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dailyRx News Network expands Total Patient Engagement solution

The dailyRx News Network, a leading digital publisher of health news, announced today that its Total Patient Engagement solution has been expanded and enhanced to include dailyRx-created video health news.

4 Mar 2013

CIS now offers Toshiba’s Aplio 500 cardiac ultrasound

Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) now offers its patients the most advanced cardiac ultrasound, thanks to its purchase of 10 Aplio 500s from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.

4 Mar 2013

Toshiba to acquire 70% of stock in TI Medical Systems

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation will acquire 70% of the stock in the Korean company, TI Medical Systems Co., Ltd. held by INFINITT Healthcare Co., Ltd. and establish a wholly owned subsidiary in South Korea.

4 Mar 2013

The clock runs out on averting sequestration

Time ticked down to March 1 -- also known as sequestration D-day -- without the White House and lawmakers finding a way to avert the scheduled cuts.

3 Mar 2013

Hip implant safety at issue in high-stakes trial

Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson played "Russian roulette" with patient safety by ignoring high failure rates and surgeons' complaints about its once-popular artificial hip, a Los Angeles jury was told during closing arguments at a high-stakes medical trial for the company.

3 Mar 2013

GOP bills would kill health law's employer mandate

The legislation, which has little chance of passage, would undo requirements that large employers offer workers insurance or pay a fine. Meanwhile, two Senate committees examine changes to Medicare.

3 Mar 2013

KeyHIE Transform ensures care coordination between healthcare providers

A new, low-cost software tool has nursing homes and home health agencies — with or without an electronic health record —contributing patient assessment information to any health information exchange (HIE).

3 Mar 2013

Report: Drug companies spent $84M marketing pharmaceuticals in the District of Columbia in 2011

Drug companies spent nearly $84 million marketing pharmaceuticals in the District of Columbia in 2011, including an outlay of nearly $19 million for gifts given to physicians, hospitals and other health care providers, according to a report by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

2 Mar 2013

Three Penn students develop award-winning healthcare technology

Three students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have developed award-winning healthcare technology.

2 Mar 2013

Gap between desires of hospital management and experiences of frontline clinicians

Quality is a central component of any discussion around health care and one of the key dimensions and measurements of quality care is the patient experience. However, many healthcare organizations struggle to become 'patient focused' and fail to score well on patient satisfaction surveys.

2 Mar 2013

Health law implementation likely to proceed - despite sequester's cuts to other health programs

Meanwhile, news outlets report on how the health law is "reshaping" the health care marketplace and how the measure's medical device tax continues to be a point of contention.

2 Mar 2013

Viewpoints: A failure to govern; Democrats 'moved the goal posts' in Va. deal on Medicaid panel; Hospitals 'squeeze' the uninsured

To govern is to choose. By missing Friday's deadline for averting $85 billion worth of across-the-board spending cuts to defense and domestic programs, Congress and President Obama have chosen not to govern. Instead, each side has concluded that its interest lies in letting the "sequester" proceed as scheduled - and then trying to win the political blame game.

2 Mar 2013

Meridian, Ethicus Healthcare sign deal for latest suite of analytical programs

Meridian Healthcare Intelligence, a Dallas-based healthcare software company, signed a deal with Ethicus Healthcare for its latest suite of analytical programs designed to help improve cost management and operational performance.

2 Mar 2013

NextGen Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 receives ONC HIT certification

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today that its NextGen Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as a Complete EHR on March 1, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable Eligible certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

2 Mar 2013

Does sequestration offer a budgetary bright side?

News outlets set the scene for the impact on the health care sector and the Medicare program by the sequester's scheduled cuts, which kick in March 1.

1 Mar 2013

NextGen Population Health to be unveiled at 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced the unveiling of its new population health management solution, NextGen Population Health (PH), to help providers meet Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) goals, including improving quality, collaborative care, patient engagement and measurement for better health outcomes.

1 Mar 2013

First Edition: March 1, 2013

Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey reports: "David P. Blom is one of thousands of hospital executives across the country who are bracing for a reduction in Medicare payments as part of a series of federal spending cuts that begin Friday. Blom, 58, is president and chief executive officer of OhioHealth, a Columbus, Ohio, based not-for-profit health care system that includes 18 hospitals, 23 health and surgery centers, home-health providers and other facilities."

1 Mar 2013

GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS business joins Medicines Patent Pool

"GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries," Reuters reports.

1 Mar 2013

Arkansas, Michigan advance payment plans for health exchanges

Today's headlines include reports that Arkansas will use federal funds to pay for its state-based health exchange while action in Michigan suggests momentum might be building to pursue a partnership exchange that will be run by the federal government.

1 Mar 2013

Health law, Medicare benefit design draw congressional attention

House GOP doctors released a "health care state of the union" video that included health law criticisms, but no talk of repeal. Meanwhile, issues like Medicare copays and quality were discussed during a Ways and Means hearing earlier this week.

1 Mar 2013