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GE Healthcare completes new $15 million medical technology manufacturing facility in Cardiff, Wales

Life sciences giant GE Healthcare has opened a $15 million medical technology manufacturing facility in Cardiff, Wales. The new facility is based at the 30-acre Maynard Centre, where the company already employs over 400 people.

28 Jul 2010

Industry still making sense of federal e-health regs

Health care industry players are still sorting out the latest regulations on an up-to-$36 billion federal program to encourage doctors and hospitals to use electronic medical records.

28 Jul 2010

WWHI participates in joint meeting to explore barriers to wireless communications, health care solutions

The West Wireless Health Institute today announced its participation in the first joint meeting hosted by the Federal Communications Commission and Food & Drug Administration to explore the potential barriers that may slow the convergence of wireless communications and health care solutions.

27 Jul 2010

Millennium Laboratories urges for increase in physician reimbursement for POC urine drug screening

Millennium Laboratories, Inc., a national, research-based medication monitoring company specifically focused on clinicians who treat chronic pain, strongly advocated for an increase in physician reimbursement for point-of-care urine drug screening at the Annual Clinical Laboratory Public Meeting of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 22, 2010.

27 Jul 2010

MedClean Technologies announces support for The IMWTA with the launch of IMWTA.com

MedClean Technologies, the leading provider of on-site technology for the treatment and disposal of medical waste and the destruction of confidential documents and related media, today announced its support for The IMWTA with the launch of IMWTA.com, an online portal to complement Barnett Medical Services' recent formation of the Independent Medical Waste Transporters Association designed to provide members significant exposure and resources to compete nationally.

27 Jul 2010

SBHCS deploys MedeAnalytics platform to automate patient access process of health system

MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, today announced that the Saint Barnabas Health Care System has selected MedeAnalytics Patient Access Intelligence solution to automate the complete patient access process of the health system.

27 Jul 2010

Quick-Med Technologies announces launch of new website

Quick-Med Technologies, Inc., a life sciences company that is developing innovative technologies for the healthcare and consumer markets, has recently launched a new website, www.quickmedtech.com, highlighting its innovative patented technologies.

27 Jul 2010

VillageReach announces $5.6M program to strengthen national health system in Mozambique

VillageReach, the Seattle-based social enterprise that increases access to healthcare for remote, last mile communities in low-income countries, today announced a $5.6 million program to strengthen the national health system in Mozambique. Contributions for the six-year program total $1.2 million to date.

27 Jul 2010

First Edition: July 27, 2010

Today's health policy news includes reports about the continuing Senate backlash to Dr. Donald Berwick's appointment to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services as well as findings from a new poll that reveal seniors really don't understand health reform.

27 Jul 2010

Journal of Mental Health features special issue on diagnosing mental illness

This month Journal of Mental Health features a special issue on diagnosing mental illness. The issue - which comes out just weeks after the eagerly-awaited new draft of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the global diagnostic 'bible' for the field of mental health medicine - includes a series of articles written by high profile mainstream personalities on what a diagnosis of mental illness has meant to them.

27 Jul 2010

SeeChange Health Insurance to offer value-based HSA products to California employers

SeeChange Health Insurance Company, a provider of value-based health insurance plans to employers, will offer a variety of Health Savings Account products in parts of California beginning August 1, 2010. The product launch will make SeeChange Health the first insurance company to offer value-based HSA products to California employers.

27 Jul 2010

Rockport adds 25,000 OptumHealth physical medicine specialists to workers' compensation PPO network

Rockport Healthcare Group announced it is adding more than 25,000 OptumHealth physical medicine specialists to its workers' compensation Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) network. The PPO program launched May 1, 2010.

27 Jul 2010

Haiti: might the earthquake worsen TB rates?

Prior to the earthquake of January 12th 2010, Haiti had experienced the highest TB notification rate in the Latin America and Caribbean region. In a forthcoming editorial in Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, Kevin Schwartzman and colleagues from the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal, Canada) discuss whether the devastation of Haiti six months ago will lead to an unavoidable increase in the incidence of TB.

27 Jul 2010

Data shows Exergen temporal artery thermometer outsells all other brands

The Exergen temporal artery thermometer outsells all other brands at retailers nationwide that stock the Exergen TemporalScanner, according to data compiled by leading market research firms. In comparing sales of all types of thermometers, including national brands and private label products, Nielsen and Information Resources Inc. found Exergen came out on top.

27 Jul 2010

USDA to facilitate virtual public discussion on power of telemedicine

Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager announced late last week that the USDA will facilitate a virtual public discussion in the field of telemedicine. "The Power of Telemedicine" web discussion is an extension of the USDA's Open Government effort and Rural Development's latest effort to encourage a more widespread use and understanding of telemedicine.

27 Jul 2010

Economic uncertainty, healthcare issues have hit nation's cardiologists, survey shows

The economic uncertainty and healthcare issues affecting millions of Americans have hit the nation's cardiologists as well, according to a new survey: they are seeing more "baby boomer" patients than ever as Americans get older and demand more care. But they are being reimbursed less for those services by Medicare and insurance firms, in what one cardiologist calls "a revenue roller coaster of uncertainty."

27 Jul 2010

NCPDP offers compelling testimony on Proposals for a National Health Plan Identifier

The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs offered compelling testimony to the National Committee on Vital Health Statistics last week on Proposals for a National Health Plan Identifier, citing the existing operational processes that have been successfully used in the pharmacy industry for over 25 years.

27 Jul 2010

Study tests new performance intervention to improve heart failure patients in outpatient setting

A study led by UCLA tested a new performance intervention to help improve adherence to national guideline-recommended therapies for heart failure patients in an outpatient setting.

27 Jul 2010

Navigating Cancer creates new application to help patients manage, update medical history

Navigating Cancer is putting the power of cancer treatment advocacy and management into the hands of cancer patients. The free website, which empowers cancer patients to take an active role in their care and partner more closely with their physicians during treatment, has created a unique medical history form that enables patients to manage and update their medical history on demand.

27 Jul 2010

Life-saving interventions can save 11 million African women, children over next five years: Countdown report

In the next five years, 11 million African women and children could be saved by creating near-universal availability of key life-saving interventions, according to The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010).

27 Jul 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

GE Healthcare completes new $15 million medical technology manufacturing facility in Cardiff, Wales

Industry still making sense of federal e-health regs

WWHI participates in joint meeting to explore barriers to wireless communications, health care solutions

Millennium Laboratories urges for increase in physician reimbursement for POC urine drug screening

MedClean Technologies announces support for The IMWTA with the launch of IMWTA.com

SBHCS deploys MedeAnalytics platform to automate patient access process of health system

Quick-Med Technologies announces launch of new website

VillageReach announces $5.6M program to strengthen national health system in Mozambique

First Edition: July 27, 2010

Journal of Mental Health features special issue on diagnosing mental illness

SeeChange Health Insurance to offer value-based HSA products to California employers

Rockport adds 25,000 OptumHealth physical medicine specialists to workers' compensation PPO network

Haiti: might the earthquake worsen TB rates?

Data shows Exergen temporal artery thermometer outsells all other brands

USDA to facilitate virtual public discussion on power of telemedicine

Economic uncertainty, healthcare issues have hit nation's cardiologists, survey shows

NCPDP offers compelling testimony on Proposals for a National Health Plan Identifier

Study tests new performance intervention to improve heart failure patients in outpatient setting

Navigating Cancer creates new application to help patients manage, update medical history

Life-saving interventions can save 11 million African women, children over next five years: Countdown report

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