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Biocompatibility testing added to Ceram’s analysis services

Ceram, the international materials testing and development company, has added biocompatibility testing to the range of services that it offers to the healthcare industries.

6 Mar 2013

AHRQ releases Making Health Care Safer II report

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new report, Making Health Care Safer II, which identifies the top 10, evidence-based patient safety strategies available to clinicians.

6 Mar 2013

Activists, lawmakers wrestle with Medicaid expansion

This aspect of the health law is a hot topic in Texas, Florida, California and Missouri -- among other places.

6 Mar 2013

'Information overload' of electronic health records can mean doctors overlook key test results

Researchers report that nearly 30 percent of doctors responding to a survey say they have failed to notice important test results because of the deluge of information available with electronic records.

6 Mar 2013

Automatic cuts to take toll on community health centers

Estimates suggest these centers will serve about 900,000 fewer patients in 2013 because of the sequester.

6 Mar 2013

Targeting ARF6 may be effectively prevent melanoma metastasis to lungs

Researchers have identified a critical protein role in the metastasis of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.

6 Mar 2013

Accenture supports Unified Clinical Organization to improve care coordination, patient outcomes

The Unified Clinical Organization, an innovative care improvement model from Trinity Health, is improving care coordination, patient outcomes and advancing standardization of care practices with support from Accenture.

6 Mar 2013

IMRIS fourth quarter total revenues increase 37% to $20.1 million

IMRIS Inc. today reported its results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012. All figures are reported in US dollars.

5 Mar 2013

Viewpoints: Disappointing 'surprises' in health law; Cuts in graduate medical training threatens physician supply; Va. can afford Medicaid expansion

The proposed 2.3 percent reduction in (Medicare Advantage plan) payments, which comes on top of cuts already scheduled under the Affordable Care Act, pays no mind to the potential impact on quality of care throughout the program. These cuts will apply to all plans no matter the value they bring in providing quality care to beneficiaries or offering innovative solutions that could ultimately be scaled and applied to the broader program.

5 Mar 2013

Continuous dyskinesia monitoring technology for Parkinson’s to be developed by Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies

Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies (GLNT) announced today that they are launching commercialization and clinical studies to validate a system for objective, continuous monitoring of dyskinesias associated with Parkinson’s disease.

5 Mar 2013

GlobalPost reports on IOM evaluation of PEPFAR

GlobalPost reports on "an independent evaluation of the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), released February 20 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)," writing that the report "lauded the program's achievements as proof that HIV services can be delivered successfully on a large scale" and "also recommended several changes to the program, to ensure that the HIV/AIDS response is sustainable."

5 Mar 2013

Hiring nurses with four-year degrees decreases patient deaths, new research report says

When hospitals hire more nurses with four-year degrees, patient deaths following common surgeries decrease, according to new research by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research as reported in the March issue of the prestigious policy journal Health Affairs.

5 Mar 2013

Commission urges big changes in Medicare doctor pay, including the elimination of fee-for-service approach

The panel, the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, released a dozen recommendations to ultimately change how physicians are paid.

5 Mar 2013

Study shows publicly reported quality of care measures leads to improved care for patients

Public reporting of how physicians and hospitals perform in quality of care measures leads to improved care for patients.

5 Mar 2013

Cognitive behavioral therapy brings relief to people with diabetic neuropathies, researchers find

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System have found that cognitive behavioral therapy can help relieve pain for people with painful diabetic neuropathies.

5 Mar 2013

Tobacco use poses major health and human development threat

If the word's nations are going to prevent tobacco smoking from causing one projected billion deaths by the end of this century, they must: Make tobacco control part of the agendas of United Nation's and other development agencies worldwide; Assure every sector of a nation including health, trade and finance officials work collectively to protect not only health but the harm tobacco places on their economy by passing laws to reduce use; Place health as the centerpiece of any decision on a trade treaty that includes tobacco; Diligently work toward a goal of reducing the prevalence rate of smoking to less than five percent world-wide by 2048, basically ending its use.

5 Mar 2013

Eisai, DSM sign 3 year master supply agreement for production of sterile products

DSM Pharmaceutical Products, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, today announced the signing of a 3 year master supply agreement with Eisai Inc., based in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA, for the production of sterile products.

5 Mar 2013

Acadia proposes $150M in senior unsecured notes due 2021

Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. today announced that it is proposing to issue $150 million in senior unsecured notes due 2021 in a private offering that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

5 Mar 2013

WomanCare Global, Evofem enter strategic alliance

Evofem announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with WomanCare Global. Through this alliance, WomanCare Global will provide sales, marketing and global distribution for a selection of Evofem's products, including Softcup and Amphora.

4 Mar 2013

FDA approves Tenaxis Medical’s ArterX Surgical Sealant

Tenaxis Medical, Inc., a medical device company focused on the development of functionally designed surgical sealants has received FDA approval to bring its innovative ArterX Surgical Sealant to the market.

4 Mar 2013

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Biocompatibility testing added to Ceram’s analysis services

AHRQ releases Making Health Care Safer II report

Activists, lawmakers wrestle with Medicaid expansion

'Information overload' of electronic health records can mean doctors overlook key test results

Automatic cuts to take toll on community health centers

Targeting ARF6 may be effectively prevent melanoma metastasis to lungs

Accenture supports Unified Clinical Organization to improve care coordination, patient outcomes

IMRIS fourth quarter total revenues increase 37% to $20.1 million

Viewpoints: Disappointing 'surprises' in health law; Cuts in graduate medical training threatens physician supply; Va. can afford Medicaid expansion

Continuous dyskinesia monitoring technology for Parkinson’s to be developed by Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies

GlobalPost reports on IOM evaluation of PEPFAR

Hiring nurses with four-year degrees decreases patient deaths, new research report says

Commission urges big changes in Medicare doctor pay, including the elimination of fee-for-service approach

Study shows publicly reported quality of care measures leads to improved care for patients

Cognitive behavioral therapy brings relief to people with diabetic neuropathies, researchers find

Tobacco use poses major health and human development threat

Eisai, DSM sign 3 year master supply agreement for production of sterile products

Acadia proposes $150M in senior unsecured notes due 2021

WomanCare Global, Evofem enter strategic alliance

FDA approves Tenaxis Medical’s ArterX Surgical Sealant

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