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- Texas Medical Center Wants Study
- Tokyo Women’s MC Gets PACS Displays
- Blake to Succeed Pure at McKesson
- MedCentral Launches Data-Mining Solution
- Robert Wood Johnson Project Deems PHR Privacy Inadequate
- Imaging e-Ordering Coalition Formed
- Hospital system sues foundation
- Hospitals cut back to stay afloat
- Decoding cancer gene to help patients today
- Board cracks down on pain doctors
- Man shot in head comes out of coma
- Joint replacement? Consider this
- Hospital asks new moms to donate cord
- Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL
- CEO turns down bonus
- Reform could trim HMO extras
- Quadruple amputee gets new trial
- Doctor agrees not to see patients
- Reporting law ignored, group says
- Doctors' foes unveil poll
- 13 more women accuse doctor
- 2-lb. tumor taken from baby's face
- Pro-doctors' bill draws legal question
- Mayo: Trio of drugs slows breast cancer
- Mental: Fox's new show 'revolting'
- Ban-OxyContin petition launched
| Texas Medical Center Wants Study Posted: 22 Jun 2009 09:05 AM PDT Baylor Medical Center at Frisco in Texas has selected Orchestrate Healthcare of Greenwood, Village, Colo. to develop a clinical and technical architecture study. According to the healthcare technical consulting company, it will analyze (in partnership with Vitalize Consulting Solutions of Kennett Square, Pa.), the Frisco medical center’s clinical and technical architecture needs and wants. Although Baylor is currently utilizing MEDITECH (Westwood, Mass.) standard modules, its goal is to seamlessly interface with its nursing, EMR and other systems, Orchestrate says. The company touts that together with Vitalize, it will perform a readiness assessment of current systems, provide the 13-bed-system with an analytical review and present a roadmap for the strategic roll-out of clinical and technical architecture. | ||
| Tokyo Women’s MC Gets PACS Displays Posted: 19 Jun 2009 07:56 AM PDT Tokyo Women’s Medical University Medical Center East in Japan has ordered a supply of diagnostic display systems for its new PACS system from Belgium-based Barco . The company says the Medical Center also ordered 60 units of Barco’s MDRC clinical review displays to be used as quality-controlled review monitors in the various hospital departments. Tokyo Women’s Medical University, located in Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, is a renowned, state-of-the-art hospital with 1,423 beds. The University Hospital has nine medical centers, and Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East, located in Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, is the second largest medical center of them with 478 beds. This center has about 1,800 outpatients per day serving the northeastern Tokyo area. | ||
| Blake to Succeed Pure at McKesson Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:59 AM PDT Patrick “Pat” Blake has been promoted to executive vice president and group president, McKesson Technology Solutions, with responsibility for all of the businesses within McKesson Technology Solutions, including Provider Technologies, Health Solutions, RelayHealth and the International Operations Group. Most recently, Blake served as president of McKesson Specialty Care Solutions, a business unit that delivers services to manufacturers and providers “to ensure specialty pharmaceutical products, coordinated reimbursement and clinical services are available to patients with complex diseases.” In this role, he led the acquisition and integration of Oncology Therapeutics Network, which included the Lynx technology platform. Blake joined McKesson in 1996 as senior vice president for McKesson Health Systems. Blake will report to John Hammergren, chairman and CEO. | ||
| MedCentral Launches Data-Mining Solution Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:58 AM PDT MedCentral Health System (Mansfield, Ohio) launched Malvern, Pa.-based Siemens knowledge-driven healthcare data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures. According to the company, the application will help MedCentral streamline its quality improvement process by automating chart abstraction and helping expedite the submission of quality measures. Soarian Quality Measures replaces manual chart reviews with accurate and automated chart abstraction of quality measures, says the company. It analyzes and draws conclusions from all available electronic patient data from both Siemens and non-Siemens IT systems, and the results of the analysis are presented in a simple, intuitive interface, it touts. MedCentral Health System is an independent, not-for-profit organization comprised of two general, acute care hospitals: Mansfield and Shelby, with a combined total of 351 beds and 44 bassinets. The system offers complete cardiac care, comprehensive neurological services, a walk-in medical center, industrial health and safety services and the MedCentral College of Nursing. | ||
| Robert Wood Johnson Project Deems PHR Privacy Inadequate Posted: 19 Jun 2009 06:57 AM PDT Project HealthDesign , a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) funded project to develop PHR applications that extend and enhance the range of services offered by existing PHRs, is releasing work products and a final report from the initial phase of project. Key findings from the report include: Traditional concepts of privacy and confidentiality are in many respects inadequate to capture the way health information can be shared and distributed; Patients themselves have a large and unprecedented role in helping to safeguard their own health information; Society’s response to demands for privacy/confidentiality protection and best practices for information management must take into account the health aspirations and social and economic fears of patients. The final report includes key learnings from the work of the program’s first nine grantee teams. The project is also releasing open, sharable source code and other technical code documentation produced by the grantee teams in developing PHR application prototypes which is available at www.projecthealthdesign.org . | ||
| Imaging e-Ordering Coalition Formed Posted: 17 Jun 2009 10:25 AM PDT An alliance of healthcare providers, technology companies and diagnostic imaging organizations have joined forces to form the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition (The Coalition, Washington). According to the coalition, it will promote Health Information Technology (HIT) enabled decision-support (e-Ordering) as a solution to assure that all patients receive the most medically appropriate diagnostic imaging test for their specific condition. The Coalition is focused on the following components: Promote existing HIT legislative concepts to inform policy makers on the value of e-Ordering to enable the appropriate use of imaging. Ask lawmakers to include e-Ordering in the development of healthcare system efficiency incentives. Act as a resource for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on its Medicare Imaging Demonstration Project established by Congress in Section 135(b) of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA). Work with policy makers to have the Coalition’s e-Ordering proposal for CMS scored to validate long-term value and savings for the healthcare industry. Work with stakeholders to establish standards to accelerate e-Ordering as a meaningful and valuable application with EHRs. For information on membership please call (202) 457-7004. | ||
| Hospital system sues foundation Posted: 6/20/2009 © Naples Daily News NCH Healthcare System, which traditionally holds seats on the board of a benefactor, the Telford Foundation, is suing to get its president and CEO on the board. | ||
| Hospitals cut back to stay afloat Posted: 6/6/2009 © Miami Herald Hospitals, once considered recession-proof, are now suffering economically, say speakers at the annual South Florida Healthcare Summit. But some for-profit hospitals are doing surprisingly well. | ||
| Decoding cancer gene to help patients today Posted: 6/7/2009 © St. Petersburg Times The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa is using its bank of cancer samples to decode the unique genetic makeup of cancer genes. Researchers hope to use their findings to target the right treatments for patients. | ||
| Board cracks down on pain doctors Posted: 6/5/2009 © South Florida Sun-Sentinel The Florida Board of Medicine leveled stricter-than-usual penalties today against doctors found to have doled out narcotic painkillers excessively or improperly. A bill that would give the board more authority over rogue pain clinics awaits action from the governor. | ||
| Man shot in head comes out of coma Posted: 6/4/2009 © Northwest Florida Daily News Rion Tilton, 22, who has been unconscious for more than a week after being shot in the head, surprised his doctors by coming out of his coma. | ||
| Joint replacement? Consider this Posted: 6/4/2009 Health News Florida Patients at some Florida hospitals were much more likely to have an unexpected return following knee- or hip-replacement surgery last year than those who had the procedure at other hospitals, new state data show. These potentially preventable readmissions cost Floridians a bundle. Special report: Florida hospitals' "revolving door syndrome, " Part 2. | ||
| Hospital asks new moms to donate cord Posted: 6/02/2009 © Miami Herald Women who give birth at South Miami Hospital are offered the option of saving the umbilical cord so its stem cells can be used to treat cancer patients. The hospital is part of an expanding network of such centers. | ||
| Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL Posted: 5/31/2009 Healthfinder.gov The benefits of Tamoxifen, which 500,000 U.S. women take to prevent recurrence of breast cancer, are virtually wiped out if patients also take common anti-depressants, cancer specialists meeting in Orlando learned on Saturday. But on Sunday, they heard good news about cancer vaccines. | ||
| Posted: Joseph Boshart, CEO of Boca Raton health-staffing firm Cross Country Healthcare, turned down a bonus of nearly $200,000, saying it wouldn't be appropriate at a time of layoffs and losses. | ||
| Posted: 5/31/2009 © Sun-Sentinel Medicare beneficiaries in South Florida are accused to HMOs offering them freebies like dental and eyeglasses because of the sky-high federal payments the plans receive, double the national average. But that extra cash may soon disappear, and the free dental may go with it. Also, here's a summary of what's happening in health reform in Washington. | ||
| Quadruple amputee gets new trial Posted: 5/29/2009 © AP/Sun-Sentinel In a rare ruling, Broward Circuit Judge Charles M. Greene has ordered a new malpractice trial for Lisa Strong, who lost all four limbs to an infection. He threw out the jury's verdict for the defendant doctors, saying it was "contrary to the law and the manifest weight of the evidence." | ||
| Doctor agrees not to see patients Posted: 5/29/2009 © Bradenton Herald Internist C.G. Rao, arrested on charges of sexually molesting five patients and accused of other incidents that now are beyond the statute of limitations, has agreed not to see patients while his legal cases are pending. Bail was set at $20,000. | ||
| Reporting law ignored, group says Posted: 5/28/2009 © Health News Florida Nearly half of the state's hospitals have never reported a single incident of physician discipline to a databank set up to protect patients from questionable doctors, a consumer group reported Wednesday. Earlier this year, the same group cited Florida's Board of Medicine as particularly weak. | ||
| Posted: By Christine Jordan Sexton 5/28/2009 Health News Florida Opponents of a bill backed by Florida’s doctors released a poll today that contends Floridians are on their side of the fight. But the Florida Medical Association dismissed the results, saying the poll questions were "skewed to get the answers they wanted." | ||
| Posted: Bradenton police rearrested internist Gangadhararao Chapalamadugu, known to his patients as C.G. Rao, on Wednesday on charges of sexually molesting four women patients. Detectives say more than 13 patients called after news of Rao's arrest last week, but some alleged events were older than the three-year limit for prosecution. | ||
| 2-lb. tumor taken from baby's face Posted: 5/28/2009 © Sun-Sentinel Two-month-old Jordan Smith was born with a two-pound tumor protruding from his mouth, blocking his airway. But doctors at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center rescued him and later removed the tumor. | ||
| Pro-doctors' bill draws legal question Posted:
5/27/2009 © Health News Florida The heat keeps rising over a bill pushed by doctors that would force insurers to change the way they pay. An attorney says it may be unconstitutional, and state Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw urges the governor to veto. But the docs plan TV ads. | ||
| Mayo: Trio of drugs slows breast cancer Posted: 5/23/2009 © Florida Times-Union Mayo Clinic researchers have found promising evidence that the combination of three drugs already on the market can shrink tumors substantially in patients with an aggressive form of breast cancer. In Pompe disease, Gainesville Sun reports, UF researchers make a discovery. | ||
| Mental: Fox's new show 'revolting' Posted: Chris Vance stars in Mental, tonight's new drama on Fox about doctors at a psychiatric hospital. A Herald critic calls it "revolting," and suggests instead the documentary New World Order, which gives conspiracy theorists the opportunity to talk about their beliefs. | ||
| Ban-OxyContin petition launched Posted: 5/22/2009 © Health News Florida An online petition to ban the painkiller OxyContin, posted two weeks ago in Tampa, has attracted more than 2,000 signatures and is headed for a national audience at an FDA meeting next week. Doctors who treat pain patients view the petition as "very dangerous." |
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