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Superbug purportedly from Asia on the rise in UK & Australia

British scientists have claimed that a new gene called New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, or NDM-1 has emerged that makes the bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics. India has rejected the claim that it is the source of this superbug. Cases have been detected in the UK and Australia and are on the rise in the UK.

12 Aug 2010

Nightingale to provide AIM Health Group with enterprise EMR and practice management solution

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services today announces that it has signed a five-year agreement with the AIM Health Group to provide AIM's family practice, walk-in and pain management clinics with Nightingale On Demand, the Company's enterprise EMR and practice management solution.

12 Aug 2010

Interleukin Genetics, University of Michigan to conduct landmark clinical study on periodontal disease

Interleukin Genetics, Inc. announced today that the Company has signed an agreement with the University of Michigan to conduct a landmark clinical study on risk factors predictive of periodontal disease progression to tooth loss using a new version of Interleukin Genetics' PST genetic test.

12 Aug 2010

Perrigo fourth-quarter fiscal 2010 net sales up 22%

Perrigo Company today announced results for its fourth quarter and full year ended June 26, 2010.

12 Aug 2010

Centric Health second-quarter net income increases 154% to $1.3 million

Centric Health Corporation, a diversified healthcare company with a vision to become Canada's premier healthcare company providing innovative solutions centered around patients and healthcare professionals, today announced strong financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

12 Aug 2010

Accretive Health second-quarter net services revenues increase 21% to $151.9 million

Accretive Health, Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive end-to-end healthcare revenue cycle management services, today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.

12 Aug 2010

First Edition: August 12, 2010

Some of today's headlines highlight how the new health reform law is playing beyond Washington, D.C.'s beltway.

12 Aug 2010

Entry deadline for second annual CLIO Healthcare Awards extended to August 27, 2010

The entry deadline has been extended for the second annual CLIO Healthcare Awards. All work appearing between January 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010 must be submitted to the CLIO Healthcare Awards no later than August 27, 2010. In an effort to provide an innovative and eco-friendly entry process, once again the CLIO Healthcare Awards will receive submissions online only at www.CLIOHealthcare.com. Professionals now have additional time to refine their entries, including international work, made eligible for the first time.

12 Aug 2010

HFMA identifies seven competencies for promoting integration between hospitals, physicians

As the nation moves toward healthcare reform, one of the key strategies that healthcare providers will deploy in order to succeed in a reform environment is clinical integration. The Healthcare Financial Management Association recently released a new whitepaper Integration in a Reform Environment: Strategies for Success.

12 Aug 2010

Integra LifeSciences signs 3-year contract for JARIT surgical instruments with Amerinet GPO

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation announced today that it signed a three-year contract for JARIT® surgical instruments with Amerinet, a leading national healthcare group purchasing organization.

12 Aug 2010

The Whole Child Pediatrics improves patient experience with Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistants

Motion Computing, a leading provider of integrated mobile computing solutions, today announced that The Whole Child Pediatrics, P.S.C. is experiencing significant improvements with Motion® C5 Mobile Clinical Assistants. With the C5s and new Electronic Medical Record software, clinicians can seamlessly connect to information throughout the office while continuing to provide quality patient care.

12 Aug 2010

HealthWyse announces launch of new web-based program

HealthWyse, a leading provider of home health and hospice agency automation software, announced today that it has launched StartWyse, a web-based program for small Certified Home Healthcare and Hospice agencies. The StartWyse program offers customers an affordable opportunity to rapidly transition to a paperless environment using HealthWyse's clinical and financial software.

12 Aug 2010

Alliance Surgical Distributors aligns surgeons, promotes orthopedic implant negotiation to reduce healthcare cost

Alliance Surgical Distributors has seen a surge not only in interest to form surgeon owned distributorships but also in groups completing set-up. Current distributorships under Alliance include Inland Spine and Orthopedics, Mesa Surgical, Vista Orthopedics, Rocky Mountain Trauma, Alpine Surgical Technologies, Alpine Implant Alliance, JAB Spinal Systems, North Idaho Surgical Cooperative, Restorix Technologies, with many other groups under development.

12 Aug 2010

Bristol-Myers Squibb, ACTF announce enhanced agreement to support ADAPs

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and the ADAP Crisis Task Force today announced an enhanced agreement to support the efforts of AIDS Drug Assistance Programs to provide antiretroviral medicines to people living with HIV and AIDS. Building on an agreement signed in March of 2010, today's announcement marks a multi-year enhancement to assist ADAPs in meeting the challenges of increasing patient case loads and strained government funding.

12 Aug 2010

25% of stroke patients stop taking prevention medication within 3 months

At least a quarter of patients who have suffered a stroke stop taking one or more of their prescribed stroke prevention medications within the first three months after being hospitalized - when the chance of having another stroke is highest - according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues.

12 Aug 2010

Early administration of TXA reduces death from bleeding without increase in complications: Study

If recently injured patients with serious bleeding were to receive a cheap, widely available and easily administered drug to help their blood to clot, tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year, according to a paper published on-line today by The Lancet.

12 Aug 2010

Healthcare professionals need to develop empathic skills: Tischler's book on mental health

Doctors and other healthcare professionals should use the arts and humanities to develop their empathic skills and improve mental healthcare practice, according to a new book.Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts, edited by Dr Victoria Tischler in the Division of Psychiatry at The University of Nottingham, argues that visual art, poetry writing, novels and music can be used in the education of medical and nursing students and other mental health professionals to improve their understanding of the patient experience.

12 Aug 2010

NPL CaviMeter fine-tunes equipment to produce right quantity and distribution of cleaning action

Ultrasonic Cleaning Systems are widely used in healthcare applications during the sterilization of surgical instruments, and in many manufacturing and process industries. They work by passing a high frequency sound wave through a liquid detergent to create thousands of small bubbles. The sound waves then makes the bubbles implode with such force, that the impacts remove contaminant particles from submerged materials.The current NHS-recommended technique to measure the performance of ultrasonic cleaning systems uses aluminium foil, which is eroded and punctured by the imploding bubbles. This is an unreliable process to apply and can contaminate the vessel cleaning fluid, adding unnecessary costs.

12 Aug 2010

Notre Dame, Madison Center collaborate to research on mental health therapies

Daniel Lapsley, Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Psychology for Notre Dame University, gives a significant amount of credit to Madison Center, Indiana's largest community mental health agency, for Notre Dame's coup in recruiting two world-class researchers. Now Notre Dame and Madison Center have created a partnership to collaborate on research that is designed to improve treatment and therapies for mental health patients.

12 Aug 2010

TriZetto announces general availability of health benefits administration and incentive management software

The TriZetto Group, Inc. today announced the general availability of its Value-Based Benefits Solution, health benefits administration and incentive management software that enables healthcare payers to customize benefits and provide incentives for individual members based on their health status, chronic conditions, and health and wellness activity.

12 Aug 2010

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Superbug purportedly from Asia on the rise in UK & Australia

Nightingale to provide AIM Health Group with enterprise EMR and practice management solution

Interleukin Genetics, University of Michigan to conduct landmark clinical study on periodontal disease

Perrigo fourth-quarter fiscal 2010 net sales up 22%

Centric Health second-quarter net income increases 154% to $1.3 million

Accretive Health second-quarter net services revenues increase 21% to $151.9 million

First Edition: August 12, 2010

Entry deadline for second annual CLIO Healthcare Awards extended to August 27, 2010

HFMA identifies seven competencies for promoting integration between hospitals, physicians

Integra LifeSciences signs 3-year contract for JARIT surgical instruments with Amerinet GPO

The Whole Child Pediatrics improves patient experience with Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistants

HealthWyse announces launch of new web-based program

Alliance Surgical Distributors aligns surgeons, promotes orthopedic implant negotiation to reduce healthcare cost

Bristol-Myers Squibb, ACTF announce enhanced agreement to support ADAPs

25% of stroke patients stop taking prevention medication within 3 months

Early administration of TXA reduces death from bleeding without increase in complications: Study

Healthcare professionals need to develop empathic skills: Tischler's book on mental health

NPL CaviMeter fine-tunes equipment to produce right quantity and distribution of cleaning action

Notre Dame, Madison Center collaborate to research on mental health therapies

TriZetto announces general availability of health benefits administration and incentive management software

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

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Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

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Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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