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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...
- 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...
- News items 2008-04-30
- The Week That Was in Healthcare
- As we start a new week, here's a quick wrapup of important healthcare stories that you might have missed in the week that was: Retail health clinics -- often staffed by non-physicians and set up in big-box retailers or drugstores -- have been touted as one way...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- 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...
- News items 2008-04-29
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Cardinal Health, Inc.
- Without the ability to create comprehensive profiles of their medical practices, Anesthesia Data Systems (ADS), an Atlanta-based company, had only intuition help them optimize both patient cost and outcome. Anesthesiologists wanted to evaluate their practice in terms of drug and supply use, cost, QA data, patient outcomes and patient satisfaction....
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- Visual Deficits in a patient With 'Kaleidoscopic Disintegration of the Visual World'
- This study describes psychophysical, neuropsychological and neuro-ophthalmological studies of visual abilities in a patient who, following a right hemisphere stroke, had difficulty in combining parts of objects into a whole and in reading. Strikingly, she perceptual problems were accentuated when the objects moved or when she moved. Formal testing showed...
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- American Homepatient
- At American HomePatient's (AHOM) 286 branch offices, Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) respond to hundreds of sales orders every day. The process is inherently complex. CSRs collect patient demographic information, medically qualify patients, verify insurance eligibility, gather signatures, and bill the patients and/or third-party payers. Faced with reimbursement cuts, AHOM targeted...
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- Warwickshire Ambulance Service
- Warwickshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust wanted to effectively manage and analyze mass amounts of data. Warwickshire Ambulance Service used Verity TeleForm to fulfill its responsibilities related the U.K. government's electronic patient record Initiative. The company implemented an automated forms processing solution from Verity to capture and process individual...
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- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
- More than 1.2 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year. Imaging is helping investigators developing new and effective methods of treating this disease. It's well known that certain types of cancer do not respond to conventional therapies. In these instances doctors often recommend that patients participate in a clinical...
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- 2D-3D Rigid Registration of X-Ray Fluoroscopy and CT Images Using Mutual Information and Sparsely Sampled Histogram Estimators
- The registration of pre-operative volumetric datasets to intra-operative two-dimensional images provides an improved way of verifying patient position and medical instrument location. In applications from orthopedics to neurosurgery, it has a great value in maintaining up-to-date information about changes due to intervention. This paper proposes a mutual information-based registration algorithm...
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- The Case for Medical Data Online
- Hospitals, physicians, and patients could all benefit from Web-based clinical-data exchanges that would offer health care providers speedy, accurate information about their patients' diagnoses, treatments, prescriptions, and insurance. But the financial and logistical barriers are significant and persistent. Since the first movers would have to invest disproportionately in setting up...
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