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InterAmerican College announces the approval and certification of Master of Science in Nursing Program

InterAmerican College is pleased to announce the approval and certification of the Master of Science in Nursing Program by the Board of Registered Nursing in California. The certification is being lauded as a major milestone for InterAmerican College (IAC) and its nursing students.

2 Mar 2010

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services and Rochester RHIO, the regional health information organization connecting medical providers across nine counties in New York today announced that fifty area eldercare agencies are joining the health information exchange. For the first time anywhere, health care providers are now able to view medical and social supports that human service agencies provide senior patients, alongside their clinical information.

2 Mar 2010

States continue to wrestle with Medicaid spending, budget issues; Utah legislation would criminalize illegal abortion

Cincinnati Business Courier: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has signed a bill that will extend the state's mini-COBRA program from 12 to 15 months for small-business employees, according to a report in Columbus Business First (3/1).

2 Mar 2010

Kronos closes 41 major contracts with healthcare organizations

Solidifying its leadership as the premier provider of workforce management solutions to the healthcare industry, Kronos® Incorporated today announced that it closed 41 major contracts with healthcare organizations in the past 12 months.

2 Mar 2010

Loyola medical students and CRJHS students team up to promote healthcare awareness

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing students are teaming up with high schoolers from Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (CRJHS) to bring awareness and share ideas about health care now and in the future.

2 Mar 2010

Wolters Kluwer Health introduces advanced medication decision support platform for EMR vendors

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, today unveiled Medi-Span® Clinical, a robust clinical decision support (CDS) platform that delivers the functionality, interoperability and medication-related CDS necessary to advance the practice of evidence-based medicine and to achieve meaningful use of health IT.

2 Mar 2010

Researchers develop sensitive measuring system for cGVHD

Researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new assessment tool to measure the severity of symptoms that can complicate stem cell transplantation. The tool assesses symptoms resulting from chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD), and was presented with supporting research at the 2010 Bone and Marrow Transplant Tandem Meeting.

2 Mar 2010

Scopolamine drug: A rapid-acting antidepressant for depression symptoms

Conventional antidepressant treatments generally require three to four weeks to become effective, thus the discovery of treatments with a more rapid onset is a major goal of biological psychiatry. The first drug found to produce rapid improvement in mood was the NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist, ketamine.

1 Mar 2010

Elsevier to present tactical solutions for advancing healthcare quality at HIMSS 2010

Advancing healthcare quality to help improve patient outcomes and economic efficiency continues to be a primary focus in 2010 for Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information. During HIMSS 2010 (Atlanta, GA, March 1-3), Elsevier Clinical Decision Support will feature solutions that directly impact the quality of care, including evidence-based clinical content and tools; interdisciplinary documentation, planning and guidelines; drug decision support; interactive skills and procedures; data mining and outcomes analysis; and eLearning.

1 Mar 2010

New Clinical Pharmacology Mobile for drug information and medication management reference

Gold Standard/Elsevier (http://www.goldstandard.com), a leading provider of drug decision support announced today the availability of Clinical Pharmacology Mobile, a mobile device-optimized web site offering users access to the features and functions of Clinical Pharmacology, an award-winning electronic drug information and medication management reference.

1 Mar 2010

Screening crucial for Triple A and more awareness needed

On Feb. 22, the day after America watched some of its strongest hearts compete in Vancouver on the 30th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice” hockey game, a lucky patient at El Camino Hospital was recuperating from his own miracle.

1 Mar 2010

Kidney Cancer Canada: Survival, support, understanding, research and hope

Survival. Support. Understanding. Research. Hope. These are five words that mean a great deal to Kidney Cancer Canada as National Kidney Month kicks off this March.

27 Feb 2010

Body repairs itself through microvesicles: New hope for tissue regeneration

Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have discovered how cells communicate with each other during times of cellular injury. The findings shed new light on how the body repairs itself when organs become diseased, through small particles known as microvesicles, and offers hope for tissue regeneration.

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

Two Atlanta-based nursing homes and their principals to pay the U.S. and several states $14M

Atlanta-based Mariner Health Care Inc. and SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC, as well as their principals, Leonard Grunstein, Murray Forman and Rubin Schron, have agreed to pay the United States and several states $14 million, the Justice Department announced today.

27 Feb 2010

ONA: Cutting 300,000 hours of RN care per year may affect quality of patient care

Ontario Nurses' Association President Linda Haslam-Stroud, RN is expressing deep concerns about the quality of patient care at The Ottawa Hospital following word that the facility is cutting approximately 300,000 hours of RN care per year.

27 Feb 2010

UAMS researchers identify age-related mechanism as primary cause of osteoporosis

Marking a shift in decades of thought on the cause of osteoporosis, researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have identified an age-related mechanism - not a decrease of the hormone estrogen - as the primary culprit.

27 Feb 2010

State roundup: S.C. plan would end benefits to 30,000 disabled residents; Judge bars Calif. from cutting elderly from day care; Mass. faces lawsuit on immigrant health care

Children with autism, people with spine and brain injuries and the long-term disabled in job programs are among the 30,000 people who would lose state help under a $5.1 billion spending plan approved by a House committee Thursday.

27 Feb 2010

Criticism, passion emerge at health care summit

NPR interviewed Rep. Dave Camp, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. Camp said: "We were able to at least be heard and have some exposure to the ideas that we've been promoting for a long time. And the president did finally say in the close that we do have ideas that lower costs in insurance and that — do it without increasing taxes. And we don't cut Medicare. And we don't have new mandates in our proposals. So this is really the first opportunity we've had to really focus not only our colleagues and the president, but also the American people on the proposals we've had" (Siegel, 2/25).

26 Feb 2010

With rate cut looming, doctors threaten to stop accepting Medicare patients

With a 21 percent Medicare reimbursement rate cut set for Monday, unless Congress acts to block it, some doctors are threatening to refuse new Medicare patients in their practices.

26 Feb 2010

Nursing News and Research

Latest Nursing News and Research

InterAmerican College announces the approval and certification of Master of Science in Nursing Program

Axolotl and Rochester RHIO: 50 New York area eldercare agencies join HIE

States continue to wrestle with Medicaid spending, budget issues; Utah legislation would criminalize illegal abortion

Kronos closes 41 major contracts with healthcare organizations

Loyola medical students and CRJHS students team up to promote healthcare awareness

Wolters Kluwer Health introduces advanced medication decision support platform for EMR vendors

Researchers develop sensitive measuring system for cGVHD

Scopolamine drug: A rapid-acting antidepressant for depression symptoms

Elsevier to present tactical solutions for advancing healthcare quality at HIMSS 2010

New Clinical Pharmacology Mobile for drug information and medication management reference

Screening crucial for Triple A and more awareness needed

Kidney Cancer Canada: Survival, support, understanding, research and hope

Body repairs itself through microvesicles: New hope for tissue regeneration

Greenway Medical Technologies donates leading edge Health IT solutions to NKU

Two Atlanta-based nursing homes and their principals to pay the U.S. and several states $14M

ONA: Cutting 300,000 hours of RN care per year may affect quality of patient care

UAMS researchers identify age-related mechanism as primary cause of osteoporosis

State roundup: S.C. plan would end benefits to 30,000 disabled residents; Judge bars Calif. from cutting elderly from day care; Mass. faces lawsuit on immigrant health care

Criticism, passion emerge at health care summit

With rate cut looming, doctors threaten to stop accepting Medicare patients

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Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

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