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Premera Blue Cross to provide personal health records to the employees of Microsoft

Premera Blue Cross today announced an important collaboration with Microsoft aimed at providing Microsoft employees with integrated, personal health records. Premera is combining its data and expertise with Microsoft’s technology to provide the company’s employees with greater visibility to their spending and healthcare claims through a connection to Microsoft HealthVault – a personal health application platform available to consumers.

19 Jan 2010

Orbis Education completes $8M Series B financing to expand its online nursing education programs

Orbis Education, a developer of nursing education solutions, has announced the completion of its $8 million Series B financing, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners of Menlo Park, California.

19 Jan 2010

New data shows significant rise in healthcare premiums

Management consultant Hay Group expects that annual premium increases for health coverage will average approximately 9 percent during 2010. This estimate represents the increase in premiums before any changes in plan design, medical management or plan administration.

19 Jan 2010

Calsed earns proprietary clinical gold standard status from Decision Resources

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that Celgene/Nippon Kayaku's Calsed earns Decision Resources' proprietary clinical gold standard status in 2013 for the treatment of extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer, following its approval for the indication in 2012.

19 Jan 2010

Unique partnership leverages funds and technology to track and improve breast screening program

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation - Atlantic announced today a first-of-its-kind partnership between the breast screening programs of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador that yield benefits that could extend to the rest of Canada and beyond.

19 Jan 2010

Study of link between vitamin D deficiency and hypertension uses SunTech Medical’s Oscar 2 ABPM

A study led by Dr. William White and Dr. Pooja Luthra at the University of Connecticut Health Center is using the Oscar 2™, 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor (ABPM) to investigate a possible link between vitamin D deficiency and hypertension.

19 Jan 2010

Huntington Hospital uses Voalte One system to help nurses improve communication at point-of-care

Nationwide, nurse workloads have increased due to higher patient acuity, increased documentation requirements and shortages of staff. Today's nurse finds it more difficult to manage the multiple demands of patients, families and other members of the healthcare team. Put simply, nurses frequently lack the time to do what they joined the profession to do -- provide quality patient care.

19 Jan 2010

Medline Industries donates more than $250,000 in initial humanitarian aid to the people of Haiti

Medline Industries, Inc. has donated more than $250,000 in initial humanitarian aid to the people of Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake that struck the country recently.

19 Jan 2010

Sodium oxybate to garner over 15% of the fibromyalgia drug market despite safety concerns

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, despite potential safety concerns, Jazz Pharmaceuticals/UCB's sodium oxybate (JZP-6) will account for more than 15 percent of the fibromyalgia drug market in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan. Sodium oxybate has demonstrated robust efficacy in Phase III clinical trials for fibromyalgia and interviewed thought leaders are impressed with its effect on several key symptom domains of fibromyalgia, which include pain, sleep and fatigue.

18 Jan 2010

The Hanover Insurance Group enters into definitive agreement to acquire The Campania Group

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement through which it will acquire the Vienna, Virginia-based Campania Group, which specializes in insurance solutions for the healthcare industry.

18 Jan 2010

AstraZeneca and Dako Denmark A/S enter into collaboration agreement

AstraZeneca and Dako Denmark A/S announced today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop companion diagnostic tests for multiple AstraZeneca oncology projects, including biologics and small molecules, in various stages of discovery and development.

18 Jan 2010

Democrats plot possible health bill strategies if Mass. seat goes to GOP

The New York Times reports that as Democratic leaders campaign for their party's candidate to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts, they are beginning to think about strategies if the Republican candidate wins and "deprives Senate Democrats of the crucial 60th vote they need to overcome filibusters" on the health overhaul bill.

18 Jan 2010

Allergan to jointly promote its adjustable gastric band for bariatric surgery with Covidien

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the extension of its agreement with Allergan, Inc. to jointly promote Allergan’s LAP-BAND® System, the top-selling adjustable gastric band for bariatric surgery, in the United States.

18 Jan 2010

Plastic surgery to complete weight-loss treatment

Reconfigured body after reconfigured body, the hands of Alexander Moya, M.D., Director of the Center for Weight Loss Body Contouring and Assistant Director of the Geisinger Center for Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery at Geisinger Medical Center (GMC), skillfully addresses the excess skin his patients contend with following the loss of dozens, if not often hundreds, of pounds. According to Dr. Moya, it's this final therapeutic step of removing this skin and reshaping their bodies that often puts weight-loss patients at peace with themselves and what they see in the mirror every morning.

18 Jan 2010

Locum Leaders awarded a five-year Federal Supply Schedule Contract

Locum Leaders (http://www.locumleaders.com), a leading recruiting firm specializing in physician and CRNA temporary staffing known as locum tenens, has been awarded a five-year Federal Supply Schedule Contract (GSA contract number V797P-7246A).

18 Jan 2010

Health experts calls for smoking cessation programmes among healthcare professionals

Public health experts are calling for urgent steps to reduce the number of healthcare professionals who smoke, after a survey of over 800 new nursing students found that more than half were current or former smokers.

18 Jan 2010

Health care reform: Opportunities and challenges in palliative care

Opinion leaders in the field of palliative medicine explored the unparalleled opportunities that now exist for the palliative care community, which matches treatment to the desires of informed patients and their families, to help define evolving health care reform policy. The thought-provoking Roundtable discussion, "Palliative Medicine: Politics and Policy," is published online ahead of print in Journal of Palliative Medicine, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc..

18 Jan 2010

Nine-member Creighton University surgical team departs to treat victims of Haiti earthquake

A nine-member Creighton University surgical team departed at noon on Saturday, Jan. 16, on a private passenger jet bound for the Dominican Republic, where they plan to help treat victims of the Haiti earthquake.

18 Jan 2010

Medical professionals and breast cancer survivors to attend 10th international conference in Georgia

2010 marks the 10th anniversary of the only international conference dedicated to the critical issues of young breast cancer survivors and those who care about them.

18 Jan 2010

Nationwide Children's Hospital to break ground for its third research facility

Nationwide Children's Hospital will break ground on property west of Parsons Avenue and north of Livingston Avenue in early 2010 for its third research facility as the last piece of its $840 million strategic facilities expansion plan, first announced in 2005. Nationwide Children's Board approval of the final construction budget is expected in early 2010.

18 Jan 2010

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Premera Blue Cross to provide personal health records to the employees of Microsoft

Orbis Education completes $8M Series B financing to expand its online nursing education programs

New data shows significant rise in healthcare premiums

Calsed earns proprietary clinical gold standard status from Decision Resources

Unique partnership leverages funds and technology to track and improve breast screening program

Study of link between vitamin D deficiency and hypertension uses SunTech Medical’s Oscar 2 ABPM

Huntington Hospital uses Voalte One system to help nurses improve communication at point-of-care

Medline Industries donates more than $250,000 in initial humanitarian aid to the people of Haiti

Sodium oxybate to garner over 15% of the fibromyalgia drug market despite safety concerns

The Hanover Insurance Group enters into definitive agreement to acquire The Campania Group

AstraZeneca and Dako Denmark A/S enter into collaboration agreement

Democrats plot possible health bill strategies if Mass. seat goes to GOP

Allergan to jointly promote its adjustable gastric band for bariatric surgery with Covidien

Plastic surgery to complete weight-loss treatment

Locum Leaders awarded a five-year Federal Supply Schedule Contract

Health experts calls for smoking cessation programmes among healthcare professionals

Health care reform: Opportunities and challenges in palliative care

Nine-member Creighton University surgical team departs to treat victims of Haiti earthquake

Medical professionals and breast cancer survivors to attend 10th international conference in Georgia

Nationwide Children's Hospital to break ground for its third research facility

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Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

Event guide: 3rd Measuring Patient Engagement Summit eBook

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Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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