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Carroll Hospital Center implements Lawson core applications

Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, Maryland, recently completed an organization wide deployment of multiple enterprise software applications from Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN). The healthcare provider implemented Lawson Enterprise Financial Management and Asset Management suites as well as Lawson Business Intelligence.

26 Oct 2009

Health IT opportunities abound, some studies question value

"The rest of the world has embraced e-mail, online forms and iPhone apps, but health care still communicates in the centuries-old technology of paper," McClatchy/Tribune News reports. Now, technology companies are recognizing a business opportunity in that shortcoming. Moving to electronic medical records can be expensive - Kaiser Permanente spent $4 billion switching from paper to digital - meaning money in the bank for well-poised vendors.

26 Oct 2009

Axolotl launches Elysium Image Exchange

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services, today announced the immediate availability of Elysium Image Exchange, a state-of-the-art technology integrated with Axolotl’s Elysium® Exchange suite of products. Powered by Axolotl’s partner eHealth Global Technologies, Inc. (eHGT), Elysium Image Exchange enables the electronic sharing of diagnostic quality medical images between health care providers participating in an HIE.

26 Oct 2009

CMSC analyses patient self-management in Multiple Sclerosis

The Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) released a white paper, written by a panel chaired by CMSC member Robert T. Fraser, Ph.D., of the University of Washington Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Seattle, Washington, analyzing patient self-management in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) to develop recommendations for best practices aimed at improving patients' lives.

26 Oct 2009

EMG and NCS reports performed by 'non-prequalified' physicians are found to be unreliable

In a recent study of workers’ compensation injury cases, Electromyography (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Studies (NCSs), which were performed by physicians who were not evaluated and pre-determined to meet a certain level of quality, were discovered to be highly unreliable.

26 Oct 2009

Winners of the EDCTP Award For Outstanding African Scientist

The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) has given its Awards for Outstanding African Scientist to Dr Alexis Nzila and Dr Dominique Pepper.

26 Oct 2009

First Edition: October 26, 2009

Several Democratic senators voiced optimism on Sunday that Congress would pass a health care bill containing at least the germ of a government-run insurance program. Their expectations were grudgingly seconded by Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008 (The New York Times).

26 Oct 2009

Thomson Reuters: The U.S. healthcare system wastes an estimated amount of $700 billion annually

The U.S. healthcare system wastes between $600 billion and $850 billion annually, according to a white paper published today by Thomson Reuters.

26 Oct 2009

CCA and key industry leaders to discuss role of retail-based healthcare in health reform

On Monday, October 26, the Convenient Care Association (CCA) and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, along with the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and The Drug Store News Group, will discuss the evolution and growth of the convenient care industry, expansion of the convenient care model, convenient care in the health system setting, and quality in convenient care.

26 Oct 2009

Leeza Gibbons and SBMI to host events to educate consumers about ZERONA

Chip Conk, CEO of Santa Barbara Medical Innovations (SBMI), announced today that Emmy Award winning television personality, entrepreneur and philanthropist Leeza Gibbons has joined with SBMI in an alliance focused on educating and empowering people to take charge of their health. SBMI is the exclusive distributor of the ZERONA® non-surgical body slimming laser in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

26 Oct 2009

Future physician workforce may be younger but fewer in number than previously projected

Compared with a source of data often used regarding physician workforce supply and projected changes, data from the U.S. Census Bureau suggests that the future physician workforce may be younger but fewer in number than previously projected, according to a study in the October 21 issue of JAMA.

26 Oct 2009

Aldosterone antagonist therapy can be adopted for treating heart failure

Less than one-third of patients hospitalized for heart failure and participating in a quality improvement registry received a guideline-recommended treatment of heart failure, aldosterone antagonist therapy, according to a study in the October 21 issue of JAMA.

26 Oct 2009

Saving sight in premature babies: The past, present and future of ROP treatment

Highlights of today's Scientific Program of the 2009 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) - Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO) Joint Meeting include: John T. Flynn, MD, Columbia University School of Medicine, discussing the ever-tougher challenges Eye M.D.s face in caring for the vision of the tiniest premature babies; and a report by Bradford W. Lee, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, on barriers to glaucoma follow-up as perceived by patients in an urban, culturally diverse clinic.

26 Oct 2009

NAMI joins other disease advocacy organizations in support of NIH and NIMH

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is joining advocates from across the nation in asking President Obama to make medical research for improving health care a priority and support robust funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

26 Oct 2009

Enrollment in medical schools continues to expand to meet nation's need for more doctors

Enrollment in both new and existing U.S. medical schools continues to expand to meet the nation's need for more doctors, according to data released today by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges).

26 Oct 2009

Democratic infighting on abortion and health reform will peak this week

Examiner: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) intends to bring the legislation to the floor early this week, but Pro-life Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) and a posse of conservative Democrats might just throw a wrench in Pelosi's plans.

26 Oct 2009

Moderates will determine fate of public option in health bills

It's Sunday, and not surprisingly, the talk is about the public option - especially on what provisions some senators may be willing to accept in a final health bill.

26 Oct 2009

Pelosi pressing, cajoling Democrats to include public option in final health bill

News outlets covering Capitol Hill report that, with pressure from Democratic leaders, the public option now appears more likely to be in final health care reform legislation.

26 Oct 2009

House Dems: Health reform bill would close Medicare "doughnut hole"

CQ Politics: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made another bid to solidify support for Democrats' ambitious health care plans Friday, pledging to move aggressively to close the "doughnut hole" in Medicare drug coverage.

26 Oct 2009

Los Angeles Jewish Home continues to meet nursing shortage in the country

While the healthcare industry bemoans a severe nursing shortage and sociologists warn of a growing health crisis amidst an aging population, the Los Angeles Jewish Home has continued to meet that challenge with its second graduating class from its innovative Annenberg School of Nursing.

24 Oct 2009

Healthcare News

Carroll Hospital Center implements Lawson core applications

Health IT opportunities abound, some studies question value

Axolotl launches Elysium Image Exchange

CMSC analyses patient self-management in Multiple Sclerosis

EMG and NCS reports performed by 'non-prequalified' physicians are found to be unreliable

Winners of the EDCTP Award For Outstanding African Scientist

First Edition: October 26, 2009

Thomson Reuters: The U.S. healthcare system wastes an estimated amount of $700 billion annually

CCA and key industry leaders to discuss role of retail-based healthcare in health reform

Leeza Gibbons and SBMI to host events to educate consumers about ZERONA

Future physician workforce may be younger but fewer in number than previously projected

Aldosterone antagonist therapy can be adopted for treating heart failure

Saving sight in premature babies: The past, present and future of ROP treatment

NAMI joins other disease advocacy organizations in support of NIH and NIMH

Enrollment in medical schools continues to expand to meet nation's need for more doctors

Democratic infighting on abortion and health reform will peak this week

Moderates will determine fate of public option in health bills

Pelosi pressing, cajoling Democrats to include public option in final health bill

House Dems: Health reform bill would close Medicare "doughnut hole"

Los Angeles Jewish Home continues to meet nursing shortage in the country

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