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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.7M
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Skyscape, Inc. is the worldwide leader in mobile medical information. Utilizing only the most trusted, valuable resources and tools, Skyscape delivers customizable content by specialty to medical professionals directly at point of care.
Number of Employees 34
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Physicians Interactive acquires Skyscape Inc.
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Viewpoint: Very-Low-Fat Diets Are Superior to Low-Carbohydrate Diets
BNET
- 2005-11-01
Despite the ostensible health risks of low-carb diets, some people have followed this approach and lost weight. This anecdotal evidence, coupled with successful marketing campaigns, has led even neutral consumer advocates to encourage weight controllers to "Add a Little Fat" to their diets. Despite waning interest in this approach, acceptance...
State of the Industry 2006
BNET
- 2005-10-01
Summarizing the Healthcare industry and the state of the precarious union between providers and payers is like trying to balance a gallon of fresh gelatin in hands. Healthcare is an industry perhaps more complex, fragmented and difficult to comprehend than any other. This article provides information on the various "Balancing...
New Guidelines Help Manage Chronic Heart Failure
BNET
- 2005-09-26
Heart Failure HF is a major health problem and a leading cause of hospitalizations among the elderly. Keeping pace with the new treatment approaches, the American College of Cardiology ACC and the American Heart Association AHA task force released updated Guidelines for the Diagnosis and the Management of Chronic Heart...
Cost-Effectiveness of 4 Empiric Antimicrobial Regimens in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia
BNET
- 2005-09-01
This study compares the cost-effectiveness of the 4 most common empiric antimicrobial regimens used for the treatment of adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia CAP at a community health system during a 6-month period. Associations between initial antimicrobials and total hospital costs were determined. Cost-effectiveness ratios were determined by dividing the total...
Creative Come-Ons Encourage More Generic Utilization
BNET
- 2005-06-01
Generics should get a large boost in the coming years as branded drugs accounting for more than $38 billion, including Prevacid, Prevachol, Zocor, Zoloft and Paxil, are expected to come off patent by the end of 2008. The paper outlines that the use of generics is definitely on the rise....
Innovative Approaches Help Improve the Managed Care Trifecta
BNET
- 2005-06-01
It is no surprise that many healthcare organizations are content with the status quo. But is the status quo good enough? According a World Health Organization report from 2000, the United Status spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, but only ranks 37th in health system...
The Power of Low-Tech Nursing
BNET
- 2005-06-01
Research has shown that touching patients has several benefits. One study found that patients whose hands were held during cataract surgery reported less anxiety and had lower blood epinephrine levels than those who underwent cataract surgery without hand-holding. Another study found that elderly female nursing home residents who received comforting...
Higher Percentages of Americans Use Alternative Medicine
BNET
- 2005-02-01
Consumers more and more are trying to take control of their own healthcare destinies. They are looking for more therapy alternatives so they can better manage their healthcare dollars. With more of that responsibility falling to consumers, many managed care organizations are realizing that they must offer choices that until...
McGraw-Hill and Skyscape Partner to Increase Mobile Access to Medical Information
- 2003-03-10
Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers NEW YORK & HUDSON, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 10, 2003 Leading Medical References in Handheld Format Provide Physicians and Students with Critical Diagnostic Information at the Point-of-Care McGraw-Hill Professional (a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP)), a leading provider of electronic and print materials...
Aging With Mental Retardation: Increasing Population of Older Adults With MR Require Health Interventions and Prevention Strategies
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The second half of the 20th century vastly increased the life span of those with mental retardation MR. Today the average life expectancy of older adults with MR is 66.1 years and growing. As these individuals age, they present increasing challenges to the clinician. Primary care providers need to be...
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