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MedeAnalytics' white paper focuses on potential reductions of annual updates to the IPPS

MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, today released a white paper on one of the HITECH Act's measures designed to motivate hospitals to become meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs): potential negative adjustments to Medicare's market basket updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS).

30 Mar 2010

Novo Nordisk BlueSheet launched to provide information on diabetes and chronic disease

Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company and leader in diabetes care, today announced the launch of the Novo Nordisk BlueSheet, a resource for information on diabetes and chronic disease, highlighting key issues in diabetes prevention, detection, treatment and care.

30 Mar 2010

Ascent Therapeutics is now Anchor Therapeutics

Ascent Therapeutics announced today that it has adopted a new name — Anchor Therapeutics. Anchor Therapeutics reflects the Company's core technology and its commitment to building solid, dependable value for patients, partners and investors via its proprietary platform technology.

30 Mar 2010

AMGA praises members for including ACOs in health reform legislation

The American Medical Group Association announced significant accomplishments in its advocacy efforts to reward members for the high level of quality, cost-efficient, coordinated care they bring to their communities with the inclusion of language establishing Accountable Care Organizations in the recently passed health reform legislation.

30 Mar 2010

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority hires two Patient Safety Liaisons for Southeast region

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has hired its final two Patient Safety Liaisons for the Southeast region to serve as educational patient safety consultants to healthcare facilities that submit reports through the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System.

30 Mar 2010

MedBuild receives MBI's 2010 Awards of Distinction for Nash Memorial Hospital Project

Modular Building Institute has named MedBuild, a healthcare division of ModSpace, first-place winner for their 2010 Awards of Distinction. MBI gave MedBuild top honors in its permanent healthcare category for its construction of the patient-ready imaging suite at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount, N.C.

30 Mar 2010

Ohio Board of Pharmacy approves CPSI's CPOE, E-MAR and Pharmacy applications

Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information technology to community and specialty hospitals, announced today that the Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Electronic Medication Administration Record (E-MAR) and Pharmacy applications of the CPSI System have achieved "approvable" status from the Ohio Board of Pharmacy. To achieve "approvable" status, CPSI worked with the Board to enhance the security of CPSI's medication management solutions and validate compliance with the Board's standards for the integration of positive caregiver identification.

30 Mar 2010

Patients form new coalition to advocate for patients' rights and to fight health bureaucracy

For the first time in Canadian history patients met formally to voice their concerns about the way healthcare decisions are made.

30 Mar 2010

A-Life Medical renews extensive contract for CAC services with Associated Billing Services

A-Life Medical, Inc., the pioneer and leading provider of computer-assisted coding (CAC) products and services to the healthcare industry, announced today the renewal of an extensive contract with Associated Billing Services, Inc. Associated Billing Services provides medical billing and accounts receivable management services throughout Arizona. The company has worked with A-Life Medical for four years.

30 Mar 2010

Regenstrief Institute awarded Recovery Act contract to automate disability case determinations

The Regenstrief Institute has been awarded a Recovery Act contract to help the U.S. Social Security Administration and Indiana healthcare providers shorten and improve the process of making disability case determinations through automation. Work is scheduled to begin March 31.

30 Mar 2010

Nationwide campaign to repeal government controlled national health care program

Americans for Responsible Health Care announced today that it is launching a nationwide campaign to collect ten million signatures of Americans determined to repeal, reform and replace the new government controlled national health care program that was enacted despite the public's overwhelming opposition.

30 Mar 2010

NHS Primary Care Trust Managers inefficient, says Commons Health Committee report

Managers of NHS primary care trusts (PCTs) who are in charge of 80% of the annual budget have drawn flak recently from the MPs. Figures revealed last week that the number of health managers have risen by 80% in the last decade.

30 Mar 2010

MEDSEEK expands relationship with Frederick Memorial to develop eHealth ecoSystem

MEDSEEK, the leading provider of healthcare enterprise portal connectivity solutions, announced today the expansion of its relationship with long-time partner Frederick Memorial with its engagement to develop the healthcare organization's comprehensive eHealth ecoSystem.TM

30 Mar 2010

Relief in workload for public sector nurses of Quebec? The new contract says “No”

Nearly 500 nurses gathered in Montreal on Monday to decide on a list of essential and non essential services they are expected to provide when there is a strike action by their union, the Fédération Interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ).

30 Mar 2010

Decision Resources: Only 52.2% of first-line Alzheimer's disease patients prescribed AChEI

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that while approximately 70 percent of surveyed physicians' newly diagnosed patients have mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease, only 52.2 percent of first-line patients are prescribed an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.

30 Mar 2010

Potential new target for treating HCV infection

A team of scientists including University of Utah researchers has discovered that binding of a potent inhibitor of the hepatitis C virus to the genetic material of the virus causes a major conformational change that may adversely affect the ability of the virus to replicate.

30 Mar 2010

Royal Philips Electronics introduces InnerCool RTx Endovascular System

Royal Philips Electronics announced today its launch of the Philips InnerCool RTx Endovascular System for cooling and warming, which provides advanced whole body temperature modulation therapy in a closed-loop system from the inside out. The InnerCool RTx is a high-performance system that can rapidly raise and lower the body temperature of certain non-paralyzed, awake patients of all sizes in the intensive care setting.

From Philips Healthcare 30 Mar 2010

Polls show Dems face uphill climb in selling health votes to electorate

USA Today On Politics Blog: A USA Today/Gallup Poll that will be published in Tuesday's USA Today "shows an uphill selling job ahead for President Obama and congressional Democrats to convince most Americans that the health care overhaul passed last week will help them and their families. In the poll, 50% call passage of the bill 'a bad thing' and 47% say it was 'a good thing.'" These findings are less favorable than a one-day poll taken a week earlier-- a day after the health overhaul measure was approved by the House of Representatives.

30 Mar 2010

Adoption of healthcare IT is on steady incline in small physician practice: NaviNet survey

Adoption of healthcare IT is on a steady incline in the small physician practice, reveals a survey by NaviNet, America's largest real-time healthcare communications network. In early March 2010, NaviNet conducted a survey of IT and electronic medical record adoption trends in small practices and compared results to a similar survey the company issued to small practices in August 2009.

30 Mar 2010

Obama's calm demeanor, Pelosi's firm stand helped push health care law

President Barack Obama and Democrats missed repeated deadlines, fought back cries of 'death panels' and watched healthcare reform nearly die more than dozen times. Through it all, Obama was the steady captain of the ship, his top aides say, a role the president has played since the early days of the 2008 presidential campaign.

30 Mar 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

MedeAnalytics' white paper focuses on potential reductions of annual updates to the IPPS

Novo Nordisk BlueSheet launched to provide information on diabetes and chronic disease

Ascent Therapeutics is now Anchor Therapeutics

AMGA praises members for including ACOs in health reform legislation

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority hires two Patient Safety Liaisons for Southeast region

MedBuild receives MBI's 2010 Awards of Distinction for Nash Memorial Hospital Project

Ohio Board of Pharmacy approves CPSI's CPOE, E-MAR and Pharmacy applications

Patients form new coalition to advocate for patients' rights and to fight health bureaucracy

A-Life Medical renews extensive contract for CAC services with Associated Billing Services

Regenstrief Institute awarded Recovery Act contract to automate disability case determinations

Nationwide campaign to repeal government controlled national health care program

NHS Primary Care Trust Managers inefficient, says Commons Health Committee report

MEDSEEK expands relationship with Frederick Memorial to develop eHealth ecoSystem

Relief in workload for public sector nurses of Quebec? The new contract says “No”

Decision Resources: Only 52.2% of first-line Alzheimer's disease patients prescribed AChEI

Potential new target for treating HCV infection

Royal Philips Electronics introduces InnerCool RTx Endovascular System

Polls show Dems face uphill climb in selling health votes to electorate

Adoption of healthcare IT is on steady incline in small physician practice: NaviNet survey

Obama's calm demeanor, Pelosi's firm stand helped push health care law

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