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UC San Diego Health System named 'Most Wired' for sixth consecutive year

For the sixth consecutive year, UC San Diego Health System was named one of the nation's "Most Wired" by Hospitals and Health Networks, a publication of the American Hospital Association.

3 Aug 2011

Tunstall Healthcare launch new myclinic@home telehealth solution

myclinic@home is the latest in telehealth solutions, allowing remote patients to easily monitor their vital signs and manage a long term health condition in the comfort of their own home or a clinic setting, all supported by a health professional.

1 Aug 2011

AACN invites clinicians and researchers to apply for research grants

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) invites clinicians and researchers to apply for its grants, with awards ranging from $1,500 to $50,000.

21 Jul 2011

Mary Ann Liebert launches new journal on games, human health

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. announces the launch of Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications (G4H), a new, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the development, use, and applications of game technology for improving physical and mental health and well-being.

14 Jul 2011

New BGU system could prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

A new system using video and computer software to monitor a baby that could be used to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), as well as for telemedicine applications, has been developed by two students at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

14 Jul 2011

Toumaz announces JV for newly approved ‘digital plaster’

Toumaz Limited (AIM: TMZ,) has established a new joint venture with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s company California Capital Equity LLC (‘CCE’), to expand the commercialisation and distribution of the Sensium™ Digital Plaster. The joint venture, which is named “Toumaz US LLC”, will be headquartered in San Diego, California, and will sell and distribute the Sensium™ Digital Plaster in North America and Worldwide.

11 Jul 2011

Critical access hospitals provide lower quality of care

In an analysis of data from more than 4,500 hospitals that serve Medicare beneficiaries, critical access hospitals had fewer clinical capabilities, worse measured processes of care and higher rates of death for patients with heart attack, congestive heart failure or pneumonia, compared to non-CAHs, according to a study in the July 6 issue of JAMA.

6 Jul 2011

Video consultation initiative great opportunity for patients and GPs

With the new video consultation MBS items being available from 1 July 2011, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is committed to supporting the profession during the telehealth rollout and highlights the value of the GP in this healthcare model.

29 Jun 2011

Medtronic launches mobile application for implantable cardiac devices

Medtronic, Inc. today announced the launch of Medtronic's first mobile application for use with implantable cardiac devices. As health care shifts care delivery from outpatient to home, Medtronic is leading the implantable cardiac device industry by offering cutting-edge technology designed to give physicians greater flexibility in monitoring patient data.

From Medtronic 29 Jun 2011

Elderly care budget faces cuts: Age UK report

According to a report by charity Age UK, spending on social care for the elderly has been cut by around £600m this year. The research was based on 139 council responses under the Freedom of Information Act, and has uncovered an 8.4% cut to elderly care budgets.

28 Jun 2011

Diabetic patients can benefit from basal insulin analogs

Basal insulin analogs have revolutionized diabetes care, and especially the treatment of type 2 diabetes, enabling patients to achieve better control of blood glucose levels while reducing hypoglycemic episodes.

27 Jun 2011

NSBRI expands use of ultrasound during spaceflights and on Earth

The remoteness and resource limitations of spaceflight pose a serious challenge to astronaut health care. One solution is ultrasound.

24 Jun 2011

CoreLab Partners' new technological solutions to be showcased at DIA 2011

CoreLab Partners, Inc, the global entity resulting from the merger between RadPharm, Inc and Medifacts International, will showcase several new technological solutions to coincide with the upcoming DIA meeting in Chicago, Illinois to be held from June 20 - 23, 2011.

17 Jun 2011

Tunstall named HealthInvestors Telehealthcare provider of the year

Against stiff competition, Tunstall Healthcare, the world's leading provider of telehealthcare solutions has been named HealthInvestor's telehealth/telecare provider of the year at its 2011 London awards ceremony.

16 Jun 2011

California's rural elders more likely to be obese, physically inactive and food insecure

Despite living in the countryside, where open space is plentiful and there is often significant agricultural production, California's more than half a million rural elders are far more likely to be overweight or obese, physically inactive and food insecure than their suburban counterparts, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

15 Jun 2011

Viewpoints: Romney and 'Obamneycare'; 'fundamental constitutional flaws'; leading vs. following in Md.

Hence the young campaign's most unfortunate new coinage, courtesy of Tim Pawlenty: "Obamneycare." That's the word Pawlenty used Sunday to describe President Obama's health-care law, which borrowed ideas from the reform package Romney devised and implemented when he was governor of Massachusetts. Obamacare plus Romneycare equals . . . Okay, we get it, we get it.

15 Jun 2011

IHPM, Ciming announce formal collaboration in the field of Enterprise Health Management

Ciming Health Checkup Group and Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) are pleased to announce their formal collaboration in the field of Enterprise Health Management, for the purpose of bringing health and productivity solutions to employers in China.

13 Jun 2011

Eight out of 10 countries using mHealth services, WHO report says

Eighty-three percent of countries are using mobile phone technology for health services, according to a WHO study released on Tuesday at the Mobile Health Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, Agence France-Presse reports.

9 Jun 2011

Doctors' move to electronic records requires serious commitment

The federal stimulus and health care laws are pushing medical providers to go electronic as a way to improve patient safety and track health care quality. ... But moving away from paper files to an electronic health record system requires serious commitment on several levels. First, they're expensive. ... Second, the learning curve can be painful.

8 Jun 2011

Primary care providers treat hepatitis C patients effectively through Project ECHO model

Under a completely new way of providing health care, primary care clinicians in remote villages, prisons and poor urban neighborhoods who were trained to treat patients with hepatitis C achieved excellent results identical to those of specialists at a university medical center.

4 Jun 2011