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Premier’s group buy program helps hospitals to save more than $74 million in 2008

At a time when hospital operating margins are paper thin, the Premier healthcare alliance is helping its members achieve enhanced savings through its hospital group buy program. Members who utilized the program generated savings of more than $74 million in 2008.

27 Aug 2009

URAC accredits Medversant in the 2009 CVO Standards category

Medversant Technologies (www.medversant.com), the nation’s exclusive provider of AutoVerifi™ technology (U.S. Patent 7,529,682) that continuously monitors Web-based credentials verification solutions for hospitals, health plans, state Medicaid programs, and other healthcare settings, has been accredited by the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) in the 2009 Credentials Verification Organization (CVO) Standards category.

27 Aug 2009

Clinical data added to ORENCIA labeling help treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced today that clinical data added to the labeling for ORENCIA (abatacept) support use of ORENCIA for patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis of less than or equal to two years duration.

27 Aug 2009

GeckoSystems' CPT codes increase the cost/benefit ratios of personal robots

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GCKO) announced today that the new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes recently approved, for physicians only, will further enhance the cost/benefit ratios of personal companion robots for family care. These new CPT codes will increase physician productivity and revenue by billing for activities that have previously been considered unpaid administrative time for non-physical consultations such as telephonic or on-line consumer care using home monitoring medical devices.

27 Aug 2009

Analysis of a pending health reform bill reveals that more 1,800 caregivers in Michigan may lose their jobs

An American Health Care Association (AHCA) analysis of a pending U.S. House health reform bill, HR 3200, finds seniors in Michigan requiring nursing and rehabilitative care will face funding cuts of $1.5 billion over the next 10 years. This equals the 10th highest state cut across the nation.

27 Aug 2009

Briggs introduces a new program to improve quality of healthcare in nursing homes

Briggs, the company known for over 60 years as a trusted provider of documentation solutions to long term care facilities, today announced a unique program to improve the quality of care in the nation's 14,000 Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes.

27 Aug 2009

DermaStream continuous streaming therapy for healing bedsores and chronic ulcers

More than six million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds -- open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. The bedridden elderly and infirm are prone to painful and dangerous pressure ulcers, and diabetics are susceptible to wounds caused by a lack of blood flow to the extremities.

27 Aug 2009

Consumer Reports covers issues pertaining to the efficacy and safety of prescription and non-prescription drugs

Consumer Reports and ConsumerReportsHealth.org cover issues pertaining to the efficacy and safety of prescription and non-prescription drugs (including natural medicines), mental health, diet and nutrition, food safety, and fitness.

26 Aug 2009

MedAssets to deliver transformational revenue cycle solutions for Saint Barnabas Health Care System

MedAssets, Inc. today announced that it has signed a long-term agreement to deliver its transformational revenue cycle solutions to Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS), the largest integrated health care delivery system in New Jersey. MedAssets will provide revenue cycle process reengineering services, powered by the continued deployment of web-based software and execution of ongoing primary accounts receivable billing and follow-up services.

26 Aug 2009

Defentect's radiation detection system to be installed at Washington Hospital Center

Defentect announced today Washington Hospital Center is deploying Defentect's radiation detection system hospital-wide following a pilot project to test its effectiveness, with an additional nine GT2(TM) radiation sensors and two GT4(TM) Gamma Radiation sensors, capable of isotopic identification.

26 Aug 2009

Analysis of pending health reform bill points to huge cuts in Medicare funding

A new American Health Care Association analysis of the pending House health reform bill when combined with the impact of a recently-enacted Medicare regulation cutting Medicare-funded nursing home care by $12 billion will result in total cuts of $44 billion over ten years.

26 Aug 2009

Adolescents engaged in dangerous activities are associated with increased brain maturity

A new study using brain imaging to study teen behavior indicates that adolescents who engage in dangerous activities have frontal white matter tracts that are more adult in form than their more conservative peers.

26 Aug 2009

Program to help runaway girls proves effective

A nurse intervention program that helps sexually exploited runaway girls re-connect to family, school and health care reduces trauma and restores healthy behaviors, according to a new study led by University of British Columbia researcher Elizabeth Saewyc and Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota nurse practitioner Laurel Edinburgh.

26 Aug 2009

Fear mongering abounds in health debate

"What many people say they fear most from an overhaul of the health care system [is] the prospect of the federal government's limiting the medical care they receive," the New York Times reports. Policy experts say people are right to worry about health care costs, but this fear of rationing is unrealistic. "[T]here is nothing in the current proposals in Washington to suggest that the country is likely to embark on a system of medical rationing anytime soon," the Times reports.

26 Aug 2009

Healthcare information technology to enable clinicians spend more time on patient care

Healthcare reform, a current hot button headline, is not a new issue. In fact, the concept has been kicking around the Hill since Teddy Roosevelt, who started the discussion of a national health insurance program in the early 1900s.

25 Aug 2009

Healthcare, education and clean energy are top job demands of the future

In the late 1980s, everyone wanted to study business management. Colleges and universities churned out millions of graduates who had watched Michael Douglas in Wall Street and believed they were going to be the next Gordon Gekko. Imagine their surprise when, in the early 1990s, corporate hiring trends shifted to heavily favor technology jobs! Certainly some of these graduates did just fine in the business world, but how many would have been happier and more successful with a computer degree?

25 Aug 2009

Reliant Healthcare Professionals appoints a new CEO

Reliant Healthcare Professionals, Inc. (“Reliant”) operating as FASTAFF Travel Nursing (“FASTAFF”) and U.S. Nursing Corporation (“U.S. Nursing”), today announced that Patrick Donovan has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer.

25 Aug 2009

New office opened in Houston by Hospice Compassus

Hospice Compassus, a leading provider of hospice services, announced today the opening of its fourth Houston-area location.

25 Aug 2009

Medline Industries' Foley catheter management system helps minimize CAUTI risk

In an effort to help clinicians reduce the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), Medline Industries, Inc. today launched a ground-breaking Foley catheter management system featuring a reengineered catheter tray coupled with an evidence-based clinical education program.

25 Aug 2009

Phoenix Children’s Hospital adopts Eclipsys’ computerized physician order entry system

Eclipsys Corporation®, The Outcomes Company®, today announced that Phoenix Children’s Hospital, one of the 10 largest freestanding children’s hospitals in the country, has successfully completed an enterprise-wide activation of the company’s computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system, Sunrise Acute Care™.

25 Aug 2009

Nursing News and Research

Latest Nursing News and Research

Premier’s group buy program helps hospitals to save more than $74 million in 2008

URAC accredits Medversant in the 2009 CVO Standards category

Clinical data added to ORENCIA labeling help treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis

GeckoSystems' CPT codes increase the cost/benefit ratios of personal robots

Analysis of a pending health reform bill reveals that more 1,800 caregivers in Michigan may lose their jobs

Briggs introduces a new program to improve quality of healthcare in nursing homes

DermaStream continuous streaming therapy for healing bedsores and chronic ulcers

Consumer Reports covers issues pertaining to the efficacy and safety of prescription and non-prescription drugs

MedAssets to deliver transformational revenue cycle solutions for Saint Barnabas Health Care System

Defentect's radiation detection system to be installed at Washington Hospital Center

Analysis of pending health reform bill points to huge cuts in Medicare funding

Adolescents engaged in dangerous activities are associated with increased brain maturity

Program to help runaway girls proves effective

Fear mongering abounds in health debate

Healthcare information technology to enable clinicians spend more time on patient care

Healthcare, education and clean energy are top job demands of the future

Reliant Healthcare Professionals appoints a new CEO

New office opened in Houston by Hospice Compassus

Medline Industries' Foley catheter management system helps minimize CAUTI risk

Phoenix Children’s Hospital adopts Eclipsys’ computerized physician order entry system

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Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

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Latest Nursing News and Research

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