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Healthiest Companies in America for 2010

Amid the glaring spotlight focused on healthcare reform in the U.S., Interactive Health Solutions today announced a list of the "Healthiest Companies in America" for 2010, a group of thirty-four corporations who have significantly reduced healthcare costs through employee participation in a prevention-based health program in the workplace.

20 May 2010

US subsidiary of Novartis disputes claims of discrimination

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC), a US subsidiary of Novartis AG, strongly disputes the claims of past discrimination in the sales force during the period of 2002 to 2007.

20 May 2010

Research shows improved treatment of severe epilepsy reduces overall cost of the condition

Improved treatment of severe epilepsy could reduce the overall cost of the condition, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomic Outcomes Research at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.

20 May 2010

Accretive Health prices initial public offering at $12.00 per share

Accretive Health, Inc., a provider of end-to-end revenue cycle management services for U.S. healthcare providers today announced the initial public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $12.00 per share. Of the 10,000,000 shares being offered to the public, 6,666,667 shares are being offered by Accretive Health and 3,333,333 shares are being offered by selling stockholders.

20 May 2010

Apotex launches generic Lipitor

Apotex Inc, a Canadian owned pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Toronto, launched today Apo-Atorvastatin, a generic version of 'Lipitor(R)' produced by Pfizer(R). This is the largest product to be genericized in Canadian history with approximate yearly sales of $1.2 billion. This last patent on Lipitor(R) will not expire until 2022. Apotex Inc. invented its own crystal form, thus overcoming the patents, 12 years ahead of time, which will result in close to $7 billion of cost-savings for the Canadian healthcare system.

20 May 2010

CMS to spend $73 million over 5 years to improve public websites

Washington Business Journal: "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded Fairfax-based CGI Federal Inc. a five-year contract worth $73.2 million to continue its modernization, application management and maintenance efforts on three external websites that provide information to 44 million beneficiaries and millions more health care providers."

20 May 2010

Hospitals under pressure from flagging budgets, regulators

The Washington Post reports on one suburban Maryland health system: "A special panel in charge of finding a company to take over Prince George's County's ailing health-care system has been unable to complete a sale of the system after a two-year search ... Bidders have been interested in separate parts of the system. But the panel's mandate is to ensure the facilities are sold at the same time to prevent buyers from cherry-picking ...

20 May 2010

Mass. Senate approves health costs bill to help small biz pay health costs and other state news

The Massachusetts Senate Tuesday approved a bill that would make wealthy hospitals pay $100 million in a one-time contribution to help small businesses ease insurance premiums. "The bill would let businesses with 50 or fewer workers form cooperatives to purchase insurance at a lower cost. Another provision presses insurers to spend at least 90 percent of premium dollars on care and 10 percent or less on administrative costs.

20 May 2010

Fraud and abuse cases come to conclusions

Los Angeles Times: "A man who recruited destitute HIV patients to be straw purchasers in a prescription drug scheme was convicted by a federal jury Tuesday in Los Angeles. Nathaniel Newhouse, 53, showed no expression as the verdict was read in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson." Newhouse was caught with 29 bottles of powerful painkillers two years ago. Investigators said they had a street value of up to $80,000. HIV patients arranged for doctors to prescribe the drugs, which were passed on to Newhouse (Glover, 5/19).

20 May 2010

Lawsuit fears hinder physician adoption of medical innovations

According to a new national survey on defensive medicine by Jackson Healthcare, the threat of a lawsuit causes many physicians to delay the adoption of medical innovations. More than half (53%) of survey respondents reported they had delayed adopting medical innovations such as new pharmaceuticals, procedures and medical devices due to fear of litigation.

19 May 2010

St. Elizabeth Regional Health selects TeleHealth Services as compliance partner in new facility

TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of health care grade televisions and interactive patient education solutions to hospitals, has been selected by St. Elizabeth Regional Health as a compliance partner in their new facility, St. Elizabeth East, located at 1701 S. Creasy Lane in Lafayette. St. Elizabeth East opened on February 25, 2010 and will benefit from TeleHealth's interactive educational solutions in an effort to increase patient satisfaction and create a patient-focused, technologically advanced facility.

19 May 2010

maxIT Healthcare, Ingenuity Solutions Group enter definitive agreement to merge

maxIT Healthcare, LLC and Ingenuity Solutions Group, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined as maxIT Healthcare. The combined company is now better positioned to extend its presence throughout the healthcare IT professional services market, particularly in the area of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system solutions.

19 May 2010

Rosetta Genomics announces publication of study on discovery of microRNAs in solid tumors

Rosetta Genomics, Ltd., a leading developer and provider of microRNA-based molecular diagnostic tests, announces the publication of a study entitled, "Discovery of microRNAs and other small RNAs in solid tumors," in the online edition of Nucleic Acid Research.

19 May 2010

BioTeknica, AccuReg help companies achieve realistic FDA compliance goals

Every year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asks hundreds of life science companies to improve their design and manufacturing systems – or risk receiving the ultimate penalty – a Consent Decree; whereby a company must remove its products from the marketplace. It's not easy to navigate FDA regulations because they aren't always "black and white" – in fact; they're often "gray" and open to interpretation depending upon the circumstances.

19 May 2010

Pantai to implement Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management solution

Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that Pantai Holdings Berhad (Pantai) has chosen to implement its InsightCS® Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management solution across a 10-hospital network located in Malaysia.

19 May 2010

MEDNAX acquires neonatal physician group in Ft. Myers, Florida

MEDNAX, Inc., today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a neonatal physician group in Ft. Myers, Florida.

19 May 2010

Survey details impact of COPD on working-age population

A study presented today at the American Thoracic Society Conference in New Orleans by leading charity, Education for Health, shows that the economic toll of COPD is set to soar as the disease heads towards being the third biggest cause of death globally by 2020.

19 May 2010

Gold Standard/Elsevier continues to publish transparent drug pricing information

Gold Standard/Elsevier, publisher of drug information databases and decision support solutions, has announced its commitment to continue publishing transparent drug pricing information, including average wholesale price and all other current and future pricing benchmarks. This announcement comes amidst statements by other drug database suppliers indicating they will discontinue publishing AWP in 2011.

19 May 2010

Study presents new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air

A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet presents a new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air for the first time. By examining people who had received emergency care for an amphetamine overdose, the researchers found that in all cases there were traces of amphetamine and metamphetamine in the exhaled breath.

19 May 2010

Study demonstrates need for understanding societal, economic impact of growing medicalization

Menopause. Normal pregnancy. Infertility. ADHD. Erectile dysfunction. Over the last several decades, these conditions have come to be defined and treated as medical problems. They've been "medicalized." In the first study of its kind in the current issue of Social Science and Medicine, Brandeis researchers used national data to estimate the costs of these and a handful of other common conditions on escalating U.S. healthcare spending.

19 May 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Healthiest Companies in America for 2010

US subsidiary of Novartis disputes claims of discrimination

Research shows improved treatment of severe epilepsy reduces overall cost of the condition

Accretive Health prices initial public offering at $12.00 per share

Apotex launches generic Lipitor

CMS to spend $73 million over 5 years to improve public websites

Hospitals under pressure from flagging budgets, regulators

Mass. Senate approves health costs bill to help small biz pay health costs and other state news

Fraud and abuse cases come to conclusions

Lawsuit fears hinder physician adoption of medical innovations

St. Elizabeth Regional Health selects TeleHealth Services as compliance partner in new facility

maxIT Healthcare, Ingenuity Solutions Group enter definitive agreement to merge

Rosetta Genomics announces publication of study on discovery of microRNAs in solid tumors

BioTeknica, AccuReg help companies achieve realistic FDA compliance goals

Pantai to implement Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management solution

MEDNAX acquires neonatal physician group in Ft. Myers, Florida

Survey details impact of COPD on working-age population

Gold Standard/Elsevier continues to publish transparent drug pricing information

Study presents new technique that makes drug testing possible through exhaled air

Study demonstrates need for understanding societal, economic impact of growing medicalization

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