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Kadlec integrates Medi-Span clinical decision support system with Epic EMR

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Kadlec Regional Medical Center will deploy Medi-Span® to provide clinicians with point-of-care access to comprehensive drug information and medication decision support via the facility's EMR system.

13 Sep 2010

NIH awards PhysioNetics $815,000 for development of low-cost prosthetic interface

ADA Technologies, Inc.'s PhysioNetics division has been awarded an $815,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The Phase II award will enable PhysioNetics to complete design refinements and commercialization activities for its low-cost upper-extremity prosthetic interface, also known as a "socket."

13 Sep 2010

UnitedHealth Group attains highest total Index score in Healthcare Provider Sector

UnitedHealth Group today announced that the company has been named to both the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. UnitedHealth Group attained the highest total Index score in the Healthcare Provider Sector, and was a leader among peer companies worldwide in corporate governance, service to patients, partnerships toward sustainable health care, stakeholder engagement, and corporate citizenship and philanthropy.

13 Sep 2010

First Edition: September 13, 2010

In this morning's news, many in Congress are pushing for repeal of a tax provision in the health law that critics say places a heavy burden on small businesses. Meanwhile, opponents of the overhaul are focused on a Florida court hearing.

13 Sep 2010

AHIMA releases recommendations to HHS Office of Civil Rights

While AHIMA continues to applaud federal government support for the ideal of protecting patients' health information rights, the proposed rule making for HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement by HHS has a number of requirements that we do not believe the industry is ready to undertake; especially as it gears up for Meaningful Use. Today AHIMA is releasing its recommendations to the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) that speak to the issues we believe are most critical to the patients of America, the healthcare industry and the best practice of health information management.

13 Sep 2010

DRC to supply information technology services, medical program support to WRAMC

Dynamics Research Corporation, a leading provider of innovative management consulting, engineering, and technology solutions to federal and state governments, today announced that it was awarded a new task order with the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

13 Sep 2010

LORENZ Life Sciences announces final agenda for userBridge.10 conference

LORENZ Life Sciences Group, the largest supplier of eCTDs in the world, announced the final agenda for userBridge.10, their well-established user's conference, taking place this year from September 21st-23rd in Frankfurt, Germany.

13 Sep 2010

HR in Healthcare Forum takes place 17 - 20, October 2010 in Bahrain

HR professionals are challenged with developing robust and next generation recruitment, retention and engagement practices to meet the growing healthcare sector which is estimated to be valued between $15 billion and $18bn and is expected to grow five-fold by 2025.

From IQPC Ltd 13 Sep 2010

RadNet reports definitive agreement to acquire Image Medical Corporation

RadNet, Inc., a national leader in providing high-quality, cost-effective, fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging services through a network of 191 fully owned and operated outpatient imaging centers, today reported it has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Image Medical Corporation, the parent of eRAD, Inc., for $10.75 million in a combination of cash and promissory notes.

13 Sep 2010

Six California-based institutions collaborate to guide CDU

Six California-based institutions specializing in health, hospital, university and nonprofit health announced today the formation of a new and unprecedented collaboration effort to rescue, restructure, reinvigorate and guide Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) towards a new, resurgent and financially viable future.

13 Sep 2010

Ranier's Cadisc-L spinal disc replacement granted CE Mark Approval

Ranier Technology, the medical device development company focusing on the commercialisation of spinal implants, has announced that it has received CE Mark approval for its Cadisc™-L; an elasto-mimetic spinal disc replacement device for the lumbar spine. The CE Mark approval was received following a review of the company's multi-centre European clinical study and its extensive portfolio of biocompatibility and biomechanical testing.

13 Sep 2010

Pentagon health costs cut into defense spending

MarketWatch: Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicts health care costs will eat up about 10 percent of the military's budget by 2015, up from 6 percent now. "At a time when the overall U.S. defense budget growth is being constrained by a Congress nervous over a ballooning federal deficit, every dollar that goes to health care is one dollar less for purchasing and upgrading military equipment."

13 Sep 2010

Current economic crisis threatens to affect cancer incidence: Report

Although overall mortality from cancer is decreasing in the European Union, its incidence increased by almost 20%, from 2.1 million new cases in 2002 to 2.5 million in 2008, says a special issue of the European Journal of Cancer on cancer prevention, published today.

13 Sep 2010

Obama says increased health costs are factor of expanded coverage

President Obama on Friday defended the Democrats' healthcare law, saying the enormous expansion of insurance coverage made an increase in healthcare spending inevitable, The Hill reports.

13 Sep 2010

Improving palliative care may reduce healthcare costs, improve outcomes

There may be no simple one-size-fits-all approach to improving end-of-life care in ICU settings, according to a recent study from some of the world's leading researchers in palliative care.

13 Sep 2010

Covidien supports FDA labeling changes for gadolinium-based contrast agents

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced it supports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) labeling changes for gadolinium-based contrast agents for patients with acute kidney injury or chronic, severe kidney disease.

13 Sep 2010

Lawmakers plot health overhaul tax provision change, other provisions under fire

Senate aides expect Republicans and Democrats to offer competing amendments to change a tax-reporting provision in the health law. "The provision requires businesses to report to the Internal Revenue Service purchases over the course of the year that exceed $600.

13 Sep 2010

Clinica of Virginia offers medical services to Medicare and Medicaid patients for $1.00

In an effort to promote wellness and help those who are struggling to make ends meet, Clinica of Virginia, LLC. is providing quality medical services to Medicare and Medicaid patients for only $1.00. The national economic downturn, combined with national bureaucracy, has created a shortage of physicians and clinics who accept Medicare and Medicaid. Chronic, multiple medical conditions plague those Americans who can financially afford it the least, and physicians' offices who accept Medicare or Medicaid are now far and few between. Clinica accepts both.

10 Sep 2010

Lantheus Medical Imaging supports FDA action to ensure appropriate use of gadolinium-based contrast agents

Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic medical imaging, supports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement requiring safety-related label changes for all gadolinium-based contrast agents to highlight the rare and potentially fatal condition known as nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF).

10 Sep 2010

IASIS Healthcare signs agreement to acquire Brim Holdings

IASIS Healthcare today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Brim Holdings, Inc., which operates Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, and Pikes Peak Regional Hospital in Woodland Park, Colorado, in a cash-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $95 million, subject to customary closing conditions and working capital adjustments. Combined revenue of the two facilities is approximately $120 million.

10 Sep 2010