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Physicians' efforts keep payments on Medicare database confidential

The Wall Street Journal mined a database with extensive information about tax payments that suggests fraud and discovered a New York City doctor who most likely took more than $2 million from Medicare. But the paper could not name her because of strict confidentiality requirements on physician reimbursements.

27 Oct 2010

Bayer launches unique fitness program for hemophilia A children

Bayer HealthCare is introducing a fitness program to help children ages 7-12 and young adults ages 13-16 with hemophilia A live active lives. "Living Fit! A Joint Effort" is a unique strength training, fitness and wellness program created to increase awareness of the importance of exercise and nutrition among this population and their caregivers.

27 Oct 2010

Columbia University researchers to use IBM's streaming analytics to detect complications in brain injury

IBM today announced a new project in which researchers at Columbia University Medical Center will utilize IBM's streaming analytics technology to potentially detect severe complications in brain injured patients up to 48 hours earlier than traditional methods.

27 Oct 2010

Rush University awards $25 million contract to Siemens

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, one of the top academic medical centers in the United States, has awarded a five-year, $25 million contract for medical equipment and health IT consulting services to Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. With the addition of Siemens medical imaging equipment and software, Rush will become one of a select group of medical centers in the country incorporating the concept of an interventional platform within its facility.

From Siemens Healthineers 27 Oct 2010

New technologies streamline health IT system; Electronic medical records raise privacy issues

The Associated Press: Although many healthcare providers are making the jump to computerized medical records, an "e-chart stored in one doctor's computer too often can't be read by another's across town." Surescripts, "the country's largest network for paperless prescribing," is expanding "so that doctors around the country can choose to share medical reports, X-rays and other health data over its network much as they send e-prescriptions to drugstores today, regardless of what competing brand of computerized health records they use."

27 Oct 2010

Trilogy receives four-year federal grant from SAMHSA

Trilogy, Inc., a behavioral healthcare organization serving people in recovery from serious mental illness, is the recipient of a four-year federal grant from the national Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced John Mayes, President and CEO of Trilogy, Inc.

27 Oct 2010

Doctors agree on need to change Medicare pay, but not how

Doctors widely believe that the Medicare payment system is unfair, but they disagree about how to fix it, according to a recent study, MedPage Today reports. "While physicians generally support changing how Medicare reimburses doctors, most don't support payment reforms that would reduce their own incomes, according to survey results published in the Oct. 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

27 Oct 2010

Decision Resources moves global corporate headquarters to larger space in Burlington

Decision Resources, Inc., one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on healthcare insights and analysis, has moved its global corporate headquarters from Waltham, MA to Burlington, MA. The significantly larger office space located at 8 New England Executive Park in Burlington, MA allows the Company to plan for future growth.

26 Oct 2010

Cryo-Cell formalizes industry-exclusive agreement with MedTech For Solutions GPO

Cryo-Cell International, Inc., one of the world's largest and most established family cord blood banks and global stem cell innovators, today announced at the annual meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) that the Company has formalized an industry-exclusive agreement with MedTech For Solutions, Inc., a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) representing a member network of 115 practices specializing in reproductive medicine, which operates in conjunction with The Broadlane Group.

26 Oct 2010

New heart and vascular clinic to implement Streamline Health's HIM Suite of document workflow solutions

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. a leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced that one of the country's leading healthcare organizations expects to open a new facility utilizing Streamline Health's Suite of Health Information Management document workflow solutions.

26 Oct 2010

Archimedes launches AOA web application to help healthcare organizations

Archimedes Inc., a healthcare modeling company, announced today the launch of the Archimedes Outcomes Analyzer (AOA), a web application that expands access to data sets generated by the Archimedes Model, a large-scale simulation model that calculates clinical and cost outcomes, and answers complex healthcare questions.

26 Oct 2010

Kinetic Concepts 2010 third quarter total revenue increases 2% to $506.7 million

Kinetic Concepts, Inc. today reported third quarter 2010 total revenue of $506.7 million compared to $504.4 million in the third quarter of 2009 and up 2% from the second quarter of 2010.

26 Oct 2010

Prevention of vascular diseases needed to avoid tsunami of cases

Canada urgently needs to focus on prevention of vascular diseases to avoid the burden from the expected tsunami of cases, says noted stroke expert Dr. Robert Côté, delivering the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) Lecture at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010.

26 Oct 2010

PharmaVentures acts as advisor and broker to Dr Reddy's in distribution agreement with Vitabiotics

PharmaVentures Ltd announced today that it had acted as the advisor and broker to the Indian pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy's Laboratories in its successful marketing and distribution agreement with the UK healthcare company Vitabiotics Ltd for a range of nutraceutical products. The agreement provides Dr Reddy's exclusive marketing rights in the Russian/CIS markets for two of Vitabiotics' leading products - Jointace and Dietrim. Vitabiotics will supply these products on a long-term basis from its facilities in Europe.

From Vitabiotics Ltd. 26 Oct 2010

MDI and Westburg enter exclusive distribution agreement for Detect-Ready MRSA panel in Benelux region

Molecular Detection Inc. (MDI), a company developing Detect-Ready™ tests designed to increase the speed and accuracy of infectious disease diagnosis, and life sciences and diagnostics distributor Westburg BV today announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement for distribution of MDI's Detect-Ready MRSA panel in the Benelux region.

26 Oct 2010

Centene third quarter premium and service revenues increase 9.5% to $1.082 billion

Centene Corporation today announced net earnings from continuing operations for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, of $22.4 million, or $0.44 per diluted share; $0.48 from operations excluding a $0.04 charge for net investment writedowns.

26 Oct 2010

Admissions for medication, drug-related conditions increase by 117% among Americans aged 45 and older

The number of hospital admissions among Americans ages 45 and older for medication and drug-related conditions doubled between 1997 and 2008, according to a new report released today by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medication and drug-related conditions include effects of both prescription and over-the-counter medications as well as illicit drugs.

26 Oct 2010

Omeros to develop new drugs for major diseases

The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) today announced a $5 million grant to Seattle-based Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) to discover, develop, and commercialize new drugs to treat a variety of major diseases. With successful generation of proceeds through partnering and the sales of drugs in the marketplace, an additional outcome of the grant would be establishment of a new non-profit initiative to advance the life sciences sector and improve health and economic growth in Washington state.

26 Oct 2010

New Risk Stratification Index allows important clinical outcomes

Research published in the November issue of Anesthesiology describes development of a new Risk Stratification Index (RSI) that allows important clinical outcomes such as length-of-stay and mortality for surgical patients to be accurately compared among hospitals using only publically available billing data. The new risk stratification system is more accurate than existing outcomes measurements such as the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and the investigators have made it freely available.

26 Oct 2010

Pfizer's Sutent stands as first-line setting for treating renal cell carcinoma: Survey

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the majority of surveyed European oncologists who favor Pfizer's Sutent indicate that they would switch to an emerging therapy only if it extended progression-free survival (PFS) by at least an additional two to three months, assuming the agent's safety and tolerability profile was comparable to that of Sutent.

26 Oct 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Physicians' efforts keep payments on Medicare database confidential

Bayer launches unique fitness program for hemophilia A children

Columbia University researchers to use IBM's streaming analytics to detect complications in brain injury

Rush University awards $25 million contract to Siemens

New technologies streamline health IT system; Electronic medical records raise privacy issues

Trilogy receives four-year federal grant from SAMHSA

Doctors agree on need to change Medicare pay, but not how

Decision Resources moves global corporate headquarters to larger space in Burlington

Cryo-Cell formalizes industry-exclusive agreement with MedTech For Solutions GPO

New heart and vascular clinic to implement Streamline Health's HIM Suite of document workflow solutions

Archimedes launches AOA web application to help healthcare organizations

Kinetic Concepts 2010 third quarter total revenue increases 2% to $506.7 million

Prevention of vascular diseases needed to avoid tsunami of cases

PharmaVentures acts as advisor and broker to Dr Reddy's in distribution agreement with Vitabiotics

MDI and Westburg enter exclusive distribution agreement for Detect-Ready MRSA panel in Benelux region

Centene third quarter premium and service revenues increase 9.5% to $1.082 billion

Admissions for medication, drug-related conditions increase by 117% among Americans aged 45 and older

Omeros to develop new drugs for major diseases

New Risk Stratification Index allows important clinical outcomes

Pfizer's Sutent stands as first-line setting for treating renal cell carcinoma: Survey

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