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Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

Hartford Hospital, one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals, is collaborating with NextGate in a Health Information Exchange (HIE) implementation and a separate work-flow integration project. With an aim to improve patient care, both initiatives rely on NextGate's MatchMetrix indexing solution to uniquely identify a patient across multiple encounters and locations within the Hartford healthcare system and beyond.

28 Feb 2010

Cinergy Health expresses concern regarding unresolved partisan issues during healthcare summit

Cinergy Health, a nationwide provider of health insurance benefit programs for the consumer market, expressed its concern regarding unresolved partisan issues during the healthcare summit on Thursday, February 25th.

28 Feb 2010

Republicans press campaign against reconciliation; Mccain seek to strip Medicare out of health bill

Republicans and Democrat hit the Sunday talk shows today to debate whether a complex congressional process called 'reconciliation' should be used to consider a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system. Reconciliation is normally used for 'taxing and spending and reducing deficits,' said Sen.

28 Feb 2010

BancTec to highlight professional services for medical industry at HIMSS10

BancTec Inc., a global provider of advanced, high-volume, document and payment processing solutions and services, will highlight its professional services for the medical industry at HIMSS®10, the annual conference for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), which is being held March 1-4, 2010 in Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center. Specifically, BancTec will focus on its business process outsourcing (BPO) practice, financial and risk management services, and other healthcare-related solutions, including EOB processing and revenue cycle management.

27 Feb 2010

Open public comment period for URAC's revised IRO Accreditation

URAC, a leading healthcare accreditation and education organization, today announced the open public comment period for its revised Independent Review Organization Accreditation, version 5.0, which includes a new accreditation track for Healthcare Peer Review.

27 Feb 2010

United Healthcare changes lumbar spinal fusion policy to include coverage for XLIF procedure

NuVasive, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing products for minimally disruptive surgical treatments for the spine, announced today that United Healthcare changed its lumbar spinal fusion policy to include coverage for the eXtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion, or XLIF procedure, published on February 26, 2010, a reversal from its previous policy that labeled XLIF as unproven.

27 Feb 2010

TripleTree and WLSA extend I Award nomination deadline

Due to the high levels of interest in the I Award program, TripleTree and the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) announced today that the application deadline has been extended to March 8th. This prestigious award recognizes innovation, insight, and initiative within wireless-life sciences and mobile health industry sectors. Applications will be accepted now through March 8, 2010.

27 Feb 2010

NPAF's message to White House Summit participants: Policy agreement must triumph over partisan politics

The National Patient Advocate Foundation -- the sister organization to the Patient Advocate Foundation -- a direct patient services organization that assists patients throughout the country – delivered a message to all White House Summit participants that policy agreement must triumph over partisan politics during the bipartisan health care reform meeting.

27 Feb 2010

Cotton thread as core material in 'lab-on-chip' devices to detect kidney failure and diabetes

A discovery by Monash University scientists could see humble cotton thread emerge as a core material in low-cost 'lab-on-chip' devices capable of detecting diseases such as kidney failure and diabetes.

27 Feb 2010

Sonomax Hearing Healthcare shareholders, noteholders approve Arrangement with Benvest New Look Income Fund

Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Inc. is pleased to announce that its shareholders and noteholders approved a previously-announced Arrangement with Benvest New Look Income Fund at a special meeting of Sonomax security holders held today in Montreal.

27 Feb 2010

Greenway Medical Technologies donates leading edge Health IT solutions to NKU

Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. is providing its integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®; clinical trials and research analytics solution PrimeResearch™; and revenue cycle management solution PrimeRCM® to Northern Kentucky University.

27 Feb 2010

Telemedicine project: Low-income residents in California to receive improved access to dental care

Low-income residents in the San Fernando Valley will receive improved access to dental care, thanks to a new telemedicine project created by the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry.

27 Feb 2010

3M and PCTS to globally market innovative automated hand hygiene compliance solution

3M and Patient Care Technology Systems, a subsidiary of Consulier Engineering, Inc., today announced that they have signed an agreement to bring a state-of-the-art automated hand hygiene compliance solution to healthcare customers globally.

27 Feb 2010

Stroke incidence and treatment: Racial and geographic disparities

Blacks are more likely to have an undiagnosed key risk factor for stroke and are more likely to have a stroke than whites, according to two studies presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010.

27 Feb 2010

COBRA administration: THA endorses COBRAGuard to offer solutions

COBRAGuard Inc. has been endorsed by the Texas Hospital Association (THA) to offer Texas hospitals an affordable and efficient COBRA administration solution. The endorsement gives Texas hospitals access to COBRAGuard's proprietary pricing, products and services designed to streamline COBRA processes, improve compliance and minimize the risk of costly litigation.

27 Feb 2010

dbMotion chosen to create interoperable electronic patient record for Northwest Hospital & Medical Center

dbMotion, a provider of health interoperability solutions, has been chosen by Northwest Hospital & Medical Center in Seattle, Washington to create a single interoperable electronic patient record across numerous information technology environments for both in-hospital and ambulatory care providers.

27 Feb 2010

OTN to demonstrate combined solutions: Polycom's PC-based CMA with its telemedicine tools

As one of the world's largest and most active telemedicine networks, the Ontario Telemedicine Network will faciliate more than 100,000 clinical encounters and distance education opportunities for more than 300,000 people across nearly one thousand sites this year. Secure, reliable and responsive, OTN enables improved access to a variety of clinical programs and services for patients and educational opportunities for health care providers.

27 Feb 2010

RES Software to demonstrate RES PowerFuse desktop transformation solution at HIMSS 2010

RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, will feature a series of product demonstrations and interactive presentations with a special emphasis on its desktop transformation solution, RES PowerFuse, during the 2010 HIMSS conference in Atlanta, GA, March 1-4.

27 Feb 2010

Midlothian Laboratories donates more than $3M worth of vitamins, nutritional supplements to AmeriCares

Midlothian Laboratories, a division of Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc., as part of its continuing humanitarian relief efforts, recently donated more than $3 million worth of essential vitamins and nutritional supplements to AmeriCares for people in the developing world living in extreme poverty and suffering from chronic malnutrition.

27 Feb 2010

MedQuist integrates DEP with new features of Epic Systems' Hyperspace Client

MedQuist Inc., a leading provider of technology-enabled clinical documentation services, is integrating with Epic Systems Corporation within its Hyperspace environment to offer a solution that integrates "partial dictations" with the template-based clinical documentation process, enabling physicians to complete the Electronic Health Record (EHR) without changing their documentation workflow.

27 Feb 2010

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

Hartford Hospital, NextGate collaborate in HIE implementation and work-flow integration project

Cinergy Health expresses concern regarding unresolved partisan issues during healthcare summit

Republicans press campaign against reconciliation; Mccain seek to strip Medicare out of health bill

BancTec to highlight professional services for medical industry at HIMSS10

Open public comment period for URAC's revised IRO Accreditation

United Healthcare changes lumbar spinal fusion policy to include coverage for XLIF procedure

TripleTree and WLSA extend I Award nomination deadline

NPAF's message to White House Summit participants: Policy agreement must triumph over partisan politics

Cotton thread as core material in 'lab-on-chip' devices to detect kidney failure and diabetes

Sonomax Hearing Healthcare shareholders, noteholders approve Arrangement with Benvest New Look Income Fund

Greenway Medical Technologies donates leading edge Health IT solutions to NKU

Telemedicine project: Low-income residents in California to receive improved access to dental care

3M and PCTS to globally market innovative automated hand hygiene compliance solution

Stroke incidence and treatment: Racial and geographic disparities

COBRA administration: THA endorses COBRAGuard to offer solutions

dbMotion chosen to create interoperable electronic patient record for Northwest Hospital & Medical Center

OTN to demonstrate combined solutions: Polycom's PC-based CMA with its telemedicine tools

RES Software to demonstrate RES PowerFuse desktop transformation solution at HIMSS 2010

Midlothian Laboratories donates more than $3M worth of vitamins, nutritional supplements to AmeriCares

MedQuist integrates DEP with new features of Epic Systems' Hyperspace Client

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