves.

16 Nov 2013

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Smart Use receives Primary Supplier status award for provision of NHS inventory management solutions

Medical image exchange: an interview with Willie Tillery, CEO of Accelarad

Researchers take close look at medicine's highest volume activity

Childhood cancer survivors face heart problems decades after treatment

Oxford scientists use nanoparticles to study mechanisms underlying 'mystery' cases of infertility

Close to 100 novel human gene regions that code for proteins may be linked to cancer

Heart disease: The leading cause of deaths related to pregnancy in California

Health insurers leery about 'fix' to Obamacare woes

Pregnant women's proximity to organic compounds impacts risk of heart defects in children

Democrats facing political fallout from Obamacare's woes

Scientists discover gene associated with high risk of severe childhood asthma.

Measuring BMI can help predict diabetic patient's risk for heart disease

Cataract surgeries deliver 4,567% financial return on investment to society

M1T invests $3.4 million in Cloud Medical

California exchange certified Health Insurance Agents are ready and willing to assist policyholders

Kindred Healthcare to acquire Synergy Home Care

New report addresses many changes that transform Medical Education landscape

Lawmakers stake out positions on President's plan, pursue legislative steps

Viewpoints: 'Nation takes stock' of Obama and his health law; Noonan says now is time to hold back Obamacare; Obama needs to be resolute

Researchers explore use of games in the management of young people's healthcare

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