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New book details how Greenway Medical Technologies' PrimeResearch integrates with PrimeSuite

Paper Kills 2.0: How Health IT Can Help Save Your Life and Your Money, is due out today by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Health Transformation.

25 Feb 2010

Health insurance premium discussion: HHS Secretary invites insurance company CEOs

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today invited insurance company chief executive officers to a March 3 meeting at HHS to discuss their companies’ insurance premiums. The CEOs of UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint Inc., Aetna Inc., Health Care Service Corporation and CIGNA HealthCare Inc. along with leaders from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have been invited.

25 Feb 2010

HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2010 identified

The HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2010 were identified in a report issued today by the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. The analysis, which examined objective patient outcomes over three years at all 5,000 of the nation’s nonfederal hospitals, found that the 50 Best Hospitals had mortality rates that were, on average, 27% lower than other hospitals.

25 Feb 2010

Congressman Chaka Fattah shoots back at "baloney" from Republicans

Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) shot back today at what he called "baloney" coming from Washington Republicans: "Every step along the way these nattering nabobs of negativity have said we couldn't get it done. They said we would never move a bill out of Energy and Commerce. They said the Senate Finance Committee would never report a bill. They said the House vote would be strictly party lines and that the Senate would never let it out. Well, here we are at the finish line, and they're at it again.

25 Feb 2010

Asymptomatic pancreatic cyst treatment: UCLA-Veterans Affairs research team develops evaluation tool

As a result of improved imaging technology, pancreatic cysts are increasingly diagnosed in asymptomatic individuals who undergo scans for other reasons. And while most of these cysts follow a benign course, a small but significant number are either malignant at the time of diagnosis or have the potential to develop into pancreatic cancer during a patient's lifetime.

25 Feb 2010

Adoption of new technologies can transform healthcare system

According to Julie Klapstein, CEO of leading health information network Availity, LLC, “Technology adoption by health care providers will be a key determinant in the speed with which our nation’s health care system is transformed, and the speed at which patients and providers benefit from better clinical outcomes.”

25 Feb 2010

Philanthropic organizations fund for cancer research studies

Eight philanthropic organizations and families in the Charlotte region have joined forces to create the "Carolinas Kids Cancer Research Coalition," which is providing funding for the introduction of Phase I and Phase II clinical trials by the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Center at Levine Children's Hospital (LCH).

25 Feb 2010

Eclipsys, Microsoft sign health information technology alliance

Eclipsys Corp.® and Microsoft Corp. today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of closed, proprietary systems, the two companies will offer the market tightly integrated health IT solutions designed to make it easy for physicians, nurses and hospital administrators to gain insights from data aggregated from multiple clinical and financial systems across the hospital.

25 Feb 2010

GlaxoSmithKline responds to Staff Report on GlaxoSmithKline and the Diabetes Drug Avandia

Today, GlaxoSmithKline responded to the recently released Senate Committee on Finance's January 2010 "Staff Report on GlaxoSmithKline and the Diabetes Drug Avandia" (the "Staff Report").

25 Feb 2010

Ecolab signs strategic cooperation agreement with Belimed to provide cleaning solutions for hospitals

Ecolab Inc. today announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Belimed Inc. to provide optimized cleaning solutions for hospital sterile processing departments.

25 Feb 2010

Mariner to present HAI controlling dashboard at 2010 Microsoft Health User Group Exchange

Mariner, an industry-leading business intelligence, performance management and analytics solutions provider, will present an exciting new data-driven dashboard at the Microsoft Health User Group Exchange 2010 taking place during HIMSS10 at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, February 28th. Designed to help the medical center’s infection control practitioner’s control HAIs, the Dashboard has been the subject of recent POC activity at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC).

25 Feb 2010

AAJ says healthcare reform should improve safety, not restrict rights of patients

As President Obama and Congressional leaders prepare for tomorrow's health care summit, the American Association for Justice (AAJ) is today reminding lawmakers to remember the 98,000 patients killed every year by preventable medical errors and how restricting their legal rights will not fix America's broken health care system.

25 Feb 2010

LodgeNet Healthcare expands interactive patient television system at one of leading cancer hospitals

LodgeNet Healthcare today announced the expansion of their interactive patient television system at one of the country's leading cancer hospitals. In March of 2009, LodgeNet Healthcare and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center partnered on designing a state-of-the-art television system capable of delivering interactive services for patients including patient education and entertainment programming.

25 Feb 2010

Missouri lawmaker proposes changes to control prison health care costs

States struggle with funding health care for inmates, Medicaid cuts and funding health insurance for low-income residents in Minnestoa.

25 Feb 2010

New interface to help caregivers receive and respond to alert messages now available

Emergin, a Philips Healthcare company, announced today the availability of an interface between the Emergin alert management platform and the Voalte communication server to deliver alert message notifications from Emergin to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices. This integration facilitates the orchestration of voice, alert, and text communications by leveraging the flexibility of the Apple platform.

25 Feb 2010

BIDHC selects MedAptus Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology

MedAptus(R), the market leader for charge capture technologies, today announced that Needham-based Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare (BIDHC) has selected the company's Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology for its hospitalist group. BIDHC, a network of primary care physicians, will roll-out the web-based version of MedAptus' Inpatient Edition for the timely and compliant capture of inpatient charges originating at three area hospitals.

25 Feb 2010

Thirteen private-practice radiology groups across the country form Strategic Radiology

Having founded a formal organization in 2009, thirteen private-practice radiology groups across the country representing over 750 physicians today publicly announced the formation of Strategic Radiology (SR), an entity that embodies the vision and clinical goals of this network of like-minded regional medical practices, according to Van Moore, MD, Chairman of SR and president of Charlotte Radiology.

25 Feb 2010

AMICAS board to evaluate updated acquisition proposal from Merge Healthcare

AMICAS, Inc., a leader in image and information management solutions, today announced that it has received from Merge Healthcare Incorporated a proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of AMICAS for $6.05 per share in cash, which has been updated to include an executed definitive commitment letter for $200 million of financing from Morgan Stanley and confirmation that Merge will place a portion of the pre-funded proceeds received from its mezzanine investors into an escrow account directly accessible by AMICAS.

25 Feb 2010

Virginia Life Science Investments completes recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron

Virginia Life Science Investments, LLC and other investors have completed a recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron, Inc., a Delaware corporation established in 2001, with principal offices in Modi’in, Israel. The transaction provides significant new capital to support the continued growth and development of Cupron Inc.; as well as the formation and initial capitalization of an independent new entity, Cupron Medical Inc., a Delaware corporation with principal offices in Richmond, VA.

25 Feb 2010

Insurance execs defend rate hikes before Congress

Lawmakers said Anthem Blue Cross, the California insurer that proposed raising premium rates for some individual policyholders by as much as 39 percent, sought to boost profits at the expense of its insured, the Los Angeles Times reports. During a congressional hearing Wednesday, "Democrats said internal documents from [Anthem's parent firm] WellPoint Inc. showed that proposed rate increases of as much as 39% for California customers who buy individual policies would 'return California to a profit of 7%.'"

25 Feb 2010

Healthcare News and Research

Latest Healthcare News and Research

New book details how Greenway Medical Technologies' PrimeResearch integrates with PrimeSuite

Health insurance premium discussion: HHS Secretary invites insurance company CEOs

HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2010 identified

Congressman Chaka Fattah shoots back at "baloney" from Republicans

Asymptomatic pancreatic cyst treatment: UCLA-Veterans Affairs research team develops evaluation tool

Adoption of new technologies can transform healthcare system

Philanthropic organizations fund for cancer research studies

Eclipsys, Microsoft sign health information technology alliance

GlaxoSmithKline responds to Staff Report on GlaxoSmithKline and the Diabetes Drug Avandia

Ecolab signs strategic cooperation agreement with Belimed to provide cleaning solutions for hospitals

Mariner to present HAI controlling dashboard at 2010 Microsoft Health User Group Exchange

AAJ says healthcare reform should improve safety, not restrict rights of patients

LodgeNet Healthcare expands interactive patient television system at one of leading cancer hospitals

Missouri lawmaker proposes changes to control prison health care costs

New interface to help caregivers receive and respond to alert messages now available

BIDHC selects MedAptus Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology

Thirteen private-practice radiology groups across the country form Strategic Radiology

AMICAS board to evaluate updated acquisition proposal from Merge Healthcare

Virginia Life Science Investments completes recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron

Insurance execs defend rate hikes before Congress

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