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Electronic Medical Records: Bad for Health?: Electronic medical records could let patients travel freely to doctors of their choice, improve their odds of getting the right care in emergencies and reduce medical errors, duplicated tests and unnecessary prescriptions. They're also the standard in most industrialized nations as well as U.S. healthcare systems such as the Cleveland...; Tags: Electronic Record, Patient, Physician, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Glaxo Wins U.S. FDA Approval For Wider Advair Use: By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - U.S. health regulators have said GlaxoSmithKline Plc's (GSK)(GSK) Advair is safe and effective to more widely treat patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the drugmaker said on Wednesday. Glaxo's approval comes the same day as rival AstraZeneca...; Tags: AstraZeneca Plc., FDA, Patient, Glaxo, Advair, Federal Government, Government, GlaxoSmithKline Plc.; News items 2008-04-30
Sanofi Heparin Drug Impurity Found in UK: By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters UK) - Batches of Sanofi-Aventis's blood-thinning heparin injection Lovenox have been found to contain small amounts of impurity in Britain, Sweden, Spain and Australia, officials said on Thursday. Lovenox is Sanofi's top-selling drug, with sales last year of 2.6 billion...; Tags: Germany, Patient, Health Care, Lovenox, Sanofi, Vertical Industries, Dresdner Kleinwort, US; News items 2008-04-24
Cash Up Front or Else -- Why Hospitals Are Gouging Their Patients: People who've just been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease already have plenty of things to worry about. Now comes one more unexpected concern: Many large hospitals are demanding up-front payment before they'll admit patients for cancer treatment and other expensive care. This WSJ story is a classic...; Tags: Payment, Patient, Hospital, Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Glaxo Wins FDA Approval For Wider Advair Use: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have said GlaxoSmithKline Plc's (GSK)(GSK) Advair is safe and effective to more widely treat patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the drugmaker said on Wednesday. Glaxo's approval comes the same day as rival AstraZeneca...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., patient, clinical trial, Pfizer Inc., London, Thomson Reuters Corp., health care, sales; News items 2008-04-30

Hospitals Narrowly Avert a War Down on the Farm: For much of the past two decades, a war has been brewing between traditional community hospitals and a new breed of doctor-owned specialty hospitals that focus on specific treatments such as cardiac angioplasty, outpatient surgery or knee and hip replacements. Although often cast in loftier terms, in reality the fight...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Medicare, Community Hospital, Specialty Hospital, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Genentech, Biogen Shares Drop After Lupus Study Fails: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Genentech Inc (DNA) and Biogen Idec Inc (BIIB) said on Tuesday a key study of Rituxan did not meet its main goal of a response in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly called lupus. The Phase II/III study also did...; Tags: Biogen Idec Inc., Genentech Inc., patient, Chicago, DNA, Thomson Reuters Corp., stock, sales; News items 2008-04-29
As Hospitals Hit the Skids, Odds of a Healthcare Crisis Rise: It's not just big insurers who are sinking into the swamp these days -- hospitals are slipping as well. And while it's a little early to know for sure, the problems of health plans seem quite likely to make those of hospitals even worse. Yesterday, Tenet Healthcare...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Health Care, Nothing, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Drugmakers Need to Rein in Ads, Hearing Told: By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical companies need to be more responsible in touting products to consumers or else face tighter controls from Congress, a top U.S. Democratic lawmaker said on Thursday. Rep. Bart Stupak, at a hearing to discuss specific ads...; Tags: Schering-Plough Corp., Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co. Inc., pharmaceutical company, drug company, physician, patient, advertisement, U.S. Congress, Washington, risk, TV, benefit, Thomson Reuters Corp., food, technique, knowledge, sales, marketing; News items 2008-05-08
Drugmakers Win Appeal Over Alzheimer Curbs: By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters UK) - An appeals court on Thursday ruled the country's healthcare cost-effectiveness watchdog had acted unfairly in the way it decided to curb access to Alzheimer's drugs, in a victory for drugmakers and patients. The move will let manufacturers renew their...; Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Patient, Health Care, NICE, QALY, Johnson & Johnson, Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc., Pfizer Inc.; News items 2008-05-01
Michigan Nukes Expensive Cancer-Radiation Sites: Michigan Nukes Expensive Cancer-Radiation SitesProton Beam Therapy"Because the technology is shiny and new..."No, it is not. Loma Linda University Medical Center has been treating many types of cancer patients since 1990. "Proton-beam treatment may be more accurate — and thus somewhat safer and more effective — than traditional...; Tags: therapy, radiation, patient, Michigan Nukes, Cancer-Radiation, Cancer-Radiation site, expensive Cancer-Radiation site, IMRT; Discussion threads 2008-05-06
Cash Up Front or Else -- Why Hospitals Are Gouging Their Patients: Cash Up Front or Else -- Why Hospitals Are Gouging Their PatientsHealth care crisisI find it disgusting that people in the US are subjected to this kind of treatment. We are 1st world right? Why dont they send someone over to Taiwan and inspect their medical infrastructure and systems. My...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, Benefits, hospital, Cash Up Front, insurance, health care, patient; Discussion threads 2008-04-29
Insurers Take On Botched Medical Work -- With Their Checkbooks: Medical errors are one of the leading preventable causes of death in the U.S., accounting for up to 98,000 fatalities a year -- more than car crashes, breast cancer or AIDS. But the healthcare system has been remarkably resistant to working to bring those numbers down -- at least until...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Insurance Company, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Southend Hospital Case Study: Southend Hospital has recently concluded a pilot study into electronic drug administration, using the MediChain Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system. The system enables care professionals to enter vital statistics and medication administrative events, view electronic medication administration records and scan the patients' wristbands and medication at the point...; Tags: Symbol Technologies Inc., medication, patient; Case studies
Latham House: Medical Practice Improves Care, Lowers Costs Through Information Sharing System: Latham House Medical Practice serves the town of Melton Mowbray and is the largest group practice in the United Kingdom. Latham House wanted to eliminate time-consuming paper-based business processes such as filing patient records. It also wanted to improve collaboration among doctors and improve patient care. A document and knowledge...; Tags: Strategy, patient, knowledge management, business process, collaboration, knowledge, Microsoft Corp.; Case studies
Advanced Pediatrics: Efficiency Through Technology Enables Pediatric Office to Deliver Comprehensive Care: Advanced Pediatrics is a pediatric office located in Beachwood, Ohio (Cleveland). Three major issues drove the adoption of various technologies: limited information access due to paper overload, poor interoffice communication, and the desire to stay connected to the patient, especially as care extended beyond normal business hours. A Microsoft Windows...; Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Corp., patient, client-server, tablet PC, tablet, Intranet, PC, software; Case studies
The Scoop on Medical Practice Software: Medical practices don't have much choice: one has to use technology to manage the patient records and scheduling, and more technology to handle the business side - it's just too complex (and in some cases legally risky) to do everything by hand. But the market for medical practice systems, including...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, AllBusiness.com, medical practice management, electronic health record, patient, software; White papers
Bayside Health: Reliable and Affordable Project Management Leads to Better Patient Care at Bayside Health: Formed in June 2000, Bayside Health comprises three large healthcare facilities: The Alfred Hospital, Caulfield General Medical Centre and Sandringham & District Memorial Hospital. Bayside Health required a flexible enterprise project management system to enhance staff collaboration and improve productivity. It also had to be scalable and affordable. Programs from...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Vertical industries, Microsoft Corp., project management, health care, patient, tool, Web; Case studies
Veterans Healthcare System: Veterans Hospital Improves Patient Care With Wireless Mobile Device-Enabled Solution: The Veterans Healthcare System serves the needs of America's veterans by providing primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services. The VA Hospital in Portland, OR wanted to improve care for its diabetic patients with more flexible care options for both physicians and their patients. Working with...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., patient, support services, HIPAA, physician, health care, mobile, wireless, security, PC, software; Case studies
MPM + EMR + Integration: Just What the Doctor Ordered: While the practice staff tends to use MPM applications, EMR applications - the representation of patients' charts, essentially - are the province of the doctor (though, of course, there are places where they overlap, such as in patient demographics). Logically, MPM and EMR applications should be integrated, or at least...; Tags: AllBusiness.com, patient; White papers