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Comprehensive guidance for care providers on Dementia Care Mapping process

Dementia is a critical health concern, but are the current care services able to offer appropriate support? Only a few days ago, the review by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found many dementia patients were not getting the support on nutrition and mental health that they should. The need for improved care is higher than ever.

20 Dec 2010

Phadia to market diagnostic products in India

Import, sales and distribution of Phadia's allergy, asthma and autoimmunity diagnostics products, including ImmunoCAP and EliA, have been commercially approved by the Indian authorities.

20 Dec 2010

PwC: Top Health Industry Issues of 2011

Health organizations will undergo a strategy makeover in 2011 as they react to new rules and payment models, continuing cost pressures and new customer demands, according to the Top Health Industry Issues of 2011, published today by PwC's Health Research Institute. But in a recent nationwide survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, PwC found that consumers don't fully understand or buy-in to all the changes.

20 Dec 2010

Americans' confidence in ability to obtain, afford healthcare continues to decline

Americans' confidence in their ability to obtain and afford healthcare continued its decline in November, falling another point according to a consumer sentiment index produced by Thomson Reuters.

20 Dec 2010

SEEK announces new joint venture entity with Pernix Therapeutics for antitussive drug development

SEEK, a leading UK privately-owned drug-discovery group, is pleased to announce the establishment of a new joint venture entity with Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company focused primarily on the United States pediatric market.

20 Dec 2010

Medicare bonus payment pilot program also a test for ACOs

Half of 10 physician groups testing Medicare bonus payments for quality and spending control earned payouts during the fourth year of the five-year experiment, the CMS has announced. Bonuses, which totaled $31.7 million for the fourth year, are based on how much physician groups save Medicare and how well doctors perform on measures of quality.

20 Dec 2010

Entrepreneur Lab announces Clearwave CEO as great entrepreneur in Atlanta

The Entrepreneur Lab just announced Gerard White, CEO of Clearwave Corporation, as a One to Watch Entrepreneur in Atlanta. The Entrepreneur Lab was founded in order to highlight Atlanta business leaders who motivate and transform companies in Atlanta.

20 Dec 2010

Delnor, CDH sign definitive merger agreement

Delnor Health System and Central DuPage Health today announced they have signed a definitive agreement to merge. This follows the October 5th announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding developed by the Delnor and CDH Boards of Directors.

20 Dec 2010

CNA Warranty, MVP to provide cost-effective equipment maintenance coverage for hospitals

CNA recently announced an expansion of its current offerings to include equipment maintenance coverage. Through a collaboration between CNA Warranty and Maintenance Value Plan, this program will provide an alternative solution for the maintenance of complex medical/healthcare equipment - commonly used within hospitals and allied healthcare facilities.

20 Dec 2010

MDI adds McKesson's CareEnhance Disease Monitor software to Viewpoint Analytics solutions portfolio

MDI announced today that it has added McKesson's CareEnhance® Disease Monitor software to the Viewpoint Analytics solutions portfolio. Integrating one of the industry's leading disease management products increases the breadth of solutions available from Viewpoint Analytics.

20 Dec 2010

In Florida, federal court judge considers health-care challenge by states

In Florida, a federal court judge heard oral arguments surrounding the 20-state challenge to the health overhaul. At issue are two key elements of the new law: its mandate requiring that almost everyone have health insurance and its expansions of the Medicaid program. Although the judge said his ruling would take some time, he did offer some signals about the direction he might take.

20 Dec 2010

State Roundup: UMass bone marrow registry practices probed; Insurance woes hit many Calif. middle income families

Bone marrow registries are usually noble efforts to find donors with the right genetic match to save the life of a terminally ill person, but one such program in New England is under investigation by attorneys general in two states (Greenberg, 12/17).

20 Dec 2010

Medical breakthrough: Scientists grow functioning human intestinal tissue from stem cells

Emerging Healthcare Solutions was encouraged by the latest breakthrough in stem cell research this week when scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center announced that they've grown functioning human intestinal tissue from stem cells for the first time.

20 Dec 2010

SAGE publishes first comprehensive textbook on psychology

Psychology for medicine, published today by SAGE, is the first comprehensive textbook on psychology for medical students that is relevant to all of their undergraduate studies.

20 Dec 2010

Today's Opinions: Cucinelli argues for quickly moving Va. case to the Supreme Court; Unraveling Medicaid leaves a big gap; Taking away a cancer treatment

It's hard not to laugh at the cries over the "injustice" of forcing people to buy coverage. Working Americans are already forced to buy health coverage - but for others. They can't choose not to pay the Medicare payroll tax. They can't even make a deal with the government, promising, "I will forgo all future Medicare benefits if I can be freed from the Medicare payroll tax" (Froma Harrop, 12/16).

17 Dec 2010

First comprehensive textbook on psychology for medical students

Psychology for medicine, published today by SAGE, is the first comprehensive textbook on psychology for medical students that is relevant to all of their undergraduate studies. Following the General Medical Council's call for greater coverage of psychology throughout medical degree courses, this groundbreaking textbook does just that - presenting all the psychology an undergraduate medical student needs to know.

17 Dec 2010

Bio-IS and HSS sign 5-year partnership to deliver Bio-Intervention Disinfection Service to hospitals

Bio-Intervention Specialists (Bio-IS) and HSS Inc. (HSS) announced today that their companies have signed a five-year partnership to deliver the Bio-Intervention Disinfection Service to hospitals across the United States.

17 Dec 2010

GE Healthcare announces expiration of initial offering period for Clarient stock

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company today announced the expiration of the initial offering period of the previously announced tender offer by GE's wholly owned subsidiary, Crane Merger Sub, Inc., for all outstanding shares of common and preferred stock of Clarient, Inc. at a price of $5.00 in cash per common share and $20.00 in cash per preferred share.

17 Dec 2010

Sapient awarded multiple-award ID/IQ prime contract with CDC

Sapient Government Services, a division of Sapient, today announced that it has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) prime contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The award allows Sapient to compete for task orders with other contract awardees to perform a variety of management consulting services for the CDC under the agency's Information Management Services (CIMS) contract.

17 Dec 2010

FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention provides cost-saving benefits

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced the publication of results from an economic evaluation of the landmark FAME (Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) vs. Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation) trial, which confirmed FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease improves patient outcomes and offers cost-saving benefits to the U.S. healthcare system.

17 Dec 2010

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Comprehensive guidance for care providers on Dementia Care Mapping process

Phadia to market diagnostic products in India

PwC: Top Health Industry Issues of 2011

Americans' confidence in ability to obtain, afford healthcare continues to decline

SEEK announces new joint venture entity with Pernix Therapeutics for antitussive drug development

Medicare bonus payment pilot program also a test for ACOs

Entrepreneur Lab announces Clearwave CEO as great entrepreneur in Atlanta

Delnor, CDH sign definitive merger agreement

CNA Warranty, MVP to provide cost-effective equipment maintenance coverage for hospitals

MDI adds McKesson's CareEnhance Disease Monitor software to Viewpoint Analytics solutions portfolio

In Florida, federal court judge considers health-care challenge by states

State Roundup: UMass bone marrow registry practices probed; Insurance woes hit many Calif. middle income families

Medical breakthrough: Scientists grow functioning human intestinal tissue from stem cells

SAGE publishes first comprehensive textbook on psychology

Today's Opinions: Cucinelli argues for quickly moving Va. case to the Supreme Court; Unraveling Medicaid leaves a big gap; Taking away a cancer treatment

First comprehensive textbook on psychology for medical students

Bio-IS and HSS sign 5-year partnership to deliver Bio-Intervention Disinfection Service to hospitals

GE Healthcare announces expiration of initial offering period for Clarient stock

Sapient awarded multiple-award ID/IQ prime contract with CDC

FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention provides cost-saving benefits

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