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H1N1 flu vaccine forms processing service launched by Quality Associates

Quality Associates, Inc. (QAI) www.qualityassociatesinc.com, an established provider of services and solutions for large-scale document management, imaging, and archiving, announced the launch of its H1N1 Flu Vaccine Forms Processing Service, a comprehensive approach to help states, cities, counties, and providers in the private sector successfully and accurately capture and record essential demographic and health data from medical consent forms – a critical step in the administration of the H1N1 vaccine to millions nationwide beginning this fall.

1 Sep 2009

Ascent's remanufacturing programs help hospital partners save $82 million

Ascent Healthcare Solutions, a leader in delivering healthcare resource sustainability, today announced that its hospital partners saved an astounding $82 million in unnecessary supply chain costs in the first six months of 2009 with Ascent’s reprocessing and remanufacturing programs.

1 Sep 2009

BioClinica offers streamlined electronic transport solutions with the acquisition of CardioNow

BioClinica, Inc., (NASDAQ: BIOC), a global provider of clinical trial services, today announced that it has acquired the CardioNow unit of Agfa HealthCare.

From Clario 1 Sep 2009

Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals updates license agreement covering antimicrobial technology use

Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ceragenix" or the “Company”), a medical device company focused on infectious disease and dermatology, today provided an update to a previously announced exclusive evaluation and option to license agreement (the "Agreement”) with a global, multi-billion dollar healthcare company covering the use of the Company's CeraShield antimicrobial technology for a specific medical device associated with a high incidence of hospital acquired infections.

1 Sep 2009

Quality Systems to present corporate strategy at the Healthcare Conference 2009

Quality Systems, Inc. announced today that its management plans to present its corporate story at the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference 2009.

1 Sep 2009

Davita Chairman is one of 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare

DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA), a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), today announced that Modern Healthcare Magazine, one of the nation's leading health care industry publications, named Kent Thiry, Chairman and CEO for DaVita(R), as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2009.

1 Sep 2009

Demand for Imprivata's OneSign Platform solution growing

Imprivata®, Inc., the employee access management company and largest provider of healthcare single sign-on (SSO), today announced that it continues to see strong demand for its OneSign Platform solution from the healthcare industry's leading organizations.

1 Sep 2009

CompAnalyst helps healthcare providers gain insight into competitive salary data

Salary.com, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand compensation, payroll and talent management solutions, is providing several healthcare providers with on-demand market pricing software to help them gain insight into competitive salary data.

1 Sep 2009

Caregivers call for comprehensive process to verify signatures

Home care workers called for a hand-examination of each signed card submitted by an organization seeking to decertify the workers' union, saying they had been subjected to lies, coercion, and fraud.

1 Sep 2009

Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to help healthcare HR for effective talent management

Salary.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLRY), a leading provider of on-demand compensation, payroll and talent management solutions, announced today that it has added the Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to its growing Job Model and Competency Library of more than 1,200 job models and 1,300 functional competencies, which provide data and structure for typical jobs at all levels of an organization. The framework will enable healthcare HR professionals to create job roles easily, deliver job models quickly, and power their talent management systems.

1 Sep 2009

Poll finds more confidence about paying for health care; young adults most supportive of reform

A new survey finds growing confidence in Americans' ability to pay for health care costs. Meanwhile, young adults are the group most supportive of health reform.

1 Sep 2009

Touchstone Health Partnership appoints Bryan D. Birch as President and Chief Executive Officer

Touchstone Health Partnership, a managed care company primarily operating in the Medicare Advantage Program, today announced the appointment of Bryan D. Birch as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Birch brings over 20 years of experience in the health services and managed care sector.

1 Sep 2009

Medsphere secures $12 million to support its development and expansion efforts in the health IT sector

Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare enterprise solutions, today announced that the company has secured $12 million in financing to support ongoing development and expansion efforts in the health IT sector.

1 Sep 2009

MyMedicalRecords Pro EMR system launched by MMR Information Systems

MMR Information Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (the "Company"), which through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR"), provides consumer-controlled Personal Health Records ("PHRs") (www.mymedicalrecords.com) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions (www.myesafedepositbox.com), announced that it has launched its MyMedicalRecords Pro ("MMRPro") product which is designed to help doctors take the first steps towards an EMR system by digitizing medical records and making them available to patients through a patient portal that incorporates the MyMedicalRecords.com Personal Health Record.

1 Sep 2009

House bill would strengthen federal comparative effectiveness programs

The Christian Science Monitor: "Should the US government mount a comprehensive effort to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various treatments for health conditions? That question is at the heart of a dispute over whether some provisions in the healthcare reform bills now under consideration in Congress eventually might lead to the rationing of care. At issue is comparative effectiveness research, which tries to figure out just how well drugs, medical devices, and surgical techniques work, compared with alternatives. Both the House and current Senate versions of health legislation would expand exisitng federal efforts in this area."

1 Sep 2009

Ways to save money without letting health care suffer

Recent reports show that more and more people are cutting back on their health care or medicines to save money. But cutting back to save money isn't always the best solution, especially when it comes to doctor's appointments and required medicines

1 Sep 2009

Officials flesh out new grant program to help states, doctors with health IT

Two weeks ago, the Obama administration offered nearly $1.2 billion in stimulus-funded grants to set up state-run health information exchanges, and create 70 "health IT regional extension centers" to help physicians adapt to the digital era, a term officials defined in greater detail during a conference call late last week, Modern Healthcare reports.

1 Sep 2009

'Public plan' divides Democrats on health bills

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has pledged to include a government-run insurance option in the House bill that will be voted on next month. This reassures liberals but will make it difficult or impossible to get the votes needed to pass it if the public option is included. … 'I don't see how we get to 218,' said a senior Democratic aide. 'The Blue Dogs are 'Hell nos.' The people who voted yes [on energy] want to vote 'no' twice.'"

1 Sep 2009

AAO-HNSF to issue the first guideline for helping physicians manage dysphonia

The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first--and only--national clinical practice guideline to help healthcare practitioners identify and manage patients with hoarseness, also known as dysphonia. The guideline emphasizes evidence-based management of hoarseness by clinicians, and educates patients on the prevalence of this common vocal health issue.

1 Sep 2009

Also in Global Health news: Flu, cholera in PNG; improving life awards; HIV/AIDS in Rwanda; men and maternal/child health; MDR-TB in India

"Twin outbreaks of a flu-like illness and dysentery in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have killed 47 people and infected another 2,000 villagers, a senior medical official said Monday," Agence France-Presse reports. According to provincial health adviser Doctor Theo Likei, the WHO has collected and is testing samples of the virus from the "stricken villages" (8/31). Additionally, the country is experiencing a cholera outbreak - "the first time the disease has officially been confirmed in the country," the BBC reports (Mercer, 8/31).

1 Sep 2009

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Latest Healthcare News and Research

H1N1 flu vaccine forms processing service launched by Quality Associates

Ascent's remanufacturing programs help hospital partners save $82 million

BioClinica offers streamlined electronic transport solutions with the acquisition of CardioNow

Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals updates license agreement covering antimicrobial technology use

Quality Systems to present corporate strategy at the Healthcare Conference 2009

Davita Chairman is one of 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare

Demand for Imprivata's OneSign Platform solution growing

CompAnalyst helps healthcare providers gain insight into competitive salary data

Caregivers call for comprehensive process to verify signatures

Clinical Healthcare Enterprise Framework to help healthcare HR for effective talent management

Poll finds more confidence about paying for health care; young adults most supportive of reform

Touchstone Health Partnership appoints Bryan D. Birch as President and Chief Executive Officer

Medsphere secures $12 million to support its development and expansion efforts in the health IT sector

MyMedicalRecords Pro EMR system launched by MMR Information Systems

House bill would strengthen federal comparative effectiveness programs

Ways to save money without letting health care suffer

Officials flesh out new grant program to help states, doctors with health IT

'Public plan' divides Democrats on health bills

AAO-HNSF to issue the first guideline for helping physicians manage dysphonia

Also in Global Health news: Flu, cholera in PNG; improving life awards; HIV/AIDS in Rwanda; men and maternal/child health; MDR-TB in India

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